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Journalist show final part of probe into defense corruption with Poroshenko’s inner circle. VIDEO (in Ukrainian) The final episode of the probe by Nashi Hroshi (Our Money investigation project) into a massive corruption in Ukraine’s State Concern Ukroboronprom shows the role of NABU, SBU and the prosecutor's office 12.03.19 12:08 47 869 581 Previously in trend: Russian aggression against Ukraine Hladkovskyi defense corruption scandal

Journalist show third part of probe into defense corruption with Poroshenko’s inner circle. VIDEO The third part of the investigation by journalist Denys Bihus into a massive corruption in Ukraine’s State Concern Ukroboronprom shows how Ukroboronprom’s director Pavlo Bukin gives an international contract worth UAH 14 mln to the Hladkovskyi-Zhukov group. 05.03.19 16:45 38 079 525 Previously in trend: Russian aggression against Ukraine Hladkovskyi defense corruption scandal

Ukroboronprom calls Bihus.info corruption probe manipulative and biased Ukroboronprom State Concern has responded to the third part of the investigation by Bihus.info into a large-scale corruption in the defense sector of Ukraine. 05.03.19 17:52 18 444 330 Previously in trend: Hladkovskyi defense corruption scandal

30 law enforcement officers installed cameras in bedroom of Bihus.Info journalists. VIDEO At least 30 people were involved in monitoring the Bihus.Info project team. The cameras were installed 19.01.24 13:21 47 034 193 Incidents

Ukraine’s foreign intelligence service deputy chief sues journalists who unveiled his assets, his relatives’ Russian citizenship First Deputy Chairman of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine, Serhii Semochko, has filed a lawsuit against the journalists who dug into his property and Russian nationality of his family members. 15.11.18 13:18 11 923 180 Previously in trend: Russian aggression against Ukraine

Sister of National Police Chief Vyhivskyi trades fuel with companies investigated by NPU - media. VIDEO The company, which is registered to the sister of the head of the National Police, Ivan Vyhivskyi, does business with defendants in criminal proceedings investigated by the National Police. 24.05.24 11:37 12 975 143 Ukrainian Politics

Poroshenko's attorneys file lawsuit against Zelenskyi demanding release of original 'Bihus tapes' Attorneys-at-law of the fifth President of Ukraine, MP (European Solidarity) Petro Poroshenko filed a lawsuit against President Volodymyr Zelenskyi demanding that "wiretaping" concealment from the public be illegal and that all so-called "Bihus tapes" in their original form, attorney Ihor Holovan said. 06.07.21 11:13 8 461 142 Ukrainian Politics

Bihus.Info identifies SSU officers who illegally spied on journalists: they are from Department for Protection of National Statehood. PHOTOS A new video by the Bihus.Info project has revealed the names of the SSU officers who carried out the operation to install hidden cameras in the hotel rooms where the editorial office was staying on 27 December 2023. 06.02.24 08:25 38 184 130 Incidents

SSU: Some employees of Bihus.Info were involved in drug trafficking The SSU press service claimed that some Bihus.Info employees were involved in drug trafficking. 05.02.24 22:24 12 466 127 Incidents

Maliuk on surveillance of Bihus.Info: Actions of some DPNS employees are "unacceptable and have already led to number of personnel decisions" The Head of the Security Service of Ukraine Vasyl Maliuk commented on the information about the surveillance of Bihus.Info journalists. 06.02.24 14:55 11 955 124 Incidents

Supreme Court Judge Zhukov lives in $1m estate near Kyiv with vineyards and lakes: all registered to old friends - media. VIDEO+PHOTOS The family of Supreme Court of Cassation judge Serhii Zhukov lives in a 4-hectare estate near Kyiv, where, in addition to houses, there are also lakes and vineyards. Nothing is registered there for Zhukov himself - it all officially belongs to people close to him. 21.01.25 08:31 15 788 110

Journalist Bihus says he is freelance employee of SSU military counterintelligence Investigative journalist Denys Bihus confirmed that he is a freelance employee of the Military Counterintelligence Department of the Security Service of Ukraine. 20.06.25 08:37 12 870 134

Head of OP Yermak probably requested surveillance of journalists - Bihus. VIDEO A new video by the Bihus.Info investigative project shows that the wiretapping and video recording of their former colleagues was ordered by one of the departments of the Security Service of Ukraine. 05.02.24 21:09 25 880 108 Incidents

Firm of ’Servant of People’ director Kiriushchenko signed contracts for more than UAH 750 million with state agencies - media El-Energo, co-owned by Oleksii Kiriushchenko, director and screenwriter of the TV series Servant of the People, signed 12 contracts worth over UAH 750 million with state and municipal enterprises between October 2023 and May 2014. 13.05.24 23:11 13 147 106 Society

President’s Office should be considered customer of crime against journalists - Shabunin Until the real organisers and instigators of crimes against journalists are brought to justice, the Office of the President should be considered guilty of these crimes. 06.02.24 14:20 14 180 105 Incidents

