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Former Ukrenergo CEO accused of major fraud

Investigators from the State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) detained former Ukrenergo CEO Volodymyr Kudrytskyi in Lviv Oblast, sources from law-enforcement agencies told NV on Oct. 28.

28 October 2025, 12:33 PM

Notorious fraudster Marsalek thrives in Russia, now aids Russian FSB — investigation

Former Wirecard COO Jan Marsalek, one of the world’s most wanted criminals, lives openly in Moscow and travels to occupied Ukrainian territories to carry out 'combat missions', The Insider and Der Spiegel wrote in their investigation on Sept. 16.

17 September 2025, 09:45 AM

Military charity fraudster arrested in Lviv

Lviv police have arrested the head of a charity fund on suspicion of embezzling nearly UAH1.3 million ($31,000) intended to purchase equipment the Ukrainian military, National Police announced on June 20.

21 June 2025, 01:21 AM

Former lawmaker Novynskyi suspected of massive tax fraud

Former Ukrainian Opposition Bloc MP Vadym Novynskyi has been formally accused of evading more than 4.3 billion hryvnias ($103.6 million) in taxes, the Prosecutor General’s Office reported on June 13.

13 June 2025, 06:47 PM

Kirchner faces lifetime ban from politics after fraud conviction

Argentina’s Supreme Court upheld a fraud conviction against former President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, sentencing her to six years in prison and a lifetime ban from holding public office, Bloomberg reported on June 10.

11 June 2025, 11:50 AM

‘Law is for everyone’: Macron comments for first time on far-right leader Le Pen’s conviction

French President Emmanuel Macron has commented publicly for the first time on the conviction of Marine Le Pen, leader of the far-right National Rally (RN) party, who was sentenced to prison over a European Union funds embezzlement case, BFMTV reported April 2.

2 April 2025, 05:08 PM

Ex-Kyiv councilor Komarnytskyi escaped Ukraine with help from law enforcers, investigation shows

Ex-Kyiv City Council member Denys Komarnytskyi, wanted for land fraud, fled Ukraine with law enforcement help using a ‘Cargo 200’ vehicle meant for fallen soldiers, news outlet Ukrainska Pravda reported on March 27, citing sources.

27 March 2025, 01:50 PM

Families of Ukrainian POWs alerted to fraud scheme demanding money for parcel delivery

Ukrainian Ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets warned families of prisoners of war about a scam involving fraudsters posing as international humanitarian mission workers and demanding money for supposed parcel deliveries to POWs, in a post on Telegram on Feb. 7.

7 February 2025, 01:18 PM

Four ex-heads of Kyiv municipal parking service charged with negligence by Ukraine's Security Service

Ukraine’s SBU Security Service exposed four former heads of Kyivtransparkservis, municipal parking operator in Kyiv, for their involvement in shadow schemes that resulted in major financial losses for the city, the SBU reported on Telegram on Jan. 21

21 January 2025, 03:11 PM

MP’s son accused of embezzling funds in Lviv community scandal

The State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) has accused the son of a current Ukrainian MP of embezzling funds from the budget of the Verkhnosynyovydnenska Village Council in Lviv Oblast, according to an SBI press release, with sources at NV identifying the suspect as the son of MP Andrii Lopushanskyi.

18 January 2025, 02:35 PM

Halushchenko admits to corruption cases in energy sector, calls them isolated incidents

Ukraine’s Energy Minister Herman Halushchenko confirmed the existence of corruption cases in the energy sector but emphasized that these are “individual cases.”

16 January 2025, 02:09 PM

Ex-defense official suspected of supplying faulty machine guns to Ukrainian military

Ukraine’s State Bureau of Investigation pressed charges against a former director of a Defense Ministry department and two managers of a state enterprise for supplying defective large-caliber machine guns to combat units, the SBI reported on Jan. 14.

14 January 2025, 06:29 PM

Ex-tax official in Zhytomyr Oblast illegally collected salary for two years while posing as soldier

The State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) has charged the former head of one of the departments of the State Tax Service in Zhytomyr Oblast for illegally receiving a monthly salary for two years while pretending to be a soldier.

14 November 2024, 05:54 PM

Six senior prosecutors resign over pensions controversy

Five regional prosecutors and the head of a specialized defense prosecution office have resigned over concerns they may have committed benefits fraud, Ukraine’s Prosecutor General Andriy Kostin announced on Oct. 25.

25 October 2024, 09:55 PM

Cyprus strips Kolomoisky of citizenship — Media

Oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky has been stripped of his Cypriot citizenship, with the country’s authorities claiming it was obtained through “fraud, misrepresentation, and concealment of material facts,” according to local publication Phileleftheros.

15 September 2024, 06:35 PM

Former Ukrainian defense official faces charges over $29 million loss

A former high-ranking official from the Department of State Procurement and Supply of Material Resources of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense has been charged with causing the state a loss of 1.2 billion hryvnias ($29.3 million) on Sept. 5.

5 September 2024, 05:31 PM

Interpol issues red alert for ex-SBU general suspected of fraud

Former general of the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) Andriy Naumov has been placed on Interpol's international wanted list at the request of the State Bureau of Investigation (SBI), the agency's press service reported on on Aug. 28.

28 August 2024, 01:38 PM

National Police arrests fraudsters having swindled more that $1 million from UA soldiers and Volunteers

Ukrainian law enforcement officers, together with their Moldovan colleagues, detained a group of people who fraudulently caused losses of $1.1 mln to AFU soldiers, members of their families, and volunteers, National Police reported on Aug. 14.

14 August 2024, 02:51 PM

Officials and entrepreneurs charged in $1.4 million military first aid kit scam

Law enforcement officials have pressed charges against those responsible for supplying low-quality first aid kits to the Ukrainian military, with a total value of nearly 60 million hryvnias ($1.4 million), the State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) announced on Aug. 12.

12 August 2024, 04:31 PM

ESB brings more charges against Kolomoisky

Ukraine’s Economic Security Bureau (ESB) has modified the charges against oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky and will soon provide his defense team with relevant case materials for review, ESB announced on Aug. 9.

10 August 2024, 02:16 AM

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