SSU and ESBU expose chief of financial unit of AFU brigade who embezzled funds for purchase of drones
Security Service of Ukraine
12:00, 31 July 2025
The SSU Military Counterintelligence and the Economic Security Bureau of Ukraine with the assistance of the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the Land Forces Command have disrupted another scheme of embezzlement of defense funds.
As a result of a special operation, in Kyiv region, a chief of the financial and economic unit of the AFU brigade, who embezzled money for the purchase of combat drones, was exposed.
Those include UAVs used for aerial reconnaissance and adjustment of artillery fire on the occupiers' assault groups in the Kramatorsk sector.
To scam, the officer signed several contracts at inflated prices with his friend's company.
The suspects embezzled almost UAH 2 million (USD 47,885) for the purchase of UAVs in one of the documented cases.
These funds could have been used to buy several more wholesale batches of reconnaissance UAVs, which are needed 24/7 by the military to destroy the ruscists on the front line.
The forensic economic examination confirmed the facts of embezzlement of public funds.
During the searches of the suspects' offices and homes, law enforcement officers have found documents with the evidence of the fraud.
Based on the collected evidence, the offender and his accomplice have been served notices of suspicion under Article 191.5 of the CCU (misappropriation, embezzlement or seizure of property through abuse of office).
The investigation is ongoing to establish all the circumstances of the crime and bring the perpetrators to justice. The suspects face up to 12 years in prison with confiscation of property.
The operation was carried out under the procedural supervision of the Specialized Defense Prosecutor's Office of the Central Region.
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