A relative of the former head of the Khmelnytskyi MSEC will be tried over $540,000 in Austria

A former official of the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine, who is a relative of the former head of the Khmelnytskyi MSEC, will be tried in the case of undeclared 540 thousand dollars in an Austrian bank account. The State Bureau of Investigation has completed the pre-trial investigation and sent the indictment to court. This was reported by the SBI.

According to the investigation, at the time of the alleged offense, the woman headed one of the departments of the Central-Western Interregional Department of the Ministry of Justice in Khmelnytskyi.

In her annual declaration for 2023, she did not indicate an account in one of the banks in Austria and the funds stored in it. The amount is 540 thousand dollars, which at that time amounted to over 19.5 million hryvnias.

Currently, the woman has been dismissed from her position and no longer works in the justice authorities.

Suspicion was announced back in June

In June 2026, investigators of the SBI, in cooperation with the NACP and the SAP, informed the former official of suspicion. Now the pre-trial investigation is complete, and the case is moving to trial.

The former official is accused of entering deliberately false information by the subject of declaration for an amount exceeding 2500 subsistence minimums for able-bodied persons - under Part 2 of Article 366-2 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.

The sanction of the article provides for up to two years of imprisonment with deprivation of the right to hold certain positions or engage in certain activities for up to three years.

The SBI noted that the accused does not admit her guilt. The origin of the funds in the Austrian account is being investigated within separate criminal proceedings.

The guilt of the person must be established by the court.

According to materials: State Bureau of Investigation