SAPO Sends Sokolyuk Case to Court

The Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office has referred a case to court on suspicion of the former head of the State Migration Service, Maksym Sokolyuk, his deputy, Serhiy Donsky, the former head of the service's department, Volodymyr Vakalyuk, and businessman Salgerei Salgereiev, in embezzling UAH 88 million.

This was reported by the press service of the SAPO, but it did not mention the names of the suspects. According to media reports, these are the individuals whose investigation was recently completed.

The SAPO prosecutor, based on the materials of the pre-trial investigation of the NABU, sent to the court an indictment charging the former head of the State Migration Service (hereinafter referred to as the SMS of Ukraine), his former deputy, the former head of the Department of Resource and Economic Support and Capital Construction of the SMS of Ukraine, an engineer and entrepreneur - a citizen of the Russian Federation, with embezzling UAH 88 million of budget funds during the reconstruction of a building in the center of Kyiv to house the central office of the SMS of Ukraine.

Maksym Sokolyuk is a figure in the EBK database.

We also previously reported that after December 15, the SAPO will send an indictment to the court against former assistant to MP Gennady Kasai, director of the private scientific and production company "MS Avia-Grade" Dmytro Parkhisenko, and others for misappropriation of funds.