Section: Investigations

      Ukraine urged to conduct validation of officials` e-declarations
      Dec10

      Ukraine urged to conduct validation of officials` e-declarations

      The United States, the European Union, and Canada have urged Ukraine to conduct an independent and credible verification of electronic declarations of officials, according a joint statement by the embassies of Canada, the United States, and the EU Delegation on the occasion of the International Anti-Corruption Day. As UNIAN reported earlier, the...

      Yanukovych status in Russia clarified
      Dec09

      Yanukovych status in Russia clarified

      The Prosecutor General`s Office of Ukraine has received from former president Viktor Yanukovych`s lawyer Vitaliy Serdiuk a notice regarding his client`s status in the Russian Federation, according to RBC-Ukraine. The document notes that Yanukovych received a temporary asylum certificate in Russia, issued November 26, 2015 by the migration service...

      Russian doping cover-up ”helped 1,000 athletes”
      Dec09

      Russian doping cover-up ”helped 1,000 athletes”

      The Russian sports ministry, aided by the country`s security service, allegedly orchestrated a massive ”institutional conspiracy”, according to an investigation for the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), SkyNews reports. According to SkyNews, the investigation`s findings allege ”an institutional conspiracy across winter and summer sports athletes...

      Ukraine ready to send investigator to Russia to question Yanukovych
      Dec09

      Ukraine ready to send investigator to Russia to question Yanukovych

      The Prosecutor General`s Office of Ukraine (PGO) is preparing a motion to question fugitive ex-president of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych in Russia as a suspect, according to the Dzerkalo Tyzhnia online news portal, dt.ua. A respective request for international legal assistance is to be sent to Russia`s investigation agencies next week, head of the...

      Ukraine against forced mental health tests of four Ukrainians detained in Crimea
      Dec08

      Ukraine against forced mental health tests of four Ukrainians detained in Crimea

      Ukraine`s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has declared a protest against an unlawful and forced assessment of the metal health of four Ukrainian citizens who were illegally detained by the Russian occupying authorities in Crimea. The forced mental health assessment of Vadym Siruk, Muslim Aliyev, Refat Alimov, and Arsen Dzhepparov who are groundlessly...

      Ukrainian Cabinet approves draft deal with EU on financing anti-corruption efforts in Ukraine
      Dec06

      Ukrainian Cabinet approves draft deal with EU on financing anti-corruption efforts in Ukraine

      The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine has approved a draft agreement between Ukraine and the European Union on financing the project ”EU Anti-Corruption Initiative in Ukraine.” Relevant decree No. 884-p of November 23, 2016, was published in the Ukrainian government`s Uriadovy Kurier newspaper. ”To approve the draft agreement on the financing of...

      Conflicting reports on death toll of police friendly fire in Kniazhychi
      Dec05

      Conflicting reports on death toll of police friendly fire in Kniazhychi

      Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Andriy Parubiy has announced that six law enforcement officers were killed in the village of Kniazhychi in Kyiv region`s Brovary district, according to 112 Ukraine TV channel despite earlier statement by Ukraine police on five officers killed. ”A terrible tragedy occured in the night from Saturday to...

      Police detain gang staked out by officers killed in Kniazhychi
      Dec05

      Police detain gang staked out by officers killed in Kniazhychi

      Ukrainian police on Sunday morning detained a gang of burglars in Kyiv`s Desniansky district after they had arrived from the village of Kniazhychi in Kyiv region`s Brovary district where five police officers were killed by friendly fire in a shooting incident earlier that day, according to the Ukrainian Interior Ministry. They arrived in a...

      Five policemen killed in shooting reportedly by mistake between police and state guard service
      Dec04

      Five policemen killed in shooting reportedly by mistake between police and state guard service

      Five members from different state law enforcement agencies were shot dead in a shooting incident reportedly by mistake in the village of Kniazhychi in Brovary district, Kyiv region, in the early hours of December 4. ”A criminal investigation team from Kyiv was working on an operation to detain a dangerous gang of robbers who have regularly looted...

      Prosecutor General`s Office gets evidence of Russia using Ukraine`s drilling platforms in Black Sea
      Dec04

      Prosecutor General`s Office gets evidence of Russia using Ukraine`s drilling platforms in Black Sea

      Violations against Ukrainian drilling platforms in the Black Sea, seized by the Russian Federation, may strengthen Ukraine`s position in lawsuits against Russia, according to a statement published on the website of the Prosecutor General`s Office of Ukraine. Military prosecutors recorded the fact of changing the navigation data of drilling...