In June 2024, the Department of Defense (DoD) Office of Inspector General (OIG) and the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to further increase their cooperation in combating fraud and corruption, including safeguarding the integrity of oversight of U.S. and E.U. support to Ukraine. In their work related to Ukraine support, OLAF has found that E.U. funds are co-mingled in Ukraine government accounts, which imposes serious traceability and accountability challenges. This MOU may facilitate DoD OIG, and OLAF to identify new fraud and corruption indicators and consequently share that information with the DoD OIG’s Defense Criminal Investigative Service (DCIS).
In March 2024, the U.S. Agency for International Development's (USAID) and Ukraine's Ministry of Finance signed a MOU, which contains clauses affording USAID OIG prompt access to the Ministry of Finance's documents, systems and personnel and creates an obligation for the Ministry to report allegations of misconduct affecting the United States' direct budget support to Ukraine.
To enhance their office oversight capabilities during a January 2024 visit to Ukraine, DoD and Department of State (State) OIGs signed MOUs with the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office (SAPO) that create a formal information-sharing framework to bolster collaboration and transparency on investigative efforts. The DoD OIG also signed MOUs with the State Bureau of Investigation, the Ukrainian National Police, and the Main Inspectorate of Ukraine's Ministry of Defense. State OIG has an existing MOU with the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) while USAID OIG, in addition to its existing MOUs with NABU, SAPO, and the State Bureau of Investigation, signed a MOU with the Ukrainian National Police during the visit.