The State Bureau of Investigation of Ukraine searches in the administrative buildings of the metropolitan thermal power plants in the framework of the investigation of the case on theft of funds intended for repair of energy equipment, destroyed as a result of enemy shelling. This was stated by the DBR, Ukrinform reports.
The bureau claims that the investigation is conducted in compliance with strict recommendations of services that ensure the safety of strategic objects.
The criminal case was initiated by the abuse of the officials of utility workers.
In the framework of the investigation, law enforcement officers check information on the withdrawal of funds allocated for repair to the accounts of the enterprise with signs of fictitiousness for further transfer to cash and appropriation. They also check the information whether they actually performed the work themselves in accordance with the contracts concluded in 2022.
"The purpose of a search at the CPP is to remove the documentation on the admission to the objects of employees and equipment of the contractor in 2022-2023, as well as accounting documentation with the results of the work,"- explained in the DBR. It is emphasized that the video of the appearance of critical infrastructure during investigative actions is not carried out by law enforcement. Search does not participate in the searches.
Investigators of the DBR comply with all the requirements of information security and recommendations of services that ensure the safety of strategic objects.
"There is no interference with the technological process of electricity and heat production. Investigators work only with documentation, which is stored in the administrative premises and issued at voluntary desire," the DBR said. At the same time, investigative actions are carried out in a contractor that was the contractor.
The preliminary investigation is carried out under Part 2 of Art. 364, Part 3 of Art. 366 (abuse of power and forgery of official documents that caused grave consequences) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.
