In Cherkasy and Chernihiv regions, law enforcement officers have exposed two prosecutors — one current, the other former — in a series of serious offenses. The press service of the Prosecutor General's Office reported this on July 24.
The current deputy head of one of the district prosecutor's offices in Chernihiv region has been charged with organizing the theft of important documents, forgery of official papers, and falsification of evidence. According to Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko, the case involves the illegal alienation of eight thousand hectares of agricultural land that became the property of a private agricultural company.
To hide the criminal scheme, the prosecutor, according to the investigation, organized the theft of 14 boxes of evidence that were to form the basis of the expert examination. Instead of documents, the experts received… old newspapers, and the accompanying documents were falsified.
Another defendant, the former first deputy head of the Cherkasy region district prosecutor's office, abused his influence and disclosed pre-trial investigation data in 2021, according to the investigation. He tried to influence the course of the investigation in the interests of an acquaintance for money, in particular, he initiated the opening of criminal proceedings and passed on the official information he received to third parties.
Currently, petitions for the imposition of a preventive measure on both prosecutors have already been sent to the court.
