State Bureau of Investigation employees together with the Security Service of Ukraine and the National Police reported a suspicion the head of one of the groups of the military unit headquarters in Sumy region. According to the investigation, he organized a scheme through which he illegally received over 2,4 million hryvnias.
Late last year, the major gathered six of his subordinates and offered them an “easy way” to earn some extra money. He promised to arrange for them to be sent to a combat zone in the Kharkiv region, although in reality they all remained at the headquarters in Sumy. Despite this, the servicemen received real combat pay of 170 hryvnias per month.
But most of the money was to be given in cash to their superiors, and those who hesitated were threatened with being sent to war.
The major kept most of the money for himself and returned only about 30 hryvnias to his subordinates. Over the three months of this "scheme," the amount of illegal payments exceeded 2,4 million hryvnias.
The head of the administrative group of the headquarters has been notified of suspicion of abuse of power by a military official under martial law, which resulted in grave consequences (Part 5, Article 426-1 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine). He faces up to 12 years in prison.
The court chose a preventive measure for him in the form of a bail of 900 thousand hryvnias. The procedural management is carried out by the Sumy Specialized Prosecutor's Office in the field of defense of the Central Region.
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