The SBU suspects officials of the SFS Main Department in Ternopil region of embezzlement of confiscated property.

Allegedly, the head of the Financial Investigations Service together with five employees, including two department managers, organized unlawful business. All of them were the members of the commission on disposal of the confiscated property.

In particular, the offenders unreasonably transferred 57 tons of confiscated ethanol and a large amount of alcoholic beverages to a private company for liquidation. They deliberately violated the decision of the court to transfer products to the relevant state-owned enterprises for technological processing. Moreover, the funds from sale of recycling products were to be transfered to the state budget.

The experts concluded that the value of illegally transferred ethanol for disposal is over UAH 1,000,000 (USD 35,715).

Currently, six officials have been served suspicion notice for criminal offence committed by a group of persons upon prior conspiracy, failure to comply with a judgement, misappropriation, embezzlement or conversion or property by malversion.

The operation was carried out jointly with the Territorial Department of the State Bureau of Investigation in Lviv city under the procedural guidance of the Prosecutor's Office of Ternopil region.