Due to SBU reports, People's Deputies Viktor Medvedchuk and Taras Kozak were announced suspicion, SBU Head Ivan Bakanov and Prosecutor General Iryna Venediktova said at a briefing.
The SBU blocked a large-scale illegal sale of counterfeit cigarettes and alcohol in Dnipropetrovsk and Donetsk regions. The money turnover amounted to over UAH 10 m (USD 357,143) per month.
The SBU exposed corrupt officials of the cardiac surgery center at the Odesa regional hospital. For their services, the offenders demanded up to UAH 500,000 (USD 17,857).
According to the SBU investigation, the ex-deputy Chairman of the board of Arkada Bank received a suspicion notice of multi-million embezzlement.
The agent of Russian special services, exposed by the SBU CI, is sentenced to six years of imprisonment. The criminal gathered intelligence about units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, as well as prepared to commit a terrorist attack at a military facility in the city of Mariupol.
The SBU exposed an organized group involved in the creation of illegal local self-governments in Kirovohrad region. The offenders planned to destabilize the social and political situation in the region.
“Russian military build-up near Ukrainian borders caused a large number of cyber attacks against Ukraine,” the head of the SBU Department of Cyber Security Illya Vityuk emphasized.
In the city of Kherson, the SBU and the Mission of the President of Ukraine in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea held a staff meeting. The main topic was a security situation on the administrative border with the temporarily occupied territory of the AR of Crimea.
The SBU prevented the smuggling of 2.8 kg of cocaine valued at circa UAH 11.5 million (USD 410,715) at black market prices. The foreigner smuggled illegal drugs to Ukraine from one of the Latin American countries.
The SBU under the procedural supervision of the Prosecutor's Office served suspicion notice of collusion with commercial entities to the head of the amalgamated territorial community in Dnipropetrovsk region. The community budget suffered almost UAH 10 m (USD 357,143) losses during the social infrastructure facilities reconstruction.
The SBU exposed the alienation of land plot worth over UAH 15 m. (USD 535,714). The offenders organized illegal business jointly with the former head of the State Geocadastre and the management of a state enterprise.