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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 […]
So-called transit server for the Presidential Elections 2019 had been created by SBU, MP and Vice-Chairman of the Batkivshchyna Party Serhiy Sobolev says. Transit server would receive the results of voting before the Central Election Commission could see them. Sobolev stated this at a press conference in the Lviv press club. – We have information that SBU created a unit, […]
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 […]
Ukraine’s pro-Russian former president, Viktor Yanukovych, has been linked to a widening scandal involving Sweden’s Swedbank, neweurope reports. According to documents reviewed by Sweden’s state-owned broadcaster, Swedbank appears to have been an instrument for transferring millions of euros in kickbacks that were acquired by Yanukovych while he was in office to other EU banks. Over the last year, Swedbank’s CEO has […]
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 […]
Former Head of the General Staff of Ukraine Volodymyr Zamana was charged with treason, the Chief Military Prosecutor Volodymyr Matios says. Charges against Zamana suggest he allegedly reduced the number of combat personnel and dissolved the military units. These actions are said to have destroyed the country’s antiaircraft defense system. According to Matios, in 2013 Zamana decreased the combat personnel […]
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. […]
Russian servicemen will teach Crimean schoolchildren how to use weapons. Russian occupiers created the “House of Yunarmiya” at the premises of the city House of Officers, where . The press service of the Russian Ministry of Defense announced that “the military-patriotic center was established in accordance with the decision of the Minister of Defense of Russia”. “Schoolchildren of Sevastopol, who […]
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 […]