Anti-corruption
In Donetsk region, the SBU detained two offenders on offering a bribe to a commander of military unit. He had to provide illegal transportation of excisable goods across the contact line.
Counterintelligence
SBU CI uncovered and terminated illegal activities of an interregional group specializing in forgery and sale of EU passports.
International cooperation
| Top news
The Foreign Office thanked the SBU for successful conduct of a special operation to seize a record batch of counterfeit cigarettes. The Foreign Office wrote about this in its official Twitter account.
Center of Special Operations “A”
| Education and training
According to the training legend, a conditional terrorist group seized and mined the court. The participants of the trial were taken hostage by the “terrorists”, who demanded the release of their accomplice from the temporary detention facility.
State security
| Anti-Fake
In Chernihiv region, SBU uncovered organized group, which tried to create pseudo-state formation in Pryluky city to destabilize social and political situation.
Anti-corruption
In Dnipro city, the SBU exposed a corruption scheme during public procurement procedures held by municipal enterprises and local self-government bodies.
State security
The law enforcement officers established that after the SBU had closed most of Khimprom entities and drug laboratories in 2019, the drug syndicate organizers, who stayed abroad, decided to work in Ukraine through “separate branches”. They act independently of each other, which makes it difficult to expose them.
State security
On October 8, 2020, SBU investigators filed an indictment against former SBU officer, Major General Valerii Shaitanov, for committing treason, attempted terrorist act, and unlawful handling of weapons.
Cyber security
The SBU cyber security blocked an online bot farm in Kyiv, which was sponsored from the territory of Russia.
Anti-corruption
In Vinnytsia city, the law enforcement officers detained the head of a state enterprise in an attempt to give a bribe to the head of the Regional State Administration.
Protection of critical infrastructure facilities
The SBU blocked the illegal activities of businesspersons who appropriated vessels of Ukrainian Danube Shipping Company PJSC, which is subordinate to the Ministry of Infrastructure.
Anti-corruption
In Kyiv region, the SBU exposed a corrupt deputy chief of the investigative unit of Kyiv-Sviatoshynskyi district police department.