Surveillance of Bihus.Info: Journalists ask to identify people who allegedly spied on project team. PHOTOS Bihus.Info journalists have asked for help in identifying the people who are likely to be involved in the surveillance of the investigative team. 02.02.24 15:06 21 201 100 Incidents

Ukrainian journalists complain to G7 ambassadors about pressure and discrediting Representatives of the Ukrainian media community met with the ambassadors of the G7 countries amid concerns about the decline in press freedom in Ukraine. 30.01.24 09:54 16 680 99 Society

Schemes in Avtodor, Crimean business and forgotten millions in France of chief tax officer Hetmantsev - BIHUS.Info investigation. VIDEO Investigative journalists from BIHUS.Info team released a detailed report about MP Danylo Hetmantsev, head of Parliamentary Tax Committee, in which they cited facts of MP’s servicing of companies of Yanukovych’s friend Demishkan, Hetmantsev’s concealment of his assets in France, and his family business in occupied Crimea after 2014. 17.04.23 23:19 20 168 89 Ukrainian Politics

SSU seizes disks with recordings of cameras of secret shooting of Bihus.Info team Representatives of the Security Service of Ukraine searched the suburban complex where the Bihus.Info. team members were secretly filmed and seized hard drives with CCTV footage. 18.01.24 08:44 19 417 87 Ukrainian Politics

Some employees of SSU’s Department for Protection of National Statehood, who were surveilling journalists, were sent to war zone in Donbas - Bihus.Info Bihus.Info reported that some of those who had been surveilling the project’s journalists had been sent to Donetsk and Luhansk regions. 15.02.24 15:45 14 133 74 Incidents

Zelenskyy on surveillance of Bihus.Info journalists: SSU will investigate this, we need to find answers The facts of secret video recording of independent journalists should be investigated by the SSU. 21.01.24 14:30 6 266 65 Incidents

Few services are capable of wiretapping and oppressing journalists, all of them are controlled by Tatarov - Nikolov Journalist Yurii Nikolov, whose apartment was broken into the day before by unidentified persons, said that the Presidential Office was organising attacks on the media because it was silent about them. 17.01.24 09:26 8 275 62 Ukrainian Politics

Sons of Kudryk, head of Borshchahivka hromada in Kyiv region, have acquired property worth tens of millions - Media The two sons of Oles Kudryk, head of the Borshchahivka hromada near Kyiv, have managed to acquire assets worth tens of millions of hryvnias in recent years. 20.08.24 09:12 10 422 61

Verkhovna Rada Committee on Freedom of Speech to form request to SSU to spy on Bihus.Info journalists - Yurchyshyn. VIDEO The Rada Committee on Freedom of Speech will formulate a request to the Security Service of Ukraine on the fact of surveillance of Bihus.Info journalists. 17.01.24 11:32 4 511 54 Society

Director of "Servant of People" became largest gas trader and UAV manufacturer thanks to his friendship with Zelenskyy. VIDEO Director and screenwriter of the series "Servant of the People" Oleksii Kiriushchenko is siphoning off millions of hryvnias from his new company El-Energo in cooperation with firms linked to MP from the OPZZh party Yurii Boiko. 09.09.25 22:40 24 656 92

In media reports for OP, criticism of government is called "attacks" by "opposition media". They are prepared by company of "servant of people" Marikovskyi - media. VIDEO The reports analyse references to top officials in the media, and sometimes add political context with negative connotations to these reports. 16.01.24 11:55 10 862 53 Ukrainian Politics

Bihus.Info suspects that curators of surveillance of journalists wanted to reward them. SSU says no orders were given. VIDEO The investigative journalism project Bihus.Info sent a request to the SBU to award the Order of Danylo Halytskyi to Roman Semenchenko, head of the Department for the Protection of National Statehood, who was later fired after the surveillance of journalists was made public, and to Igor Kravchenko, an SBU officer involved in the surveillance. The SSU denied that they had received such an order. 10.02.24 15:25 10 326 49 Ukrainian Politics

SSU initiates proceedings over illegal wiretapping and filming of Bihus.Info representatives The Security Service of Ukraine has opened a criminal investigation into the wiretapping of representatives of the investigative journalism project Bihus.Info. 17.01.24 15:36 5 950 44 Incidents

Employees of largest Service centre of Ministry of Internal Affairs drive undeclared cars - media. PHOTOS Employees of the largest Service centre of the Ministry of Internal Affairs drive to work in cars that are not listed in their declarations because they are registered either to relatives or to strangers. In addition, their relatives have a lot of other expensive property registered in their names. 05.12.24 09:30 44 492 42 Previously in trend: E-declarations of senior officials

Several people’s deputies have renewed their car fleets since 2022: they explain it by beekeeping and their spouses’ businesses Analyzing people’s deputies’ declarations for 2022, journalists found a significant upgrade in the deputies’ car fleets. The cars are most often registered to wives, assistants, or friends. 05.03.24 16:28 10 146 41 Ukrainian Politics

