The Kyiv City Prosecutor's Office claims that the capital's budget has suffered losses of more than a billion hryvnias and accuses the Kyiv City State Administration of deliberately delaying the return of these funds. This was reported by the press service of the Kyiv City Prosecutor's Office.
According to the department, during 2025, the Kyiv City Prosecutor's Office has already submitted to the court 109 indictments in criminal proceedings related to violations by officials of the Kyiv City State Administration and heads of municipal enterprises. The total amount of damages established in these cases exceeds 1 billion hryvnia.
Since the beginning of the year alone, 81 officials of the Kyiv City State Administration and municipal enterprises have been reported suspicious. These are episodes where the amount of damage exceeds 280 million hryvnias. Among the typical schemes, investigators name purchases at inflated prices, payment for works and services that were not actually performed, as well as transfers of funds for goods that the city never received. Separately, payment for “unperformed repairs”, “unplanted flowers” and other works that exist only on paper, but were paid for from the city budget, are indicated.
The prosecutor's office emphasizes that the main task of the investigation is not only to bring officials to criminal responsibility, but also to return the money to the Kyiv budget. According to the logic of law enforcement officers, the money spent on fictitious services should be compensated to the city.
However, according to prosecutors, this process is actually blocked by the position of the city authorities themselves. In particular, in a number of criminal proceedings, the Kyiv City State Administration refuses to recognize itself as the injured party. This either delays the compensation procedure or makes it impossible altogether, since without the status of the injured party, the city cannot officially demand the return of damages.
Law enforcement officers gave an illustrative example: the municipal enterprise "Spetszhitlofond", having received compensation for damages from the contractor within the framework of criminal proceedings, did not transfer these funds to the city budget, but returned them to the contractor. The prosecutor's office calls this an illustration of how the budget loses the possibility of actually returning money even after establishing damages.
The Kyiv City Prosecutor's Office says it has changed its approach to handling such cases. According to them, the updated procedural mechanisms are already yielding initial results. They promise to release details in the near future.
It is important that these are not isolated accusations. In 2024, the prosecutor's office had already publicly reported on systemic abuses in the areas of procurement, landscaping, shelter repair, construction of transport infrastructure, and maintenance of green spaces. At that time, it was about hundreds of millions of hryvnias in losses and dozens of accused officials of the Kyiv City State Administration and municipal enterprises.
The prosecutor's office's position now actually boils down to the thesis: the stolen money can be returned to the city, but for this, the city administration itself must recognize itself as the injured party and demand compensation, rather than protect the reputation of subordinate enterprises.
At the same time, the Kyiv City State Administration has not yet released a public response to these statements.
