A municipal enterprise of the Vyshneve community announced a tender to lease a gas piston cogeneration unit for the 2024–2025 heating season. The terms stated: equipment no older than 2020.

In fact the community received a unit made in 2008 — so worn out that it did not work. Notices of suspicion served on four people were announced by the police of the Kyiv region.

315 million in the contract

The lease contract was worth 315 million hryvnias. About 28 million had already been transferred from the local budget — for equipment that was supposed to provide heat and power during blackouts.

The suspicion covers four articles of the Criminal Code: part 2 of article 15, part 3 of article 27, part 5 of article 190 and part 5 of article 191. These concern attempt, organisation, fraud and misappropriation on a particularly large scale.

Who ran the case

The investigation was carried out by the Kyiv region police together with the cyber police, with procedural supervision by the Kyiv regional prosecutor’s office.

Vyshneve is part of the Bucha district, and its schools showed the best results among the district’s state schools this year — so the community is large and its budget matches.

Earlier we reported that seven schools of the Bucha district entered the Kyiv region top thirty by test results.

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