Detectives of the Economic Security Bureau of Ukraine sent an indictment to the court on the fact of misappropriation of state funds during the conclusion of a contract for the supply of products for the military administration. The director of the enterprise and the chief accountant will appear before the court.

The investigation established that at the beginning of the full-scale invasion the company contrary to the current ban on importing canned meat from Turkey to Ukraine, concluded a contract for the supply of products for the total amount of UAH 35 million and received an advance payment. The defendants transferred these funds to a foreign currency account that was specially opened for the implementation of the criminal scheme. In this way the director together with the accountant of the company took over UAH 2 million allocated from the budget.

Detectives of the Bureau conducted searches at the location of the company and residences of the persons involved and found accounting documentation, draft records, facsimiles of signatures, seals of Ukrainian and foreign companies.

The extras were notified of the suspicion of committing a criminal offense, provided for in Part 5 of Art. 191 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (appropriation, waste of property or taking possession of it by abuse of official position). The sanction of the article provides imprisonment for a period of seven to twelve years with deprivation of the right to hold certain positions or engage in certain activities for a period of up to three years and with confiscation of property.

Procedural management is carried out by prosecutors of the Office of the General Prosecutor of Ukraine.