# Investigation
Collaborators who stole nearly 200 cars during the occupation were exposed in the Kherson region
The Kherson Regional Police reported suspicions about an organised group of collaborators who, in 2022, illegally seized property worth hundreds of millions of hryvnias under the guise of nationalisation.
Europol dismantles largest synthetic drug production network in EU history
European police have carried out their largest ever operation against synthetic drugs, dismantling dozens of laboratories and seizing thousands of tonnes of precursors in several EU countries.
A foreigner was detained in Khmelnytskyi for extorting $300,000 from a crypto entrepreneur
A man with a permanent residence permit in Ukraine threatened the victim's family and demanded payment of an alleged debt in foreign currency. The court remanded the suspect in custody with bail set at almost half a million hryvnia.
Tymoshenko stated in the High Council of Justice that she did not know MP Kopytin before their personal meeting.
During the consideration of the issue of seizure of property, the leader of the Batkivshchyna faction stated that the contact was initiated by a member of parliament, and the court partially granted the prosecution's request.
NABU and SAP exposed a scheme to embezzle UAH 141 million on the "green" tariff in the occupied part of Zaporizhzhia region
Solar power plants, which were effectively out of operation due to the occupation and damage, received payments for years for electricity that was not supplied to Ukraine`s power grid.
A risky experiment based on weak institutional capacity, - lawyer comments on initiatives by ESBU Director Tsivinsky
The initiatives of Oleksandr Tsivinsky, Director of the Economic Security Bureau, are a risky experiment based on weak institutional capacity. In the Ukrainian context, any "quick" mechanism that lacks a clear legal basis and judicial oversight can become an instrument of discretion. This opinion was expressed by lawyer Vyacheslav Trunov in an interview with ThePublic.
Attempts to illegally export gold worth over 2.7 million hryvnias were stopped at the border with Romania
At the Porubne-Siret border crossing point, customs officers and border guards discovered hidden gold bars and jewellery that someone was attempting to take out of Ukraine.
In Odessa, a military psychologist demanded $4,000 for transferring from the front to the rear — she was detained
The officer promised to resolve the issue with the service and deregistration for money, but was exposed by the police and the Security Service of Ukraine.
The High Administrative Court of Ukraine has handed down a verdict to Yanukovych in the case of illegal seizure of state land
The former president was sentenced in absentia to 15 years in prison for embezzling a forest plot in the Kyiv region worth over 22 million hryvnias.
In Zaporizhia, serial car thieves who stole military vehicles, among others, were exposed.
Two residents of Zaporizhia were detained for illegal seizure of transport and theft from cars. For the totality of crimes, they face up to eight years in prison.
Hetmantsev criticised the work of the new head of the ESBU: no results
The head of the Council`s finance committee stated that after the change in leadership at the Economic Security Bureau of Ukraine, problems with illegal markets and investigations have only intensified.
Fatal accident on Kyiv's Ring Road: police investigate circumstances of the crash
A night-time accident in the Solomyanskyi district ended in the death of a car driver after a collision with a lorry.
