# Investigation
The IRGC detained two tankers in the Persian Gulf on suspicion of fuel smuggling.
The Iranian Navy has announced the detention of two foreign tankers in the strategic Persian Gulf region. According to Tehran, the vessels were carrying more than a million litres of contraband fuel, and the crew members have already been handed over to law enforcement agencies.
Ekrem Imamoglu and three other figures in Turkey have been charged with espionage
The Istanbul prosecutor's office has filed an indictment against four people, including the former mayor of Istanbul. The investigation believes that the crimes were committed between 2019 and 2025 and is seeking prison sentences of between 15 and 20 years for the suspects.
A scheme involving fictitious disabilities with pensions and travel abroad was uncovered in the Khmelnytskyi region.
Law enforcement officers exposed a group of medical professionals and "patients" who were registering fictitious disability groups in order to receive payments and illegally exempt conscripts from military service. The case involves 18 individuals from several regions, with damages amounting to hundreds of thousands of hryvnias.
Fire extinguished in hotel in central Kyiv: 57 people evacuated
On the morning of 5 February, a fire broke out in a room on the third floor of a hotel on Khreshchatyk Street. Firefighters quickly extinguished the fire and evacuated dozens of people, including a child.
Media reports confirm death of Saif al-Islam Gaddafi in Libya
The son of the former Libyan ruler was shot dead during an armed attack at his residence. The investigation is establishing the circumstances and motives behind the murder.
Border guards and the State Bureau of Investigation uncovered a large-scale scheme involving the illegal departure of men abroad worth over $1.5 million
The organizers of the scheme were a Russian citizen acting from abroad and his relative, an official with the State Border Service. They smuggled nearly 80 people across the border using fictitious business trips.
Employees of the National Police's Drug Control Service dismantled a drug gang with a full cycle of cannabis cultivation and seized drugs worth 5 million hryvnias.
Law enforcement officers exposed an organised group that had established large-scale production and distribution of cannabis in several regions of Ukraine, including supplying drugs to places of imprisonment.
The State Bureau of Investigations has uncovered three new illegal logging schemes involving officials from the State Enterprise "Forests of Ukraine"
Law enforcement agencies have identified systematic violations in the forestry sector in three regions of Ukraine. The total losses to the state exceed 5.6 million hryvnias.
The Security Service of Ukraine and the National Anti-Corruption Bureau have exposed a current member of parliament in a scheme involving land belonging to the National Academy of Agrarian Sciences worth over 30 million hryvnia.
Law enforcement officers have uncovered new evidence in the case of a member of parliament who had previously been accused of accepting bribes in exchange for resolving land issues.
Bail was posted for the former head of the State Border Service in a cigarette smuggling case
A bail of 10 million hryvnias for former State Border Service head Serhiy Deyneka was paid on 2 February. Another person involved in the case did not pay the bail set by the court.
A container ship bound for Russia was detained in Estonia on suspicion of smuggling
A ship flying the flag of the Bahamas was stopped in Estonian territorial waters during a joint operation by customs, police and the navy. The ship is suspected of smuggling cargo from Ecuador.
The trial of Crown Princess Mette-Marit's eldest son has begun in Norway
A court in Oslo has begun hearing the case of Marius Borg Høie, who is accused of four rapes and dozens of other serious crimes. The trial has already become one of the most high-profile scandals for the Norwegian royal family in recent years.
