NABU, SAP Expose Raider Group Linked to MP, Presidential Office
NABU and SAPO, as part of the special operation "Themis" to eliminate high-level corruption, exposed a criminal organization led by a current and former People's Deputies of Ukraine. The organization also included high-ranking officials of the Office of the President of Ukraine and other individuals.
This was reported by NABU detective Oleksandr Ivanov.
The main goal of the organization's activities was to seize expensive real estate and other assets of enterprises by illegally establishing control over economic entities owned by other persons, about which the two co-organizers concluded a so-called conceptual agreement. The defendants in the case committed raider seizures of enterprises by forging documents on the ownership of such enterprises, as well as court decisions.
The value of the assets of the enterprises that the members of the criminal organization illegally seized in the fall of 2025 amounted to over 248 million UAH, and in May 2026 they tried to seize real estate in Kyiv worth over 207 million UAH.
According to Ivanov, the purpose of taking over one of the enterprises was to gain control over real estate in the center of Kyiv worth over half a billion hryvnias.
To implement the scheme, the defendants involved hackers who, under the guise of state registrars, infiltrated the register of legal entities and entered forged documents and false information about the transfer of ownership from legal owners to fictitious persons.
According to him, in two days, the participants in the scheme re-registered the corporate rights of the seized enterprises to controlled persons who "were actually bodyguards of one of the co-organizers of the crime."
NABU provided excerpts of intercepted conversations. The former MP and an accomplice discussed the mechanism for forging documents.
Realizing that the legal owners could challenge the re-registration of their property, the organization's members ensured the registration of criminal proceedings upon the application of persons under their control, as well as the seizure of the corporate rights of the seized enterprises in order to make registration actions impossible.
According to the detective, in order to maintain control over these enterprises, the group members influenced high-ranking officials of the Ministry of Justice and "lobbied for decisions to be made regarding the consideration of complaints about raider actions in the interests of the criminal organization."
According to law enforcement officials, on December 29, 2025, the Ministry of Justice's complaints board adopted a conclusion recognizing the legality of the transfer of ownership of an enterprise seized by raider to a person controlled by the organization.
The purpose of the seizure of one of the companies was to gain control over expensive real estate in the center of Kyiv by initiating bankruptcy proceedings in the commercial court with the help of controlled persons. The participant in the scheme reports to the organizer about his meeting with the judge in the bankruptcy case of one of the companies. On January 27, 2026, the judge grants the application to secure the claim of the controlled person against the organizer of the crime and prohibits any registration actions in relation to the company
According to him, on March 26, 2026, the judge granted the petition of the arbitration manager of the controlled organization and terminated the powers of the director of the enterprise.
In the case of the second company, the organizers of the scheme, taking advantage of the consideration of a complaint about their raider actions, which was conducted by the Ministry of Justice for more than two months, created fictitious debt, which made it possible to initiate bankruptcy proceedings. Another episode of the criminal organization was an attempt to seize expensive real estate in the center of Kyiv by forging a court decision and entering it into the real estate register with the help of hackers
The conversations also included the Deputy Head of the President's Office, Iryna Mudra, who was declared suspicious yesterday.
The officials of the Ministry of Justice, realizing the consequences of carrying out the illegal instructions of the deputy head of the OPU, refused to participate in the crime, as a result of which the intention to seize the real estate object was never completed. The former MP and the deputy head of the presidential office discuss the reasons why their plan did not work
According to the investigation, the financing of the criminal organization's activities was provided by the co-organizer and the current head of the organization in the amount of at least $514,000. The participants in the scheme used the funds "for hackers, legal proceedings, as an illegal benefit to law enforcement and judicial authorities, as well as other expenses."
Members of a criminal organization complain about the impossibility of obtaining information from NABU and SAPO and are considering how to control the anti-corruption system
According to him, on August 19, 2026, NABU detectives and SAPO prosecutors reported suspicions to members of a criminal organization under Articles 191, 206, note 2, 358, and 361 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. The investigation is ongoing.
Recall, we previously reported that the HACC authorized an in absentia investigation into Shurma and two others.
