Case description
The NABU and the SAPO accuse former MP Serhii Pashynskyi of allegedly embezzling seized "Kurchenko's oil products" worth almost UAH 1 billion.
“Kurchenko's oil products” are oil products seized in 2014 in the case of the owner of the East European Fuel-Energy Company, which were stored at the Odesa Oil Refinery, Kherson Oil Transshipment, and the Vasylkiv Oil Depot. They were planned to be sold under the “interrupted transit” scheme: legally, they were to pass through Ukraine, but instead, they were to be sold there.
According to the investigation, Pashynskyi, then the de facto Chairman of the Presidential Administration, committed criminal acts together with businessman Serhii Tyshchenko.
The essence of the scheme was that fuels and lubricants were taken out of storage and transferred to the control of the state-owned enterprise Ukrtransnaftoproduct.
After that, the defendants organized the signing of an oil product sale and purchase contract with Ukroilproduct LLC, controlled by Tyshchenko, with the possibility of deferred payments for 2 years and a reduced price, which they explained as "forced sale."
The proceeds from the sale were transferred to Tyshchenko's mother's bank, Fortuna, which was later declared insolvent, so some of the funds simply disappeared. As a result, the state suffered losses of UAH 967 million.
Detectives also believe that to disguise the scheme, Pashynskyi and Tyshchenko tried to purchase other oil products from Belarus and Russia and then sold them to the state at inflated prices.
The actions of Tyshchenko and Pashynskyi were classified under Article 255(1), Article 191(5) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. Havrylov, former Director of Ukrtransnaftoproduct, his deputy, another manager of the same company, and the Director of Ukroilproduct are also involved in the case.
