The SBI has detained an employee of the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine and her accomplice, who were trying to seize the funds of the agrarian enterprise by fraud

The SBI has detained an employee of the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine and her accomplice, who were trying fraudulently to seize the funds of a large agricultural enterprise.

For 120 000 USD, she promised to the representative of the budget-forming enterprise of the region to enter information about the right to use agricultural land into the register of real estate.

The official also involved her acquaintance as an accomplice, a citizen of another state, who called himself an "influential official" of the same Ministry and was supposed to act as a guarantor of the fulfillment of the promises.

On 1 August 2024 the accomplices received the first tranche of 30,000 USD and said that the applicant had two days to transfer the rest of the funds for a positive resolution of the issue.

At the same time, the official was boasting about her contacts with the influential heads of the law enforcement agencies.

After receiving the funds, both "dealers" were detained. The defendants were served notifications of suspicion of attempted seizure of someone else's property by a group of persons, under martial law on an especially large scale (Part 2 of Article 15, Part 5 of Article 190 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine).

The sanction of the Articles provides for imprisonment for up to 12 years.

A petition was sent to the court to choose a measure of restraint in the form of detention with an alternative to bail in the equivalent of 60,000 USD for each.

The procedural guidance is provided by the Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine.