More than a thousand asset declarations filed by SBU employees are no longer publicly available

A total of 1,399 declarations in which the Security Service of Ukraine was listed as the place of employment were removed from public access. In total, this involves at least 1,012 declarants.

This was reported on the OpenDataBot platform, which analyzed publicly available information from the National Agency for Corruption Prevention as of mid-November 2026.

According to analysts’ estimates, the peak in the concealment of SBU employees’ declarations occurred in 2023—when 384 documents were removed from public access. By comparison, 224 declarations were hidden in 2024, and 38 in 2025.

Overall, the trend over previous years is as follows: 32 declarations were hidden in 2016, 52 in 2017, 59 in 2018, 211 for 2019, 219 for 2020, 116 for 2021, and 64 for 2022.

At the same time, SBU employees account for only 0.3% of all declarations that have been removed from public access. The total number of such documents in Ukraine is at least 468,900.

The mechanism for concealing declarations involves removing them from the public section of the registry for security reasons during martial law. This can be initiated by authorized heads of state agencies. It is the NACP that technically removes the documents from public access after receiving the relevant request.

On November 9, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy submitted an urgent bill to the Verkhovna Rada regarding the resumption of asset declarations for certain categories of SBU employees.

It is worth noting that among the declarations removed from public access are documents belonging to Oleg Kiper, head of the Odesa Regional Military Administration. Journalists from the Center for Public Investigations twice submitted requests to the Odesa Regional Military Administration regarding the official’s salary but received no response.

Ірина Глухова