Officials of the Dnipro City Council are suspected of a scheme to embezzle 15 million hryvnias at a landfill site
Kyiv • UNN
Six officials have been notified of suspicion of embezzling 15 million hryvnias of budget funds during the maintenance of a solid waste landfill in Dnipro. The investigation established that the work was not actually performed, and the funds were transferred to a controlled private company.
Six individuals in Dnipro have been notified of suspicion of embezzling about UAH 15 million in budget funds and official forgery during the maintenance of a solid household waste landfill. This was reported by the Office of the Prosecutor General, writes UNN.
Under the procedural guidance of the Specialized Environmental Prosecutor's Office of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Prosecutor's Office, six individuals have been notified of suspicion of embezzling budget funds and official forgery
Among the suspects are the director of a municipal enterprise, his deputy, the chief accountant, and the chief engineer, as well as the head and accountant of a controlled private company. The actions of the individuals have been classified under several articles of the Criminal Code of Ukraine, including misappropriation of property on an especially large scale and official forgery.
According to the investigation, in 2016, a municipal enterprise of the Dnipro City Council entered into an agreement with a related private company for the maintenance and servicing of a solid household waste landfill covering an area of over 130 hectares — the only official site for waste burial and sorting in the city.
Under the terms of the agreement, the contractor was to perform a range of works for the operation of the landfill, including compacting and leveling waste, covering it with soil, maintaining technological roads, etc. At the same time, the investigation established that a significant portion of these works were not actually performed — they were carried out by the municipal enterprise itself.
Despite this, officials prepared and signed acts on allegedly completed works, on the basis of which budget funds were unjustifiably transferred to the controlled company.
In the period from July 2024 to January 2026, about UAH 15 million was thus transferred from the budget.
The investigation is ongoing, and the involvement of other individuals in the scheme is being checked.