Main Directorate for Combating Corruption and Organized Crime
According to the Law of Ukraine "On the Security Service of Ukraine", key tasks of the Security Service of Ukraine relate to prevention, identification, preclusion, and detection of corrupt and organized crime acts in the sphere of governance and economy, as well as other illicit actions that are direct threats to Ukraine's vital interests. Under Article 10 of the said Law, there should be a corresponding element within the SBU's Headquarters. Based on that, the Main Directorate for Combating Corruption and Organized Crime (Directorate "K" SBU* - SBU's Main Directorate BKOZ*) has been established when its statute was approved by the Head of the SBU in his order of June 8, 1992. Within the system of state bodies specially founded to combat organized crime, the SBU's Main Directorate BKOZ is a special element of the Security Service of Ukraine for combating corruption and organized crime.
The primary objectives of the SBU's Main Directorate BKOZ are the following:
- safeguarding the social and economic interests of Ukraine and the rights of its citizens against encroachments of corrupt and organized crime elements in state's executive, law enforcement, and regulatory agencies, as well as in the economic sphere, and in the credit, banking or financial systems;
- identification, restriction, neutralization, and elimination of organized crime gangs operating on an interregional or transnational basis;
- prevention, identification, and preclusion of smuggling activities in the sphere of foreign economic trade relating to illegal across-the-border transfer of raw materials and other resources, consumer goods, currency, historical, and cultural assets, poisonous, harmful, radioactive, and explosive substances, or weapons and ammunition; and
- detection and preclusion of criminal activities of foreign narcosyndicates and organized narcotrafficking gangs in Ukraine.
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