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Ukraine's anti-corruption chief caught between pressure to halt probes and expectations to go further

Over the past year, a string of scandals has pushed Ukraine's independent anti-corruption agency into the spotlight. After surviving a government power grab in July, the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) exposed a $100 million corruption scheme involving several ministers and a former business partner of the president. Parliament has not been spared, with around 50 lawmakers now charged or on trial in cases brought by the bureau. Four years into Russia’s full-scale war, Ukrain

NABU Director Semen Kryvonos in Kyiv, Ukraine, on March 20, 2026.
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