Case description
On February 15, 2024, the HACC found Yurii Sevastianov, former head of Pivdendiproshakht, and his deputy Oleksandr Tatarkin guilty of attempting to embezzle UAH 7 million of the company’s funds. Both were sentenced to over 7 years in prison.
According to the investigation, in November 2018, before the planned reorganization of Pivdendiproshakht State-Owned Enterprise, Yurii Sevastianov, who was then acting director, together with his deputy Oleksandr Tatarkin, signed fictitious agreements for the provision of services to convert the paper archive of the state enterprise into electronic form. They did not intend to fulfill these services, thus creating an artificial debt of UAH 7 million from the enterprise to their controlled limited liability corporation called Limited Edition LLC.
The settlement agreements between the state-owned enterprise and the firm were concluded retroactively, when Tatarkin was still a director of the LLC and could sign them on his own behalf. Then the perpetrators tried to illegally obtain UAH 7 million. They were unable to complete the crime due to circumstances beyond their control, and the relevant enforcement proceedings to recover UAH 7 million were suspended.
The former officials were found guilty of crimes under Article 191, part 5 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. The HACC panel of judges decided to sentence the former executives of the state-owned enterprise to 7.5 years and 7.25 years respectively in prison with confiscation of half of their property and deprivation of the right to hold certain positions.
