Prosecutors of the Pechersk District Prosecutor's Office reported suspicion of fraud against a couple who offered the wife of the suspect in cocaine smuggling to change the qualifications of the article under which he was charged and to change the preventive measure.

Thus, a 50-year-old man was detained in July 2025 in Transcarpathia while attempting to import over half a kilogram of cocaine and 1 kg of hashish into Ukraine. The detainee was informed of the suspicion of smuggling from Spain and the Netherlands to Ukraine (part 3 of Article 305 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine) and a preventive measure in the form of detention without the right to bail was chosen.

Acquaintances of the suspect's wife promised to help change her husband's preventive measure to house arrest, subsequently reclassify the alleged offense, and achieve his release from criminal liability. They valued their services at 140 thousand US dollars (equivalent to 5.6 million UAH), which, according to them, were to be handed over to law enforcement.

The man and woman were detained under Article 208 of the Criminal Procedure Code during the receipt of 135 thousand US dollars.

The actions of the detainees were qualified as a completed attempt at fraud committed on a particularly large scale (part 2 of Article 15, part 5 of Article 190 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine).

Preventive measures in the form of detention with the possibility of bail have been chosen for the suspects.

The pre-trial investigation, under the procedural guidance of the Pechersk District Prosecutor's Office of Kyiv, is being conducted by investigators of the Pechersk Police Department of the National Police in Kyiv, with operational support from the Department for Combating Drug Crimes of the National Police.