The employees of the State Security Service of Ukraine jointly with the Prosecutor’s Office and National Police exposed the scheme of appropriation of one of the regional affiliates of Ukrzaliznytsia JSC for almost UAH 20 mln by company executives, Finance.ua reports.
As SSSU press office reported, the law enforcement officials established that during 2015-2016, the executives determinedly purchased unsaleable or stolen products from controlled business corporations during tenders. “For making deals, they provided counterfeit documents with incorrect data. The perpetrators converted funds to cash, using the details of fictitious firms. According to preliminary estimates, the dealers appropriated almost twenty million hryvnias of the regional affiliate”, as the Service explained the corruption scheme. It is also reported that during the searches in the administrative building and offices of the business corporations, SSSU employees seized financial and business documents and computer equipment with evidence of making illegal deals, as well as a large amount of cash funds.
