Scheme of embezzlement of almost UAH 60 million allocated for social assistance to seriously ill exposed in Kyiv City State Administration - SSU. PHOTOS

Another criminal scheme was exposed in the Kyiv City State Administration (KCSA), where the offenders embezzled almost UAH 60 million intended for palliative care for seriously ill patients.

This was reported by the Security Service of Ukraine, Censor.NET informs.

It was established that four people were involved in the fraud, two of whom were deputy heads of the Department of Social and Veterans' Policy of the Kyiv City State Administration.

Another defendant is a former top official of the Kyiv City State Administration, and now the head of a psychiatric hospital and a medical and social company in the capital. The SSU detained him on his attempt to flee abroad, where he planned to hide from justice.

The fourth participant in the "scheme" is the commercial director of the company that won the KCSA tender and belongs to the person mentioned above.

It is noted that these individuals organised a mechanism for embezzling money allocated to finance Kyiv residents suffering from incurable diseases. Thus, the KCSA officials signed an agreement with the accomplice's company for a total of UAH 149 million. For this money, the contractors were supposed to provide daily palliative care for seriously ill citizens, including free medical care, medicines and food. However, instead, the defendants spent almost a third of the budget funds on the purchase of premium cars and luxury real estate, which were used for the needs of patients "on paper".

For example, one of the new Porsche Cayenne SUVs purchased by this company was used by the criminals themselves, but it was formally listed as a vehicle for transporting seriously ill patients.

It was also established that the owner of the contracting company had unreasonably obtained a disability group 2. Thanks to the fake certificate, he received a "reservation" from mobilisation, the possibility of travelling outside Ukraine and regular pension payments from the state budget. It was this "medical certificate" that the defendant tried to use to illegally cross the border to the European Union.

The SSU added that all four organisers of the "scheme" have now been served with notices of suspicion under several articles of the Criminal Code of Ukraine:

p. 5 of Art. 191 (misappropriation, embezzlement or seizure of property through abuse of office committed on a particularly large scale by an organised group);
p. 4 of Art. 190 (fraud committed on a large scale or through illegal transactions with the use of electronic computers);
pp. 2, 3 of Art. 358 (forgery of documents, seals, stamps and forms, sale or use of forged documents, seals, stamps).