Law enforcement officers reported the suspicion of five persons who, according to the investigation, organized a corruption scheme for appropriation of almost 14 million hryvnias during the purchase of shelters for schools in the Kiev region. Among the persons are the director of the concrete enterprise and the officials who provided this company with victory in tenders.
According to the National Police Strategic Investigation Department, the organizer and one of the executors have previously received suspicions in this proceedings. Currently, law enforcement officers have come to five more equipment.
Primitive repositories - for millions of budgetary funds
The essence of the scheme was to purchase fast -seated protective structures, which, as it turned out, did not even meet the basic safety requirements. Experts found that shelters were built of lower class concrete without proper reinforcement. Nevertheless, the local officials agreed the purchase and signed documents fully aware of the real technical condition of the products.
The violations also concerned the regulatory framework: the tender documentation indicated outdated requirements that were already canceled at the time of the conclusion of the contracts. To legalize such violations, the defendants of the scheme made deliberately false data to official documents.
The theft on the safety of children
The investigation was conducted by DSR operatives and Detectives of the Bureau of Economic Security. According to the conclusions, no control tests were conducted before the supply of shelters - conclusions about alleged "protective properties" were based solely on theoretical calculations. That is, without checking the structure was transferred to the objects of education as completely ready.
At the same time, the management of the company and the involved employees continued to draw up acts of reception-transfer, ensuring further transfer of budget funds to the accounts of the firm.
That threatens the persons involved
The suspects will be charged with several articles of the Criminal Code of Ukraine - Part 5 of Art. 191 (appropriation, waste of property in particularly large sizes), as well as part 5 of Art. 27 (complicity in a crime). The maximum sanction is up to 12 years in prison with confiscation of property.
The issue of choosing a preventive measure for each of the persons involved is currently being resolved. Law enforcement officers emphasize that the investigation is ongoing, and the circle of involved can expand.
