Anti-money laundering department of the Main Directorate of the STS in Khmelnytskyi region conducted monitoring of the budget funds usage which resulted in 26 researching materials of financial and economic activity of managers and executors of works (services) with signs of criminal infringements for the total amount more than 60 million UAH during January – July 2020.
Materials of tax researches were directed for consideration to the law enforcement agencies. As a result, more than 10 criminal proceedings have been opened on these materials.
Among the exposed resonant facts is the fraud with budget funds totaling more than 2 million UAH by officials of one Limited liability company during construction of social and cultural facilities. The scheme examines such illegal elements as a lack of real operations for the supply of materials at certain stages of construction, their purchase at significantly inflated prices, introduction of inaccurate data in acts and certificates of the cost of work performed, which actually allowed officials to seize money from the budget.
Another recent fact of embezzlement of budget funds was revealed during the overhaul of a municipal institution, where heads of a private enterprise appropriated budget funds allocated for works for two years due to overpricing purchase prices and other machinations. As follows, the municipal non-profit enterprise suffered losses amounting about 1 million UAH. Actions of officials of the business entities had signs of a crime under Part 3Article 191 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. Criminal proceedings have been intitated.