Charges have been filed against the organizer and four participants of a criminal scheme involving the embezzlement of budget funds during the disposal of car tires from the streets of Kyiv.
An investigation has revealed that in 2022, following the full-scale Russian invasion, the Kyiv City State Administration (KCSA) conducted a tender for the removal, processing, and disposal of car tires. The cost of the work was 4 million hryvnias.
A businessman from the Kyiv region, acting as the organizer of the criminal scheme, involved two controlled enterprises in the tender and created artificial conditions for allegedly fair competition, resulting in one of these companies winning the bid.
Subsequently, with the intent to embezzle funds, the company only carried out the tire removal work while conveniently "forgetting" about their processing and disposal. Despite this, it received over 2.7 million hryvnias from the budget, as reported by the Kyiv Prosecutor's Office.
As a result, in the summer of 2024, the director of the KCSA's Department of Ecology and Natural Resources was charged with official negligence. The preliminary investigation against him has been completed.
During the ongoing investigation, five additional individuals involved in the scheme to misappropriate budget funds and subsequently launder them were identified. This includes a businessman from the Kyiv region who organized the embezzlement schemes and the leaders of the company that performed the work as the tender winner. Charges have been filed against the five participants of the scheme.
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