On April 8, 2026, the NABU and the SAPO submitted the indictment in the "pasta case" against Taras Vysotskyi — former First Deputy Minister of Agrarian Policy, currently serving as Deputy Minister of Economy, Environment and Agriculture — to the HACC.

The first preparatory hearing will be scheduled shortly.

Suspicion notices were served in August 2023, and the pre-trial investigation was completed in December 2024.

According to the NABU and the SAPO, Vysotskyi, with the assistance of then-Deputy Minister of Economy Oleksandr Hryban, organized a scheme to procure food for frontline populations at inflated prices in the early weeks of the full-scale invasion.

The case involves two episodes. In the first, Polish goods were purchased through a company under the scheme participants' control at prices two to three times above market rates, causing UAH 28.8 million in losses. In the second, Turkish products were sourced through an intermediary company that artificially marked up prices on resale, resulting in a further loss of over UAH 35 million to the state. The proceeds were then laundered through a foreign shell company.

Total losses across both schemes are estimated by investigators at nearly UAH 64 million.