Overview
- Anti-corruption officials exposed a bribery scheme in state drone procurement involving inflated contracts and 30 percent kickbacks.
- Four suspects were arrested in Kyiv on August 2, including MP Oleksij Kusnezow of President Zelenskyy’s Sluha Naroda party.
- City-level civil servants and National Guard members implicated in the scandal have been suspended from their duties.
- Parliament restored autonomy of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau and Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office days earlier, bolstering the probe.
- President Zelenskyy reaffirmed a zero-tolerance policy for corruption and urged independent investigations by the revived anti-graft agencies.