The Security Service of Ukraine exposed the illegal scheme of land use of state-owned enterprises of the Ministry of Justice. According to preliminary estimates, the state budget suffered losses of almost UAH 24 m (USD 860,000).
The Security Service of Ukraine is conducting investigative actions against members of Ukrainskyi Vybir NGO. Today, the SBU conducted 20 searches of the leadership and representatives of the organization to document the illegal activities of these persons.
In Odesa region, the Security Service of Ukraine blocked the illegal import of 1.9 million excise stamps into Ukraine. The forged stamps were intended for illegally manufactured alcohol products. The cost of this number of real excise stamps amounts to dozens of millions of hryvnias.
The SBU cyberspecialists blocked a network of bot farms disseminating fakes about Ukraine. The perpetrators posted anti-vaccination claims and supported L/DNR terrorist organizations. It was established that the bot farm was financed from Russia through electronic wallets of banned payment systems.
The Security Service of Ukraine found a hidden arsenal of military weapons in the city of Sloviansk. Among the seized items were TNT, mines and maps with the coordinates of critical infrastructure facilities of Donetsk region.
Head of the SBU Cybersecurity Department Illia Vitiuk said in an interview with Censor.net media website that in 2020, due to the SBU findings, 40 people were prosecuted for spreading destructive anti-Ukrainian propaganda and subversive activity in the information sphere.
SBU Head Ivan Bakanov stated during his speech in the Verkhovna Rada: “Russian special services use every pretext to destabilize Ukraine, and spreading protesting moods is one of the methods of a hybrid war waged against our country not only in the east, but also in peaceful cities”.
SBU blocked large-scale sale of hazardous to people’s life and health counterfeit alcohol products in Dnipropetrovsk region. From warehouses of offenders was seized ready for shipment consignment of counterfeit alcohol products, for which the attackers planned to get UAH 4 million.
SBU conducts in Vinnytsia region systematic work to expose and terminate corruption mechanisms organized by officials of state enterprises and public organizations.
Employees of the Main Directorate for Combating Corruption and Organized Crime in conjunction with the SBU Office in Lviv region blocked the activities of group that organized the smuggling of large consignments of drug-containing substances from Europe.
SBU examines two versions of reasons that led to the crash of the aircraft flight PS752 in Iran: the first - shooting down by the missile, the second - terrorist attack. SBU Chairman Ivan Bakanov informed this during a meeting of the SBU special working group held on January 10 under his supervision.
SBU prevented the illegal export from Ukraine of components for military equipment in Zakarpattya region. The radiation background of finding ranged up to 25 times over normal.