The Prosecutor General's Office announced the prosecution of three former deputies of the Kharkiv, Kyiv, and Cherkasy regional administrations in connection with Serhiy Kurchenko's liquefied gas fraud.
The Prosecutor General's Office press service reported this, but did not name the former officials.
"One of the criminal schemes involved the misappropriation of liquefied gas for public consumption between 2009 and February 2014, with the complicity of officials from the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, relevant ministries, the auction committee, and regional state administrations, at reduced, preferential prices. The difference between these prices and the actual market value of the corresponding volumes of liquefied gas sold amounted to more than UAH 2 billion," the press service reported.
The former officials are suspected of embezzlement of state property on an especially large scale—part five of Article 191 of the Criminal Code.
It should be noted that the SBU previously reported that suspects in the Kurchenko case include former deputy head of the Kharkiv Regional State Administration Valentyn Dulub, former deputy head of the Kyiv Regional State Administration Volodymyr Maksymenko, and former first deputy head of the National Bank of Ukraine Borys Prikhodko.
Alexey Rudenko, KyivVlast
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