NABU put forward suspicions to six persons: the former state secretary of the Ministry of Justice, the current head and deputy head of the department of the department, as well as the beneficial owner and two leaders of the limited liability company.
According to the investigation, in 2021, the defendants initiated the conclusion of the contract with an affiliated private company for the acquisition of services for the modernization of the hardware and software complex for the Ministry of Justice for 19 million UAH, which much exceeded the average market prices.
“To overstate the cost of services to the LLC and other previously defined companies, they sent requests for commercial offers and received” necessary “answers. This became the basis for starting trading,” NABU explained.
For the tender, the defendants probably provided a formal participation of another enterprise, the tender offer of which was recognized as less commercially attractive than the controlled LLC.
“Thus, more than half of the amount transferred from the budget to the accounts of the contractors were stolen by the organizers of the scheme,” the SBU claims.
The defendants of the case were informed of suspicion of embezzlement of property or seizure by him by abuse of an official position committed in especially large sizes (part 5 of article 191 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine). They can face up to 12 years in prison with confiscation of property.
The head of the Department of the Ministry of Justice is additionally incriminated the storage, acquisition, transfer or sale of firearms or combat supplies, explosives without appropriate permission (part 1 of article 263 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine).
