Overview
- NABU and SAPO said they uncovered a criminal scheme that paid bribes to senior law-enforcement officials to shield fraudulent call centres and other illegal businesses.
- The anti-graft agencies carried out court-authorized searches that they say were blocked when a senior SBU officer threatened to use a firearm and SBU special forces arrived.
- Ukrainska Pravda published photos and video from the searches and named Major General Serhii Duka as the senior SBU official reporters say was involved, a detail described by outlets as reported rather than legally confirmed.
- The SBU says it is cooperating with investigators while SBU head Oleksandr Poklad has dismissed two officers who became subjects of the probe and the service says it will support a transparent investigation.
- The operation follows earlier revelations that forced the September resignation of then-Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko and raises fresh questions about institutional fights over anti-corruption independence and the wider impact on reforms and foreign support.