“On a car and a generator”: a pseudo-volunteer who embezzled 230,000 hryvnias was exposed in Kyiv
In Kyiv, investigators reported suspicion to a 26-year-old man who embezzled army donations. The man, under the guise of a volunteer, promised to hand over a car to the fighters and buy a generator at a price below the market price, but he did not fulfill any of his obligations. In this way, he “earned” almost a quarter of a million hryvnias, Kyiv police reports. Law enforcement officers found evidence of fraud when a man was caught illegally possessing weapons. Photo: Kyiv police “As part of the implementation of operational information regarding the illegal storage of weapons, the operatives of the Sviatoshyn police department detained a 26-year-old local resident, a native of Ternopil region,” law enforcement officers say. In the man’s car, the policemen found an RGN grenade with a detonator, a TNT bomb and 40 cartridges of 7.62 mm. And during the search of the house, another 233 cartridges of 5.45 mm, a Kalashnikov assault rifle and three magazines for it were seized. “Subsequently, the investigators of the Sviatoshyn Police Department, under the operational support of the Security Service of Ukraine under the procedural guidance of the Sviatoshyn District Prosecutor’s Office, established the involvement of the detainee in committing fraud,” the police say. According to law enforcement officers, at the beginning of September 2022, the suspect promised to buy an SUV for the military at a price below the market price. After receiving 4.5 thousand US dollars from the customer, the delivery of the car began to take longer. At first he said that it was at the service station, and then he stopped communicating altogether. In December 2022, the man again took 68,000 hryvnias for a generator that one of the volunteers ordered for military personnel serving in the active combat zone. Then, according to the old scheme, the man looked for a reason to delay time and disappeared without fulfilling his obligations. Kyyanin was informed of suspicions of committing crimes under Part 1 of Art. 263 (illegal possession of weapons), Part 1 and Part 2 of Art. 190 (fraud) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. If the court finds guilt, the accused faces up to 7 years in prison. We will remind, earlier in Kyiv, a blogger was informed of suspicion, who was going to donate to the Armed Forces, but illegally withdrew 340,000 hryvnias to his account. And recently, the SBU exposed a group of fraudsters who collected money “for the Armed Forces” in various cities, allegedly “on behalf” of local authorities. Read also: Cars “bought” for the Armed Forces are still on sale: a pseudo-volunteer is accused of fraud
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