# Investigation
Following the exposure of ESBU staff taking bribes, the Rada called for an investigation into the agency’s criminal proceedings
Two employees of the Economic Security Bureau have been charged with accepting bribes. In light of these events, the Verkhovna Rada has called for an investigation into the agency’s activities and the legality of the criminal proceedings that have been opened.
Did the ESBU set up the Prosecutor General with a falsified expert report in the case of JSC ‘Ukrgazvydobuvannya’? A lawyer’s perspective.
Lawyer Mykola Orekhovsky has claimed that the Economic Security Bureau fabricated evidence in the case concerning the alleged embezzlement of state funds at JSC “Ukrgazvydobuvannya”. According to him, the charges are based on an expert assessment that was carried out with numerous irregularities and without taking into account the specific nature of the companies.
The Main Intelligence Directorate, the Security Service of Ukraine and the Navy have dismantled a maritime smuggling route from Abkhazia and seized a Russian drone carrying explosives
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.
Ukrainian and Latvian law enforcement agencies have uncovered a fraudulent call centre that was arranging loans for Latvian citizens
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.
Five members of a gang are to stand trial in the Kyiv region for producing counterfeit fuel
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.
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.
