NABU has issued a notice of suspicion to Shurma in the “green tariff” case.

The National Anti-Corruption Bureau and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office announced the exposure of a scheme to embezzle funds intended for “green” tariff payments, which benefited commercial energy generating companies located in the temporarily occupied territory of the Zaporizhzhia region.

According to a report from law enforcement agencies, nine individuals have been charged in connection with the case:

The actions of the suspects are qualified under Part 5 of Article 191 and Part 3 of Article 209 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.

According to investigative documents, in 2019-2020, a former member of the Donetsk Regional Council (prior to his appointment to the Office of the President of Ukraine), his brother, and a trusted confidant established control over a group of companies generating electricity from alternative sources. These were solar power plants with a total capacity of approximately 60 MW, located in the Vasylivka district of the Zaporizhzhia region.

These companies entered into contracts with the Guaranteed Buyer State Enterprise, under which the state committed to purchasing all electricity generated by the producer at a “green” tariff. At the same time, with the onset of Russia’s full-scale military invasion of Ukraine, part of the Zaporizhzhia region where the solar power plants were located was occupied. From July to September 2022, the solar power plants completely lost connection with the unified energy system of Ukraine due to damage to distribution and transmission lines.

However, the companies controlled by the suspects continued to declare their electricity production and receive payments at the “green” tariff, even though the electricity was not actually supplied to Ukraine’s power grid. Ultimately, the Guaranteed Buyer State Enterprise paid the companies 141,312,064.30 hryvnias at the “green” tariff.

“The illegally obtained funds were subsequently laundered through related companies in favor of the ultimate beneficiaries—the organizer of the criminal group, his brother, and their family members,” the NABU stated.

The Bureau added that the pre-trial investigation into the case is ongoing, and the involvement of other individuals in the commission of this crime is being established.

In August 2023, Bihus.Info journalists published an investigation into Oleg Shurma’s solar power plants, which, despite being located in occupied territory and disconnected from Ukraine’s unified energy grid until the summer of 2023, were receiving payments under the “green tariff.”

In February 2024, the National Agency for Corruption Prevention filed a report against Rostislav Shurma. The agency noted that in 2022, he established the Electric Power Committee at the Ukrainian Bar Association, whose members met under his chairmanship. However, he failed to disclose any conflict of interest, and the committee’s decisions secured multimillion-dollar payments to his brother’s companies.

Shurma himself made no secret of the fact that by the end of 2020, he had invested approximately $10 million in his brother’s company, and in 2021-2022, he and his wife lent his brother approximately UAH 430 million, but claimed he had nothing to do with the business.

In July 2025, NABU conducted searches in Rostislav Shurma’s Munich apartment, after which he left for Austria.

As a reminder, Shurma’s brother, Oleg, served for a long time as the director of a venture capital fund, which allowed him to optimize his tax payments by hundreds of millions of hryvnias. Yuriy Nikolov and Antonina Volkotrub explained how Oleg Shurma’s companies managed to underpay exorbitant taxes and siphon funds abroad in their article, “Shurma’s Billion-Round Venture Matryoshka.”

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