Prosecutor's Office: сontractor in Kyiv tried to misappropriate UAH 500 thousand intended for repair of school shelters

Prosecutor's Office: сontractor in Kyiv tried to misappropriate UAH 500 thousand intended for repair of school shelters

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A contractor who embezzled UAH 500,000 from funds intended for the repair of school shelters will be tried in Kyiv's Holosiivskyi district. He faces up to 8 years in prison for overstating the cost of repairs.

 500 thousand hryvnias allocated from the budget for the repair of shelters for a school in Holosiivskyi district was appropriated by a contractor. This was reported by the Kyiv City Prosecutor's Office, UNN reports .

Holosiivskyi District Prosecutor's Office of Kyiv sent to court an indictment against the head of a contractor organization on charges of misappropriation of budget funds for the overhaul of shelters and forgery (part 4 of Article 191, part 2 of Article 366 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine). 

- reported the Kyiv Prosecutor's Office.

Details

According to the investigation, in July 2022, officials of the Holosiivskyi DSA officials, in order to gain access to budget funds, organized a contractor for the to access budget funds, organized a tender for a contractor company controlled by them to win a repair of simple shelters and protective structures at a school in Holosiivskyi district.

Upon completion of the work, the contractor overestimated the amount of for repairs by over UAH 500 thousand.

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The perpetrators face up to eight years in prison with the deprivation of the right to to hold certain positions or engage in certain activities for up to three years.