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The National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) has twice appealed to the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) to initiate sanctions before the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) against a former member of parliament from the Party of Regions. However, the special service refused to do so. This was stated by NABU director Semen Krivonose at a press briefing, according to a correspondent of Glavkom.
Krivonose clarified that this concerns a former MP who was recently spotted in Monaco (Yuriy Ivanuschenko, – Glavkom).
“We twice turned to the SBU with a request to impose sanctions on one well-known former regional deputy, who was later seen by journalist Tkachev in Monaco,” said the NABU director.
Krivonose noted that the SBU first informed about the lack of grounds for imposing sanctions. After that NABU sent a second appeal.
“We clarified and noted that on your own resources (on the SBU website, – Glavkom) it was stated that this person (Yuriy Ivanuschenko, – Glavkom) is an agent of the FSB’s Fifth Service, and provided a transcript from their July video 2025 year,” Krivonose said.
Krivonose also noted that NABU forwarded to the SBU information about possible Russian passports of this former MP and his control over business on temporarily occupied territories.
Earlier media reports stated that the Security Service of Ukraine did not find sufficient information about the damage in NABU’s request to impose sanctions against the former MP from the now-proscribed Party of Regions, Yuriy Ivanuschenko. The SBU responded 22 in April that the NABU request "does not contain sufficient information about Ivanuschenko Yurii V. causing damage to national security." In the reply, the SBU noted that the agency was ready to reconsider proposals for applying sanctions against Ivanuschenko “in case of their refinement.”
As a reminder, at the beginning of September 2025 year NABU announced suspicions against Yuriy Ivanuschenko, Vladyslava Molchanova, the former head of the Kyiv region State Geocadastre, Mykola Tereshchenko, and two other individuals under Part 5 of Art. 191 (misappropriation, embezzlement of property or unauthorized disposal of it through abuse of official position) and Part 3 of Art. 209 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (legalization (laundering) of income obtained by criminal means).
According to the investigation, in the spring 2021 during a corporate conflict over control of the Stolychni market in the suburbs of Kyiv, they decided to move market assets to persons affiliated with Molchanova. The nine plots totaling 18 hectares were involved. Based on supposedly executed deeds, the land was sold to three companies connected with Molchanova.
In October of last year, the High Anti-Corruption Court (VAKS) remand-arrested Ivanuschenko in absentia. However, in December it was canceled.
By the way, in March 2026 year NABU appealed to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and the Security Service to initiate sanctions against the former MP from the Party of Regions. This is about Yuriy Ivanuschenko, who is a defendant in the case of misappropriation of land on the Stolychni market.
Later, in June 2026 year the Appellate Chamber of the High Anti-Corruption Court granted the prosecutor’s appeal and chose the measure of restraint in the form of detention for the former Party of Regions MP Yuriy Ivanuschenko.
Note that Yuriy Ivanuschenko left Ukraine in December 2014 year and now lives with his family in Monaco. In January 2015 year he was put on the wanted list for alleged misappropriation and disposal of property through abuse of office, as well as for extortion and obtaining improper benefits by a public official. In 2017 year the Supreme Court of Ukraine closed all criminal cases against him. That same year his name was excluded from the EU sanctions lists.
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