Prosecutors of the Solomiansky District Prosecutor's Office of Kyiv have notified a deputy of the Kyiv City Council of the ninth convocation of suspicion for embezzling community funds through fraud during the privatization of a municipal property.

Her actions have been qualified under part 3 of Article 190 and part 1 of Article 366 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine, specifically as fraud and official forgery.

It has been established that a non-residential property with a total area of 168 sq.m. located on Akademika Hlushkova Street in Kyiv was leased with the right of further privatization to a charitable organization, which was headed by the suspect, now a deputy of the Kyiv City Council.

The charitable foundation, as the tenant of the property, carried out repairs on the building (so-called "indispensable improvements"), while the cost of these works was significantly inflated in the documents during the construction process. Accordingly, during the privatization of the property, 300,000 hryvnias were deducted from the value of the property for the tenant – money for "excessive expenses" during the repairs. Thus, the foundation underpaid 300,000 hryvnias to the capital's budget.

 The pre-trial investigation is being conducted under the procedural guidance of the Solomiansky District Prosecutor's Office by investigators of the Solomiansky Police Department of the Main Directorate of the National Police in Kyiv, with operational support from the Main Directorate of the Security Service of Ukraine in Kyiv and the Kyiv region.

It should be noted that regarding the privatization of this property for virtually nothing, prosecutors of the Solomiansky District Prosecutor's Office sent an indictment to the court in August 2024 against the Director of the Department of Communal Property of the Kyiv City State Administration and two appraisers. They are being tried for official negligence, abuse of office, and the preparation of knowingly forged official documents (part 2 of Article 367, part 3 of Article 365-2, part 3 of Article 358 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine). The court proceedings are ongoing.

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.