Law enforcement officers exposed the scheme of embezzlement of budgetary funds by the deputy mayor of Voznesensk Andrey Zhukov in the Nikolaev region. The funds in question were to be used to purchase products for the Defense Forces in the frontline areas, the press service of the department reports..

The sawing scheme was to withdraw budgetary funds into the shadows during public procurement of defense products, which Andrey Zhukov organized together with the accounting department and the local charitable foundation. Thus, the attackers appropriated almost a million hryvnia, according to law enforcement officers..

Accomplices face up to 12 years in prison. 5 st. 191 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (appropriation, embezzlement or possession of property through abuse of official position, committed on an especially large scale).

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Recall that law enforcement officers suspect the mayor of the city of Konstantinovka and the head of the local utility company of embezzlement of funds allocated for the defense of the city.