The Specialized Defense Prosecutor’s Office of the Central Region has forwarded cases to the judiciary concerning two sets of military personnel who trafficked in diesel fuel designated for the armed forces. This is according to the Prosecutor General’s Office, UNN reports.
The Specialized Defense Prosecutor’s Office of the Central Region has forwarded cases to the judiciary concerning two sets of military personnel who trafficked in diesel fuel designated for the armed forces. This is according to the Prosecutor General’s Office, UNN reports.
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All together, the misappropriation of nearly 75 tons of fuel was officially recorded.
In the initial instance, three members of the military from a Kyiv region unit illicitly sold approximately 23 tons of fuel for $23,500.
– the message says.
The person in charge of fuel service, the head of the fuel depot for automobiles, and a soldier from another unit siphoned off diesel from the storage tanks and transported it for unauthorized sale. To conceal their actions, they switched the license plates on the buyers’ vehicles to military ones and presented falsified documents at the control point.
The collaborators were uncovered and taken into custody in September 2025, as per Article 208 of the Criminal Procedure Code of Ukraine. Their deeds were classified under Part 3 of Article 28 and Part 4 of Article 410 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.
The subsequent instance involves eight military personnel who, spanning from November 2024 to March 2025, seized more than 50,000 liters of diesel fuel, inflicting losses on the government totaling almost UAH 1.9 million.
– the Prosecutor General’s Office notes.
The mastermind was the deputy head of logistics for one of the units in the village of Desna, who enlisted the help of seven other soldiers from various detachments. The accomplices generated fabricated orders for the movement of vehicles and staff, issued bogus “waybills” for nonexistent work-related travel, and falsely expensed fuel, thereby creating artificial “excesses” that they then sold, dividing the resulting proceeds among themselves.
The military personnel’s actions were designated under Part 3 of Article 255, Part 4 of Article 28, Part 4 of Article 410, and Part 1 of Article 114-1 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.