One of the defendants in the criminal proceedings against a city mayor, a district council head in Zakarpattia, and four other individuals has been extradited to Ukraine. In June 2024, they were exposed for abusing their official positions to sell a municipal land plot of more than 3 hectares at an undervalued price.
NABU and SAPO have uncovered a scheme to seize and subsequently legalize 18 hectares of state-owned land worth more than UAH 160 million.
A total of EUR 3.377 million (approximately UAH 163 million at the NBU exchange rate) will be transferred to the state budget from a French company implicated in the NABU and SAPO case concerning abuses at the state enterprise Polygraph Combine “Ukraina.” This will be the first-ever compensation paid by a foreign entity in the history of Ukraine’s anti-corruption bodies.
NABU and SAPO, together with the National Police, have served a notice of suspicion to the acting head of one of the Central Territorial Directorates of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine for receiving an undue advantage from a Kyiv-based property developer.
The first half of 2025 was marked by a series of high-profile cases investigated by the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAPO), particularly in the defence, land and medical sectors. The focus, as in previous periods, remained on uncovering high-level corruption under conditions of full-scale aggression by the russian federation.