Detectives of the Territorial Department of the Economic Security Bureau in Kyiv region served a notice of suspicion to the director of a utility company and a contractor of embezzlement of budget funds and forgery (Part 5 of Art. 191, Part 1 of Art. 366 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine).

The investigation established that the 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.

Currently the court has been sent motions to impose preventive measures on the suspects.

Earlier the detectives of the ESBU served a notice of suspicion to a technical supervision engineer who failed to check the compliance of the information entered in the documents. His actions are classified as official negligence (Part 2 Art. 367 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine).

Operational support is provided by the Main Directorate of the SSU in Kyiv and Kyiv region. Procedural supervision is provided by prosecutors of the Kyiv Region Prosecutor's Office.

Note: According to Art. 62 of the Constitution of Ukraine a person is presumed innocent of committing a crime and shall not be subjected to criminal punishment until his or her guilt is proved in accordance with the law and established by a court verdict of guilty.