# Corruption
Journalists have uncovered assets worth a million dollars belonging to the family and close associates of the new head of the SBU in Kharkiv Oblast
The family and associates of Denys Lutii, who was appointed head of the Security Service of Ukraine’s Kharkiv Regional Office on 22 April, have purchased property, cars and motorbikes worth around one million dollars over the past few years.
A new scam has been uncovered in Ukraine’s energy sector: how 447 million hryvnias were stolen from Ukrenergo
A corruption scheme involving the embezzlement of state-owned enterprise funds was in operation at Ukrenergo for years during the full-scale invasion. Law enforcement agencies estimate the losses to the budget at over 440 million hryvnias.
There was an attempt to sell the Azov gas field for 630,000 hryvnias
The Supreme Court has declared invalid the results of the tender, the special permit and the sale and purchase agreement relating to the Priazovskoye gas field, which, according to the Office of the Prosecutor General, was being attempted to be sold for a sum tens of times lower than the starting price. This is one of Ukraine’s oldest gas fields, with reserves of over 2.2 billion cubic metres of gas.
At the state-owned PrivatBank, a board member’s salary exceeded $60,000
Anton Razumny, a member of the board of the state-owned PrivatBank, received a salary of 30.5 million hryvnias in 2025. On average, this amounts to 2.54 million hryvnias, or around 62,000 dollars, per month; and during the full-scale war, his annual income in this role increased sixfold, according to the figures cited in the publication.
The High Anti-Corruption Court has extended the questioning of Labazuk in the case concerning the bribery of Kubrakov and Nayem
On 21 April, the High Anti-Corruption Court continued the questioning of MP Serhiy Labazuk, who is accused of attempting to bribe Deputy Prime Minister for Reconstruction Oleksandr Kubrakov and the head of the State Agency for Reconstruction, Mustafa Nayem. During the questioning, the MP presented his version of events, insisting that the decision to offer an unlawful benefit was the result of pressure from the established system of access to contracts.
Gold worth 2.15 million hryvnias was found in the declaration of an officer at the Kharkiv Territorial Centre for Recruitment
Artem Bespalov, an officer in the mobilisation department of the Kharkiv Regional Territorial Centre for Recruitment and Social Support, has declared gold bars worth 2,154,300 UAH. This information is contained in his electronic declaration for 2025.
In the Carpathian region, the public prosecutor’s office is demanding over 300 million hryvnias from ‘Forests of Ukraine’ for illegal logging
The company is to pay a record fine for the mass destruction of trees in the Hutsulshchyna National Park.
“Corruption thrives where there is manual control” — a stark statement by Kirill Budanov
Eliminating subjective interference in state processes and transitioning to transparent rules is a strategic prerequisite for Ukraine’s survival and its accession to the EU. This was emphasised by Kirill Budanov, Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, during the conference ‘Operation “European Integration”: Reforms in the Field of Justice’
2.8 million hryvnias from the budget were embezzled from the grave crosses of fallen heroes
A scheme involving the embezzlement of public funds allocated for the construction of the ‘Alley of Remembrance for the Defenders of Ukraine’ memorial in Irpin has been uncovered in the Kyiv region.
Vegetable thefts in school greenhouses. A former official from Kyiv has been sentenced to seven years
The Dnipro District Court of Kyiv has sentenced the former head of the Education Department of the Dnipro District State Administration to seven years in prison. She was found guilty of embezzling public funds during the 2023 procurement of vegetable cutters and chairs for school shelters.
The assets of the ‘Kyiv Radio Plant’ were sold illegally for less than a twentieth of their market value
The Public Prosecutor’s Office has charged the liquidator of the company, whose actions resulted in the state losing nearly 60 million hryvnias.
The AMCU has fined two companies over 4.1 million hryvnias for collusion in tenders
On 16 April, the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine found “Maestro Group” Trading House LLC and “Plafon” LLC guilty of engaging in anti-competitive concerted practices that led to the distortion of tender results. The total fine imposed on the two companies amounted to 4,113,801 UAH.
