The National Anti -Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) and the Specialized Anti -Corruption Prosecutor's Office (SAP) completed a pre -trial investigation of a large -scale corruption scheme at JSC “Ukrzaliznytsia”. Law enforcement officers found that due to fictitious tenders, officials have caused losses of more than UAH 240 million.
The investigation showed that the key role in fraud was played by the so-called "back office" ultrasound-a shadow structure that actually controlled the tender procedures. Due to this, the victory in the procurement was received by predetermined companies that paid the organizers rollback.
The corruption scheme included two main episodes. The first concerned the purchase of cable and conducting products in 2021-2022 at inflated prices, which caused losses of over UAH 140 million. This was a group of people, including the People's Deputy of Ukraine.
The second episode is the purchase of power transformers from a company related to a citizen of Belarus. Through these frauds, Ukrzaliznytsia lost almost UAH 100 million.
The received funds were legalized by the organizers of the scheme through fictitious "beauty salons" and the purchase of elite real estate in the amount of more than 155 million UAH.
Currently, the assets have been seized for a total amount of more than UAH 1.4 billion.
