Section: Investigations
Hromadske journalist reports shooting amid filming Akhmetov`s estate with UAV
An unknown person is reported to have shot at Hromadske journalist Maksym Opanasenko five times while a TV crew was collecting information for an investigative program ”Slidstvo.Info,” according to the Ukrainian media outlet Hromadske. The journalists remained unharmed, Hromadske reported. The incident took place in the village of Plyuty in Kyiv...
FBI obtained Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court warrant to monitor Trump adviser Carter Page
The FBI obtained a secret court order last summer to monitor the communications of an adviser to presidential candidate Donald Trump, part of an investigation into possible links between Russia and the campaign, law enforcement and other U.S. officials said, according to The Washington Post (WP). The FBI and the Justice Department obtained the...
SBU busts organ traffickers in Kyiv
Members of the transnational criminal ring specializing on human organs trafficking were detained at an airport in Kyiv in a joint raid by the Security Service of Ukraine and National Police, according to the SBU website. During an investigation, the law enforcers revealed perpetrators from Ukraine and several other countries were looking for...
Russian teen detained over explosives found near Oslo subway – DW
Norwegian police said on Sunday that they had raised the country`s security threat level the day after an explosive was found near a busy subway station in Oslo. Authorities also announced that they had apprehended a suspect over the incident, Deutsche Welle reported. The suspect was a 17-year-old Russian national who had been living in Norway...
Poland accuses Russian air traffic controllers over Smolensk air crash
Polish prosecutors said on Monday they would press charges against two Russian air traffic controllers of deliberately causing a 2010 plane crash that killed Poland`s president and 95 other people, according to Reuters. The crash near Smolensk in western Russia killed the Polish President Lech Kaczynski and his wife, as well as the central bank...
148 billion USD was pumped from Ukraine to offshore jurisdictions since 1991
Over the period from 1991 to the present day, some $148 billion has been withdrawn from Ukraine to offshore jurisdictions, according to various estimates, according to Inna Shovkun, a leading researcher at the Institute of Economics and Forecasting of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, who wrote an article for the Dzerkalo Tyzhnia...
Ukraine`s chief prosecutor reveals some details about assassin of ex-Russian MP
Ukrainian Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko has announced that the man who assassinated ex-lawmaker from Russia`s State Duma Denis Voronenkov in Kyiv on March 23 visited the Russian occupied city of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine prior to the incident, according to Germany`s Bild. ”The terrorist went to temporarily occupied territory, namely the city...
Ukraine`s Anti-Corruption Bureau probing into abuse of office by central bank`s officials
The National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) has confirmed it has been seizing documents at the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) amid a raid on the NBU`s offices as part of a probe into abuse of office by NBU senior officials in 2015-2016. ”NABU agents jointly with the National Police`s economic crime department have been conducting...
Ukrainian army Geneneral Nazarov sentenced to 7 years in prison in Il-76 case
Ukrainian army Gen. Viktor Nazarov has been sentenced to seven years in prison on charges of neglect of duty and inaction in the case of an Il-76 transport aircraft downed in Luhansk in 2014, which resulted in the death of 40 Ukrainian paratroopers, according to the media outlet InfoResist. ”Viktor Mykolayovych Nazarov is found guilty and...
Former Russian MP suggests mastermind behind Voronenkov assassination
Ilya Ponomarev, ex-deputy of the Russian State Duma exiled in Ukraine, believes the official who ordered another ex-MP Denis Voronenkov`s murder is General Oleg Feoktistov of Russia`s FSB, according to Apostrophe, a Ukrainian news outlet. It was Feoktistov who initially leaked information which became the base for an investigation by Russian...