{"id":1364243,"date":"2026-03-02T12:17:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T10:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/a-corruption-scheme-in-the-energy-sector-was-exposed-in-ukraine-a-businessman-subject-to-sanctions-and-three-company-managers-were-charged-with-suspicion\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T12:17:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T10:17:12","slug":"a-corruption-scheme-in-the-energy-sector-was-exposed-in-ukraine-a-businessman-subject-to-sanctions-and-three-company-managers-were-charged-with-suspicion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/a-corruption-scheme-in-the-energy-sector-was-exposed-in-ukraine-a-businessman-subject-to-sanctions-and-three-company-managers-were-charged-with-suspicion\/","title":{"rendered":"A corruption scheme in the energy sector was exposed in Ukraine: a businessman subject to sanctions and three company managers were charged with suspicion"},"content":{"rendered":"

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.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This was reported by the press service<\/a> of the SBU.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Suspicion was also reported to 3 of his accomplices \u2014 heads of energy companies \u2014 under Part 2 of Article 27, Part 5 of Article 191 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine \u2014 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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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<\/a> . Six suspects have been notified of suspicion and face up to 12 years in prison with confiscation of property.<\/p>\n

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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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":1364235,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76873,76875],"class_list":["post-1364243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-events","category-other-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1364243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1364243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1364243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1364235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1364243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1364243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}