The SBU blocked the activities of group members, which organized a scheme to illegally move and legalize foreigners in Ukraine. The fraudsters told the foreigners that they had ties with officials of the Office of the President of Ukraine.
The SBU exposed a large-scale mechanism of illegal allocation of state lands to private ownership. The scam was organized by CEOs of the State Service of Ukraine for Geodesy, Cartography and Cadastre in Zakarpattia region.
In Kherson region, the SBU suppressed activity of an organized criminal group. Coordinated by Russian crime bosses, its members terrorized and intimidated the local population.
Officers of the SBU Main Department of Internal Security and cyber experts exposed a hacker attempting to steal personal data of Service’s employees with the use of malicious software.
SBU CI officers detained a Russian FSB agent in Zhytomyr region. Following the instructions of the Russian special services, a local resident collected intelligence about military units in the region.
The SBU CI prevented illegal smuggling of dual-use technological equipment abroad. Under the guise of civilian goods, foreign customers planned to receive components for warships.
The SBU blocked activities of an interregional drug group. The group members sold illegal drugs in Donetsk and Luhansk regions for further sale to the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine via Russia.
During preventive counter-sabotage actions in Volnovakha district of Donetsk region, the SBU found a cache with mines, as well as exposed 10 IAF members. Law enforcement also identified two organizers of pseudo-referendum held in 2014.
SBU Cyber specialists documented the illegal activities of the Chairman of Bank Management Board and the Chief Accountant of a bank. To conceal the insolvency of the institution, they falsified financial documents in reports to the National Bank.