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U.S. Bars Ukrainian Banking Tycoon Over Corruption Allegations

The Biden administration on Friday imposed sanctions on a Ukrainian banking tycoon and former public official and his family for alleged corruption, marking a renewed effort by the U.S. to help Kyiv address a problem that finance officials say is at the heart of the country’s economic and political woes. Read More

Crimean Opera House Pulls Back Curtains On Russian Sanctions Loophole

Sanctions have prohibited companies from doing business with the Russian authorities controlling Crimea for more than six years, but Western participation in the development of a bold, seagull-inspired opera house flies in the face of that ban. The Sevastopol State Opera and Ballet Theater, designed by the avant-garde Austrian architectural… Read More

Ex-Privatbank CEO Named as Suspect in $5.5 Billion Fraud Case

Ukraine said three former senior managers at the country’s biggest bank are suspects in a $5.5 billion fraud, signaling efforts to bring criminal liability in the long-standing probe may be intensifying. The case is a litmus test of President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s willingness to crack down on corruption that’s dogged the… Read More

16th February 2021

Russia Imposes Sanctions Against Centrenergo, UkrOboronProm, And Ukrspecexport

The Russian Federation has imposed sanctions against the Centrenergo energy generating company, the UkrOboronProm state-run concern, and the Ukrspecexport, a state-run enterprise engaged in exportation and importation of military and specific goods and services, for the export and import of military and special-purpose products and services. That is stated in… Read More

15th February 2021

A Ukrainian tanker mystery continues – and leads back to the UK

By David Leask, openDemocracy, 12 February 2021 openDemocracy – It was epic, Mykhaylo Shtekel says, and it was cold. He often remembers the early winter day in November 2019 that a tanker, the Delfi, ran aground on one of the golden beaches that stretch south from the… Read More

2nd February 2021

Ukrainian Security Service Raids Aeronautics Firm’s Board Meeting After Kyiv Sanctions Potential Investors

Ukraine’s state security service (SBU) is investigating a shareholder meeting of Motor Sich, the maker of jet engines for the defense industry, after the government imposed sanctions against Chinese investors seeking to purchase a stake in the company. Law enforcement raided Motor Sich on January 31 in the southern industrial… Read More

28th January 2021

Govt backs imposition of sanctions on 13 Russian airlines with total ban on flights over Ukraine

The government of Ukraine at a meeting on Wednesday approved a resolution developed by the Ministry of Infrastructure on proposals for the application and amendments to personal special economic and other restrictive measures (sanctions). The resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers provides for the imposition of sanctions against 13 Russian… Read More

19th January 2021

Ukraine: Watchdog warns of new attempt to sabotage anti-corruption reform

The President’s Office has drafted a bill that would prevent the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) from investigating top-level corruption, the Anti-Corruption Action Center said on Jan. 18, citing its sources. This information was independently confirmed by Slovo i Dilo, a news site. The President’s Office’s press service couldn’t… Read More

13th January 2021

U.S. tells European companies they face sanctions risk on Nord Stream 2 pipeline

The U.S. State Department this month told European companies which it suspects are helping to build Russia’s Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline that they face the risk of sanctions as the outgoing Trump administration prepares a final round of punitive measures against the project, two sources said on Tuesday. “We… Read More

12th January 2021

U.S. Imposes Sanctions on Ukrainians Linked to Giuliani for Election Disinformation

The Trump administration imposed sanctions on Monday against seven Ukrainians — including two who assisted President Trump’s personal lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani — for being part of what it called “a Russia-linked foreign influence network” that spread “fraudulent and unsubstantiated allegations” about President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. during the 2020… Read More

31st December 2020

U.S. accuses Ukrainians of using misappropriated funds for Ohio real estate

U.S. prosecutors on Wednesday accused Ukrainian tycoon Ihor Kolomoisky and another Ukrainian businessman of using misappropriated funds to buy real estate in Ohio, following earlier similar U.S. allegations involving property in Kentucky and Texas. Kolomoisky, one of the most prominent tycoons in Ukraine and regarded as a key political backer… Read More

8th December 2020

Ukrainian parliament restores accountability for false asset declarations

Ukrainian lawmakers on Friday approved a draft law that would restore accountability for false asset declarations by officials, improving the government’s chances of securing more foreign aid for an economy battered by the COVID-19 pandemic. The vote sought to repair the damage from a decision taken… Read More

1st December 2020

The public knew he was crooked in 2009. Big banks helped him stash millions until 2017.

By Will Fitzgibbon, ICIJ, 30 November 2020 ICIJ — JPMorgan Chase, America’s largest bank, helped move millions of dollars for a New Jersey con man long after he was first accused of ripping off customers looking for good deals on the used cars of their dreams. Many borrowed from… Read More

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