Law enforcement officers uncovered a corruption scheme in the maritime industry: two officials of the state enterprises "Service" and "Maritime Administration of the Chornomorsk Fishing Port" are suspected of transferring state tankers to a private company at understated prices, causing losses of over 16 million hryvnias. This was reported by the Prosecutor General's Office, writes UNN.
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The investigation found that in 2020, officials illegally leased several state vessels to a private entity at artificially low rates.
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To legalize the scheme, officials used a controlled appraisal company that artificially "crashed" the value of the vessels: "Tamanskyi" - from >35 million UAH to 4.2 million UAH, "Vostochnyi" - from 19 million to 3.6 million UAH, "Yuzhnyi" - from 16 million to 1.8 million UAH, "Sadko-2" - from >1.2 million to 396 thousand UAH
- reported the OGP.
Such actions led to significant losses for the state budget and provided illegal advantages to the private company.
The officials are charged with abuse of power (Part 2 of Article 364 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine), which caused grave consequences.
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