# Investigation
Salaries of up to 2 million hryvnias and savings in the millions: what the deputy chairmen of the Sumy Regional Council declared
Four deputy chairmen of the Sumy Regional Council declared salaries ranging from 1.6 million UAH to nearly 2 million UAH in their 2025 declarations, along with cash savings, flats, plots of land, cars, loans and investments in property. Separately, the regional council disclosed the system of allowances, monthly bonuses and financial assistance for these officials.
The EU prosecutor may bring charges against Orbán’s inner circle
Hungary’s Prime Minister-elect, Péter Magyar, has announced his intention to bring the country into the European Public Prosecutor’s Office. This could pave the way for investigations into the use of EU funds in previous years.
MP Buzhansky explained when the Cabinet of Ministers will allocate additional funds to finance the Economic Security Bureau
MP Maksym Buzhansky stated that the ESBU had failed to demonstrate its effectiveness either in combating economic crime or in the re-certification process, and that it was therefore too early to consider providing additional funding to the agency. He also noted that teachers, doctors and police officers in frontline regions receive significantly lower salaries, yet do not complain about it.
The SSU and the State Bureau of Investigation have detained aides to MPs on suspicion of involvement in schemes to evade mobilisation
In Kyiv and the surrounding region, law enforcement officers have detained two aides to members of the Ukrainian parliament who are suspected of involvement in schemes to evade conscription. They are charged with fraud on a large scale.
Russian hackers have hacked into hundreds of email accounts belonging to Ukrainian prosecutors and law enforcement officials
Russian hackers have gained access to more than 170 email accounts belonging to Ukrainian prosecutors and investigators over the past few months. Details of the breach came to light following a leak of information online.
Tsyvinskyi could spend the entire annual budget of the ESBU by September, - Ekonomichna Pravda
The Economic Security Bureau could exhaust its entire budget for 2026 as early as September. This would lead to the complete collapse of the ESBU. Meanwhile, the government has allocated 199 billion hryvnias this year to a special reserve for the security and defence sector, which is intended to be funded by the proceeds from the formalisation of the economy.
Law enforcement officers have uncovered a tobacco supply chain running from Zakarpattia to underground workshops
Law enforcement officials have announced the dismantling of a group that had established an illegal full-scale operation for the production and distribution of tobacco products. According to the investigation, the raw materials were grown in Zakarpattia and processed in the Ivano-Frankivsk region.
The court has overturned the tax assessments imposed on Yelyzaveta Vasylenko in respect of her income from OnlyFans
The Dnipropetrovsk Regional Administrative Court has ruled that tax assessments totalling over 1.6 million hryvnias against blogger Yelyzaveta Vasylenko were unlawful. The tax authorities had sought to recover these funds in respect of income allegedly received in 2022.
The National Police are conducting searches at U420 chain stores in several Ukrainian cities (updated)
Law enforcement officers carried out inspections and investigative measures at U420 chain stores in Kyiv, Lviv and other cities. According to media reports, the searches are linked to suspicions of the sale of psychotropic substances.
Components from the US and Europe were found in the Russian drone ‘Prince Oleg the Prophet’
Foreign components, including those from the US, Switzerland, the Netherlands and other countries, were found in the Russian drone “Prince Oleg the Prophet”. The captured drone was dismantled by a team from the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defence, which published details of it on the War&Sanctions portal.
The SBU has identified those responsible for the torture of residents of Yagidne. A Russian general has been charged
The Security Service of Ukraine has formally charged, in absentia, Russian General Denis Baril with organising the torture of residents of Yagidne in the Chernihiv region in 2022.
The ESBU has uncovered a scheme involving the illegal production of vapes; assets worth 30 million hryvnias have been seized
Law enforcement agencies have carried out a large-scale operation against the illegal market for e-cigarette liquids. Goods worth around 30 million hryvnias have been seized.
