{"id":1389773,"date":"2026-05-04T15:55:35","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T12:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/humanitarian-goods-worth-44-million-were-sold-a-corruption-scheme-of-charitable-foundations-was-exposed-in-odessa\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T15:55:35","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T12:55:35","slug":"humanitarian-goods-worth-44-million-were-sold-a-corruption-scheme-of-charitable-foundations-was-exposed-in-odessa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/humanitarian-goods-worth-44-million-were-sold-a-corruption-scheme-of-charitable-foundations-was-exposed-in-odessa\/","title":{"rendered":"Humanitarian goods worth 44 million were sold: a corruption scheme of charitable foundations was exposed in Odessa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Law enforcement officers in the Odessa region have uncovered a scheme for the illegal sale of humanitarian aid, which was imported into Ukraine under the guise of cargo for displaced persons and war victims. According to investigators, about 50 tons of goods worth over 44 million hryvnias were sold through the scheme.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> This <a href=\"https:\/\/npu.gov.ua\/news\/humanitarna-dopomoha-na-prylavkakh-rynku-natspolitsiia-vykryla-tinovu-skhemu-na-44-mln-hrn?v=69f842ff5ba38\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">was reported by<\/a> the National Police of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p> According to law enforcement officials, the activities involved heads of several charitable foundations, as well as individuals who served as sales managers, drivers, and financiers. Humanitarian aid imported from Turkey was sold at the &#8220;7 km&#8221; market.<\/p>\n<p> The investigation found that the defendants created controlled charitable funds to register the goods as humanitarian aid. After crossing the border, the goods were distributed among retail outlets and sold for cash.<\/p>\n<p> According to the National Police, the organizer of the scheme is a former customs officer who used his own knowledge and connections to build a mechanism for illegal sales. He involved dozens of people in the activity, and rented warehouses were used to store the goods.<\/p>\n<p> Thus, on April 30, law enforcement officers conducted 71 searches in Odessa and the Odessa region. During the investigative actions, goods, equipment, documentation, and other physical evidence were seized. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1wzTuG71OTE?si=BBtYO-EuZGh2wtcr\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p> Three members of the group were detained in accordance with Article 208 of the Criminal Procedure Code of Ukraine. They were informed of suspicion under Part 3 of Article 201-2 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine &#8211; illegal use of humanitarian aid for profit.<\/p>\n<p> The National Police noted that employees of the Strategic Investigations Department, the Investigation Department of the Main Police Department in the Odessa Region, the Odessa Regional Prosecutor&#8217;s Office, the Security Service of Ukraine, the State Border Service, and the State Customs Service of Ukraine were involved in exposing and documenting the scheme.<\/p>\n<p> Recall that <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/na-kirovohradshchyni-vykryly-bahatomilyonnu-koruptsiynu-skhemu-iz-nerukhomistiu-dlia-vpo-shcho-vidomo\/\">NABU and SAPO exposed a criminal group suspected of embezzling almost 20 million hryvnias during the purchase of real estate for internally displaced persons from Luhansk region<\/a> . According to the investigation, officials organized the purchase of a children&#8217;s camp in Kirovohrad region at a significantly inflated price.<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">X<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Law enforcement officers in the Odessa region have uncovered a scheme for the illegal sale of humanitarian aid, which was imported into Ukraine under the guise of cargo for displaced persons and war victims. According to investigators, about 50 tons of goods worth over 44 million hryvnias were sold through the scheme. This was reported [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":1389760,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76873,76875],"class_list":["post-1389773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-events","category-other-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1389773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1389773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1389773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1389760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1389773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1389773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}