48.8 thousand criminal cases of fraud were registered in Ukraine last year, according to the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine. This is a quarter less than in 2024. One in five cases was served with a notice of suspicion. Only 18% of proceedings went to court. Most cases are in the capital, Dnipro and Kharkiv regions.
48,871 criminal proceedings under Article 190 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine “Fraud” were recorded in Ukraine in 2025. This is a quarter less than in 2024, when law enforcement registered almost 65,000 cases.
Overall, the figures have actually returned to the level of 2016. Back then, there were just over 46 thousand fraud proceedings in Ukraine. After 2017 and before the full-scale invasion, the number of new proceedings steadily decreased from year to year. The peak occurred in 2023: 82,609 criminal cases – an average of almost 7,000 per month. However, for the second year in a row, the statistics have been on the decline again. Last year, on average, about 4,000 cases were registered per month.
However, suspicion was served in every fifth case – 10,456 proceedings. And 18% of cases went to court: 8,758 criminal proceedings. In 2024, this figure was 24%.
Kyiv remains the leader in the number of fraud cases – 6,825. It is followed by Dnipropetrovs’k region with 4,844 cases and Kharkiv region with 3,677 proceedings.
At the same time, the number of new proceedings decreased almost across the country. The only region that recorded an increase was Khmelnytskyi: +2.7% over the year. The most significant improvement is observed in Mykolaiv region, where the number of new cases has almost halved, as well as in Chernivtsi region: -39%.
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