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A former official of the education department of a local council in Bukovina will stand trial: the State Bureau of Economic Security has sent the case to court
An official of the education department of a local council in Chernivtsi region will face trial on charges of embezzling budget funds on an especially large scale. Detectives of the State Bureau of Economic Security’s regional office in Chernivtsi completed the pretrial investigation and sent the indictment to court.
The investigation found that in 2021 the Education Department signed a contract with a supplier to purchase electricity worth more than 11,7 million UAH.
Subsequently, the supplier proposed increasing the price of electricity. To justify this, it provided documents that were supposed to confirm a market price increase. However, those documents did not contain data on price dynamics and did not confirm that the cost of electricity had actually risen.
Despite this, the official agreed to and signed an additional agreement that increased the electricity price from 1,9 to 3,81 UAH per 1 kWh, while correspondingly reducing the purchase volume.
As a result, the supplier was unjustifiably paid more than 1,3 million UAH of budget funds. The suspect is charged with embezzlement of property on an especially large scale (part 5 of article 191 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine).
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