Under the procedural guidance of the Sambir District Prosecutor's Office, a former director of one of the communal enterprises in Sambir, the director of a private enterprise, and a technical supervision engineer have been notified of suspicion.

According to the investigation, one of the suspects, abusing his official position, organized a scheme to misappropriate funds from the communal enterprise where he was employed at the time.

For this purpose, he involved his subordinate, who is also the head of a company that installs water supply systems. In addition, a private entrepreneur – a technical supervision engineer – also participated in the "scheme."

The implementation of the plan involved signing a contract for the repair of wells, with subsequent allocation of budget funds for this purpose. However, they did not plan to carry out the repair work.

Thus, in 2021, the communal enterprise signed a contract with the contractor. To ensure the selection of "their" contractor, the contract was signed without conducting open tenders and using the electronic procurement system, which is a violation of the law.

Subsequently, the director of the contracting firm included false information in the acts of completed work about the full fulfillment of obligations. The technical supervision engineer, ignoring the actual state of affairs, approved the documentation. Based on these documents, the director of the communal enterprise signed for payment. In reality, however, no repairs were conducted.

As a result of the unlawful actions of the suspects, the Sambir City Council suffered damages of over 1 million UAH.

Investigative actions are ongoing. All involved persons are being identified.

The issue of choosing preventive measures for the suspects is being resolved.

The actions of the suspects have been qualified as follows:

- the former director of the communal enterprise – part 2 of article 364, part 1 of article 366 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine – abuse of office and inclusion of knowingly false information in official documents

- the director of the contracting enterprise – part 5 of article 191, part 1 of article 366 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine – misappropriation of someone else's property by abusing his official position and inclusion of knowingly false information in official documents

- the technical supervision engineer – part 2 of article 367 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine – official negligence.

Pre-trial investigation – Sambir District Police Department of the Main Directorate of the National Police in Lviv Region, operational support – the Security Service of Ukraine in Lviv Region.

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.