Six officials of the agricultural holding company "Agrain" have been charged with abuse of office and fraud, resulting in losses totaling over UAH 500 million, the Kyiv prosecutor's office press service reported, citing Kyiv prosecutor Serhiy Yuldashev.
According to him, in 2013, one of the founders of the agricultural holding, in order to seize the assets of Ukrainian companies within Agrain, illegally changed their management structure. As a result, authority to manage the assets of the Ukrainian companies was transferred from the highest governing body (the general meeting of participants) to an artificially created body whose existence was not provided for by law.
Subsequently, changes to the management structure of Ukrainian companies effectively granted one of the founders of the agricultural holding and several of his subordinates the right to exercise uncontrolled control over all of the company's assets, the prosecutor's office emphasized.
"The total losses incurred as a result of this fraudulent transaction exceed 500 million UAH," noted S. Yuldashev.
Currently, six officials of the Agrain agricultural holding are charged with committing crimes under Part 2 of Article 28 Part 4 of Article 190 (fraud) and Part 2 of Article 28 Part 2 of Article 364-1 (abuse of power by an official of a private legal entity, regardless of its organizational and legal form) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.
An interregional investigative team has been created to investigate the illegal activities of Agrain officials. The pre-trial investigation is being conducted by investigators from the Kharkiv Oblast and Kyiv prosecutor's offices.
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