The NABU and the SAPO are charging three individuals with abuse of office. Their actions caused over UAH 43.3 million in damages to the state enterprise Research and Production Association Pavlohrad Chemical Plant. The defendants face up to six years' imprisonment, with a ban on holding certain positions or engaging in certain activities.

The defendants in the case are:

• Leonid Shyman, Director General of the SE Research and Production Association Pavlohrad Chemical Plant (hereinafter — SE RPA PCP);
• Valerii Kyrylov, Commercial Director of the same state enterprise;
• Yevhen Fomin, director of private intermediary companies (including Research and Production Enterprise Zoria LLC, Ukrspetskhim LLC, and Ukrspetskhem LLC).

According to the investigation, between 2013 and 2016, Leonid Shyman, Director General of SE RPA PCP, conspired with Commercial Director Valerii Kyrylov and private company owner Yevhen Fomin to sell industrial explosives manufactured by the state enterprise through controlled intermediary firms.

The companies controlled by Yevhen Fomin bought explosives from the plant at reduced prices and resold them to actual customers at a markup of about 30%. The intermediaries served a paper function only: products were shipped to the end customers — mining companies PJSC Kryvyi Rih Iron Ore Plant and PJSC Central Mining and Processing Plant — directly from the state enterprise's warehouses, with no involvement of the intermediaries' resources.

To secure the controlled companies' monopoly position, Leonid Shyman and Valerii Kyrylov deliberately blocked SE RPA PCP from working directly with other counterparties. When representatives of the mining companies tried to enter direct contracts with RPA PCP, plant officials either turned them down — urging them to approach Fomin's firms — or set prices significantly higher than those offered by the intermediaries.

The state enterprise was thus denied genuine market profits, and over UAH 43.3 million that should have gone to the budget was funneled to the accounts of private companies.

The defendants' actions were classified under Article 364(2) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.

In early 2023, the indictment against all three defendants was referred to court. However, Yevhen Fomin failed to stay in contact and did not appear in court for an extended period — as it turned out, because he was on temporarily occupied territory of Ukraine. He was subsequently placed on the wanted list and proceedings against him were suspended. The court did not authorize in absentia proceedings in his case.

Together with the criminal case, the court also took up the prosecutor's civil claim for recovery of UAH 43.3 million in damages. The defendants' bank accounts and real estate were frozen.

The court also imposed monetary penalties on Leonid Shyman twice for failing to appear at hearings due to business trips. As it turned out, the defendant had signed his own business-trip orders.

In addition, Shyman is a suspect in another case involving nearly UAH 28.5 million in abuses during a 2016 pipe procurement. According to the investigation, he artificially secured victory for the American company Petroleum Materials LLC in a tender and signed off on 100% advance payment ($918,000). The goods were never delivered, causing losses for SE RPA PCP.

Shyman is also a defendant in a case involving the supply of defective mortar shells to the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The case was investigated by the State Bureau of Investigation. In April 2026, the indictment against Shyman and his deputy was referred to the Shevchenkivskyi District Court of Kyiv for trial. The investigation established that PCP officials knowingly delivered over 233,000 unusable mortar shells to the Armed Forces, causing UAH 3.3 billion in damages to the state.

In a separate case, Valerii Kyrylov received a four-year prison sentence for the sham use of intermediary companies in the sale of explosives produced by SE RPA PCP. His actions caused over UAH 7 million in damages to the state. The HACC Appeals Chamber upheld the verdict.