SBI conducts search at 211th Brigade commander's house - source
Kyiv • UNN
The house of Oleh Poberezhnyuk, commander of the 211th Pontoon and Bridge Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, was searched. The officer is being charged with inaction by the military authorities after a scandal involving abuse of soldiers and illegal construction.
Yesterday, on December 28, the State Bureau of Investigation searched the home of Colonel Oleh Poberezhniuk, commander of the 211th Pontoon and Bridge Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and plans to announce an official suspicion in the near future.
Writes UNN with a link to the source.
On December 28, employees of the State Bureau of Investigation conduct investigative actions against the commander of the 211th Pontoon Bridge Brigade of the Armed Forces Support Forces, Colonel Oleh Poberezhniuk.
On Saturday evening, SBI investigators searched his place of residence. The Brigade is preparing to serve him a notice of suspicion under Part 4 of Article 426 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine, which concerns the inaction of the military authorities under martial law.
Recall
Soldiers of the 211th Pontoon and Bridge Brigade of the Armed Forces Support Forces told the media about bullying, extortion and nepotism. The Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights, Dmytro Lubinets, said he had sent letters to the General Staff of the Armed Forces and the Military Law Enforcement Service in the Armed Forces to verify the information and conduct an internal investigation for further response.
The Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Oleksandr Syrskyi, initiated an inspection of the 211th Pontoon and Bridge Brigade of the Armed Forces Support Forces due to reports of abuse of soldiers. The commander of the military unit was suspended for the duration of the inspection.
Subsequently, criminal proceedings were initiated over the unlawful actions of the commanders of the 211th Pontoon and Bridge Brigade, and the commander of the said brigade was notified of suspicion of abuse of office.
The investigation established that in the fall of 2023, he engaged four subordinates in the construction of his house in Khmelnytskyi region instead of their service in combat zones.
According to the documents, the soldiers were on the front line and received salaries and combat payments totaling almost a million hryvnias. The house is being built in the Khmelnytskyi region on the territory of the Slobidsko-Kulchyievetska community. Suspilne correspondents were there and talked to the head of the community.
He said that he did not know about the situation with the military being involved in the construction. The house is being built for the mother of a brigadier.
The chairman says investigators did not question him on this issue.
The Prosecutor General's Office said that they are also investigating possible illegal actions of the brigade officers: physical violence against subordinates, extortion of money and abuse of power. The investigation was entrusted to the State Bureau of Investigation.
