HUBOZ

HUBOZ (Ukrainian: ГУБОЗ, Russian: ГУБОП) is an abbreviation for the Chief Administration in Fight with the Organized Crime (Ukrainian: Головне управління по боротьбі з організованою злочинністю) of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine is a specialized law enforcement agency. The agency director is the first deputy of the minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine and acts as a minister in his or her absence.

HUBOZ director also governs the Department of Internal Security of HUBOZ.

Scope and purpose

• discovering and ceasing activities of the stable socially dangerous organized groups and crime organizations that influence the social-economical and crime generating situation in regions and country
• fight with corruption and bribery in the spheres that have a strategic meaning for the state economy among senior government officials, officials of judicial, law enforcement and regulatory authorities
• discovering and liquidation of crime schemes directed on legalization of income that were received as result of crime activities of organized groups and crime organizations
• providing reimbursement of losses to the state as well as individuals and legal entities caused by the activities of organized groups and crime organizations or corrupt acts

History

Commander

• Lieutenant General Valeriy Koryak 2010 - present
• Volodymyr Bedrykivsky 2008 - 2010
• Ihor Bilozub 2006 - 2008
• Serhiy Kornich 2005 - 2006
• Гелетей Валерій 02-03/2005
• Mykhailo Manin 2003 - 2005
• Yuriy Cherkasov 11/2002 - 2003
• Mykola Dzhyha 08/2002 - 11/2002
• Mykhailo Korniyenko 10/2000 - 08/2002
• Mykola Dzhyha 04/1998 - 10/2000
• Yuriy Vandin 07/1995 - 04/1998
• Oleksandr Ishchenko 12/1992 - 07/1995
• Hryhoriy Sheludko 05/1992 - 12/1992

See also

• Berkut (Ukraine)

Notes

External links

• Official Website (Ukrainian language)
• HUBOZ page on the website of Ministry of Internal Affairs (in Ukrainian)
• Official website of the Ukrainian bureau of Interpol