The SBU’s military counter-intelligence has detained a senior officer of one of the Armed Forces of Ukraine units in Dnipropetrovsk Region. According to investigators, he demanded 20% of the payments awarded to subordinates for destroyed Russian equipment.
This was reported by the Security Service of Ukraine.
According to the investigation, the detainee held the post of senior officer in the group responsible for studying and implementing management experience in unmanned systems at one of the Armed Forces of Ukraine units.
The official allegedly demanded 20% of the total cash reward his subordinates received for fire strikes against enemy targets. In return, he promised to process the paperwork for the payments without obstruction.
Case materials indicate the total involved was nearly UAH 2 million, of which the lieutenant colonel planned to appropriate about UAH 380,000.
SBU officers documented the unlawful activity and detained him after he received the full amount of the illicit benefit near a temporary deployment point of Ukrainian troops.
The detainee has now been served with a notice of suspicion under Part 3 of Article 368 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine – receiving an unlawful benefit by an official.
The court has ordered pre-trial detention as a preventive measure. If found guilty, the officer faces up to 10 years’ imprisonment with confiscation of property.
The operation was carried out under the procedural supervision of the Kryvyi Rih Specialised Prosecutor’s Office for Defence in the Eastern Region.