Detectives of the Economic Security Bureau of Ukraine according to the materials of the Cyber Department of the Security Service of Ukraine informed the former official of the Kherson city council of the suspicion of conducting economic activities in cooperation with illegal authorities created in the temporarily occupied territory by the occupying administration of the russian federation (collaborative activities).

A citizen of Ukraine, during the occupation of Kherson by the armed forces of the russian federation, voluntarily assumed a leadership position in the pseudo-enterprise "state unitary enterprise Kherson teplosety" created by the so-called "military-civil administration of the Kherson region".

The aforementioned structure was formed by the occupiers on the basis of the captured Ukrainian enterprises JSC "Khersonskaya TPP" and MPU “Kherson-teploenergo”.

At the direction and with the direct participation of this "official", an "inventory" of the property and assets of Ukrainian enterprises was carried out with the aim of transferring them to the russians and interference was carried out in the operation of the city's energy supply systems. Employees of enterprises were forced to go to work and sign contracts with the so-called "state-owned enterprise".

As reported, in the course of the pre-trial investigation, a group of persons was exposed who, during the russian occupation of the city appropriated the budget funds of one of the seized enterprises in particularly large amounts.

Officials of the enterprise transferred UAH 13 million to the account of the trade union organization as trade union contributions. In the future, 8 million UAH were transferred from the bank account of the trade union organization of the utility company to the personal accounts of the director the chief accountant and relatives of the organizers of the scheme who are not employees of the company and members of the trade union organization of the company.

The pre-trial investigation in criminal proceedings on the grounds of a criminal offense provided for in Part 5 of Art. 191 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (appropriation, embezzlement of property or possession of it by abuse of official position), Part 4 of Article 111-1 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (collaborative activity), Part 1 of Art. 111-2 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (assistance to the aggressor state) is carried out by detectives of the Economic Security Bureau of Ukraine under the operational support of the Department of counterintelligence protection information security of SSU and the procedural guidance of prosecutors of the Office of the Prosecutor General.