Embezzlement of 2.5 million dollars by the Ukrainian official

Ukraine’s prosecutor’s office announced the arrest of a group led by the former adviser of Volodymyr Zelenskyi’s office on charges of embezzlement of 2.5 million dollars.

According to the report of Ryanovsti news agency, this embezzlement took place during the purchase of transformers for the Ukrainian Railways. According to the information released by the Prosecutor General of Ukraine, from June to December 2022, Zelenskiy’s adviser, through the authorities overseeing the Ukrainian Railways, selected a predetermined company as a supplier of power transformers and at high costs and outside of The custom that he did, this embezzlement took place.

The Prosecutor General’s Office revealed that the transformers were purchased through an intermediary company from a manufacturer partly owned by Russian legal entities and then sold to Ukrainian Railways at double the price. The public prosecutor added: Sarkorde, Hamsaz and two members of this group were arrested and a criminal case was filed on embezzlement and abuse of official positions, which is punishable by imprisonment for a period of 3 years.

The Prosecutor General’s Office did not reveal the name of the former adviser in Zelenskyi’s office, but Oleksiy Goncharenko, a member of the Ukrainian parliament, wrote on his Telegram channel that the conversation was about Artyom Shilo. He worked in the State Security Service of Ukraine since 2012 and was fired in 2017, after which he worked as a consultant in Zelenskyi’s office for a year in 2021.

Zelensky had previously fired a number of his advisers and assistants, including Sergei Shafir, the director and founder of Quartal-95 Studio. In this regard, Sergey Nikiforov, Zelensky’s press spokesman claimed that the change in Zelensky’s office was made due to the policy of optimizing the administrative structure.