The National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAP) completed a pre-trial investigation into the embezzlement of 128.2 million hryvnias allocated for the restoration of Kharkiv’s critical infrastructure. About this reported in the press services of NABU and SAP.
“The SAP prosecutor decided to complete the pre-trial investigation in the case of seven persons, including the head of the organized group, two employees of KP Kharkiv Thermal Networks and another 4 persons under the control of the leader of the organized group, who are involved in the seizure of millions of funds, including international partners of Ukraine, who were appointed for the restoration of the critical infrastructure of Kharkiv. Today, on the instructions of the prosecutor of the National Security Agency, the NABU detectives opened the case materials for the defense to review.”– noted in NABU.
According to the investigation, the organizer of the criminal group is businessman Serhii Kryviy. The owner of Alliance LLC Gennady Zhmurenko, the beneficiary of Loco Train Production and Engineering Company LLC Yuriy Pichugin, the first deputy general director of KP Kharkiv Heat Networks Serhii Volyk, the executive director of the same enterprise Valery Morozov, the director and co-founder of the production Yevhen Tsyrulnikov of the “Santekhmontazh” cooperative and the director of the non-fuel sales department of PJSC “Ukrnafta” Maksym Pyatakov.
Earlier, the High Anti-Corruption Court (HCC) chose precautionary measures for the three main suspects in the case.
We will remind that NABU and SAP investigated the scheme of taking possession of 160 million hryvnias allocated for the reconstruction of Kharkiv. According to the investigation materials, in April 2022, the organizer of the group, using connections with the first deputy general director of KP Kharkiv Heat Networks, ensured the conclusion of direct contracts with companies controlled by him for the supply of pipes, windows and technical salt. Using martial law as an excuse to avoid open tenders, the conspirators entered into agreements without competitive bidding.
The purchased products were purchased through a number of gasket companies, and were sold to the utility company at a price that was more than doubled. This led to the assignment of damages in the amount of 159.5 million hryvnias, which the perpetrators appropriated and used for their own needs.
