In Donetsk region, employees of the military unit will be tried for issuing “combat” and embezzling more than 2 million UAH.
From March to September 2022, the amount of losses caused to the state reached about 3.5 million UAH, of which 2 million 64 thousand UAH were appropriated by the unit commander and his accomplices.
SBI employees have completed a pre-trial investigation into the commander of one of the military units in the Donetsk region and his four subordinates, who created an illegal mechanism for the fictitious payment of “combatants”. About this reported on the department’s website.
It is noted that the indictment has already been sent to the court.
Offenders developed a criminal scheme, which provided for the receipt of part of the accrued “combat” extra payments to the soldiers of their unit. During the formation of the lists for payments, the suspects included servicemen of the unit who actually did not take a direct part in the hostilities and were outside the Donetsk region.
For 6 months, ten servicemen received 100,000 hryvnias each at different times for no reason. Most of the funds, which were noted as charitable assistance for their unit, they transferred to the card account specified by the command.
Thus, in the period from March to September 2022, the amount of losses caused to the state amounted to almost 3.5 million UAH, of which 2 million 64 thousand UAH were “received” by the commander of the unit and his accomplices.
The SBI employees exposed the criminal scheme, conducted handwriting, economic and military examinations.
The commander of the military unit and three of his subordinates are accused of embezzlement and appropriation of other people’s property, committed by an organized group through abuse of official position on a particularly large scale, and issuance by an official of knowingly false official documents (Part 5 of Article 191, Part 1 of Article 366 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine).
Another participant of the scheme is accused of embezzlement and appropriation of other people’s property, which was committed by the group due to the abuse of official position in particularly large amounts (Part 5 of Article 191 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine)
The sanctions of the articles provide for punishment in the form of imprisonment for a term of up to 12 years with confiscation of property. Procedural management is carried out by the Specialized Prosecutor’s Office in the field of defense of the Eastern region.
