Officials of the state administration of railway transport of Ukraine (Ukrzaliznytsya ) and Employees of a private organization is suspected of embezzling public funds amounting to more than 21 million hryvnias (almost $ 1 million), says (SBU) on Thursday.

in the process of pre-trial investigation with the Prosecutor General's office of the SBU revealed that " uz " has entered into several agreements for the organization publicize their activities in the mass media: preparation of analytical materials, news, stories, and so on.

"in fact the service was not provided, and the funds were laundered through a dummy structure. During searches at office and home premises of officials relating to a criminal transaction, the selected documents indicating the carrying out the bestovarnykh of operations with the state enterprise ", - is informed in the report.

in July Authorized the Prosecutor General and the Ministry of internal Affairs of Ukraine conducted searches in a number of departments of " Ukrzaliznytsya ". As has been explained in the interior Ministry, controlled by members of illegal groups of impaired persons obtained licenses for the right to supply electrical energy in the railway sector unregulated tariff. In the end, the difference between the purchasing price of electric energy "Ukrzaliznytsya" presumably for a year and a half has lost more than 200 million hryvnias, that is more than five hundred million rubles (almost 90 million USD).

because of this, the General Prosecutor's office opened criminal proceedings according to section " assignment, waste of property or taking to them by abuse of official position ".

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