Tag: bribes

A "rat" in the mayor's office: How Alexey Komarov "cheats" money past the cash register and how much Klitschko's signature costs

Kyiv City State Administration, Kyiv, Kyiv City Administration

The mayor's "right-hand man" wasn't above petty and mid-level thieving. That's Alexey Komarov. "Khreshchatyk 36" continues its series of articles about Alexey Komarov, the man who turned his offices at 36 Khreshchatyk Street into his own services marketplace, managing to deceive even his own handlers, writes Bagnet. "With...

Lieutenant Colonel Astafyev built a million-dollar business on criminal cases.

Andrei Astafyev, known in the intelligence community as "Zubaty," began his career as a rank-and-file detective in the police's economic crime units. From his first years in the service, his work revolved around pressuring businesses and collecting informal payments. Within the system, he acquired persistent nicknames reflecting his role in distributing funds and interacting with...

The head of the state-owned Burevestnik plant, Plotnikov, demanded bribes from tenants.

bribe, corruption, official

Acting Director of the Kyiv State Plant Burevestnik, Alexander Plotnikov, who already faces charges for illicit enrichment, demanded bribes from tenants of the company's premises. 368.media learned this from a combined criminal case under Part 3 of Article 368 and Articles 190, 191, and 368-5 of the Criminal Code. According to investigators, Alexander Plotnikov established...

Dnipropetrovsk region shopping mall owners are trying to clear their reputation.

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Dnipropetrovsk region trade union commissioners Oleksandr Gubarenko and Serhiy Dareyev, implicated in high-profile corruption scandals, are actively whitewashing their reputations and concealing their financial status. Controversial military commissars from the Dnipropetrovsk region—Oleksandr Gubarenko, head of the Kryvyi Rih district trade union commission and service center, and Serhiy Dareyev, head of the Nikopol district trade union commission and service center, implicated in bribery scandals and illegal mobilization methods—have begun…

"He stole outside the system." Why Deputy Prime Minister Chernyshov became a defendant in a criminal case.

Alexey Chernyshov: dossier, biography, and compromising information

The National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office (SAP) have detained two close associates of Deputy Prime Minister Oleksiy Chernyshov: Maksym Horbatyuk, Commercial Director of JSC Ukrgazvydobuvannya, and Vasyl Volodin, a member of the board of NJSC Naftogaz, according to media reports, according to Strana. Deputy Prime Minister Chernyshov forgot to share. Both previously worked with him at the Ministry of Regional Development and later transferred to Naftogaz when the state-owned company...

Prosecutor's Office Reform: What Four Steps Are Needed to Break the System and Change People?

As part of the negotiations with the European Union, Ukraine continues reforms in key areas, the most pressing of which is justice. An integral part of this is the reform of the prosecutor's office. It, like the judicial system, has been under reform for several years. Recent scandals involving "disabled prosecutors" and the Medical and Social Expertise Commission (MSEC)…

The Numbers (Do Not) Lie, or the Fight Against Corruption Based on Statistics

What do Ukrainian statistics reveal about combating corruption? An analysis of statistical reporting has allowed us to take a slightly different look at the anti-corruption landscape, ZN reports. So what do we see as a result? First, there are significant statistical errors in the official reporting for 2022. According to NABU, detectives have filed 54 criminal cases involving corruption and corruption-related offenses with indictments.

Mediation in “resolving issues” in courts is punishable by up to 15 years in prison with confiscation of property.

Members of parliament have registered a bill introducing penalties for mediation in "resolving issues" in courts, according to SUD. Judges and lawyers face 10 to 15 years in prison for corruption offenses. Furthermore, so-called intermediaries could face up to 15 years in prison. The corresponding bill, which amends the Criminal Code and the Criminal Procedure Code to increase penalties…

Millions in bribes, regional "overseers," and extortion: activists report systemic corruption in the State Service for Food Safety and Consumer Protection.

Top officials, together with community activists, organized a scheme to extort money from employees of the Kyiv Children's Diagnostic Center.

Entrepreneurs and activists are complaining about "extortion" by regional officials of the State Service for Food Safety and Consumer Protection (SFSPP): The State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) and the Prosecutor General's Office are already investigating certain cases, but the SFSPP leadership is, for some reason, holding back on personnel decisions, writes StopKor. Effective oversight of compliance with sanitary legislation and consumer rights—or the construction of a "corrupt-police..."

Vitaly Gagach and his export commissions

BEB, Bureau of Economic Security, taxes, business, finance

We saw the article about Vitaly Gagach and his 1,5% export tax. Daniil Getmantsev is very happy, because the Bureau of Economic Security needs to be updated. They are criminals, but he, Daniil, used them to build a much more interesting scheme. All this, to put it mildly, is hilarious, writes Politica. It's simple—when…