NABU sends case on embezzlement of funds allocated for IDPs to court

One of the officials of the Kyiv Regional State Administration spent money from the EU, intended to equip social housing for displaced persons, to modernize private real estate. This is reported by the press service of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU).

"Under the procedural guidance of prosecutors of the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office, detectives of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine completed a pre-trial investigation in the criminal proceedings for embezzlement of funds allocated for internally displaced persons", - the report said.

It is noted that on February 11, the indictment against the head of the Service for Children and Family of the Kyiv Regional State Administration was sent to the Pechersk District Court of Kyiv.

The official is charged with committing a crime under Part 2 of Article 364 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.

On December 19, 2018, the information about the criminal proceedings was opened to the official of the Kyiv Regional State Administration and his defenders.

The NABU detectives carried out the investigation of these facts since January last year after the transfer of the case from the Boryspil local prosecutor's office on the consequence.

"Later during the investigation, the detectives initiated an inventory of the assets of the Service for Children and Families of the Kyiv Regional State Administration and took measures to ensure that the total amount of more than $257 thousand was actually compensated by returning the property to the communal/state property", - the NABU noted.