Embezzlement of UAH 18 million at Antonov plant: case sent to court
Kyiv • UNN
Ihor Dekhtyarenko and another former director were charged with embezzling more than UAH 18 million from Antonov by overpaying for legal services related to debt collection. These actions caused significant losses to the state-owned enterprise.
An indictment has been sent to court against Ihor Dekhtyarenko, former director of legal affairs at Antonov, and a former director of a law firm, who are suspected of embezzling UAH 18 million from Antonov. This was reported by UNN with reference to the SAPO.
"On December 14, 2023, the SAPO prosecutor, based on the materials of the NABU pre-trial investigation, sent to court an indictment against the former director of legal affairs of SE Antonov and the former director of the law firm, who were caught embezzling and aiding and abetting the embezzlement of more than UAH 18 million of state-owned enterprise funds, as well as drawing up knowingly false official documents," the report says.
Details
It is reported that the investigation established that in July 2018, the law firm, under a legal services agreement, undertook to provide services to Antonov to collect debts from Brokbusinessbank JSC under a deposit agreement, the total amount of which was more than UAH 347 million. In December 2018, a non-residential building in Kyiv worth more than UAH 120 million was transferred to Antonov from Brokbusinessbank JSC as a partial debt collection.
The SAPO notes that according to the contract and the additional agreement to it, the lawyers' remuneration for legal services provided was to be 5% of the value of the transferred but not sold property. However, the Director of Legal Affairs of SE Antonov, in collusion and with the assistance of the Director of the law firm, agreed to pay for the services provided by the law firm in an unreasonably high amount - almost 10% of the estimated value of the building (overpayment of about UAH 7 million).
In May 2021, pursuant to the Laws of Ukraine and the Order of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, a non-residential building was transferred to the management of a state institution at a market value of more than UAH 212 million. In return, the debt obligations of SE Antonov to the state were written off for this amount.
"Subsequently, the Director of Legal Affairs of SE Antonov, with the complicity of the director of the law firm, unreasonably accepted the performance of legal services and authorized an additional transfer of funds from the state enterprise to the law firm allegedly for the performance of a legal services contract as a result of the transfer of a building with a market value of more than UAH 212 million to the management of one of the state institutions. These actions led to the repeated embezzlement of material resources of SE Antonov in the amount of more than UAH 11 million," the SAPO informs.
At the same time, it is reportedthat the law firm had nothing to do with the transfer of the building from Antonov to another state institution and the write-off of Antonov's debt obligations to the state, and this issue was not covered by the legal services agreement at all. As a result, the criminal actions of the individuals caused the state-owned enterprise to incur more than UAH 18 million in losses.
