“According to the SBU, the organizations are involved in the organization of “Schemes” and former heads of one of the utility companies”, – WRITE: www.radiosvoboda.org
According to the SBU press service, the organizational and former heads of one of the municipal enterprises located in the vertical of the Kyiv City State Administration (KSCA) are involved in the organization.
According to the case file, before the start of the full -scale war, they artificially overstated the cost of building materials during the construction of the bridge, and the “difference” obtained was distributed among the participants of the equipment.
“For this purpose, during 2018-2019, the defendants were almost 6 times” overpaying “for wholesale parties of nets to strengthen the supports of the bridge transition. In order to implement the “scheme”, its organizers concluded a contract with an affiliate company in Kiev. Then the contractors purchased from the control firm in the Middle East 8 thousand 800 technological nets, ”the message reads.
According to the materials of the proceedings, the average cost of a grid on the market was $ 110, and the persons involved purchased it $ 610 per one.
In investigative actions, computer equipment, mobile phones and documents with evidence of the crime were identified and seized.
Currently, the former and current heads of the KSCA utility company and their accomplice – the exterior of the contracting company – reported suspicion under Part 2 of Art. 27, Part 5 of Art. 191 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (complicity in the appropriation of property or seizure by abuse of office, committed in a particularly large size organized group).
Investigation is underway to bring to justice all persons involved in theft of KSCA budget funds.
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The Podilsky-Resurrection Bridge in Kiev has been being built for decades, and in December last year it was partially opened.
The Security Service of Ukraine in 2021 declared the scheme of theft of funds in the construction of the Podilsky Bridge in Kiev. According to the department, a group of persons artificially overstated the cost of work on the bridge and forged acts on the work performed. It was about the mechanism of theft of the amount by UAH 3 billion.
At the end of December 2024, it became known that the Kyiv City Prosecutor’s Office demanded that the General Contract for the Construction of the Podilsky Bridge. According to the prosecutor’s office, the cost of construction has doubled in six years – to UAH 8.7 billion and “continues to increase.”