Seven railway workers to face trial over ticket scheme
Law enforcement officers have completed the investigation and submitted to the court the case materials regarding the fraud in the sale of international tickets of Ukrzaliznytsia. Seven railway workers will appear in court. According to the investigation, they secretly sold seats in train cars and created an artificial shortage of tickets for popular destinations.
This was reported by the Kyiv City Prosecutor's Office and the Kyiv police.
According to the investigation, the organizer of the transaction is the head of the trade union organization of the Wagon Section of the Kyiv-Passenger Station. He had six accomplices - these are the management and officials of the production unit of the Kyiv-Passenger Station. They were served with suspicions in December 2024.
The Kyiv police said that taking advantage of the rush for tickets to Warsaw, Przemysl, Chełm, Chisinau, and other Western destinations, the suspects introduced an illegal earnings scheme.
Conductors illegally sold seats in service compartments to passengers for 300-500 euros. According to another scheme, they artificially created a shortage by buying up tickets for vacant seats and selling them to passengers on the eve of departure at prices two to three times higher than the official price.
For each flight, the train conductor had to transfer a "cash": from 2,000 UAH for domestic routes and from 2,000 to 5,000 euros for the most popular international flights.
According to investigators, due to the deals, Ukrzaliznytsia lost UAH 8.7 million in 2024. These funds "settled" in the pockets of the scheme participants. The suspects face up to 13 years in prison.
We will remind, in the Odessa region, a border guard is suspected of extorting $1,000 for transporting caviar.
