A corruption scheme in the energy sector was exposed in Ukraine: a businessman subject to sanctions and three company managers were charged with suspicion
The Security Service of Ukraine and the Bureau of Economic Security have exposed a sanctioned businessman and his accomplices in embezzling funds from energy companies. According to the investigation, almost 68 million hryvnias were misappropriated from the accounts of the company, 25% of whose shares belong to the state represented by the Ministry of Energy of Ukraine.
This was reported by the press service of the SBU.
According to the case materials, while abroad, the defendant organized a scheme to seize funds and involved top management of controlled companies in it. To do this, he was created a fictitious position of advisor to the chairman of the board of a company that supplies electricity from main networks to end consumers.
Under this scheme, the businessman was set a monthly salary of 1.5 million hryvnias. This amount was 6 times higher than the maximum salary limit in energy companies, set by the National Commission for State Regulation of Energy and Utilities.
The investigation established that for the formal performance of his duties, the defendant was assigned a work schedule of 4 hours per week. According to law enforcement officials, this was how he circumvented sanctions on the withdrawal of capital from enterprises in the energy sector of Ukraine.
The sanctioned businessman was notified in absentia of suspicion under Part 3 of Article 27, Part 5 of Article 191 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine – organization of embezzlement, embezzlement of property or taking possession of it through abuse of official position, committed on a particularly large scale or by an organized group.
Suspicion was also reported to 3 of his accomplices — heads of energy companies — under Part 2 of Article 27, Part 5 of Article 191 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine — complicity in the appropriation, embezzlement of property or its seizure by abuse of official position on a particularly large scale or by an organized group.
The perpetrators face up to 12 years in prison with confiscation of property. Since the organizer of the scheme is outside Ukraine, measures are underway to bring him to justice.
We will remind you that law enforcement officers have exposed a group of individuals who embezzled over 50 million hryvnias allocated for emergency and restoration work at the Trypillya CHPP . Six suspects have been notified of suspicion and face up to 12 years in prison with confiscation of property.
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