“The National Police announced suspicions against members of a criminal group, which included the management of one of the largest oil refining companies in Ukraine. According to the media, it is about “Ukrtatnafta”. This is reported by the Prosecutor General’s Office. Under the procedural leadership of the Office of the Prosecutor General, the management of the oil refining enterprise, as well as the officials of affiliated companies, who during 2017-2022 illegally took possession of the property of the enterprise, which is currently in”, — write on: ua.news
The National Police announced suspicions against members of a criminal group, which included the management of one of the largest oil refining companies in Ukraine. According to the media, it is about “Ukrtatnafta”.
This is reported by the Prosecutor General’s Office.
Under the procedural guidance of the Prosecutor General’s Office, the management of the oil refining enterprise, as well as the officials of the affiliated companies, who during 2017-2022 illegally took possession of the property of the enterprise, which is currently owned by the state, were exposed.
Among those involved in the corruption scheme are former top officials of Ukrtatnafta, as well as six people whose names were registered to affiliated companies.
According to the investigation, the 56-year-old ex-chairman of the board of the oil refining company organized the conclusion of contracts with controlled enterprises for the supply of petroleum products in the amount of 1 million to 1 billion hryvnias, for which payment was not made.
At the same time, all agreements, the value of which exceeds 10 million hryvnias, could be concluded only with the consent of the company’s board, not the manager.
In the absence of such consent, the oil refining company supplied the customer with fuel worth almost 1 billion hryvnias.
Without paying for the products, the subordinate company sold the products through networks of controlled gas stations in a number of regions of Ukraine.
From 2017 to 2022, the participants of the scheme took over the fuel of the oil refinery in the amount of more than 5.8 billion hryvnias.
As part of the criminal proceedings, the police conducted 58 searches at the residences of the accused, as well as in the office premises of controlled companies in Zhytomyr, Kyiv, Odesa, Poltava, Kharkiv, Cherkasy and Chernihiv regions.
According to the results of the measures, documentation, computer equipment and “draft” records were seized.
So far, 8 members of the criminal organization have been notified of suspicion of taking possession of property by abuse of official position in particularly large amounts. They face up to 12 years in prison.
Earlier, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) exposed the scheme of withdrawing funds of Ukrtatnafta. The suspect is Mykhailo Kiperman, the business partner of the oligarch Igor Kolomoiskyi. The investigation established that almost 600 million hryvnias were withdrawn from the company’s accounts on his initiative on the first day of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine.
The Bureau of Economic Security reported the second suspicion to the former acting the first deputy chairman of the board of Ukrnaftogaz, who was sent under arrest in February.
Almost UAH 800 million worth of petroleum products were seized from Ukrnafta and Ukrtatnafta.
Accountants of “Ukrtatnafta” reported suspicion of embezzlement of 40 billion hryvnias.
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