For January–April 2026, Ukrainian courts issued 814 decisions in corruption cases. This is 27% less than in the same period last year, but almost twice as many as before the start of the full-scale war. This was reported by Opendatabot, citing the Unified Register of Corrupt Officials.
Source: Gazeta.UA
In all cases this year, the punishment was limited to fines. The vast majority of proceedings (93%) are administrative: 762 cases compared to 52 criminal ones.
The largest share of violations — 91% (742 cases) — concerns financial control: declarations, late submissions, or reporting errors. Only 6% of decisions are related to bribery, and another 3% to conflicts of interest.
The National Agency on Corruption Prevention (NACP) explains that criminal cases are less frequent and take significantly longer to consider than administrative ones.
For comparison: in 2025, courts issued 4,086 decisions in corruption cases — 2.2 times more than in 2024. At that time, 97% of verdicts were also limited to fines, although there were also real prison sentences, community service, and suspended sentences.
The largest fine in 2025 — over UAH 1.24 million — was imposed on a Kyiv-based lawyer for organizing schemes to evade mobilization, including through fictitious employment and updating data at a Territorial Recruitment Center (TCC) for $15,000. Despite this, the court lifted the seizure of his property, including a Chevrolet Camaro, an apartment, and commercial real estate.
The harshest sentence of the year — 10 years in prison — was given to a sergeant of an assault company in the Sumy region for stealing and selling Ukrainian Armed Forces military optics worth over UAH 4.5 million. Part of the equipment was recovered, and the court ruled the crime especially severe due to the embezzlement of property during wartime.
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