SBU officials exposed on embezzlement of UAH 26 million during fuel procurement
11 April 2024 10:22
Law enforcement officers exposed a scheme to embezzle funds allocated for the purchase of fuel for the SBU in 2022. This was reported by the SBU press service,
“The former head of the Department of Economic Support and his first deputy were involved in organising the fraud. Both were previously dismissed from their positions on the initiative of the SBU Head Vasyl Malyuk,” the statement said,
– the statement reads.
The defendants organised the purchase of fuel and lubricants for SBU cars and armoured vehicles at artificially high prices. For this purpose, they involved several controlled commercial structures from Kyiv that trade in oil products.
They also entered false information into financial and business records and reports.
In this way, the SBU units suffered losses of over UAH 26 million.
During searches of the suspects’ residences, the SBU found more than UAH 11 million in the hryvnia equivalent, and unregistered weapons were seized during investigations at the residences and offices of the heads of affiliated companies.
The seized weapons included combat grenades, submachine guns, a hand-held grenade launcher, a combat pistol and more than 500 rounds of ammunition for firearms.
SBU investigators served the former officials a notice of suspicion under two articles of the Criminal Code of Ukraine:
- ч. 5 of Art. 191 (embezzlement of another’s property by abuse of office by an official, committed by prior conspiracy by a group of persons, under martial law, in a particularly large scale);
- ч. 1 of Art. 114-1 (obstruction of the lawful activities of other military formations – the Security Service of Ukraine during a special period).
The issue of choosing a measure of restraint is being decided.
The former officials face up to 12 years in prison with confiscation of property.
