Operation “Active”: the Russian share of the capital of a pharmaceutical company worth almost a billion hryvnias was arrested
The seized assets were transferred to the National Agency of Ukraine for the detection, search and management of assets derived from corruption and other crimes.
Within the criminal proceedings, the operatives of the Department of Strategic Investigations and the investigators of the Main Investigative Department of the National Police of Ukraine documented the fact of illegal activities of the company's officials, a quarter of the authorized capital of which belongs to the Russian beneficiary.
The above-mentioned Dnipropetrovsk company is a distributor and supplier of medicines and medical products to healthcare institutions, in particular, for budget funds. The total revenue of the enterprise in 2020 amounted to about 13 billion UAH.
In order to prevent further withdrawal of funds, the corporate rights of a share of the authorized capital were seized. Currently, assets with a total value of almost UAH billion have been transferred to the National Agency of Ukraine for the detection, search and management of assets obtained from corruption and other crimes.
Criminal proceedings under the procedural guidance of the Office of the Prosecutor General are investigated according to several articles of the Criminal Code of Ukraine:
- part 4 of article 191 (appropriation, squandering of property or possession of it by abuse of official position); - part 3 of article 212 (tax evasion), fees (mandatory payments); - Part 2 of Art. 364 (abuse of power or official position);
- Part 2 of Art. 209 (legalization (laundering) of property obtained by criminal means).
The investigation continues.
Department of Strategic Investigations of the National Police of Ukraine
