NABU has uncovered a scheme involving state warehouses and shadow leases
The National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAPO) have uncovered a large-scale scheme involving the illegal leasing of state-owned warehouses, which resulted in the state losing approximately 36 million hryvnias. Among the suspects are former officials of the State Reserve Agency and the management of a state-owned enterprise, as well as the organizer and his accomplices, according to .
The National Anti-Corruption Bureau and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office have uncovered a scheme to embezzle funds from a state-owned enterprise under the State Agency for Reserve Management of Ukraine, which caused the state losses of approximately 36 million hryvnias.
Among the suspects are the former head of the State Reserve, the former deputy director of the state-owned enterprise, the organizer of the scheme, and one other person acting as an accomplice.
According to the investigation, in the fall of 2022, the suspects developed a plan that allowed them to siphon off funds under the guise of storage services. Starting in January 2023, state-owned warehouse space began to be transferred to private companies under their control.
These companies then leased the acquired space to legitimate businesses, converted the profits into cash, and distributed them among the scheme’s participants. To legitimize the process, fictitious contracts were drawn up, and the documents deliberately understated the actual size of the transferred spaces. “Knowingly false information was entered into the acceptance and transfer acts: on paper, the area was significantly smaller than what was actually used,” the case materials note.
The NABU emphasizes that the scheme operated as a well-thought-out mechanism with multiple layers of cover, allowing for the extraction of illegal profits from state property for years.
The organizer of the scheme was detained while attempting to cross the state border. The court has already imposed a preventive measure in the form of detention. The investigation is ongoing, and law enforcement officials are identifying all individuals involved in the scheme.
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