VAKS approved a plea agreement with businessman Tyshchenko in the case of Kurchenko’s petroleum products.

In September, the Higher Anti-Corruption Court approved the plea agreement entered into by the prosecutor of the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office and businessman Serhii Tyshchenko, accused of embezzling the “Kurchenko petroleum products” arrested in 2014-2015. This was reported by the VACS press service.

“The High Anti-Corruption Court approved the plea agreement concluded between the SAP prosecutor and the businessman who appeared in the case of the theft of the arrested oil products of a fugitive pro-Russian businessman, the message says.

The court found Tyshchenko guilty under Part 3 of Art. 27, Part 4 of Art. 28 (complicity in crime), Part 5 of Art. 191 (appropriation, embezzlement of property or possession of it by abuse of official position) and Part 1 of Art. 255 (creation of a criminal organization) of the Criminal Code and sentenced to eight years of imprisonment without confiscation.

At the same time, he was released from serving the main sentence with a three-year probationary period. He is required to regularly appear for registration at the probation authority, to report on a change of place of residence, work or study, and not to travel outside of Ukraine without permission. Serhii Tyshchenko is the beneficiary of the Factor group of companies, among his assets are the Korosten Chemical Machine Building Plant (PJSC “Himmash”) and the confectionery factory “Zhytomyr Lasoshchi”.

“Kurchenko oil products” is a scheme by which in 2014 97,000 tons of oil products belonging to pro-Russian businessman Serhii Kurchenko were stolen. Instead of the funds from their implementation going to the state budget, the resources were appropriated by a group that included ex-Nardeput Serhii Pashynskyi and Serhii Tyshchenko, using the state enterprise “Ukrtransnaftoprodukt”.

Let us remind you that in 2024 NABU and SAP announced suspicions against Pashynsky, Tyshchenko and others of taking possession of Kurchenko’s oil products in the amount of UAH 817 million. According to the investigation, back in 2014, the court seized 97,000 tons of fuel imported into Ukraine in violation of the law. However, Tyshchenko and Pashynsky organized a scheme to appropriate this property, creating a criminal organization. They achieved the transfer of resources to a state-owned enterprise, where the management positions were occupied by persons under their control. In the future, fuel and lubricants were sold at reduced prices to a company associated with the organizers of the scheme, and the money never reached the budget.