corruption in Ukraine
A week ago BIHUS.info published the first and second parts of investigation on corruption in Ukraine defense sector. They told about a trio of daring young men who embezzled at least 250 million of Ukroboronprom state-owned concern. One of those “boys” was Ihor Hladkovskyi, a 22-year-old son of the Deputy to the Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council […]
The Bohdan Corporation, which belongs to the former first deputy to the secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Oleh Hladkovskyi, received half a billion hryvnias under secret contracts for the purchase of trucks and ambulances made on Chinese chassis. “Bohdan” received 375 million hryvnias from the state budget at the end of December last year. Almost one hundred […]
Ukraine’s 2018 birth rate became the lowest one in the country’s modern history. According to the State Statistics Service of Ukraine, as quoted by Fakty ICTV, in 2018 there were 336 thousand births in Ukraine. The media says that if compared to the mid-19th century and even to the Holodomor times, the 2018 number is smaller. In 2008 the birth […]
Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) closes the case on terrorism financing related to Rinat Akhmetov, Oleksandr Yefremov and Natalia Korolevska for lack of corpus delicti. SBU did not find any signs of terrorism financing (DPR and LPR groups in southeast Ukraine) by businessman Rinat Akhmetov, MP for the Opposition bloc faction Natalia Korolevska and ex-head of the Party of Regions […]
Funding for the so-called election pyramid is almost $ 82 million, Deputy Head of Security service of Ukraine (SBU) Viktor Kononenko says. “We’ve identified 49 organizers of this activity. According to our estimates, over 686,000 citizens of Ukraine were involved in these activities. Each of them had to bring ten people to the polling station. Then they should vote for […]
The team of investigators BIHUS.info unveiled the first part of a large-scale investigation of corruption and embezzlement in the defense sector of Ukraine, which involves associates of President Petro Poroshenko. According to journalists, Oleh Hladkovskyi, Poroshenko’s friend and partner, member of the National Security and Defense Council, his 22-year-old son Ihor and general director of Ukroboronprom Pavlo Bukin are involved […]
Bribing voters for the benefit of Poroshenko costs 1.5 billion state budget hryvnias (55 mln USD), Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine says. Police investigate several cases following the petition filed by presidential candidate Yulia Tymoshenko related to the “network” of another candidate, Petro Poroshenko. This was stated by Arsen Avakov, Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, in an interview. […]
In 2017, the total net value of the assets of the three richest individuals exceeded 6% of Ukraine’s GDP. This was stated by World Bank Vice President for Europe and Central Asia Cyril Muller. “This is almost twice as much as in Russia and three times as much as in Poland. The ratio of the income share of the richest […]
Ukrainian bloger‘s analysis of anti-corruption law udoption warning and potentials and influence on the further prospects. It is no exaggeration to say that this week Ukraine’s future is at stake. The IMF and the Venice Commission set the record straight. So either an Anti-Corruption Court is instituted with the decisive role played by international representatives in selecting candidates for judges […]
Prosecutor General Lutsenko and President Poroshenko now have paranoia regarding the United States especially after the scandal with the National Anti-Corruption bureau of Ukraine, Mustafa Nayem says.
The inaction of the President of Ukraine and the proteges of the oligarchs in the National Commission for State Regulation of Energie and Public Utilities have blocked 4.5 billion foreign green investments.
Over 26 years of its Independence, Ukraine failed to overcome the dramatic economic backwardness of its successful neighbors.