SBU disrupts smuggling of Apple products to Ukraine
The SBU exposed two digital products smuggling channels to Ukraine. The dealers tried to smuggle a batch of gadgets worth over UAH 30 m. (USD 1.1 m.) through the Boryspil customs post.
The SBU exposed two digital products smuggling channels to Ukraine. The dealers tried to smuggle a batch of gadgets worth over UAH 30 m. (USD 1.1 m.) through the Boryspil customs post.
SBU Head Ivan Bakanov and Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Peru to Poland and Ukraine Alberto Salas discussed areas of bilateral security cooperation during a meeting on July 14. In particular, both parties are interested in signing an agreement on mutual protection of confidential information.
Officers of the SBU Main Department of Internal Security blocked the illegal export of goods subject to state export control. The offenders tried to transport components for assault aircraft to Russia.
The SBU exposed a corruption scheme in the Main Office of the State Service of Ukraine for Geodesy, Cartography and Cadastre in Kyiv Region. The officials illegally transferred more than 323 hectares of land in Kyiv region to controlled companies.
The SBU found four caches with military weapons in Zaporizzhia and Odesa regions. Allegedly, militants of so-called L/DNR set up a cache on the territory of the Berdiansk district in 2014 in order to carry out sabotage activities.
The SBU identified and exposed people who caused grievous bodily harm to Deputy Chairman of the Asset Recovery and Management Agency (ARMA) Volodymyr Pavlenko. Allegedly, three people were involved in the attack, two of which - criminals.
The SBU held special exercise in Ivano-Frankivsk region. The SBU operatives neutralized simulated groups of saboteurs that planned to blow up a strategic facility at a military airfield.
In Volyn region, the SBU blocked smuggling of excisable goods to the EU. Law enforcement seized a batch of cigarettes worth almost UAH 6 m. (USD 222,222).
The SBU detained a Ukrainian citizen who captured a ship in the Indian Ocean and extorted a ransom. This is the first case in Ukraine when a person received a suspicion notice of piracy.
SBU CI officers in the Kharkiv region detained a former deputy of the so-called "parliaments" of the self-proclaimed "republics".