Crime

In the Vinnytsia region, police have arrested an 82-year-old man suspected of raping a 10-year-old girl. The court has ordered him to be remanded in custody

In the town of Dunaivtsi in the Khmelnytskyi region, a man opened fire with an air gun in a public place. A passer-by was injured as a result of the incident.

The Office of the Prosecutor General has confirmed that criminal proceedings have been opened following allegations concerning Yulia Mendel, the former press secretary to the President of Ukraine. The pre-trial investigation is being conducted by the Main Investigation Department of the Security Service of Ukraine

A man has been arrested in Kyiv after firing a shotgun in the car park of a residential block and seriously injuring a passer-by on the street.

Ukrainian law enforcement and military personnel have dismantled an organised group involved in maritime smuggling across the Black Sea. During the special operation, they seized counterfeit tobacco products, weapons and a Russian drone equipped with a warhead.

Law enforcement agencies in Ukraine and Latvia have uncovered an organised criminal group whose members gained access to the victims’ bank accounts and took out loans in their names under the pretext of recovering lost investments. It has been provisionally established that the losses amount to at least 4 million hryvnias.

Law enforcement officers have concluded their investigation into an organised group suspected of illegally producing and selling counterfeit fuel in the Kyiv region. According to the investigation, the state has suffered losses amounting to over 19.5 million hryvnias.

The Kyiv Regional Prosecutor’s Office has concluded its pre-trial investigation into a group of individuals comprising four former police officers and a civilian with a previous criminal conviction. According to the investigation, the suspects organised an armed gang and extorted money from businesspeople involved in the cryptocurrency industry.

In Dnipro, law enforcement officers have referred an indictment to the court against two men suspected of organising a scheme to fraudulently obtain certificates of unfitness for military service.

The Security Service of Ukraine has exposed a member of the Kherson Regional Council and three of his accomplices, who are suspected of collaborating with Russian occupation authorities in the temporarily occupied left bank of the Kherson region.

Officers from the State Bureau of Investigations, in collaboration with the Security Service of Ukraine, have exposed two employees of the Economic Security Bureau of Ukraine who are suspected of using their official positions to accept bribes. This involves two separate criminal proceedings.

A criminal network of call centres operating in Odessa has been uncovered; the group defrauded Kazakhstani citizens by posing as banks and law enforcement agencies. Thirteen suspects have already been charged.