The State Bureau of Investigation has referred the case of former General of the Security Service of Ukraine Andriy Naumov to court. Naumov is accused of serious financial crimes, including embezzlement of public funds, fraud, and abuse of office, which caused losses of millions of hryvnias.
The State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) has completed an investigation into the criminal case against former General of the Security Service of Ukraine Andriy Naumov. He is accused of embezzlement, fraud, and abuse of office, the SBI reported.
Despite the fact that the SBI does not name the person, it is clear from open sources that we are talking about Andriy Naumov.
He is accused of entering into knowingly unprofitable agreements that caused the state losses of hundreds of thousands of hryvnias, as well as fraud and abuse of office. The indictment has been sent to court
In 2018, the official headed one of the state-owned enterprises. In this position, he signed a knowingly economically unprofitable contract with a fictitious enterprise for the development of design and estimate documentation, as well as documents for its implementation. This caused serious consequences for the state-owned enterprise and was done in the interests of third parties. According to the State Security Service, the state suffered losses of almost 371 thousand hryvnias.
Between September 2018 and May 2019, the official was unjustifiably paid bonuses. As a result of such payments, he took possession of the company's funds worth over 460 thousand hryvnias.
In 2019, the official decided to go to work for the SBU.
Instead of resigning from the state-owned enterprise, the man informed the employees of the enterprise's accounting and reporting department that he had allegedly been called up for military service with the SBU.
At the same time, he joined the SBU not by conscription and should have resigned from his previous job. However, due to the false information he provided, the company continued to pay him wages as a conscripted soldier.
Thus, he simultaneously received a salary both at a state-owned enterprise (approximately 160 thousand hryvnias per month) and at the SBU, and the losses caused to the state amounted to 3.2 million hryvnias
The former SBU general is accused of embezzlement, embezzlement of property or taking possession of it through abuse of official position, and abuse of power or official position (Part 4 of Article 191, Part 2 of Article 364 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine), as well as fraud committed on an especially large scale (Part 4 of Article 190 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine).
The sanction of the article provides for a penalty of imprisonment for a term of up to 12 years with confiscation of property.
The Pechersk District Court imposed a preventive measure of detention in absentia on the defendant.
Andriy Naumov lost his position as head of the Main Department of Internal Security of the SBU at the end of July 2021.
Naumov was arrested on June 7, 2022, when he tried to get from Serbia to North Macedonia.
In Ukraine, Naumov was charged with two counts of embezzlement, embezzlement, or taking possession of property through abuse of official position, and "abuse of power or official position" and fraud and causing losses to the state in the amount of more than 3.2 million hryvnias.
In 2023, the High Court of the city of Niš sentenced the former head of the Main Department of Internal Security of the SBU, Andriy Naumov, to one year in prison on charges of money laundering.
In January 2024, it was reported that Andriy Naumov, a former SBU general suspected of treason in Ukraine and sentenced to a year in prison in Serbia for money laundering, was released.
In August 2024, at the request of the State Bureau of Investigation, Interpol placed former SBU general Andriy Naumov on the international wanted list.
