Two employees of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine — Roman Nedov and Valentyn Shmitko — found themselves at the center of a high-profile corruption scandal. According to a journalistic investigation by Informator.ua, the detectives were exposed for hiding elite property, transferring funds abroad, and abusing their official position. The editorial board appealed to the NACP to launch an investigation.
Deputy Head of the NABU Division Roman Nedov, according to journalists, registered several apartments in the capital for his mother-in-law, which later became the property of his wife. One of them is in the elite residential complex "Sherwood" near the NABU building itself. Schemes were used to transfer property with a decrease in the declared area and value. For example, an apartment that costs from $200 thousand on the market was officially valued at only $37 thousand. Such real estate appeared in the declaration as a gift to his wife.
Another apartment on Povitroflotsky Avenue was transferred under a similar scheme. In addition, the Nedov family uses a premium car, declared at almost half the price.
Detective Valentyn Shmitko, who heads another unit of the Bureau, has been declaring large amounts of cash for years — up to two-thirds of his official income. According to the investigation, in 2024 he took more than 4.3 million hryvnias abroad.
The article also states that Shmitko's wife has been regularly traveling to Europe and the United States since the start of the full-scale invasion, despite officially receiving social assistance in Ukraine.
Shmitko also appears in the case of helping his friend avoid mobilization. He was stopped with a large sum of cash, after which it was discovered that he was wanted. Shmitko personally came to “resolve the issue,” but the matter reached the point of indictment — from which, according to journalists, he was “exonerated” by the NABU leadership. The friend-evader also avoided mobilization.
The journalists note that the described cases are not isolated. They call on the NACP to conduct a large-scale audit of the assets and actions of NABU employees, who should be an example in the fight against corruption, not its personification.
