Vitaliy Shabunin is the founder of Anti-Corruption Action Centre, a non-profit civil society organisation consisting of experts from the legal, media and civic-political sectors which fights corruption in Ukraine. Vitaliy is a prominent anti-corruption activist in Ukraine and businesses are involved in most of the cases he works on. On 17 July 2018, Vitaliy Shabunin suffered chemical burns after he was attacked with an antiseptic liquid during the course of a peaceful demonstration outside the Special Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office in Kyiv. The demonstration had been organised in order to call for the resignation of the Head of the Special Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office, Nazar Kholodnytskyi, over a decision he recently made to close an investigation into Interior Minister Arsen Avakov's son, Oleksandr Avakov. Oleksandr Avakov had been accused of embezzling UAH 14 million (457.679 euro) in state funds which had been designated for the provision of new backpacks to the Ukrainian military.