Two employees of the State Tax Service illegally accessed confidential data from an internal database and sold it to an acquaintance for amounts ranging from $100 to $300. Law enforcement gathered sufficient evidence of their illegal activities, leading to the case being forwarded to court. The suspects face up to six years in prison for leaking restricted information.
Recall that the crime was uncovered in May of this year by investigators from the Kyiv police in collaboration with the SBU and with the assistance of the Head of the State Tax Service of Ukraine. 
The investigation revealed that two tax service employees, aged 24 and 25, had access to a restricted database containing confidential information about Ukrainian citizens, and unlawfully collected data regarding individuals and legal entities, subsequently copying and sending it to a 30-year-old friend who sold it for $100-300.
The friend was seeking "clients" on a closed Russian hacker forum on the DarkNet. Payments were accepted exclusively to a cryptocurrency wallet, and the received funds were distributed among all participants in the scheme.
During searches at the suspects' residences, police seized computers, mobile devices, and flash drives that confirmed illegal operations. The perpetrators were detained under Article 208 of the Criminal Procedure Code of Ukraine.
Subsequently, investigators, under the procedural guidance of the Kyiv City Prosecutor's Office, informed all three scheme participants of their suspicion under part 3 of Article 362 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine - unauthorized copying of information processed in automated systems, leading to its leak, committed by persons with access rights to this information, in conspiracy by a group of individuals.
All necessary evidence of illegal activity has been gathered, and the indictment has been sent to court. The suspects face up to six years in prison.