“According to the SBU press service, it is about complexes of coal, metallurgical and coke industry”, – WRITE: www.radiosvoboda.org
“The persons involved conducted these equipment in the temporarily occupied territories of Donetsk and Luhansk regions during 2017 – 2021. After the “privatization” of enterprises, they illegally used the capacity of these complexes, as well as carried out the production and export of minerals, looting Ukrainian resources. The attackers illegally supplied the minerals to the Russian Federation and other countries, ”the PresLozhba of the department reports.
According to investigators of the SBU, for the period since 2017, in this way, at least: at least:
– metal products for UAH 47.3 billion;
– coke products for more than UAH 1.6 billion.
Law enforcement officers claim that the group that organized the “appropriation” of enterprises and sales of products, in addition to Sergiy Kurchenko, also includes the Deputy Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation Nazarov, Head of the Department of the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation Pavlov, other citizens of the Russian Federation and Ukraine who switched to the side of the enemy.
On the basis of the evidence collected, the security service investigators informed all persons involved in the correspondence suspicion under Part 2 of Art. 28, Part 1 of Art. 438 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (military crimes: looting of national values in the occupied territory, the use of means of war prohibited by international law, other violations of the laws and customs of war, provided by international treaties committed by prior conspiracy by a group of persons).
Currently, comprehensive measures are underway to bring suspects to criminal liability, added to the SBU.
Sergey Kurchenko did not comment on these accusations.
According to the latest data, Kurchenko has been hiding in Russia (since February 2014). According to the Prosecutor General’s Office earlier, the losses caused by a criminal organization, an active participant of which is a businessman from the surroundings of the regime of the former fugitive president Viktor Yanukovych Sergey Kurchenko, reach more than UAH 14 billion.
In 2017, the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine recognized the group of companies of SEPEP Sergiy Kurchenko as a criminal organization and reported a pre -trial investigation into the creation of a criminal organization.
The GPU also investigated the proceedings under the article on the financing of terrorism on the export and sale of anthracite from the territories of Donbass under the leadership of Kurchenko.