Every fifth proceeding reaches court
According to the Prosecutor General’s Office, over 35,000 criminal proceedings under Article 190 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine, “Fraud,” were opened in the first eight months of 2025. This is 1.5 times less than in the same period last year, but 1.8 times more than in 2021. On average, 4,500 fraud cases are opened in Ukraine every month. Currently, most proceedings are opened in Kyiv, Dnipropetrovsk, and Kharkiv regions. 21% of cases reach court.
35,599 criminal cases of fraud were recorded from January to August 2025 in Ukraine. This is 1.5 times less than during the same period last year. At the same time, it is still 1.8 times more than before the start of the full-scale war.
The peak of fraud occurred in 2023, when a record 82,000 cases were opened. On average, 7,000 cases were opened each month that year, and from May to August, more than 8,000. Since then, the number of new cases has been gradually decreasing. This year, about 4,500 new cases are being filed per month.
However, not all cases reach court. Thus, in 9,000 cases this year, suspects were charged, and 7,600 cases were sent to court — 21% of the total number. For comparison, in 2021, this figure was 30%, and in 2022–2023, only 18%.
The capital has seen the most reports of fraud this year, with 4,882 cases. This is followed by Dnipropetrovsk region with 3,511 cases and Kharkiv region with 2,671 cases. The lowest number of cases, except for the temporarily occupied territories and the combat zone, was recorded in Ivano-Frankivsk region — about 700 cases.
Overall, the number of fraud cases this year has decreased by a third compared to last year. However, in some regions, the decline is minimal, such as in Khmelnytskyi region, where the figure has decreased by only 1%. In contrast, in Dnipropetrovsk and Chernivtsi regions, such reports have decreased by more than 40%.
However, compared to 2021, the number of fraud cases in Zhytomyr region has increased more than fourfold, and in Zakarpattia region – threefold.
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