On October 27 the Velyka Oleksandrivka District Court set a preventive measure for the head of the local settlement military administration, Nataliya Korniyenko, who is suspected of abusing her official position.
This was reported by the Center for Journalistic Investigations.
Korniyenko was assigned a preventive measure in the form of a personal undertaking. The Kherson Regional Prosecutor’s Office, however, insisted on a harsher preventive measure—a bail of about 90,000 hryvnias. In addition, it was proposed to prohibit Korniyenko from leaving the boundaries of the settlement of Velyka Oleksandrivka, writes the Center for Journalistic Investigations.
Recall, on October 24 the Kherson Regional Prosecutor’s Office notified Nataliya Korniyenko of suspicion. According to the investigation, while serving as head of the SVA, in August–November 2023 she entered into contracts with a contractor who repaired damaged houses, and formalized the completion of works by personally signing the certificates of completed works, without the conclusions of a certified technical supervision engineer. For this she is accused of abusing her official position, which led to losses to the state in the amount of 300,000 hryvnias.
As the Center for Journalistic Investigations writes, on the day the preventive measure was chosen for Nataliya Korniyenko dozens of people came to the court hearing. Among them were residents of the Velyka Oleksandrivka settlement community, her subordinates, as well as her colleagues — heads of other local military administrations of Beryslav district and representatives of the Beryslav district military administration.
As one of Nataliya Korniyenko’s colleagues present at the court hearing said, he still did not understand exactly what the elements of the crime are that are being attributed to the head of the Velyka Oleksandrivka settlement military administration.
“From what the prosecutors stated in court, one of the main pieces of evidence in the case is the certificate of completed works, which was compiled by the contracting organization, not by Korniyenko. In addition, in this case, as it turned out, work is being done on returning funds. More than 1 million hryvnias have already been returned and this amount is not final. So for now this case looks like some kind of ‘witch hunt’,” he told a reporter for the Center for Journalistic Investigations on condition of anonymity.
At present Nataliya Korniyenko has not been suspended from performing her duties as head of the SVA and continues to work.