SBU detains two residents of Kyiv who promised a businessman to solve his business problems ostensibly through their contacts in the General Prosecutor’s Office. They asked USD 500,000 for their “services”.
SBU blocked scheme for illegal supply of low-quality Russian-made spare parts to the Lviv Railway, regional branch of Ukrainian Railways JSC, which were smuggled through the temporarily occupied territories.
SBU finished its pretrial investigation regarding two extremists detained while attempting to set an Islamic mosque on fire before celebrations of the Crimean Tatar Flag Day and Ukraine’s Constitution Day.
The leader of a terrorist group of the so-called “LNR”, exposed by SBU CI, was sentenced in absentia to 15 years in prison.
In Odesa city, the SBU prevented smuggling of a batch of cocaine from South America. The value of the seized narcotics is almost USD 4 million at black market prices.
The SBU investigation helped to arrest 44 passenger planes of a Russian airline, which violated the entry and exit procedure to the temporarily annexed territory of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea.
The SBU exposed a unit head of the Main Department of the State Fiscal Service of Ukraine in Kharkiv region on systematic bribe-taking.
The SBU jointly with the Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs blocked large-scale cigarette smuggling into Ukraine. Part of the smuggled cigarettes were planned to be transited to Europe.
The SBU prevented the supply of extremist literature to a post-Soviet country.
SBU stopped smuggling of large amber pieces (5.4 kg in total) to an Arab country.
The state should provide basic social guarantees for SBU officers working under high-risk conditions, including in the JFO area. This was stated in the interview with Interfax-Ukraine agency by the SBU Head Ivan Bakanov.
Organized crime, as well as terrorism, is a threat to state security, since it is also used by foreign special services for subversive activity against Ukraine. The SBU Head Ivan Bakanov said in an exclusive interview with the Interfax-Ukraine news agency.