The former head of state enterprise "Lviv armored company" tied on suspicion of embezzlement of public funds in the amount of 2 million hryvnia (about 94 thousand dollars at the current exchange rate of NBU), said on Thursday the chief military Prosecutor of Ukraine Anatoly Matios.

"The consequence suspects the former head of state enterprise" Lviv armored company "that He for December 2014 and January 2015, by prior conspiracy with other persons and with the use of plants with signs of fictitiousness, abusing official position, took control of the capital the state defense order in the amount of 2 million hryvnia," - Matios wrote on his page century

The funds were intended for the reconstruction and send to the zone of confrontation in the Donbass military equipment for Ukrainian forces.

According to the Prosecutor, at the home of a former bureaucrat has already conducted a search, and the suspect was taken to the Shevchenko district court of Lviv for the election of a preventive measure.

Matios did not name the detainee, along with this, according to Ukrainian media, during the period from December 2014 to January 2015 the position of Director of the Lviv armored company was taken by Alexander Ostapets. He was dismissed in June for failure to comply with the factory production plans, as well as among them for the failure of timing in establishing a full-fledged mass production of armored vehicles " Dozor-B ".

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