“The judge of the Commercial Court of Kyiv and the former top management of the state, who contributed to the collection in the interests of Russia of more than UAH 3 billion of non-existent debt for gas, were informed about the suspicion. This is reported on the DBR website. The SBI established that as early as 2011, Moscow involved the then President (the fugitive President Viktor Yanukovych), the Prime Minister (Mykola Azarov) in subversive activities against Ukraine.”, — write on: ua.news
The judge of the Commercial Court of Kyiv and the former top management of the state, who contributed to the collection in the interests of Russia of more than UAH 3 billion of non-existent debt for gas, were informed about the suspicion.
This is reported on the DBR website.
The SBI established that as early as 2011, Moscow involved the then President (the fugitive President Viktor Yanukovych), the Prime Minister (Mykola Azarov) and a judge, as well as heads of various branches of the judicial system, in subversive activities against Ukraine.
“The leadership of the Russian Federation has developed a plan according to which the defense capabilities and armed forces of the aggressor will be financed from the state budget of Ukraine under the pretext of implementing the decision of the Economic Court of Kyiv to repay a non-existent debt,” the message reads.
For this purpose, in 2011, the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation addressed the leadership of Ukraine with a letter about assistance in repaying the debt of one of the economic entities in the amount of 405.5 million. dollars for delivered natural gas back in 1996-1997.
“Our state had nothing to do with the debt of a commercial enterprise and could not bear responsibility for it. However, in 2011, the country’s former leadership began to emphasize in the media that Ukraine should repay the specified amount to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. In addition, a letter was prepared to the Security Service of Ukraine with a request to prosecute the head of the business entity for allegedly transferring this debt to the state,” the SBU noted.
Trying to artificially create grounds for direct financing of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation at the expense of the Ukrainian state budget, high-ranking officials involved the leadership of the judicial system and the judge of the Economic Court of Kyiv to recover 405.5 million dollars in favor of the Russian Federation based on an illegal court decision.
“According to the scheme developed by those involved, in August 2012, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation filed a lawsuit against the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine to the Economic Court of Kyiv for the recovery of over 3 billion hryvnias from the state budget. The Russians were counting on the fact that back in 2004, the Prime Minister at that time, and later the President of Ukraine (we are talking about the fugitive President Viktor Yanukovych – ed.), promised to assist them in the implementation of these court decisions. However, due to the lack of contractual legal relations between the plaintiff and the defendant, the judge should have refused to open proceedings in the case,” the SBI noted.
The bureau emphasized that the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation did not attach any evidence to the lawsuit to confirm why Ukraine should pay this debt. However, the judge made an illegal decision and transferred the duty of gathering and providing evidence in the case to the defendant.
According to this decision, the Cabinet of Ministers provided copies of correspondence between the heads of the governments of Ukraine and the Russian Federation in 1996. They were dated even before the business entity concluded the agreement that resulted in the debt, so these letters could not be evidence of both the existence of the debt and its transfer to Ukraine. In addition, the originals of these letters never existed, but the court ignored this fact.
Despite the expiration of the statute of limitations and the absence of state guarantees for the company’s debts, as well as the absence of evidence of the very fact of the existence in 2012 of the company’s debt under the contracts of 1996-1997, the judge satisfied the lawsuit of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation and decided to collect from any account of the state budget Ukraine in favor of the Russian Federation more than 3.1 billion. UAH
Part of the money was collected from Ukraine in order to implement the said illegal court decision in favor of Moscow. After the beginning of the aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine and the change of the state leadership, another judge of the Commercial Court in 2014 canceled this illegal decision.
We will remind that at the beginning of January, the prosecutors sent an indictment to the court against Dmytro Tabachnyk, former adviser to the Minister of Education and Science during Yanukovych’s time. He is charged with treason, war propaganda, and justifying the armed aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine.
Criminal authority Armen Sarkisyan, nicknamed Armen Horlivskyi, who was part of Yanukovych’s entourage, was charged with recruiting prisoners for the war against Ukraine.
In addition, SBI employees completed a pre-trial investigation into a former employee of “Daryivska Colony”, who worked for the invaders during the occupation of Kherson Oblast.
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