Today in Zaporozhye, massive searches are being carried out in the homes of local high-ranking officials. Investigative actions are carried out within the framework of criminal proceedings under the articles “Appropriation, embezzlement of property or taking possession of it through abuse of official position” and “Taking a bribe”, as well as on suspicion of financing the DPR. In particular, searches took place at the deputy head of the Zaporozhye regional council Vladislav Marchenko and his brother Mark. At the same time, the first one was charged with corruption and conflict of interest back in March of this year.
Investigative actions are also underway against the deputy mayor of Zaporozhye, Anatoly Pustovarov, who has previously appeared in several scandalous stories, in particular, abuse of power during tender procurement in the medical field.
As a result of the searches, local officials from the Samopomish party were detained, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
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Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko stated this.
“The case concerns a regional council deputy and his brother, who, due to their influence on officials, organized fictitious tenders for the improvement of a park (2,7 million hryvnia) and school sports grounds (84 million hryvnia) with a predetermined winner,” Lutsenko wrote on your Facebook page.
The Prosecutor General clarified that the suspected organizer of the scheme is Deputy Chairman of the Zaporozhye Regional Council Vladislav Marchenko, representing the Samopomich party.
“Another fan of the slogan “Take it and do it,” the chairman of the city party organization, was engaged in transferring money into cash,” Lutsenko added.
According to the investigation, Marchenko and his brother lobbied for their companies through connections with the ex-“opposition bloc” deputy mayor of Zaporozhye Anatoly Pustovarov. According to local publication “Actual”, Pustovarov today escaped from law enforcement officers to DPR-controlled Gorlovka. According to Lutsenko, the “opposition bloc member” “escaped through the window and ran away in the snow in slippers.”
Lutsenko called on law enforcement officers to immediately investigate this incident and evaluate the arrests made.
The Samopomich party confirmed the facts of the arrests of its fellow party members.
“The head of the Zaporozhye regional organization “Samopomich” Vlad Marchenko and the head of the city faction in Zaporozhye Daria Tryukhan have just been arrested,” said the head of the “Samopomich” faction Oleg Berezyuk at a meeting of the Verkhovna Rada.