In Dnipropetrovsk region, the SSU blocked a Ukrainian interregional food corporation that financed the terrorist organization ‘DNR’ [donetsk people’s republic].

The company had some of their assets in the temporarily occupied territory of Donetsk region and paid ‘taxes’ to the terrorists. According to the investigation, the entity transferred over UAH 4 mln (USD 99,000) to the ‘DNR budget’.

Investigators also documented that this corporation had made ‘contributions’ to the ‘fund’ of the terrorist Pushilin in support of the russian occupation groupings.

The organizer of the unlawful activity is the owner of the company, established in the early 2000s in Donetsk oblast.

The firm was engaged in distribution of wholesale consignments of food through retail chains across Ukraine.

In 2014, founders of the entity transferred part of the assets to the government-controlled territory of Donetsk region, and after the full-scale invasion - to Dnipropetrovsk region.

The rest of the business has remained in the temporarily occupied territory all this time. The company’s owner organized the sale of food products there and transferred the profits to the local occupation administration.

The goods were supplied through affiliated firms in the occupied areas.

During the searches at the company’s warehouses, office premises in Dnipropetrovsk region and suspects’ homes, the law enforcement found:

• financial and business documentation,
• draft records,
• computers with evidence of the crime.

SSU investigators opened criminal proceeding under the Article 110-2 of the CCU (financing of actions committed with the aim of forceful change or overthrow of the constitutional order or seizure of state power, change of the boundaries of the territory or state border of Ukraine). The corporation’s top managers will be notified of suspicion shortly. Court will choose a measure of restraint.

The investigation is ongoing.

The SSU Office in Dnipropetrovsk Region exposed the crime jointly with the National Police under the procedural supervision of the regional Prosecutor’s Office.