During the quarantine period, the SBU cyber-specialists blocked over 2,600 communities with more than a million subscribers and exposed 385 Internet-agitators who spread fake news about COVID-19 pandemic.
The Security Service of Ukraine has exposed the misappropriation of budget funds allocated for the improvement of the protection system of one of the military units in Vinnytsia region.
On May 20th, the Kyiv Pechersk District Court granted permission to detain the People's Deputy of Ukraine Taras Kozak on the request of the SBU investigator, agreed by the Prosecutor General of Ukraine.
The Security Service of Ukraine is willing for reform, however new changes should not harm its ability to defend state sovereignty, SBU reform senior officer Serhii Pun stated during a round table talk on the SBU draft law.
In Volyn region, the SBU stopped the activities of an interregional criminal group. Every day, the offenders smuggled cigarettes worth up to USD 30,000.
The SBU Main Department of Internal Security exposed an official of the Halytskyi customs office and two former police officers involved in a scam with cars imported from Europe. The offenders entered false information into the customs database for owners of cars with the European license plates to avoid responsibility for violation of transit.
The SBU Main Investigation Department completed the pre-trial investigation against captain 1st Rank Aleksandr Tolmachov, the commanding officer of the 41st Brigade of Missile Boats of the Russian Black Sea Fleet, stationed in Sevastopol city, temporarily occupied Crimea. Instructed by Russia's top leadership, the perpetrator set up a blockade of the Sevastopol Marine Guard detachment of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine in 2014.
The SBU exposed an illegal scheme of laundering over UAH 30 m (USD 1,071,429) of budget funds. The scheme was organized by the management of a top agricultural company in Sumy region.
The SBU blocked activity of an organized drug gang. It involved active and former employees of the Lviv District Police Department, in particular a division deputy head.
SBU suspects of bribe-taking the Deputy Head of the Main Directorate of the State Emergency Service in Odesa region. Presumably, the official’s actions caused fire accidents with human losses in Odesa.
The SBU cyber specialists stopped the operation of a troll farm in the city of Chernihiv. The actions of the perpetrators, who used almost 2,500 bot accounts, were remotely controlled by organizers from Russia.
In Khmelnytsky region, SBU CI terminated activities of a Russian asset. During 2014-2016 he was an active IAF member of the so-called “LNR”.