Security Service of Ukraine (SBU)
The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) is Ukraine's domestic intelligence and law enforcement agency, subordinate to the President of Ukraine. It is responsible for state security, counter-intelligence, counter-terrorism, combating organised crime and protecting sensitive state information. Since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the SBU has operated with expanded powers, investigating cases of collaboration, sabotage and illicit trafficking from occupied territories.
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SBU detains two Odesa company officials for allegedly helping Russia sell stolen Mariupol wheat
Ukraine's Security Service (SBU) detained two senior employees of an Odesa-based agricultural certification company on suspicion of helping Russia legalize nearly 8,000 tons of Ukrainian wheat stolen from occupied Mariupol. The grain, valued at more than 60 million hryvnias, was allegedly loaded onto a sanctioned vessel in Mariupol in 2024, shipped to the Russian port of Temryuk, and re-documented as Russian before being exported to a country in the Middle East. Both suspects have been remanded in custody and face up to 12 years in prison.