Participants in the scheme of illegal withdrawal of assets from sanctions of a group of companies specializing in the extraction of minerals in the Zhytomyr and Kyiv regions have been notified of suspicion of official forgery, unauthorized interference in automated systems, and legalization of property obtained by criminal means (Part 3 of Article 27, Part 2 of Article 28, Part 2 of Article 366, Part 3 of Article 27, Part 3 of Article 362, Part 3 of Article 27, Part 3 of Article 209 of the Criminal Code).

According to the investigation, in 2023-2024, a person subject to sanctions in the form of asset blocking, together with another entrepreneur and involved accomplices, organized a scheme for the illegal re-registration of property of a mining company. To further obtain profit, they forged documents, made unauthorized changes to state registers of property rights, and transferred control over the assets to fictitious companies.

The illegally obtained assets were re-registered by fictitious companies to other newly created legal entities. At the same time, they remained under the actual control of the organizers of the criminal scheme. Subsequently, these assets were used in the economic activities of the newly created enterprises, allowing the organizers to gain profit and evade possible confiscation of sanctioned property for the benefit of the state.

The total amount of damages is 124 million UAH.

Currently, one of the organizers has been chosen a preventive measure in the form of detention with the possibility of posting bail in the amount of 100 million UAH. The issue of applying preventive measures to other accomplices is being resolved.

Under the procedural guidance of the Office of the Prosecutor General, the pre-trial investigation is being conducted by the Main Investigative Department of the National Police of Ukraine.

The Office of the Prosecutor General is grateful to journalists, particularly the "Schemes" project of Radio Liberty, for their investigation into the exposure of this scheme.

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 guilty verdict of the court.