The HACC approved the plea agreement and found former director of State Enterprise Research Farm Nektar Mykola Sharmo and former owner of PAF Garant LLC Kurban Kurbanov guilty.

According to the prosecution, in 2019, former PAF Garant LLC owner Kurban Kurbanov and former SE Research Farm Nektar director Mykola Sharmo organized a scheme to misappropriate the state enterprise's harvest.

The investigation holds that Kurbanov directed the execution of the scheme: he coordinated actions with Sharmo, enlisted workers and agricultural machinery from enterprises under his control, and organized the harvesting of sunflower and corn from fields belonging to the state enterprise, located within the territory of Kachanivska village council in Poltava Region.

The harvested produce was then transported by truck to grain storage facilities linked to Kurbanov.

To conceal the actual volumes of the harvested crop, waybills were allegedly prepared with understated figures, issued in the name of the director of one of the enterprises and submitted for inclusion in the state farm's records. The waybills reflecting the actual volumes of harvested produce were, according to the investigation, withheld and kept out of official accounting.

Shamro's role, as head of Nektar Farm, was to facilitate the removal of the harvest from the state enterprise's premises — specifically by authorizing the release of grain without weight control and without proper documentation, in favor of a company under Kurbanov's control.

He also signed documents with understated harvest figures and submitted them to the enterprise's accounting department, resulting in lower volumes being recorded in the state farm's official reporting.

The investigation holds that 296 tonnes of sunflower and 561 tonnes of corn belonging to the state enterprise were unlawfully removed in this manner. The total value of the misappropriated produce, according to the prosecution, amounts to UAH 4.43 million.

The defendants were charged under Article 191(5) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.

The HACC approved the plea agreement and found them guilty. The court sentenced both Sharmo and Kurbanov to seven years' imprisonment, releasing each from serving the sentence on probation — one year for Sharmo and two years for Kurbanov. UAH 4.4 million in bail paid was directed toward compensation for damages. The defendants also undertook to transfer UAH 510,000 to the needs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.