The Security Service

of Ukraine eliminated a large-scale embezzlement scheme of state money allocated for the development of the military infrastructure of the Defense Forces.

The former head of the Main Housing and Operation Department of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the senior officer of the department of technical supervision of the construction of the specified institution are involved in the arrangement.

This was reported to the SBU.

They are the organizers of the embezzlement mechanism of

more than 5 million hryvnias for the construction of barracks

for military personnel on the territory of the Mykolaiv garrison.

According to the investigation, for the implementation of the equipment, the head of the department concluded several contracts with a commercial structure for the performance of repair and construction works.

According to the signed documents, the contractor was supposed to carry out major repairs of the roof, engineering networks of electricity supply, water supply and sewerage in residential buildings.

However, the businessmen did not complete the relevant work in full, and the transferred budget money was hidden by the participants of the scheme.

Thus, the barracks remained unfit for servicemen's residence, the SBU notes.

"Construction, technical and economic examinations initiated by the Security Service confirmed the facts of criminal activity," the message reads.

During searches of the premises of the Main Directorate of Property and Resources of the Ministry of Defense, which is currently the legal successor of the Main Housing and Operation Directorate, and at the residential addresses of the nine suspects in Kyiv and Vinnytsia, law enforcement officers seized financial and economic documentation with evidence of embezzlement.

Currently, the employee of the department of technical supervision of the construction of the Main Housing and Operation Department of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has been notified of suspicion under Part 2 of Art.

364 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (abuse of power or official position).

An investigation is underway to bring to justice all the organizers and participants of the embezzlement of money allocated for the defense of our state.

We will remind you that the Security Service of Ukraine exposed

two more large-scale embezzlement schemes of state funds

allocated for the food of the Ukrainian military.

The amount of damage caused to the Ministry of Defense is 

more than 120 million hryvnias

.

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