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NABU and SAPO have opened the case materials to the defence over payments to solar plants in occupied territory. Investigators allege the electricity never reached Ukraine’s grid.
Media have described a July attack outside a sports club, citing NABU materials. The Carthage case now has five suspects and its first pretrial detention decisions.
No independent corroboration of the money-laundering allegations was found. We explain what UNITED24, the charities and Ukraine’s central bank say about donations.
In two posts on November 5, Shariy alleged inflated prices and fictitious deliveries. Sternenko separately rejected his account of an assassination attempt.
After five notices of suspicion, the anti-corruption court ordered two suspects held in custody. The alleged godparenthood link between Andrii Osypov and Vasyl Maliuk remains unconfirmed.
The court’s press service confirmed the payment to Ukrainska Pravda. A day earlier, the court set bail at UAH 15 million rather than the UAH 20 million sought by prosecutors.
Norway has reportedly extradited to Ukraine a banker suspected of stealing nearly 1 million hryvnias from client accounts. If true, it would be a rare case of a European country handing over a Ukrainian financial criminal. But the primary source for this story does not contain the claimed information, and no independent confirmation exists. We examine what is known, what is not, and why even a real extradition would not fix Ukraine's systemic impunity for financial crime.
An op-ed on the October 21 NABU searches at the National Bank of Ukraine and governor Andriy Pyshnyi, who insists the case is personal and has nothing to do with his official duties. Why NBU “independence” looks like armor that works selectively — and why no one resigns.
The mayor of Dnipro publicly called a NABU detective a “freak in a hat” — and the only consequence is a complaint to NAZK. A column on how impunity destroys Ukraine’s anti-corruption vertical.
Yuriy Holyk, the “gray cardinal” of the president’s “Great Construction” program, has fled abroad from NABU. Dozens of criminal cases, billions in reconstruction funds — and not a single real punishment. A column on the system that hides its own.
On October 15, a scandal erupted that tore the mask off Ukraine’s “fair mobilization.” Top officials of the State Customs Service were exposed in a scheme to sell positions — for a fee, a person could get a “critical” job and automatically avoid military conscription. This is not an isolated incident. It is a system where, while some die at the front, others buy their safety.
Eight years after the 2019 promise to “plant” the old elite, the loudest anti-corruption cases — Midas, Dynasty, Forrest Gump — target the president’s own inner circle: Yermak, Mudra, Mindich. A KIIS poll shows 72% of Ukrainians hold Zelenskyy responsible for corruption in his orbit.
Yurii Papusha was appointed head of the Kharkiv Regional Prosecutor’s Office in February 2026 — and just months later he was dismissed. Officially, it’s a corruption scandal involving call centers. But look closer: it’s a defensive operation by the system to shield the people of former Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko. And this is only the beginning.
NABU and SAP suspect Bohdan Lvov, former head of the Cassation Commercial Court of the Supreme Court, of laundering assets worth about 26 million hryvnias registered to his subordinate's mother. It is his second suspicion; the SBU has confirmed he holds Russian citizenship.
A new KMIS survey puts corruption at the top of Ukrainians' list of problems for the first time since the full-scale invasion — ahead of missile and drone strikes. 72% hold President Zelensky personally responsible for corruption in his circle. The poll lands amid NABU's Operation Carthage, the resignation of Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko and his registration in Vienna.
NABU and SAP have named new suspects in a $1 million bribery case around a drone supply tender for Ukraine's State Border Guard Service. According to investigators, the money was extorted by the bidder who lost the tender, while a border service official received payments in USDT. The new charges cover bribery and money laundering.
Journalists of Schemes found a $670,000 Dubai villa registered in 2023 to the then mother-in-law of Ruslan Kravchenko, when he headed the Kyiv regional military administration. Two years later he became Prosecutor General; a year after that, he left Ukraine on a self-signed business trip to Paris and registered in Vienna. As of 29 September 2026, no criminal investigation has been reported into either the villa or his failure to return.
Ukraine's National Police charged district recruitment center heads in the Chernivtsi and Zakarpattia regions with entering false mobilization data into the Obrih registry, including records of people who never existed. Investigators documented 631 falsified entries in one case; prosecutors cite at least 857 across five suspects.
Police lieutenant colonel Yaroslav Diiank, the de facto head of the Kharkiv oblast patrol police directorate, failed to report for duty on September 7 after a vacation abroad and, according to an anonymous source, has not returned to Ukraine. His post has already been filled by an officer from Poltava region, while oblast police chief Petro Tokar keeps his post despite a string of corruption scandals.
Newly circulated transcript pages attributed to the NABU case show Iryna Mudra and Maksym Mykytas discussing Bvlgari, Van Cleef and income on the morning of March 23, 2026; Mudra's annual declaration filed at 5:33 p.m. that day lists neither brand.
Kravchenko said he signed a suspicion notice against NABU chief Semen Kryvonos and published over 30 pages. By evening, his own office said no lawful notification occurred and the register entries were cancelled.
Vovchansk's military administration reports 7,448 housing compensation applications, with 5,055 suspended as of September 1, 2026. Two court rulings found the administration's inaction unlawful, while allegations about a private intermediary remain unverified.
Two criminal cases reported on September 7, 2026 — a $1,500 fake-enrollment offer in Kyiv and a $5,000 customs scheme in Ternopil region — highlight how student status can be exploited to obtain mobilization deferments, and why the state’s digital registration system cannot by itself verify the honesty of the data it receives.
Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko said on September 7 he would not resign voluntarily, then hours later announced he had submitted his resignation as the Carthage investigation reached the Prosecutor General's Office.
