Case description
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On October 2, 2023, the HACC found Mykola Ilyashenko, former First Deputy Head of the State Tax Service of Ukraine, guilty of fraud and aiding and abetting the transfer of USD 5 million in bribes to the leadership of the NABU and the SAPO. This money was supposed to close the criminal proceedings against former Minister of Ecology Mykola Zlochevskyi.
In June 2020, Ilyashenko colluded first with Olena Mazurova, deputy head of the Main Department of the State Fiscal Service, and later with Andrii Kicha, former manager of Burisma. They were supposed to hand over a bribe for closing the case on Zlochevskyi's suspicion of embezzling a stabilization loan from oligarch Kurchenko's Real Bank.
To do this, Ilyashenko contacted Yevhen Shevchenko, whom he had known since 2016, and offered him to give the NABU and SAPO leadership USD 1–2 million, and after the latter refused, the bribe amount increased to USD 5 million. Even then, it was known that Shevchenko was helping NABU detectives in their investigations. He reported the crime and became a whistleblower in this case as well.
In mid-June 2020, Ilyashenko, Kicha, and Mazurova were detained red-handed when they tried to transfer USD 5 million to Yevhen Shevchenko, whistleblower involved in the NABU operation. Ilyashenko planned to keep another USD 1 million for mediation, for which he was also charged with fraud.
