Position: Head of the Department of Construction, Architecture and Land Use of the Sviatoshyn District State Administration (RDA).
Sphere of corrupt activity: improvement of the city.
Region of corruption activity: Kyiv.
Qualification: Part 4 Art. 191, Part 1 of Art. 366 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. The sanction of the article provides from 5 to 8 years of imprisonment with deprivation of the right to hold certain positions or engage in certain activities for a period of up to 3 years.
Status: removed from office, the Kyiv City Prosecutor's Office sent an indictment against Kucheryavy to the court.
The plot of the case: in June 2023, the head of the Construction, Architecture and Land Use Department of the Sviatoshyn RDA, Andriy Kucheryav, and the contractor were charged with embezzlement and misappropriation of budget funds.
According to the prosecutor's office, during the repair of the shelter in the district, inappropriate materials were used and the cost of the work was overestimated.
"As part of the criminal proceedings, the law enforcement officers documented the illegal actions of the specified officials, directed to the waste of budget funds in the amount of more than 800,000 hryvnias, which were allocated for the capital repair of the simplest shelter for the population in the territory of the Svyatoshyn district of the city of Kyiv," the press service informed.
According to the report, the law enforcement officers conducted an inspection of the facility with the involvement of a construction expert. As a result of the inspection, "the facts of non-performance of works in full, poor performance of works, use of low-quality flammable, fire-hazardous materials, as well as significant overestimation of their cost were recorded.
Subsequently, it was reported that at the request of the Kyiv City Prosecutor's Office, the court removed the head of the Department of Construction, Architecture and Land Use of the Svyatoshyn RDA.
And already in January 2024, it became known that the Kyiv City Prosecutor's Office sent an indictment to the court against the head of the Department of Construction, Architecture and Land Use of the Sviatoshyn RDA for the fact of issuing knowingly false official documents and wasting budget funds during the overhaul of the shelter in Kyiv.
The investigators established that in 2022, a contract was concluded between the Construction Department of the Sviatoshyn RDA and a private company for the overhaul of the shelter in the Sviatoshyn district.
"After the major overhaul, the official, knowing about the overestimation of the scope and cost of the work and the fact that the cost of the performed work does not meet the requirements of regulatory and legal acts, signed the acts of acceptance," the message says.
The investigation with experts recorded non-performance and poor performance of works, use of fire-hazardous materials and overestimation of cost. The amount of damages is more than UAH 684,000.
However, the story with the shelter is not the only "black" spot in the official's biography.
He was already a participant in a high-profile corruption case that led to searches in his office, but Kucheryav was not directly suspected.
The mass media reported that in 2022, the investigation established that during 2018-2020, a private company, on the order of the Department of Construction, Architecture and Land Use of the Sviatoshyn RDA, carried out the reconstruction of the pool of the KNP "Center of primary medical and sanitary care No. 2", with a total cost of more than 17 million hryvnias .
However, the contracting organization did not complete the work and overestimated its cost, as well as involved subcontractors with signs of fictitiousness in the "execution of the work".
According to law enforcement officers, the amount of damage caused to the capital's budget is 1 million 300 thousand hryvnias.
Based on the results of the investigation, the managers of the contracting organizations were notified of the suspicions.
"In connection with the hiding of the suspects from the pre-trial investigation body, the prosecutor's office has prepared a request for permission to detain them in order to consider a request for a preventive measure," the prosecutor's office reported.
Wealth: in his declaration for 2022, Kucheryavy indicated that he received UAH 388,960 from his official place of work. In addition, he also declared UAH 100,000 and USD 10,000 in cash, while his wife has USD 25,000 and UAH 100,000 in cash.
According to the declaration, Kucheryavy also uses a 2014 TOYOTA RAV4 free of charge, and his wife owns a 2016 TOYOTA CAMRY.
Land plots, an apartment, and an unfinished summer house were also registered to Kucheryavoy's wife.
Scandals: Curly was not involved in loud scandals.
Persons who should have responded to corruption schemes: in the case of Kucheryav, all law enforcement agencies responded.
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