The prosecutors of the Frankiv District Prosecutor’s Office of the city of Lviv completed the pre-trial investigation and sent an indictment to the court against the former head of a department of one of the state banks of Ukraine on the facts of misappropriation of someone else’s property by abusing his official position and making known false information in official documents (Part 5 of Article 191, Part 1 of Article 366 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine).
We will remind you that a woman, being the head of a department of one of the state banks of Lviv, having access to a store of valuables, during January-February 2019, took possession of more than 1.9 million hryvnias. At the same time, in order to hide the fact of lack of money, the accused entered false information in the audit report about the alleged presence of such funds in the bank’s vault.
At the prosecutor’s request, the court seized the property of the defendant with a total value of over UAH 1.1 million.
The pre-trial investigation in the criminal proceedings was carried out by the investigators of the VP 2 of the LRUP 2 of the Main Directorate of the National Police of the Lviv region.
Note: in accordance with Art. 62 of the Constitution of Ukraine, a person is considered innocent of committing a crime and cannot be subjected to criminal punishment until his guilt is proven in a legal manner and established by a court verdict.
Department of Information Policy
Lviv Regional Prosecutor’s Office