NABU Reportedly Raids Kyiv Region Police Chief’s Home Over Scam Center Probe

Ukraine’s anti-corruption agencies reportedly searched the house of Andriy Rubel, the Kyiv region’s police chief, as part of an ongoing probe into suspected official protection of scam call centers.

Local outlet Dzerkalo Tyzhnia , citing its own law enforcement sources, said the was on Wednesday and that Rubel was not detained.

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Rubel’s role in the probe, if any, remains unclear. Kyiv Post could not independently verify Dzerkalo Tyzhnia’s reporting.

Rubel was appointed to his current role in May 2026. Before that, he served as head of the National Police’s Strategic Investigations Department from October 2022 to April 2026, Dzerkalo Tyzhnia reported.

Earlier, Rubel headed the National Police’s Main Directorate in the Kharkiv region between 2020 and 2021, and reportedly applied to become head of the internal control department of the State Bureau of Investigation (DBR) in 2019 but failed the exam.

The outlet said the forms part of Operation Carthage , an earlier investigation into fraud call centers in Ukraine that led to the ouster of the country’s prosecutor general, whose subordinates were directly implicated in the scheme via wiretapped recordings.

On Wednesday, the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) reportedly searched the properties of several senior officials from the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU). One reportedly threatened NABU investigators with a firearm, and SBU special forces were also dispatched to the scene.

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NABU condemned the incident, and the SBU later issued a brief statement acknowledging the searches and calling for impartial investigations, before sacking two officials on Wednesday evening.

NABU said on Wednesday it uncovered more evidence pointing to cover-ups by high-ranking officials from the SBU, the National Police, and the Prosecutor General’s Office, in the Operation Carthage probe, with around 70 searches conducted on the same day.

Ukrainska Pravda and Dzerkalo Tyzhnia , citing their law enforcement sources, reported that the breakthrough likely came from unlocking the phone of Andriy Osipov, a suspect with alleged ties to top SBU officials who was detained in a separate case.

NABU also released recordings on Wednesday that it says show a criminal group linked to the Operation Carthage case was preparing attacks on journalists, including a plot to pour acid on investigative journalist Denys Bihus’s face after the group learned of his investigation into U420, a rapidly expanding chain of stores suspected of selling illegal psychotropic substances disguised as souvenirs.