The defendants organized a scheme to embezzle money allocated for assistance to those with incurable diseases and appropriated almost UAH 60 million. Among the suspects are officials of the Department of Social Policy of the Kyiv City State Administration, the head of one of Kyiv's psychiatric hospitals, and the commercial director of a company that won a state tender.
UNN reports with reference to the SBU press service.
Details
Law enforcement officers uncovered the embezzlement of funds allocated for social assistance to seriously ill patients. This involves almost UAH 60 million from the budget of the Kyiv City State Administration (KCSA).
According to the investigation, 4 individuals are involved in the scheme.
Two of them are deputy heads of the Department of Social and Veteran Policy. Also, a former KCSA official, and currently the head of one of the capital's psychiatric hospitals, whom the SBU detained while attempting to flee abroad. The fourth participant in the "scheme" is the commercial director of a company that won the KCSA tender and belongs to the aforementioned defendant. These individuals organized a mechanism for embezzling money allocated to finance Kyiv residents suffering from incurable diseases.
What the defendants were supposed to do, but instead tried to hide
The money was allocated for daily palliative care for seriously ill citizens, including free medical care, purchase of medicines, and food. The contractors were supposed to provide these services.
Instead, almost a third of the budget funds were spent by the defendants in the "scheme" on purchasing premium-class cars and elite real estate. But "on paper" - they were used for the needs of patients.
Example: one of the new Porsche Cayenne SUVs purchased by this company was used by the perpetrators themselves. Although formally, the Porsche Cayenne was listed as a vehicle for transporting seriously ill patients.
Also, during the investigation, it was established that the owner of the contracting company groundlessly registered himself as having a group 2 disability. Thanks to the fake certificate, he received a "reservation" from mobilization, the opportunity to travel outside Ukraine, and regular pension payments from the state budget.
After the scheme was exposed
All four organizers of the "scheme" have been notified of suspicion in accordance with the crimes committed under several articles of the Criminal Code of Ukraine:
Part 5 of Article 191 (appropriation, embezzlement of property or seizure thereof by abuse of official position, committed on a particularly large scale by an organized group);
Part 4 of Article 190 (fraud committed on a large scale, or by illegal operations using electronic computing equipment);
Parts 2, 3 of Article 358 (forgery of documents, seals, stamps and forms, sale or use of forged documents, seals, stamps).
The perpetrators face imprisonment for up to 12 years.
Recall
NABU exposed a criminal organization in the Kyiv City Council that illegally withdrew land through fictitious structures.
The SBU detained the head of the "UDAR Vitaliy Klychko" party in Odesa region in a case of demanding a bribe of 1 million dollars.