Case description
Former MP Oleksandr Hranovskyi is suspected of organizing the sale of raw materials of the Odesa Portside Plant at low prices. The plant lost UAH 93 million in revenue.
In March–December 2015, acting in prior collusion, he caused the abuse of office by officials of Odesa Portside Plant PJSC to obtain improper advantage for Newscope Estate Limited.
In 2015, the Odesa Regional Prosecutor’s Office registered the information on abuse of office by employees of Odesa Portside Plant PJSC in the Unified Register of Pre-Trial Investigations. The specified employees sold liquid ammonia and urea to the British company Newscope Estates Limited at below-market prices, which resulted in the plant losing over UAH 93 million in revenue.
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Newscope was linked to Hranovskyi, a then-member of the Petro Poroshenko Bloc. The investigation established that Hranovskyi, through his assistant, organized a scheme whereby Odesa Portside Plant sold mineral fertilizers to a predetermined company, which in turn resold the goods to foreign companies at competitive prices. The buyers physically received raw materials from Odesa Portside Plant.
The defendants in the case include Pavlo Chumak, owner of Newscope Estates Limited, and Olha Tkachenko, Hranovskyi’s assistant. Their actions were qualified under Article 364, part 2 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.
Both Hranovskyi and his accomplices fled abroad and are now on the wanted list.
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