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In the Odesa region, the State Bureau of Investigation uncovered a scheme involving subsidies for nonexistent animals

UA NEWS 19 August 2026 16:18
In the Odesa region, the State Bureau of Investigation uncovered a scheme involving subsidies for nonexistent animals

Employees of the State Bureau of Investigations uncovered a large-scale scheme in the Odesa region involving the illegal receipt of government subsidies for the care of livestock. The participants in the scheme included data on nearly 2,000 animals in the documents—animals that did not actually exist.

Under this scheme, the perpetrators planned to obtain nearly 4 million hryvnias from the budget. The SBI continues to uncover cases of embezzlement of funds allocated under state support programs.

For each registered animal, the state paid 2,000 hryvnias per year. As a result, according to preliminary estimates, 3.8 million hryvnias were illegally obtained from the budget.

According to the investigation, three employees of agencies responsible for animal accounting and registration in the Odesa region were involved in the scheme. They had access to the relevant registries and used their official positions to create fictitious livestock records.

This was reported by the State Bureau of Investigation (DBR).
 

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