Crime
New potentially fraudulent investment schemes have been identified in Ukraine
The National Securities and Stock Market Commission (NSSMC) has added two more cases to its list of unreliable investment schemes. The list now contains 470 scam schemes.
The State Service of Ukraine for Food Safety and Consumer Protection in Kyiv has seized counterfeit vapes and nicotine products worth over 12 million hryvnias
Law enforcement officers have uncovered a scheme in Kyiv involving the illegal sale of counterfeit e-cigarettes and other nicotine-containing products. During the searches, tens of thousands of items, equipment and cash were seized.
A former CIA official has been accused of stealing gold bars worth over $40 million
In the US, a former senior CIA official has been arrested on charges of stealing hundreds of gold bars and millions of dollars in cash from the federal government.
800 servers seized and a pianist arrested: the Netherlands has dismantled a Russian hacker network
The Dutch Financial Intelligence Unit carried out raids on two data centres and seized around 800 servers that Russian hackers had used to launch cyberattacks on government and banking websites across Europe.
A blogger from Vinnytsia has been sentenced to three years in prison for insulting members of the armed forces and fraud at a recruitment event for the Ukrainian Armed Forces
The Vinnytsia City Court has handed down its verdict in the case of blogger Oleksandr Shavlyuk, sentencing him to three years’ imprisonment for insulting members of the Territorial Defence Forces and embezzling funds raised for the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
A mayor in the Odesa region has been arrested in connection with a case involving a bribe of $35,000 for permission to fell trees
Law enforcement officials have charged the head of one of the town councils in the Izmail district with extorting $35,000 in exchange for permission to clear vegetation for the construction of a wind farm. The official was arrested after receiving the money.
The National Police have uncovered schemes involving the misappropriation of 27 million hryvnias of humanitarian aid in the Kyiv region
Law enforcement officials have notified seven members of a criminal gang that they are under suspicion in a case involving the misappropriation of public funds allocated to assist de-occupied communities in the Kyiv region. According to the investigation, the suspects embezzled over 26.9 million hryvnias.
The leader of a parliamentary group is to stand trial for offering bribes to members of the Ukrainian parliament
The National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) and the Specialised Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAPO) have announced the dismantling of an organised criminal group that operated within the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine and, according to the investigation, facilitated the receipt of unlawful benefits by members of parliament in exchange for voting in favour of specific bills. Five sitting members of parliament have been placed under suspicion.
The State Bureau of Investigation has exposed a lawyer for demanding $9,000 to have a case involving a special forces soldier closed and to have him removed from the wanted list
Officers from the State Bureau of Investigations have exposed a lawyer who, according to the investigation, demanded $9,000 from a serviceman in exchange for closing a case concerning unauthorised absence from his unit and removing him from the wanted list. He was arrested after the second instalment of the money had been handed over.
The SSU has detained a Russian agent who was coordinating the attack on Kyiv on 24 May
The Counter-Intelligence Directorate of the Security Service of Ukraine has detained a Russian agent who was coordinating one of the largest-scale air strikes on Kyiv on the night of 24 May. He was detained the following day after the attack whilst conducting reconnaissance near a Ministry of Defence facility.
TCK employees have recruited nearly 300 'ghost workers': details of the scheme
Three officials from district territorial recruitment centres (TRCs) are suspected of carrying out a sham mobilisation. According to the investigation, in order to report that they had successfully met their targets, they fabricated the names of people who had never been mobilised.
Metropolitan Hilarion of the Russian Orthodox Church has been detained in the Czech Republic on suspicion of drug possession
In Karlovy Vary, the Czech police detained Metropolitan Hilarion of the Russian Orthodox Church. During a search of his car, the police found containers containing a white substance, the nature of which is to be determined by forensic analysis.
