A programmer was arrested in Kharkiv who, while acting as head of the human resources department, in collusion with management, employed people who wanted to get a reservation at a telecommunications company and forged documents.

What happened

On April 2, 2025, the Kyiv District Court of Kharkiv considered the petition of the senior investigator of the Main Directorate of the Kharkiv Region for the application of a preventive measure in the form of detention against a software engineer who, in collusion with other persons, organized a pseudo-scheme for booking specialists, embezzling their salaries.

He is suspected of a group crime, embezzlement of property and abuse of official position, obstruction of the lawful activities of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and official forgery of documents.

How the scheme worked

The court established that the director of the Kharkiv State Criminal Investigation Department, from November 2022 to July 2024, created and led a criminal organization that operated until February 2025 and represented an internal and external stable hierarchical association of seven people, including a first-category software engineer of the Kharkiv State Criminal Investigation Department.

The group intentionally, for selfish motives, previously organized itself to commit serious crimes with the aim of obstructing the lawful activities of the Armed Forces of Ukraine during a special period, misappropriating funds from the Kharkiv Regional Military District payroll fund, drawing up and issuing knowingly false official documents by officials of the Kharkiv Regional Military District, and entering knowingly false information into official documents.

From November 2022 to February 2025, in order to appropriate funds from the Kharkiv OVSZ payroll fund, the company’s managers searched for individuals who, in order to evade conscription during mobilization for a special period, expressed a desire to officially get a job at the KHOVSZ in order to receive a deferment from conscription.

Dozens of people managed to «get away» with mobilization in this way — they received a deferment from mobilization.

The programmer in this scheme provided the specified persons with official documents of the State Security Service of Ukraine, service certificates, in order to conspire criminal activity and create for the specified persons the opportunity to mislead law enforcement officers and the CCC and the Joint Venture during the verification of personal documents. The company managers approved these documents.

As a result of the scheme’s operation, UAH 113,960.54 was unjustifiably charged and wages totaling UAH 55,069.27 were paid to the persons involved in the scheme for the specified period of time.

What did the court decide?

The programmer received suspicion on March 31.

The suspected IT worker partially admitted his involvement in the criminal offense at the court hearing. He noted that from January 1, 2025, he had been performing the duties of the head of the personnel department, and he was assigned the duties of another employee. Regarding the certificates, he noted that they were issued according to a template by order of the head. He employed people in accordance with the law. He had nothing to do with the registration of documents at the RTCC. Monitoring the arrival of people he employed at work was not part of his job duties. The IT worker also admitted that he received money for speeding up the process of registering certificates.

The court arrested the AIT member for 60 days within the pre-trial investigation period, that is, until May 29, 2025, without setting bail.

The term of detention shall be calculated from March 31, 2025 to May 29, 2025.

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