The fraudster collected charitable donations from foreigners on behalf of the All-Ukrainian Equestrian Federation, but the horses never saw the money.
An official of one of the public organizations collected money abroad, supposedly to help Ukrainian equestrian sport, but in fact he enriched himself. The press service of the Kyiv City Prosecutor’s Office reported this on Monday, December 16.
According to the investigation, an official of a public organization All-Ukrainian Equestrian Federation in 2022, when he moved to Belgium, he founded and headed a charity organization there with the same name with the aim of collecting charity aid, supposedly to help equestrian sports in Ukraine.
Using the official letterhead of a Ukrainian public organization, of which he is the general secretary, taking advantage of the right to sign official letters on its behalf, the man sent letters to European companies requesting charitable assistance. However, he collected the money in the accounts of his organization, and not the one to which he wrote letters.
It was established that foreign organizations transferred more than 790 thousand euros to the account of the fund created by the suspect. However, part of the benefactors’ money did not reach Ukraine and was not spent on supporting equestrian sports.
The investigation documented that the person transferred almost 4 million hryvnias to two accounts, spending this money at his own discretion. He was charged with fraud on a particularly large scale.
We remind you that the former five members of an organized group were exposed, who fraudulently took 29 million hryvnias from banks under the guise of agribusinessmen.
Source: korrespondent
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