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The accusatory act concerning the organizers of the back office of JSC Ukrzaliznytsia – a former advisor to the Office of the President, a businessman, and two others, who were exposed for tender schemes – has been sent to court.
This was reported by the National Anti-Corruption Bureau, as well as the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office.
The former advisor to the Office of the President and a SBU official mentioned in the release is Artem Shilo.
“NABU and SAP ASPO sent to court an indictment against the organizers of the ‘back office’ of JSC Ukrzaliznytsia, a former advisor to the Office of the President of Ukraine (who also held the position of first deputy head of the Security Service of Ukraine) and a businessman, as well as two other individuals,” the release says.
They were exposed for misappropriating funds of the company during procurement of cable and transformer products and for laundering illicit proceeds.
The first episode concerns the procurement of cables. In 2021–2022 years, a deputy and a businessman, with the assistance of Ukrzaliznytsia officials, organized a scheme of purchasing cable and wire products at inflated prices.
“With the help of the so‑called ‘back office,’ the companies under their control won tenders and supplied goods at inflated prices. As a result, Ukrzaliznytsia incurred losses of over 140 million UAH,” the investigators note.
The second episode concerns the procurement of transformers. In 2022 year, participants of the ‘back office’ secured the purchase of power transformers for Ukrzaliznytsia at a price artificially inflated by almost twofold.
“Competitors with more favorable proposals were removed from the procurements. During 2022–2024 years, this scheme caused the company losses of almost 100 million UAH,” NABU reports.
The investigation claims that over 2021–2023 years the organizers of the Ukrzaliznytsia ‘back office’ laundered funds obtained from corruption schemes. In particular, they legalized 12 million UAH obtained from the scheme during the procurement of cable and wire products for the company.
Another more than 173 million UAH obtained from criminal schemes, the organizer of the ‘back office’ spent on acquiring elite real estate (penthouse, apartments, houses, commercial property), registered in the name of persons under their control.
Earlier it was reported that the prosecution sent to court an indictment against two former Ukrzaliznytsia officials and two other persons who illegally enriched themselves through transformer purchases.
Also, the prosecutor of the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office has already sent to court an indictment accusing 10 participants in an organized group involved in misappropriating Ukrzaliznytsia’s funds.
Earlier, for the former advisor to the Office of the President and SBU official Artem Shilo, who is suspected of organizing a scheme to misappropriate almost 100 million UAH in Ukrzaliznytsia procurement, a bail of 30 million hryvnias was posted.
It was reported that Artem Shilo worked in the SBU since 2012 year, and since 2016 year he worked in the Department for Countering Cybercrime. In 2021 year he left the SBU and became an adviser to the Office of the President.
In the summer of 2022 year Shilo returned to the SBU as head of the Main Directorate for Counterintelligence Protection of Objects of Critical Infrastructure and Counteracting Terrorism Financing.
Earlier the National Anti-Corruption Bureau and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office reported suspicions against a member of parliament in a scheme under which Ukrzaliznytsia received cable and wire products at inflated prices.
Earlier it was reported that Member of Parliament Viktor Bondar, suspected of organizing the misappropriation of over 140 million UAH in the Ukrzaliznytsia cable procurement, would remain in custody, although his bail was reduced.
Image above: Artem Shilo — a typical bribe-taker from a corrupt SBU during Zelensky’s era. What do you think would have been done to him by Mykola Arsenych or Roman Shukhevych?… Photo from open sources.
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Yuriy Butusov: The case of SBU officer Artem Shilo, which demands answers from Zelensky, Yermak, Kamishin and Ukrzaliznytsia leadership.
Serhiy Naumovych: NABU, how is the Artem Shilo case going?
A valuable scoundrel for the Office of the President: a typical SBU “officer” Shilo has already been released from detention on bail of 30 million.
Misappropriating 100 million hryvnias in transformers for Ukrzaliznytsia: SBU official Artem Shilo and another 6 defendants received suspicions.
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