Ex-head of the Enforcement Service Department in Mykolaiv region to be tried for financial fraud

The former head of the Mykolaiv region's SES department is accused of negligence, which resulted in the unjustified transfer of UAH 3.5 million from the authority's accounts. The trial against the accused is ongoing and he faces 2 to 5 years in prison.

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

The Bashtanka District Prosecutor's Office of Mykolaiv Oblast has filed an indictment against the former head of one of the departments of the Mykolaiv Oblast SES of the Southern Interregional Department of the Ministry of Justice. He is accused of negligence under Part 2 of Article 367 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. According to the prosecutor's office, this had serious consequences.

According to the investigation, from 2019 to 2022, the accused failed to exercise proper control over the movement of funds in the accounts and did not check the legality of transfers to individuals and legal entities.

He also violated internal regulations by failing to check accounting books and payment documents, and transferred electronic access keys to the remote service system to an employee of the department who was convicted in 2024 for forgery and misappropriation of funds. As a result, almost UAH 3.5 million was transferred to the accounts of persons without the right to receive it.

The accused faces imprisonment for a term of 2 to 5 years, with a ban on holding certain positions or engaging in certain activities for up to three years and a fine of 250 to 750 tax-free minimum incomes.

Also in Mykolaiv region, a city council official who purchased vehicles at inflated prices was tried and sentenced to a fine and a suspended prison term for embezzlement of budget funds. At the same time, a technical supervision engineer is accused of negligence during the reconstruction of a kindergarten in the Muzykivska community in Kherson region. He failed to carry out the necessary checks, which resulted in the loss of more than a million hryvnias from the local budget.

Анна Бальчінос