Police reported suspicions of two residents of Ternopil region for fraud with humanitarian aid
The suspects assured the Ukrainian citizen, who currently lives in Poland, that the aid received will be delivered to the territorial community. However, instead, they disposed of it for their own selfish purposes.
The operatives of the Strategic Investigations Department in Ternopil Oblast and the investigators of the Kremenets District Police Department uncovered the fraudulent scheme, identified the persons involved in it and collected evidence of illegal activities.
According to law enforcement officials, two residents of Kremenets district, having a trusting relationship with a Ukrainian citizen who now lives in Poland, decided to use them for their own purposes. The woman was engaged in collecting and sending humanitarian aid to Ukraine.
The defendants assured her that the assistance received would be transferred to the AHs for the needs of the population. However, having received products, hygiene products, clothes, shoes and medicines, the dealers did not deliver them to the AHs, but to their own garages. As a result, they seized property worth 368 thousand hryvnias.
In addition, the police found that some medicines contain particularly dangerous drugs, the circulation of which is limited. During the authorized searches, these drugs were sorted from others and carefully hidden among the property in the garage. According to the examinations carried out, the total weight of narcotic substances is 139 grams.
On the basis of the collected evidence, two defendants were informed of suspicion under Part 3 of Art. 190 (fraud) and Part 3 of Art. 309 (possession of narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances or their analogues without the purpose of sale) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. The issue of choosing preventive measures is being resolved.
Procedural guidance in criminal proceedings is carried out by the Ternopil Regional Prosecutor's Office.
National Police of Ukraine
