Case description
Former MP Mykola Martynenko is accused of embezzling EUR 17.2 million from SE Eastern Mining and Processing Plant. Along with him, seven other people are involved in the case.
Eastern Mining and Processing Plant in Zhovti Vody is engaged in the extraction and processing of uranium ore and is also a producer of sulfuric acid.
According to the investigation, from 2013 to 2016, Martynenko and his accomplices organized a scheme to embezzle funds. The enterprise was supposed to extract raw materials on its own, but the management purchased uranium concentrate from the Kazakh company Kazatprom through the Austrian company Steuermann, controlled by Martynenko and Ruslan Zhurylo, for more than USD 17 million. As a result, the enterprise suffered losses of more than UAH 25 million.
Seven other people are involved in this case:
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Oleksandr Sorokin, Director of the Eastern Mining and Processing Plant
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Ruslan Zhurylo and Volodymyr Bohdanets, Deputy Directors of Eastern Mining and Processing Plant
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Valerii Vasylkov, Director of Energoatom
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Volodymyr Sviatnenko, Director of Energoatom’s separate subdivision
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Serhii Pereloma, Deputy Head of Naftogaz
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Pavlo Skalenko, representative of the shell company
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Martynenko and Zhurylo are charged under Article 255, part 1; Article 191, part 5; Article 209, part 3 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine, and Sorokin, Bohdanets and Pereloma are charged under Article 255, part 1; Article 191, part 5 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.
Ruslan Zhurylo mobilized into the Armed Forces of Ukraine in March 2023. Therefore, the court separated the case materials and suspended the proceedings against him.
In November 2012, the HACC delivered a verdict on another episode of embezzlement at Eastern Mining and Processing Plant. Ihor Holoborodko, former deputy general director of the plant, and Ihor Veduta, director of Eco-Service Trading House LLC, were convicted for causing UAH 24.5 million in losses to the enterprises following procurement at inflated prices.
