Inflated salaries and transferred the difference to himself: a gas company official in Bukovyna to be tried following ESBU investigation

 Detectives of the Territorial Office of the Economic Security Bureau of Ukraine in the Chernivtsi region have completed a pretrial investigation and sent an indictment to court regarding a former employee of a local joint-stock company for misappropriation of property and legalization of illegally obtained income.

The investigation established that between 2017 and 2021, the man worked as the head of a payroll group. He entered false data into payment documents and inflated the amounts of accruals, transferring the difference to his own account. In this way, he misappropriated the company's funds on an especially large scale.

Subsequently, to conceal the origin of these funds, the suspect withdrew them in cash and used them for personal needs, including purchases, entertainment, and gambling.

The suspect's actions are qualified under Part 5 of Article 191 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (misappropriation of property through abuse of office on an especially large scale) and Part 1 of Article 209 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (legalization of property obtained by illegal means).

The indictment has been sent to court.

Procedural guidance—Chernivtsi Regional Prosecutor's Office.

Note: According to Article 62 of the Constitution of Ukraine, a person is considered innocent of committing a crime and cannot be subjected to criminal punishment until their guilt is proven in a lawful manner and established by a court's verdict of conviction.