Employees of the State Bureau of Investigation reported the suspicion to the chief geologist of the Poltavagazdobycha gas industry department, which is part of Ukrgasdobycha JSC. Together with accomplices, he stole UAH 4.6 million of the enterprise and “laundered” them through a conversion center. This is reported by the DBR website..

Officials of the gas industry department, together with accomplices, artificially inflated the expected cost of gas hydrodynamic research. They conducted tenders in a non-competitive way and falsified the victory in the bidding of specially defined business entities. In fact, these studies were carried out by a state-owned enterprise at a price that was several times less than determined by the results of the tender.

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Now searches are being carried out at the place of work and residence of persons, probably involved in the theft of funds from the gas industry department of Poltavagazdobycha, allocated for research. All participants in these crimes are identified and other episodes of criminal activity are documented..

The official is suspected of taking possession of property and official forgery (h. 5 st. 191, h. 1 st. 366 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine). The article provides for imprisonment for up to 12 years.

Earlier it was reported that the court arrested the assets of enterprises that appropriated the subsoil of an oil and gas field in the Kharkiv region.