Case description
On March 2, 2023, the HACC convicted Oleksandr Mamai, former Poltava Mayor, former employees of the City Development Institute, and two housekeepers of the former mayor, whom he had illegally employed as urban planners at the Institute. These actions caused losses to the state in the amount of UAH 572,000. All the defendants got suspended 5-year sentences, and Mamai also donated UAH 2 million to the Armed Forces.
Oleksandr Mamai is a former head of the Poltava City Council, who has been elected to this position since 2010. After his re-election in 2020, Oleksandr Mamai employed two women without higher education as urban specialists at the City Development Institute, who worked as domestic workers at the mayor's place of residence in a private house and apartment in Poltava. We are talking about the defendants, Valentyna Kropyvna and Olha Kubai.
In order to pay these individuals their salaries, officials of the municipal organization, namely former director Tetiana Tatarina and former accountant Oksana Shpinova, entered false information into the use of working time sheets. The new “urbanists” did not actually perform any work at the enterprise. Mamai, in turn, was initially a witness in the case, but later became a defendant.
The local budget suffered more than UAH 0.5 in losses as a result of these abuses, which is the amount of salaries the women received between January 2021 and March 2022. At the same time, the former mayor called all accusations of fictitious employment of his domestic workers “nonsense.”
The court classified Mamai's actions under Article 27, part 3; Article 191, part 4; Article 27, part 3; Article 28, part 2; Article 366, part 1 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. Tatarina and Shpinova, who helped the former mayor commit the crime, were charged under Article 191, part 4; Article 28, part 2; Article 366, part 1 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. The urban domestic workers Kropyvna and Kubai were charged under Article 27, part 5; Article 191, part 4 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.
All of the defendants concluded agreements with the SAPO prosecutor. On their basis, the former mayor of Poltava and the other defendants got a 5-year suspended sentence with a 1-year probationary period. Furthermore, they were deprived of the right to hold certain positions for a year.
Under the terms of the agreement, Mamai pledged to transfer UAH 2 million to the Army of Drones for the Armed Forces of Ukraine. He also reimbursed all losses incurred by the city budget.
At the end of December 2022, Mamai was suspected of illegally disclosing information about the deployment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. At his briefing, he provided information about a new military unit in Poltava. This case is being considered in a closed hearing.
