The blocking of resources affiliated with the Antikor portal has begun
The National Center for Operational and Technical Management of Electronic Communications Networks of Ukraine has issued an order to temporarily block the websites rozsliduvach.info and hab.media. According to available information, these websites are linked to the "Antikor" portal, whose operations have repeatedly raised questions among law enforcement agencies.
This was reported by Telegram channels.
The orders received by the media state that the blocking was implemented for the sake of national security under martial law. This order will remain in effect until the end of martial law. Electronic communications service providers must comply with the order within three business days.
The “Antikor” project has been the subject of repeated scandals, with the project accused of publishing commissioned materials. According to the Black Boxo Sint portal, “Antikor,” which positions itself as an anti-corruption outlet, may in fact serve solely as a platform for publishing paid content, as well as editorial articles about individuals and companies containing false and compromising information, the purpose of which is to force the subjects of the publications to contact the portal’s anonymous administrators and negotiate the removal of the material in exchange for payment. To exert greater pressure on the “victim,” the project uses other resources, including the websites rozsliduvach.info and hab.media.
Several criminal cases have been filed against the “Antikor” website, opened between 2019 and 2021 under Articles 182 and 189 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine—violation of privacy and extortion. According to Black Boxo Sint, investigators have established that the “Antikor” portal is run by members of the civil society organization “Committee for Countering Corruption in Government Bodies,” who, under the guise of fighting corruption, organized a criminal scheme to extort money from government officials, businesspeople, and their close relatives in exchange for removing provocative and false information previously posted on the “Antikor” portal.
“These individuals engage in the illegal collection, storage, use, and alteration of information; they fabricate information that does not correspond to reality—particularly regarding the private lives—of government officials, businesspeople, politicians, and individuals who hold influential positions in society, lead public lives, and for whom the dissemination of compromising information is undesirable and damaging, which they subsequently disseminate through a network of controlled websites. “After publishing such information, they contact the individuals about whom the information was published and demand payment in exchange for the destruction and cessation of the publication of such information,” according to materials from one of the criminal proceedings.
In turn, “Antikor” reports on pressure on freedom of speech from regulatory authorities.
“A portal that investigates corruption in the highest echelons of power is being banned—without explanation, without a say, without recourse. And freedom of speech in the Verkhovna Rada is in question. With each such case, Ukraine increasingly resembles the country it is at war with. Unfortunately, speaking the truth is once again dangerous,” reads a post on Antikor’s Facebook page regarding the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Freedom’s consideration of the portal’s case in 2025.
As a reminder, the Dniprovsky District Court of Kyiv handed down a verdict to the head of the Anti-Corruption Action Center, imposing a penalty for violence against a journalist. The court found Vitaliy Shabunin guilty of causing moderate bodily harm to the journalist, but due to the expiration of the statute of limitations, it only ordered him to compensate for the costs of the expert examinations.
