This was emphasized at the meeting in Kyiv between NABU Director Semen Kryvonos, SAPO Head Oleksandr Klymenko, European Commissioner for Enlargement Marta Kos, and the Minister for European Affairs of Denmark Marie Bjerre.
NABU and SAPO have notified a Kyiv judge of suspicion of illicit enrichment and declaring false information.
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.