The organizer of a criminal scheme to embezzle military property and a former deputy commander of a military unit in the Kharkiv region has been notified of the charges against him.
According to Ukrinform, the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAPO) announced this on Facebook.
The SAPO stated that a pre-trial investigation established that between 2022 and 2024, a group of companies and sole proprietorships—effectively controlled by two individuals—supplied spare parts for armored vehicles worth over 350 million hryvnias to state-owned defense enterprises.
“However, it turned out that some of this property actually already belonged to the Armed Forces of Ukraine and was stored in the warehouses of a military unit in the Kharkiv region. At the start of the full-scale invasion, these spare parts were illegally written off, with records showing they had been destroyed as a result of Russian missile and bomb strikes. In reality, the scarce goods were removed from the unit’s territory and later resold to the state,” the SAPO noted.
The prosecutor’s office stated that the implementation of the criminal scheme was facilitated by the former deputy commander of the military unit, who systematically ignored his duties regarding the accounting and preservation of the property entrusted to him.
