# Investigation
Former police officers who swindled around $2.2 million from crypto entrepreneurs are to stand trial in the Kyiv region
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.
$20,000 for ‘unfitness’ for service: organisers of the scheme to face trial in Dnipro
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 SSU has detained a member of the Kherson Regional Council in connection with an investigation into collaboration with the occupying forces
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.
The State Bureau of Investigation has caught two ESBU employees taking bribes
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.
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 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.
