“Kudrytsky denies the fraud charges”, — write: www.radiosvoboda.org
“There are no facts or documents that indicate that I in any way influenced or was involved in the decision to enter into a bank guarantee agreement between Vizin Rich LLC and Concord Bank in the materials. Accordingly, it turns out that I am accused of the fact that “Ukrenergo” collected a bank guarantee from an unscrupulous contractor, protecting itself from losses,” he said during the court session.
“That is, the only fact is that I, having the power of attorney of the head of the company, signed two contracts as part of the standard business process, which were concluded based on the results of Prozoro. Therefore, I consider this suspicion not only unfounded, but also absurd, completely far-fetched,” added Kudrytskyi.
The Pechersk District Court of Kyiv chooses a preventive measure against Kudrytskyi, who is suspected of fraudulently taking the funds of a state-owned enterprise. A number of people’s deputies came to the court session. Some of them said that they would take Kudrytskyi as bail.
The day before, it became known about the detention of Volodymyr Kudrytskyi by the SBI officers.
According to the SBI, in 2018, during tenders for the reconstruction of the external fencing of the substations of the Southern and Western power systems, an official of the state enterprise entered into a conspiracy with representatives of a private company, at that time he held the position of deputy director for investments of the SE “NEC “Ukrenergo”. The bureau claims that two contracts worth more than UAH 68 million were concluded as a result of the procurement, then the state enterprise transferred to the contractor more than UAH 13.7 million in advance payments, which, according to the SBI, were appropriated by the accomplices without the intention of fulfilling their obligations.
The former chairman of the board of “Ukrenergo” was informed of the suspicion of committing a criminal offense provided for in part 4 of Article 190 (fraud perpetrated by a group of persons with a prior conspiracy, in particularly large amounts) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.
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On October 21, it became known that employees of the State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) are conducting a search of Kudrytsy. According to the media, searches also took place in “Ukrenergo” and organizations that may be involved in the illegal scheme of acquiring funds during the construction of electric highways.
Later, Volodymyr Kudrytskyi said in a commentary on Radio Liberty that his status in the criminal proceedings is a witness. According to him, the case concerns the events of 2025, when he no longer worked for the company.
In September of last year, the majority of members of the supervisory board decided to prematurely terminate the powers of the head of Ukrenergo, Volodymyr Kudrytskyi. He stated that a campaign to discredit Ukrenergo was launched in anonymous telegram channels and some mass media.
After that, the chairman of the supervisory board of Ukrenergo, Daniel Dobbeni, and the member of the supervisory board, Peder Andersen, submitted applications for early termination of powers and stated that “the decision to prematurely dismiss the head of Ukrenergo is politically motivated and, according to the results of the presented report, there are no valid grounds for it.”
Earlier, the Ukrainian mass media, citing sources, wrote that the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy at a meeting of the Stavka appealed to the chairman of the board of Ukrenergo with a demand to write a statement of resignation due to the alleged poor protection of Ukrenergo facilities. Kudrytsky wrote on his Facebook that his dismissal was not related to the protection of objects.