Section: Investigations

      Germany warns Ukraine over corruption
      Mar04

      Germany warns Ukraine over corruption

      German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel in Ukraine on Friday urged lawmakers to battle endemic corruption, tying the issue to the country`s economic development and conflict with Russian-backed separatists, according to Deutsche Welle (DW). ”It is an important task in your land to ensure the reform process is successful,” Gabriel told a group of...

      Ukrainian Tax Service Head detained and suspected of inflicting UAH 2 bln damage to budget including using money on trip to Trump oath
      Mar03

      Ukrainian Tax Service Head detained and suspected of inflicting UAH 2 bln damage to budget including using money on trip to Trump oath

      The Special Anti-Corruption Prosecutor`s Office (SACPO) suspects Chairman of the State Fiscal Service of Ukraine Roman Nasirov of committing acts which resulted in a damage to the state in the amount of UAH 2 billion, according to a SACPO official Roman Syvkiv, TSN news service reported. The investigation believes that Nasirov took unreasonable...

      MH17 investigation: Bellingcat elaborates on role of Russian Major General Dubinsky
      Mar03

      MH17 investigation: Bellingcat elaborates on role of Russian Major General Dubinsky

      The international team of investigative journalism, Bellingcat, in its latest update of its large-scale report on the circumstances of the shooting down of a Malaysian Airlines Boeing flight MH17 over Donbas focuses on a role in the incident of a retired Russian Major General Sergey Dubinsky aka ”Khmuryi.” Bellingcat experts have analyzed...

      Anti-corruption Bureau detained chief taxman Nasirov
      Mar03

      Anti-corruption Bureau detained chief taxman Nasirov

      An operation by the National Anti-corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) is under way in Feofania, outside Kyiv, to detain Chairman of the State Fiscal Service of Ukraine Roman Nasirov as part of the so-called Onyshchenko case, according to MP Serhiy Leshchenko. ”The NABU is in Feofania now to detain Nasirov. He is charged with `restructuring` for...

      Navalny publishes investigative report on Russian PM Medvedev`s ”secret empire”
      Mar02

      Navalny publishes investigative report on Russian PM Medvedev`s ”secret empire”

      Alexei Navalny`s Anti-Corruption Foundation claims Russian Prime Minister Dmitriy Medvedev has created one of the most sophisticated large-scale corruption schemes. The Foundation claims that Medvedev supervises several charities which have received RUB 70 billion (approximately $1.2 billion), Meduza reported.  Foundation claims that the money...

      Kyiv prosecutors launch probe against Energy Minister
      Mar02

      Kyiv prosecutors launch probe against Energy Minister

      Kyiv Prosecutor`s Office has opened a case against Ukraine`s Energy Minister Ihor Nasalyk into possible criminal offenses, according to an official statement by the prosecutor`s office, published by MP Viktoria Voytsitska on Facebook. ”Kyiv Prosecutor`s Office has informed me about the opening of criminal proceedings against the Minister of...

      Austrian prosecutors investigating siphoning UAH 12 bln from Ukrainian banks via Meinl Bank
      Mar01

      Austrian prosecutors investigating siphoning UAH 12 bln from Ukrainian banks via Meinl Bank

      Over a year ago, the lawyers at Center for Combating Corruption submitted to the Austrian law enforcement agencies a report on Meinl Bank`s participation in criminal schemes to launder funds from a number of Ukrainian banks and driving them to bankruptcy. Vienna prosecutor`s office is probing the involvement of Meinl Bank in the siphoning of...

      Thousands take to Moscow streets to remember opposition`s Nemtsov
      Feb26

      Thousands take to Moscow streets to remember opposition`s Nemtsov

      On February 26, Russians are taking part in a rally in the memory of Russian politician Boris Nemtsov; while those opposing repression against Ukraine are also part of the March, having formed a separate group, according to an UNIAN news agency correspondent in Russia. The rally expected to involve as many as 30,000 participants has been...

      Law enforcers blast fiscal officials for extorting UAH 70 mln for VAT refund
      Feb26

      Law enforcers blast fiscal officials for extorting UAH 70 mln for VAT refund

      The Ukrainian Security Service has launched a raid to expose the State Fiscal Service officials, who extorted UAH 70 million from businesses for non-hindered VAT refunds, the SBU press center reports. The law enforcers found that the employees of the structural units of a big taxpayers office at the SFS had been systemically demanding money from...

      Ukraine`s State structures ”lost” UAH 2.6 bln in 2016 – audit
      Feb24

      Ukraine`s State structures ”lost” UAH 2.6 bln in 2016 – audit

      Ukraine`s State Audit Service in 2016 conducted nearly 2,700 financial inspections at more than 2,400 enterprises, institutions and organizations, revealing losses of financial and material resources totaling more than UAH 2.6 billion, as published on the agency`s website. Budgets of all levels, public institutions, organizations, and enterprises...