The answer of the prosecutor’s office to an open credit union ‘Central Start’ depositors’ letter

On April 16, in some online publications of Transcarpathian region there was published an open letter to the supervisory board and the initiative group of the credit union ‘Central Start’ in which investors were blaming the officials of the regional administration in blocking Interior Ministry investigation concerning the theft of funds by official persons in the above mentioned credit institution. We inform that the criminal investigation of appropriation of the funds belonging to Regional Credit Union ‘Central-start’  by the  officials, seen as a large scale  theft on the grounds of an offense under the Criminal Code, part 5 st.191 has been passed to the investigation department of Uzhgorod city police.

In early December of 2009, a criminal case was passed on to the department of investigation of especially important cases and crimes committed by organized groups and criminal organizations DI MIA in Transcarpathian region of Ukraine. In February 2010, the same criminal case was started against the chairman of the board and chief accountant.

In a criminal case on the appropriation of depositors’ funds in a large scale by officers of the Transcarpathian Regional Credit Union ‘Central-Start’ , which is located in an investigative Ministry of Internal Affairs management , there was made the arrest of the property for 23,684,100 hryvnia, the confiscation of which and subsequent reparations is up to the court to decide.

March 19, 2012 the investigative team was formed, which includes 12 people from the staff of DI of Ministry of Internal Affairs, Uzhgorod City Administration and Uzhgorod District Department. The criminal investigation is complicated by the need to audit the unchecked credit files and the movement of funds in these cases.

Prosecutor’s office Press Service in Transcarpathia