Prosecutors of the Sumy Specialized Prosecutor's Office in the Defense Sector have sent an indictment to the court against the head of the administrative group of the staff of one of the military units for exceeding the authority of a military official under martial law, which caused severe consequences (part 5 of Article 426-1 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine).

It has been established that the major, exceeding his official powers, organized a scheme for the illegal accrual and payment of additional monetary rewards to subordinate servicemen for allegedly performing combat and special tasks. 

Thus, knowing for certain that during October to December 2024, six subordinate servicemen were in the city of Sumy and did not directly participate in combat actions in the Kharkiv region, he prepared and submitted to the military unit's staff reports with false information about their presence in the area of combat operations. 

Subsequently, based on these documents, orders were issued, according to which the specified servicemen were unjustifiably accrued a monthly monetary reward of 100,000 and 70,000 hryvnias.

The servicemen withdrew the received funds at ATMs and bank branches and handed them over to the major, keeping only a portion of the amounts at his direction.

The total amount of unjustifiably paid additional rewards, according to the expert conclusion, amounts to over 2.4 million hryvnias.

The accused faces a punishment of imprisonment for a term of eight to twelve years.

The pre-trial investigation was conducted by the Territorial Department of the State Bureau of Investigations located in the city of Poltava with operational support from the UCR in the Sumy region and the VCR of the DCR of the Security Service of Ukraine.