Tens of millions were given to Mariupol company that invented employees and forged documents for reconstruction, - mass media. VIDEO The firm has received millions of dollars in contracts to rebuild buildings destroyed by Ruscists in the Kyiv region, as well as to reconstruct a dormitory for families from Mariupol in Dnipro. 21.07.23 11:41 47 588 40 Incidents

Companies that cooperated with Russians, as well as those close to OP, will shoot TV series for money from state budget, - mass media. VIDEO Several companies will receive state funding for film production, including those close to the Presidential Office. 24.10.23 10:15 5 720 40 Ukrainian Politics

Shame on SSU’s "work" against journalists, - Justice Minister Maliuska Minister of Justice Denys Maliuska said he was ashamed of the SSU’s "work" against BIHUS.Info journalists. 05.02.24 23:50 8 517 39 Ukrainian Politics

People from entourage of ex-head of Kyiv Metro Brahinskyi won tenders for hundreds of millions of hryvnias - BIHUS. Info. VIDEO The BIHUS. Info project has published a second investigation into the activities of the former head of the Kyiv Metro, Viktor Brahinskyi, which revealed that people close to the official won state tenders for hundreds of millions of hryvnias. 18.03.24 23:23 8 975 34 Incidents

Media Movement calls on Zelenskyy and law enforcement agencies to respond to systemic pressure on independent journalists and investigators Members of the Media Movement reported on systemic pressure on independent journalists and investigators and called on President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, law enforcement agencies and civil society to take control of the investigations of crimes against media professionals. 17.01.24 14:10 3 953 34 Society

All influence over parliament now lies with President’s Office. Ukraine has become presidential republic – media. VIDEO The Verkhovna Rada currently holds no real influence, as all power has been concentrated in the hands of the President’s Office. 02.05.25 16:27 7 716 79

Since 2021, we have been receiving "loud headlines" about sanctions, but in fact, defendants easily circumvent these restrictions - Bihus.Info. VIDEO Recently, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy imposed sanctions on Petro Poroshenko, Yurii Boiko and Nestor Shufrych, but the individuals on the sanctions lists easily circumvent the restrictions, as there has been no real investigation or court verdict on their activities. 22.04.25 08:10 6 401 47 Previously in trend: NSDC sanctions Sanctions against Poroshenko

MIA Academy leaders received service apartments promised to social security beneficiaries and veterans – media. VIDEO+PHOTOS The leadership of the National Academy of Internal Affairs (NAIA) allocated service apartments among themselves in a residential complex in Kyiv. The housing was previously promised to privileged groups and veterans. After privatization, some NAIA leaders sold the apartments. 22.07.25 18:59 11 658 43 Previously in trend: Leadership of the National Academy of Internal Affairs (NAIA)

Pre-trial investigation in case of Bihus.info surveillance will be conducted by SBI The State Bureau of Investigation will investigate the criminal proceedings over the surveillance of Bihus.Info journalists. 06.02.24 16:21 2 441 32 Incidents

Butusov is included in rating "Journalist of Year 2024" according to Institute of Mass Information The Institute of Mass Information conducted a survey of the media community in all regions of Ukraine to determine the journalists of the year. 24.12.24 16:18 4 318 29

SSU crime against journalists: what happened and who is to blame? | Yurii Butusov. VIDEO Yurii Butusov, Editor-in-Chief of Censor.NET, will express his opinion on the situation with the SSU surveillance of journalists of the Bihus.Info project. 06.02.24 20:10 5 415 28 Ukrainian Politics

Bihus.Info journalists have been under surveillance in recent days. We noticed spies under office - project editor Yurchenko While preparing a story about the wiretapping of the Bihus.Info team by SSU officers, the journalists of the publication continued to record unknown persons who continued to monitor them. 06.02.24 12:48 4 156 24 Incidents

Family of "servant of people" Fris, who promotes restrictions on registers, owns hotels and land in Carpathians - media. VIDEO "Servant of the People" MP Ihor Fris is one of the initiators of draft law No. 11533 on restricting access to real estate registers. At the same time, his family owns hotels, restaurants and land in the Carpathians. 08.04.25 13:45 8 705 41

Kyiv officials invented buildings to withdraw land under "toilet scheme" - media. VIDEO Kyiv officials received land through fake real estate under the "toilet scheme". 01.04.25 09:55 8 619 29 Previously in trend: Komarnytskyi’s case

Journalist Denys Bihus was mobilized into Armed Forces of Ukraine. VIDEO Investigative journalist and Bihus.Info project manager Denys Bihus has been mobilised. 22.09.25 22:07 15 296 68 Previously in trend: Bihus was mobilized

Contractors affiliated with authorities build underground schools in Kherson despite local protests - media Despite protests from local residents, Russian shelling, and several years of online learning, two underground schools continue to be built in Kherson. The contractors who carry out these construction projects have connections with government officials. 05.11.24 16:22 3 942 9