SBI Exposes UAH 1M Bread Procurement Fraud in Khmelnytskyi

In Khmelnytskyi region, SBI officers exposed the deputy battalion commander of one of the military units who was embezzling budget funds for the purchase of bakery products. Through his actions, the suspect caused losses to the state of approximately UAH 1 million. This was reported on Wednesday, June 11, by the SBI press service.

According to the investigation, the deputy commander of a battalion in one of the military units in the Khmelnytskyi region organized the illegal scheme. He involved his subordinate, a private entrepreneur, and his accountant.

The group members systematically overstated the volume of purchases of bakery products from a private entrepreneur. The products were not actually supplied, but were received exclusively “on paper”, while the defendants distributed among themselves the money allocated from the state budget.

One of the key executors of the scheme was a subordinate of the official who was responsible for the registration of the allegedly received products. Despite pressure from his superiors, the serviceman contacted the State Bureau of Investigation and began cooperating with the investigation.

It is known that the entrepreneur, together with an accountant, calculated the difference between the actually delivered goods and the declared volumes, after which the money was withdrawn from the accounts and distributed among the group members. The total amount of misappropriated money is about 1 million UAH.

The deputy battalion commander, an entrepreneur, and an accountant were suspected of committing criminal offenses for:

Part 1, Part 2 of Article 366 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (official forgery, which caused grave consequences); Part 1 of Article 14, Part 5 of Article 191 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (preparation for the seizure of property in especially large amounts by an organized group); Part 5 of Article 191 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (seizure of property in especially large amounts by abuse of official position, committed under martial law, by an organized group).

The sanctions of the articles provide for a penalty of imprisonment for a term of up to 12 years with confiscation of property.

The court chose a preventive measure of detention with the possibility of bail for the deputy battalion commander and the entrepreneur. The accountant is under house arrest with the use of electronic monitoring.

We will remind you that recently the court extended the arrest of the psychiatrist of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Druzy.

We also wrote that the Supreme Court of Ukraine reduced the bail of People's Deputy Bondar to 60.56 million.