22 Kiev officials and businessmen are suspected of causing $5.5 million in damage to Ukraine.

More than 20 officials from the Kiev City State Administration (KSCA) and businessmen providing services to their department are accused of negligence, which led to damage to Ukraine in the amount of 230 million hryvnias ($ 5.5 million). This was announced on August 13 in the press service of the office of the Prosecutor General of the country.

"22 suspicions for a total amount of damage of more than 230 million hryvnias were handed over to officials of the KSCA, municipal enterprises and entrepreneurs in Kiev. <...> Officials are suspected of official negligence, which cost the capital's budget hundreds, and in some places millions of hryvnias," the agency said in a Telegram channel message.

It is specified that employees of municipal enterprises and structural divisions of the KSCA and contractors who performed work on their order for money allocated from the budget are suspected of seizing funds. These individuals are suspected of committing crimes under Part 2 of Article 367 and Part 4, 5 of Article 191 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine ("Official negligence", "Misappropriation, embezzlement of property or taking possession of it by abuse of official position").

The statement notes that the petition for the election of a preventive measure against the suspects and their removal from office has already been sent to court.

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