On December 30, 2017, the Detectives of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) under procedural guidance of the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAPO) exposed and detained a Head of one of the research institutions and his accomplice. The abovementioned people were detained immediately after receiving 300 thousand USD improper advantage.
On December 1, 2017, the representatives of the Lviv Territorial Office of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) visited the Regional Office of the Central Anti-Corruption Bureau of Poland (CBA) in Rzeszów for strengthening cooperation in the fight against corruption. Among other things, the ways of solving problems in investigations of cross-border corruption offences were discussed at the meeting.
During her visit to the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine on November 28, U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch said “the work of NABU and SAPO is important and not easy. Ukrainian people do want change. However, these changes will not happen without sentences in top-corruption cases. That is why the United States supports the idea of creating an Anticorruption Court in Ukraine.”
On November 24, 2017, the Detectives of the National Anti-Corruption of Ukraine (NABU) jointly with the employees of the Prosecutor General`s Office of Ukraine exposed a person who had offered an improper advantage in the amount of 800 thousand USD to the NABU employee.
On October 16, 2017, the Detectives of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) under procedural guidance of the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAPO) detained the actual owner of a private enterprise on suspicion of public funds embezzlement during the purchase of fuel for the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine.