On July 16, the State Bureau of Investigation of Ukraine completed a pre-trial investigation into the case of violations of Ukrainian officials. The head of counterintelligence of the SBU of the Zaporizhzhya region and his subordinates were engaged in extortion and blackmail of foreign citizens living in the region. Foreigners whose term of valid temporary residence permit was approaching the end of Ukraine had to pay $ 2,000 to solve the problems with the State Migration Service.