“The Court of Appeal of Kyiv reduced the amount of bail for the ex-chairman of Ukrenergo Volodymyr Kudrytskyi by almost half”, — write: www.radiosvoboda.org
The court did not satisfy the request of the lawyers, who asked for a preventive measure in the form of a personal commitment with Kudrytskyi being entrusted with a number of duties.
Prosecutors asked to leave the preventive measure unchanged.
The Court of Appeal decided to keep Kudrytskyi in custody with the possibility of paying a bail of 7,000,736 hryvnias, reducing the bail by almost half.
On October 29, the court took Volodymyr Kudrytsky into custody. The preventive measure in the form of detention was chosen until December 26. The court also set him a bail of 13.7 million hryvnias.
Kudrytsky calls the suspicion “absurd and unfounded.”
On October 30, it became known that Kudrytskyi was released from the detention center after posting bail.
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.
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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.
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.