Under the procedural guidance of the Cherkasy Regional Prosecutor's Office, the investigation has been completed and an indictment has been sent to court regarding two residents of Dnipro.

The accused are charged with fraud, forgery of documents, and their use (Part 5 of Article 190, Parts 1, 3, 4 of Article 358 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine).

The pre-trial investigation established that from 2020 to 2024, they set up a fraudulent scheme to receive payments from the state for electricity generated by the generating installations of private households.

The suspects forged documents regarding the ownership of 139 residential houses in the Dnipropetrovsk region. Instead, they installed solar panel complexes on these plots of land and generated electricity on an industrial scale.

Subsequently, they entered into contracts for the sale of electricity to the state at the "green" tariff, formalizing the sale on behalf of private households. This was profitable, as the state buys electricity from household producers at a higher price than from business entities. Such a scheme allowed them to obtain greater income due to the difference in tariffs, using the privileges provided for household electricity producers.

During the period of illegal activity, the accomplices fraudulently misappropriated state funds totaling over 29 million UAH.

The pre-trial investigation in this criminal proceeding was conducted by an investigator from the Main Directorate of the National Police in the Cherkasy region. Operational support was provided by the Criminal Investigation Department in the Cherkasy region of the National Police of Ukraine.

Note: According to Article 62 of the Constitution of Ukraine, a person is presumed innocent of committing a crime and cannot be subjected to criminal punishment until their guilt is proven in a lawful manner and established by a court verdict.