According to the investigation, in 2020 the suspect was in the management of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Ukraine “he made sure that a predetermined company” would take care of the equipment for this ministry. It was about video surveillance and access control measures.
Ukrinform reports that the equipment was purchased “despite significantly overpriced“As a result, more than 16 million UAH was lost.
Scandal in the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine. There has been embezzlement
As Ukrinform found, in 2018-2019, in order to winning the tender to provide equipment for this ministry, the entrepreneur, through the public organization headed by him, provided it for free use to a high-ranking official four premium cars with a total value of over UAH 6 million.
After the suspected official was fired from his position at the Ministry of Internal Affairs, these cars actually became his property by way of a donation agreement.
Activities former high-ranking official according to the Criminal Code of Ukraine, they qualify as appropriation, waste of property or its possession through abuse of official position, committed in particularly large amounts, acceptance by an official of an offer, promise or receipt of an illegal benefit.
After the reorganization of the ministry, from 2023 the head of the Ukrainian Ministry of Internal Affairs is Ihor Klymenko, a Ukrainian policeman and psychologist. Before becoming Minister of Internal Affairs, from 2019 to 2023 he was the Chief Commander of the National Police of Ukraine.