October 29, 2025
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The SBI announced the detention of the ex-chairman of the board of “Ukrenergo”

According to sources, Kudrytsy was detained in Lviv Oblast, he is being charged with fraud on a particularly large scale”, — write: www.radiosvoboda.org

Employees of the State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) detained the former head of “Ukrenergo” Volodymyr Kudrytskyi, Interfax-Ukraine and Ukrainskaya Pravda agencies report with reference to their sources in law enforcement agencies.

Officially, the SBI does not report this.

According to sources, Kudrytsy was detained in Lviv Oblast, he is being charged with fraud on a particularly large scale.

The interlocutor of “Interfax-Ukraine” noted that it is about the case of businessman Ihor Hrynkevich and the alleged seizure of state company funds during tenders for the reconstruction of power system facilities back in 2018.

On October 21, it became known that employees of the State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) are conducting a search of Kudrytsy. According to the media, searches also took place in “Ukrenergo” and organizations that may be involved in the illegal scheme of acquiring funds during the construction of electric highways.

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.

Read also: Kudrytskyi said that his dismissal from the position of the head of Ukrenergo was not related to the protection of substations

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.

After that, the chairman of the supervisory board of Ukrenergo, Daniel Dobbeni, and the member of the supervisory board, Peder Andersen, submitted applications for early termination of powers and stated that “the decision to prematurely dismiss the head of Ukrenergo is politically motivated and, according to the results of the presented report, there are no valid grounds for it.”

Earlier, the Ukrainian mass media, citing sources, wrote that the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy at a meeting of the Stavka appealed to the chairman of the board of Ukrenergo with a demand to write a statement of resignation due to the alleged poor protection of Ukrenergo facilities. Kudrytsky wrote on his Facebook that his dismissal was not related to the protection of objects.

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