SBI has served a new suspicion to "diamond prosecutor" who tried to fraudulently return money seized by law enforcement (VIDEO)

SBI employees served a notice of suspicion to the former First Deputy Head of the Main Investigation Department of the Prosecutor General's Office, who tried to fraudulently return over USD 350,000 seized from him during a search.

In 2015, he was exposed for bribery on a particularly large scale. Criminal proceedings were initiated against him and another accomplice and he was served with a notice of suspicion under Part 4 of Article 368 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. During the searches, large sums of money in various currencies were seized, including 102 diamonds that were found in the possession of his "colleague". The case is currently pending in court.

Meanwhile, the former prosecutor tried to illegally return the money to himself and developed a whole criminal scheme to do so.

Back then, the then-acting prosecutor persuaded his business acquaintance to provide him with a false document stating that he had allegedly borrowed $350,000 from that businessman. In fact, this loan agreement was issued backdated.

On the basis of the forged document, the law enforcement officer filed an application to the Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine for the return of the currency assets seized during the searches.

After the Prosecutor General's Office rejected his application in 2015, he suspended his attempts to return the money, but after the beginning of the full-scale war, the former prosecutor decided to try to return it again.

He tried to take advantage of the difficult socio-political situation in Ukraine for his own selfish purposes. In July 2022, the offender went to court with the same forged documents. The court left this application without consideration.

At the same time, the SBI, after receiving the court's notification of such an appeal, examined the documents and concluded that the Loan Agreement, dated 15 May 2015, and the Receipt (an annex to the Loan Agreement) did not correspond to the dates specified in these documents. The handwritten text on behalf of the ex-prosecutor in the Loan Agreement dated 15 May 2015 was executed between 13 and 20 July 2015 (after the searches).

Thus, the former First Deputy Head of the Main Investigation Department of the Prosecutor General's Office is now suspected of using a knowingly forged document (Article 358(4) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (as amended on 22.07.2015), as well as of submitting knowingly forged evidence for mercenary purposes (Article 384(2) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine).

The sanctions of the articles provide for imprisonment for up to 5 years.

Procedural guidance is provided by the Office of the Prosecutor General.