According to law enforcement officials, officials embezzled about 140 million UAH, intended to provide heat and water to three settlements in the Donetsk region.
In Selidovo and Ukrainsk, they signed a contract worth more than UAH 200 million for the supply and connection of seven modular boiler houses in the absence of design preparation. Prices for equipment and work were also inflated, and NABU considers the tender to be an imitation, since the actual management of the winning company was carried out by a classmate of one of the defendants. Only two of the seven boiler rooms were connected.
In Svyatogorsk, under the pretext of restoring water supply and sanitation, the budget paid for work without projects and with gross violations of standards, the report says. The suspects falsified certificates of completed work, extended the terms of contracts and put pressure on the managers of utility companies to accept the objects on their books, NABU claims.
“As a result of such actions, the state suffered losses amounting to more than UAH 140 million, which the participants in the crime took possession of and disposed of at their own discretion, and residents of front-line cities were left without heating and drinking water in the winter,” the Bureau points out.
Suspicion was reported to five alleged participants in the scheme, two of them were detained.
