The main tasks of the Economic Security Bureau of Ukraine are to detect, stop, and investigate criminal offences that infringe on the functioning of the state economy and offences related to the receipt and use of international technical assistance.
The law enforcement function is carried out by detective units established and operating within the structure of the Central office and Territorial Departments of the ESBU.
Detectives of the Economic Security Bureau of Ukraine are authorized within the competence defined by the Law of Ukraine "On operational and investigative activity" and the Criminal Procedure Code of Ukraine, to conduct operational and investigative activities and the pre-trial investigation of criminal offences referred by law to the jurisdiction of the Economic Security Bureau of Ukraine.
Jurisdiction of the Economic Security Bureau of Ukraine
Under Article 216 of the Criminal Procedure Code of Ukraine, detectives of the Economic Security Bureau of Ukraine conduct pre-trial investigations of criminal offences under the following articles of the Criminal Code of Ukraine:
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Production, storage, acquisition, transportation, shipment, importation into Ukraine for the purpose of use in the sale of goods, sale, or sale of counterfeit money, government securities in paper form, state lottery tickets, excise tax stamps or holographic security elements |
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Unlawful actions with transfer documents, payment cards and other means of access to bank accounts, electronic money, equipment for their production |
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Illegal activities in the organization or conduct of gambling and lotteries |
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Unlawful manufacture, storage, sale, or transport with intent to sell excisable goods |
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Forgery of documents submitted for state registration of legal entities and individual entrepreneurs |
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Counteracting legitimate business activities |
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Evasion of taxes and duties (mandatory payments) |
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Evasion of Unified Social Tax and compulsory state pension insurance contributions |
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Bringing a bank to insolvency |
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Bringing to bankruptcy |
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Violation of the procedure for maintaining a database of depositors or the procedure for generating reports |
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Falsification of financial documents and reports of a financial institution, concealment of insolvency of a financial institution or grounds for revocation (cancellation) of a financial institution's licence |
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Fraud with financial resources |
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Manipulation of organised markets |
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Forgery of documents submitted for registration of securities issue |
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Production, sale, and use of counterfeit securities (except for government securities) |
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Unlawful use of a trademark, trade name, qualified indication of the origin of goods |
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Unlawful collection for the purpose of using or exploiting information constituting a commercial or banking secret |
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Disclosure of commercial, banking or professional secrets on capital markets and organised commodity markets |
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Illegal use of insider information |
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Concealment of information about the issuer's activities |
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Illegal privatisation of state and municipal property |
As well as articles 191 (if the subject of the criminal offence is a budgetary reimbursement), 206-2, 210, 211 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine if the pre-trial investigation of such criminal offences is not under the jurisdiction of the State Bureau of investigation or the National anti-corruption Bureau of Ukraine:
Articles 191 (except for the case provided for in clause 2 of the third part of this article) and 364 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine, provided that the amount of the subject of such a criminal offence or the damage caused by it is from five hundred to two thousand amounts of the subsistence minimum for able-bodied persons, established by law on when the criminal offence was committed, and it was committed by an official of a state body, a local self-government body, a business entity, in the authorized capital of which the share of state or communal property exceeds 50 percent and the pre-trial investigation of such a criminal offence is not assigned to the jurisdiction of the State Bureau of investigation or the National anti-corruption Bureau of Ukraine.
If during the investigation of the criminal offences specified in clauses 1, 2, and 3 of this part, criminal offences provided for by articles 192, 358, 366, 369 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine, committed by a person subject to a pre-trial investigation or by another person are established if they are related to criminal offences committed by a person who is subject to a pre-trial investigation, such 2 offences may be investigated by detectives of the Economic Security Bureau of Ukraine if the pre-trial investigation of such criminal offences is not assigned to the jurisdiction of the State Bureau of investigation or the National anti-corruption Bureau of Ukraine.