Former Justice Ministry official to be tried over undeclared $540,000 in Austrian bank

Employees of the State Bureau of Investigation have completed a pre-trial investigation into a former official of the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine, who is a relative of the ex-head of the Khmelnytskyi MSEK. According to the investigation, in her declaration she hid an account in an Austrian bank, which contained 540 thousand dollars.

The indictment has already been sent to court.

More than 19.5 million UAH were not included in the declaration

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.

According to the SBI, in her annual declaration for 2023, the official did not indicate an account in one of the Austrian banks and the funds stored in it.

We are talking about 540 thousand dollars, which at that time amounted to more than 19.5 million UAH.

The accused has now been dismissed from her position and no longer works in the justice system.

The former official does not admit her guilt

In June 2026, the State Bureau of Investigation investigators, in cooperation with the National Anti-Corruption Commission and the Administrative Prosecutor’s Office, informed the former official of the suspicion. As noted in the Bureau, she does not admit her guilt.

At the same time, law enforcement officers are investigating the origin of the funds in the Austrian account, as well as other possible transactions of representatives of this business family within the framework of separate criminal proceedings.

What punishment may be threatened

The former official is accused under Part 2 of Article 366-2 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine – of intentionally submitting by a subject of declaration knowingly false information that differs from the true one by an amount of more than 2,500 subsistence minimums for able-bodied persons.

The sanction of the article provides for up to two years of imprisonment, as well as deprivation of the right to hold certain positions or engage in certain activities for a period of up to three years.

Procedural management in criminal proceedings is carried out by the Khmelnytskyi Regional Prosecutor’s Office.

The final decision on the guilt of the person will be made by the court.