An official at the municipal enterprise "Informatika" has been notified of charges of fraud in the procurement of cameras
A corruption scheme was uncovered in Kyiv during the modernization of the city’s video surveillance systems, resulting in significant losses to the capital’s budget. One of the executives of the municipal enterprise “Informatika” and the director of the supplier company have been officially charged. As a result of purchasing cameras with an inflated markup, the municipal enterprise overpaid 1.6 million hryvnias from the municipal budget.
The investigation established that in 2025, the “Informatika” municipal enterprise entered into a contract with a private company for the procurement of video surveillance systems. The deputy head of the municipal enterprise, acting in collusion with the head of the company that won the tender, signed official documents for the supply of equipment at prices that significantly exceeded the market average.
The scheme for embezzling budget funds consisted of several stages:
Artificial Markup: The contractor first purchased video cameras and memory cards from an importer that brought the equipment from abroad, and then sold these goods to the municipal enterprise at a substantial markup.
Fictitious services: The private company also documented the provision of services for the assembly and installation of the systems, although in reality all the work was performed by third-party individual entrepreneurs (FOPs).
Under the procedural guidance of the Dnipro District Prosecutor’s Office in Kyiv, the deputy director of the municipal enterprise “Informatika” is charged with embezzlement of another’s property through abuse of official position, while the head of the commercial entity is charged with embezzlement and misappropriation of budget funds on an especially large scale. The pretrial investigation is currently ongoing.
This was reported by the press service of the Kyiv City Prosecutor’s Office.
Earlier, the High Anti-Corruption Court imposed a preventive measure in the form of a 3 million hryvnia bail on Supreme Court Judge Zhanna Yelenina. She is suspected of receiving an unlawful benefit of $50,000 for issuing a court ruling in favor of the owner of the “Finance and Credit” group, Konstantin Zhevago regarding shares in the Poltava Mining and Processing Plant.
Former Supreme Court Chairman Vsevolod Knyazev, several years after his high-profile arrest, admitted that he had received an illegal benefit from businessman Konstantin Zhevago and testified against a number of judges, which dramatically changed the course of one of the most high-profile anti-corruption cases in Ukraine in recent years.
