BEB Sends ₴5 Million Procurement Fraud Case to Court as Prosecutors Search NABU Employee Over Alleged Illegal Surveillance

Overview

• The Bureau of Economic Security finalized an investigation and filed an indictment against former and current company executives and a deputy head of a National Academy of Sciences institute in Kharkiv under Part 5, Article 191 for alleged embezzlement exceeding ₴5 million.
• Investigators say the deputy arranged tender paperwork for a preselected supplier, leading to overpayments compared with market prices, and they seized tender files, phones, computers, and notes as evidence.
• The Security Service of Ukraine provided operational support to the BEB case and prosecutors from the Office of the Prosecutor General are leading the proceedings.
• NABU says prosecutors with special forces searched one of its employees around 3 a.m. without a court order, used physical force, did not serve a suspicion notice, and that the staffer documents corruption cases and had been under covert surveillance.
• The Prosecutor General’s Office says the search followed a case on possible illegal use of technical surveillance tools after cameras were placed to record entries and exits at its headquarters, adding the employee admitted retrieving the devices but could not clearly justify their lawful use; both investigations are ongoing.