Detectives of the Territorial Department of the Economic Security Bureau in Kyiv region have completed a pre-trial investigation into embezzlement of budget funds, official negligence, forgery and money laundering.

The investigation established that a utility company ordered services for the modernization of heat-generating equipment at a multi-fuel boiler house in Bila Tserkva. The officials spent UAH 3.2 million from the local budget.

In the course of the work the contractor installed an old-style boiler module with a lower capacity than provided for in the tender documentation.

Subsequently the suspects entered false data on the volume and cost of the work performed in the acts of completion. Such illegal actions of the aforementioned persons caused losses to the local budget in the amount of UAH 3.2 million.

Detectives of the ESBU served a notice of suspicion to the director of the utility company and the contractor of embezzlement of budget funds, forgery and money laundering (Part 5 of Art. 191, Part 1 of Art. 366, Part 1 of Art. 209 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine), as well as to the technical supervision engineer of negligence (Part 2 of Art. 367 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine).

The court seized the suspects' property in the amount of UAH 5.6 million. The Kyiv Region Prosecutor's Office filed a civil claim for the amount of damages.

The criminal case file has been sent to court. The suspects have been chosen a measure of restraint.

The operation was conducted by the Main Directorate of the SSU in Kyiv and Kyiv region. Procedural supervision was provided by prosecutors of the Kyiv Region Prosecutor's Office.