The Bureau of Economic Security (BEB) announced the disclosure of a scheme of misappropriation of budget funds by officials of the Gostomel settlement military administration.
About this informs BEB press office.
“It was established that in the period of 2022-2023, the officials of the Gostomel settlement military administration concluded a number of contracts for the implementation of works to eliminate accidents in the housing stock that arose as a result of hostilities caused by the military aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine and the arrangement of shelters. It turned out that the contracts were concluded with controlled subjects of economic activity at inflated prices.
The investigators found out that the actual construction works were not completed in full, and some works were generally carried out by communal workers. This is evidenced by the acts of the completed works,” the message says.
According to the BEB, in the future, the winning enterprises transferred the funds obtained through criminal means to the accounts of fictitious enterprises whose offices are located in Vinnytsia, and later transferred them to cash.
According to preliminary estimates, the amount of damage caused to the state is more than 5 million hryvnias, the Bureau added.
It is noted that BEB detectives conducted searches in the buildings of the military administration and housing and communal services, as well as in office premises where fictitious enterprises were located.
“According to the results of the searches, primary financial and economic documents, draft records and flash drives where information about illegal activities were stored were seized.
The seized documents have been sent to an expert institution to conduct construction-technical and economic examinations in order to establish the actual damages caused to the state,” the Bureau said.
The pre-trial investigation in the criminal proceedings on the grounds of the criminal offense provided for in Part 5 of Article 191 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (appropriation, waste of property or taking possession of it by abuse of official position).
The extras are threatened with deprivation of liberty for a period of 7 to 12 years, with deprivation of the right to hold certain positions or engage in certain activities for a period of up to three years, and with confiscation of property.
Before that in Bihus.Info reported that information about payments to the Gostomel settlement military administration disappeared from the state portal of public finances after journalists discovered a number of bogus recipients of funds among the contractors.
It is about execution of works on the reconstruction of the village – the journalists found out that for the lion’s share of the works funds from the budget were received by natural persons-entrepreneurs who were not actually engaged in this.
Bihus.Info has established that at least one of the “contractors” permanently lives in temporarily occupied Donetsk and, according to information from social networks, previously participated in providing aid to the occupiers.
“Contracts were not received by these bogus persons on a competitive basis, officials signed direct contracts with them. But the village military administration itself told journalists that they did not check entrepreneurs before concluding contracts and that they allegedly came and offered their services on their own initiative.
The day after the conversation with the officials from the state portal, which contains information on the use of budget funds, all the data on payments of the settlement administration disappeared altogether,” the article says.
Journalists in general paid attention on at least eleven suspicious FOPs and firms.
The Gostomel settlement military administration explained its actions to the publication with the consequences of a full-scale war and the need to conduct procurement quickly. And they said that checking contractors is not part of their duties.
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