If you collect stories of Kryvonos' "heroes" in one book, you will get Criminal Code – journalists tell who and how is destroying NACB

Journalists have published an anti-rating of high-profile scandals surrounding the National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NACB) representatives, which threaten the dissolution of the Bureau. As the Ukrainian News agency reports, the anti-rating includes cases related to possible abuse of office, conflicts of interest, false declarations and ties with russian citizens.

"The number of scandals with the NACB is increasing. We have collected the "f***ups" of the NACB in one anti-rating. It turned out that if we collect the stories of the "heroes" of Semen Kryvonos in one book, we will get the Criminal Code. Here are fugitive detectives with relatives in the russian federation, drug trafficking, cryptocurrency fraud, "schemes" with elite real estate and VIP cars, and pressure on the court to cover up relatives who are bribe-takers, etc.," the Ukrainian News agency noted.

The top 10 scandals with representatives of the NACB, according to the materials of journalists, include:

1. Tymur Arshavin – a detective with access to state secrets fled to Romania. His wife and her relatives were found to have valid russian citizenship, and Arshavin himself appears in the story with microloans and dubious income.

2. Mykola Masliak, an official NACB whistleblower, was detained on suspicion of organizing drug trafficking and precursor smuggling. According to journalists, the group in which Masliak operated earned over UAH 50 million per month.

3. Oleksandr Rykovtsev, Stanislav Braverman and 15 other detectives. False information about cryptocurrencies was found in the declarations of the NACB employees. In particular, Rykovtsev's wife declared over USD 1 million in bitcoins, and Braverman declared fake cryptocurrency transactions worth over UAH 1.3 million.

4. Valentyn Shmitko, a head of a unit, declared a significant amount of cash – sometimes reaching 2/3 of the official annual income. Later, he took over UAH 4.3 million abroad. His wife, despite martial law, was vacationing abroad, while at the same time receiving state assistance in Ukraine.

5. Mykhailo Romaniuk – a detective who simultaneously investigated the Rotterdam+ case and acquired luxury real estate, which he registered in the name of his relatives. Already owning an estate, a car and other property, he purchased an apartment of 117 m² under the eOselia preferential program.

6. Roman Niedov – a deputy head of a unit, who purchased two apartments, registered them in the name of his mother-in-law, and later his wife received them as a gift with a significantly undervalued value. In this way, hundreds of thousands of dollars were hidden.

7. Stanislav Braverman – a detective who had sexual relations with a witness in a case involving businessman Borys Kaufman. This caused a conflict of interest and the actual failure of two corruption cases worth billions of hryvnias. Braverman was fired after significant media coverage.

8. Oleksandr Dotsenko – a person who often appears as a NACB whistleblower, turned out to be a russian citizen with a valid passport, as well as a graduate of the "FSB school" – the Academy of Civil Service under the president of the russian federation.

9. Oleksandr Skomarov – the head of the Second Main Detective Unit. He hid his father's russian citizenship and his business in the ORDLO (uncontrolled portions of the Donetsk and Luhansk Regions). His wife went abroad in a car registered to the wife of the parliamentarian from the Opposition Platform – For Life party Khrystenko, who lives in moscow, and the driver was an assistant to Chab Peyter, who has been wanted by the NACB since 2023.

10. Markiyan Slonevskyi – a detective who received regular money transfers from russian entrepreneur Vladislav Iskenderov – the owner of a company from Belgorod that works under state contracts of the occupier country. He also declared cryptocurrency in fake wallets and came across dubious deposit addresses.

As the Ukrainian News agency noted, the cases listed are only a small part of the existing violations. Behind each caught intruder, dozens of malicious violators are hiding. The material emphasizes the lack of an adequate response from the NACB, the NACP and other authorized bodies to these facts.

"The problem of the NACB is ripe and overripe. This stream of scandals can be stopped only by one thing: the dissolution of the Bureau and the reform of the anti-corruption bloc as a whole. After that, it will be possible to restart the system on new principles – for a real fight against corruption, and not for the creation of "Potemkin villages" for Europeans," the Ukrainian News agency concludes.

Earlier, expert Oleh Posternak, commenting on the results of the international audit of the NACB, noted that the Bureau is an institutional mistake that cannot be corrected by any cosmetic reforms. "The Bureau should be dissolved, not reformed," he emphasized.