“ Oleksandr Horbunenko, the co-owner of AgroGazTrading, whom the National Anti-Corruption Bureau suspects of participating in the “scheme” at the Odesa port plant, was detained in the USA, but after one of the NABU and SAP interrogations, he was released and under protection. Source: “Ukrainian Pravda” article “”Mindichgate”? The story of the same friend of the president” Details: According to the materials of the criminal proceedings against Gorbunenko, which were heard in the US Federal Court during 2024-2025, Gorbunenko arrived in the USA a few days before the beginning of the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation in Ukraine – on February 15, 2022 – on a tourist visa. In April 2022, he asked for temporary protection, apparently because of the war, and received it. In April 2023, NABU declared Horbunenko wanted. And a few months ago, a man suspected in Ukraine asked the United States to extend his refugee status, but did not indicate in the documents that he was wanted. Subsequently, NABU and SAP informed the analogue of the US migration service – Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) that Gorbunenko is a suspect and may be in Florida. On October 3, 2024, HSI Agent Ihor Demidov found and interrogated Gorbunenko in Miami. At the beginning of 2025, Horbunenko’s refugee status was taken away. Agent Demidov then filed a criminal complaint with the court, and Judge Angelik Lett signed a warrant for his arrest. “The very next day, Horbunenko suddenly planned to fly to the world’s best extradition hideout – Dubai, but he didn’t make it. On April 17, 2025, he was detained at the airport. He explains that he planned to “return”, but was taken into custody,” the article says. According to UP sources in the law enforcement agencies, already in custody, representatives of NABU and SAP tried to officially come out to Gorbunenko in order to interrogate him. “During one of the contacts, in particular, questions are raised about Timur Mindich. Then the FBI representatives suddenly take Gorbunenko out of custody and instead of deportation, fine or imprisonment, the hero ends up free and under protection. And this may indicate that Gorbunenko went to cooperate with the Americans,” the article says. According to one of the representatives of the Ukrainian law enforcement system, “Gorbunenko could launder money, like all other participants in the OPZ scheme”, so “it is obvious that he can be of interest to the feds not only in the context of Mindich, but also in relation to other influential users of money laundering schemes.” According to the UP, the last entry in open materials in this case is dated July 26, 2025. “By coincidence, this is precisely the period when the Office of the President, with the help of the Parliament, tried to destroy the independence of NABU and SAP,” the article states. Background: In 2023, NABU announced the disclosure of a criminal organization led by the former head of the State Property Fund, which during 2019-2021 seized more than UAH 500 million of the funds of Odesa Port Plant JSC and United Mining and Chemical Company JSC. At the same time, NABU announced the search for the ex-head of the State Property Fund, Dmytro Sennichenko, as well as his accomplices, Pavel Prysiazhnyuk, Andrii Hmyrin, former acting Artur Somov, former acting director of OGHC. the director of OPZ Mykola Parsentiev and the owners of “Agro Gas Trading” Volodymyr Kolot and Oleksandr Horbunenko.”, — write: www.pravda.com.ua
Oleksandr Gorbunenko is the co-owner of Agro Gas Trading. Photo by expro.com.ua Source: the article “Ukrainian Pravda” “Mindichgate”? The story of the same friend of the president”
Details: According to the materials of the criminal proceedings against Gorbunenko, which were considered in the US Federal Court during 2024-2025, Gorbunenko arrived in the US a few days before the beginning of the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation in Ukraine – on February 15, 2022 – on a tourist visa.
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In April 2022, he asked for temporary protection, apparently because of the war, and received it.
In April 2023, NABU declared Horbunenko wanted. And a few months ago, a man suspected in Ukraine asked the United States to extend his refugee status, but did not indicate in the documents that he was wanted.
Subsequently, NABU and SAP informed the analogue of the US migration service – Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) that Gorbunenko is a suspect and may be in Florida.
On October 3, 2024, HSI Agent Ihor Demidov found and interrogated Gorbunenko in Miami. At the beginning of 2025, Horbunenko’s refugee status was taken away. Agent Demidov then filed a criminal complaint with the court, and Judge Angelik Lett signed a warrant for his arrest.
“The very next day, Horbunenko suddenly planned to fly to the world’s best extradition hideout – Dubai, but he didn’t make it. On April 17, 2025, he was detained at the airport. He explains that he planned to “return”, but was taken into custody,” the article says.
According to UP sources in the law enforcement agencies, already in custody, representatives of NABU and SAP tried to officially come out to Gorbunenko in order to interrogate him.
“During one of the contacts, in particular, questions are raised about Timur Mindich. Then the FBI representatives suddenly take Gorbunenko out of custody and instead of deportation, fine or imprisonment, the hero ends up free and under protection. And this may indicate that Gorbunenko went to cooperate with the Americans,” the article says.
According to one of the representatives of the Ukrainian law enforcement system, “Gorbunenko could launder money, like all other participants in the OPZ scheme”, so “it is obvious that he can be of interest to the feds not only in the context of Mindich, but also in relation to other influential users of money laundering schemes.”
According to the UP, the last entry in open materials in this case is dated July 26, 2025.
“By coincidence, this is precisely the period when the Office of the President, with the help of the Parliament, tried to destroy the independence of NABU and SAP,” the article states.
Prehistory:
- In 2023, NABU announced the denunciation of a criminal organization led by the former head of the State Property Fund, which during 2019-2021 seized more than UAH 500 million of the funds of Odesa Port Plant JSC and United Mining and Chemical Company JSC.
- At the same time, NABU announced the search for the ex-head of the State Property Fund, Dmytro Sennichenko, as well as his accomplices, Pavel Prysiazhnyuk, Andrii Hmyrin, former acting Artur Somov, former acting director of OGHC. the director of OPZ Mykola Parsentiev and the owners of “Agro Gas Trading” Volodymyr Kolot and Oleksandr Horbunenko.