Former deputy mayor in Chernihiv region gets suspicion
The former deputy mayor of one of the city councils in the Chernihiv region is suspected of fraud and official negligence, which led to serious consequences.
This was reported by the Chernihiv Regional Prosecutor's Office.
The investigation established that the official, who was the head of the humanitarian headquarters at the city council, while providing one-time cash assistance to the population during the 2024-2025 heating season for the purchase of solid household fuel, did not properly organize the work of the headquarters and did not take measures to organize the appropriate procedure for receiving applications, documents and verifying the veracity of the information indicated in them.
In December 2024, she independently formed and sent to the department of the Chernihiv Regional State Administration a general list of recipients of cash assistance, in which she illegally included 75 people who live together in the same household or in multi-storey buildings and do not have solid fuel boilers or stoves.
In addition, the suspect unlawfully added her family members to the list of recipients of assistance, namely: her husband, intentionally indicating an inaccurate address for his residence, and her daughter, who is actually abroad.
This formal compilation of lists led to people receiving cash assistance who were not entitled to it and caused the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees to lose more than 1.5 million hryvnias.
She was charged under Part 1 of Article 190, Part 2 of Article 367 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. The sanction of a serious article provides for imprisonment for a term of two to five years with deprivation of the right to hold certain positions or engage in certain activities for a term of up to three years and a fine of 250 to 750 non-taxable minimum incomes of citizens (4,250-12,750 hryvnias) or without such.
We also previously reported that a scheme to embezzle over UAH 70 million for heating was uncovered in Frankivsk .
In addition, a former official of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine and two employees of the State Enterprise "Ukrspetstorg" were recently suspected of involvement in a scheme for the illegal sale of decommissioned warships.
