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NV’s sources believe that the reform of Ukraine’s Economic Security Bureau (ESB) will begin in 3-6 months. However, the Bankova (colloquial term for the President’s Office, after the street in Kyiv it is located on) plans to implement its own approach: to turn the bureau into a superior state body that will even control the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) in the economic component of investigations.

The Hamas attack has put a focus on the use of cryptocurrency by terrorist groups. Will new vigilance by the U.S. and others succeed – and persist?

A specialized court in Ukraine has accepted a request by anti-corruption prosecutors and ruled to place the ex-chief of the country's special communications agency in custody, setting his bail at 25 million hryvnyas ($687,000).

Yuriy Shchyhol, the former head of the State Communications Agency (SCA), has been arrested for embezzling state funds. His bail is set at 25 million hryvnias (almost $700,000), the Anti-Corruption Center reported on Nov. 23.

George Mason University's Terrorism, Transnational Crime and Corruption Center is gearing up to host a second annual Bring Down Counterfeiting Hackathon "Demo Day" on Saturday, November 4 at GMU's Arlington Campus. Organized by Blue Clarity, the hackathon event brings academia, government, private sector, and techies together to brainstorm novel solutions to fight counterfeiting and protect intellectual property rights. Hackathon participants have spent weeks devising innovative technical soluti