"During the first half of 2020, the Security Service of Ukraine prevented three terrorist attacks and detained four involved persons", said the Head of the SBU Ivan Bakanov, commenting on the outcomes of the Service for six months of this year.
During 2019-2020, the SBU shut down 25 illegal call-centers with a multi-million turnover, which involved in extortion of money from citizens on the Internet.
The SBU stopped the illegal activity of an organized criminal group. For USD 100,000, offenders promised a businessman to “settle” the issue of estate resumption due to contacts with law enforcement agencies. The pre-trial investigation is currently verifying this information.
Due to SBU investigation, Dniprovskyi District Court of Kyiv sentenced Petro Mikhalchevskyi, the former “Minister of Health” of the temporarily occupied Crimea, to 10 years in prison.
The Security Service of Ukraine has documented one of the deputy chiefs of Ivan Bohun Kyiv Military Lyceum involved in taking a bribe for admission to an educational institution.
The Security Service of Ukraine in Kharkiv region jointly with the PJSC Ukrnafta stopped and eliminated illegal channel to Koziivka-Syrodychi industrial oil pipeline.
SBU blocked the activities of the international Internet network on money laundering through cryptocurrency.
SBU operatives established that a foreign-invested company organized illegal oil production in the state well in Dolynskyi district, Ivano-Frankivsk region, avoiding the payment of mandatory taxes.
SBU CI in Zakarpattia region blocked illegal activities of civic groups under Part 2 Art. 110 (encroachment on the territorial integrity and inviolability of Ukraine) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.
The Security Service of Ukraine found a cache with two RPG-22 grenade launchers, four RGD and F-1 grenades, 2.5 kilos of plastid, almost four kilos of trotyl, and an anti-personnel mine MON-50, which is prohibited by the 1997 Ottawa Convention.
In Dnipro city, the Security Service of Ukraine detained members of an organized criminal group who smuggled large batches of medicines containing precursors from a North African country.
During the first half of 2020 SBU helped to serve 372 officials a suspicion notice of corruption and other crimes. These officials have been involved in 301 criminal proceedings.