Director of Tylihulskyi Park in Mykolaiv region to be tried for embezzlement

The Specialized Environmental Prosecutor's Office has submitted to court an indictment against the former acting director of the<b>Tiligulsky </b>Regional Landscape Park and a private entrepreneur.

This was reported by the Mykolaiv Regional Prosecutor's Office.

The investigation found that the former acting director of the park and the entrepreneur, acting by prior conspiracy, entered into an agreement to provide scientific and technical services to develop a project for organizing the park's territory. Knowing for certain that the work under the contract had not been completed, the entrepreneur drew up two acts of acceptance and transfer of services containing false information about the full completion of the work.

On the basis of these forged official documents certifying facts of legal significance, the park director signed payment orders and submitted them to the accounting department for payment. As a result of such actions, budget funds in the amount of almost UAH 255 thousand were embezzled, which is qualified as embezzlement of other people's property by abuse of office on a large scale by prior conspiracy.

The actions of the park director are qualified under Part 4 of Art. 191 and Part 1 of Art. 366 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine, and the actions of the entrepreneur - under Part 4 of Art. 191 and Part 3 of Art. 358 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. The defendants face imprisonment for up to 8 years with additional deprivation of the right to hold certain positions or engage in certain activities for up to three years.

Meanwhile, it has been reported that City-Stars, which does not have the necessary equipment and experience, has received government contracts in Mykolaiv region worth more than UAH 130 million in the past year and a half.

The completion of the 60 million USD reconstruction of an important boiler house in Mykolaiv's Lisky, ordered by Mykolaivoblteploenergo, is postponed until the end of the year, although it was supposed to be ready by the end of September. This jeopardizes stable heat supply.

The reason for the delay is that the tender was won by a little-known company called City-Stars, which has neither its own equipment nor a convincing track record for complex energy efficiency work. The company is owned by businessmen Mykhailo Zhendubaev and Dmytro Kurbatov, who re-registered it in 2023 and immediately began to receive large government contracts without competition.

Катерина Глушко