Ukraine's NACP files 12 protocols and 31 conclusions in nine months

Ukraine's National Agency on Corruption Prevention (NACP) drew up 12 administrative offence protocols, approved 31 reasoned conclusions and issued 60 binding orders in the first nine months of 2026, the agency said on 26 October.

The NACP's monitoring results say 14 of the conclusions concerned signs of corruption offences with a total value above UAH 118.5 million and 17 concerned signs of corruption-related offences. The orders, known as prypysy, told heads of public bodies to remove breaches of the ethics and conflict-of-interest rules and other requirements of the Law on Prevention of Corruption.

The largest items concern public money. The agency said officials at six customs offices entered false information on fines paid by non-resident carriers into the automated customs clearance system, with damage estimated at over UAH 2.6 million, and it sent a conclusion to the Prosecutor General's Office. Two conclusions concern officials of an energy sector enterprise and a municipal enterprise of the Dnipro City Council who, on preliminary data, signed contracts at inflated prices in collusion with business representatives, resulting in the embezzlement of over UAH 50 million, the agency said; the National Police opened criminal proceedings. The agency also listed signs of potential embezzlement in purchases by the Ministry of Youth and Sports (over UAH 3 million), of multimedia equipment at the Dnipro City Council (over UAH 11 million), of computer equipment for an institution under the Ministry of Justice (over UAH 5.4 million) and of coal for a territorial directorate of the food safety service (about UAH 500 thousand), and said law enforcement agencies had opened pre-trial investigations into all of them.

The protocols cover gifts, misuse of official information and outside employment. One concerns a district court judge who used another person's apartment, valued at UAH 122.5 thousand, free of charge from July 2024 to November 2025. The NACP names no official and states that the court decides whether an official's actions are an offence.

Orders also went to the heads of the State Property Fund, the Odesa Regional State Administration, the Ministry of Education and Science and the Ministry of Defence, whose officials had not handed their corporate rights to management as Article 36 of the law requires; the agency said the requirements were then met.

The release belongs to a series of nine-month figures. The NACP's special checks on candidates for public office led to 153 refusals of appointment from 11,267 requests processed, and its full verifications of declarations were the subject of our piece on declaration checks. The investigators' side of the system is set out in our explainer on NABU and SAPO's first-half figures.