Criminal Organization at the State Property Fund: The Case of Former Fund Head Dmytro Sennychenko Goes to Court

Criminal Organization at the State Property Fund: The Case of Former Fund Head Dmytro Sennychenko Goes to Court
Criminal Organization at the State Property Fund: The Case of Former Fund Head Dmytro Sennychenko Goes to Court

The NABU and the SAPO have referred to court an indictment against members of a criminal organization, among them the former head of the State Property Fund of Ukraine, Dmytro Sennychenko. The NABU reported this.

According to the prosecution, the criminal organization's activities caused the state over UAH 700 million in losses. Its members are also charged with laundering property obtained through crime worth over UAH 10 billion.

Investigators consider former SPFU head Dmytro Sennychenko the leader and organizer of the criminal organization.

Others charged include:

  • a person close to Sennychenko, former SPFU adviser Andrii Hmyrin;
  • former adviser to the SPFU head Yurii Lypka;
  • two former acting directors of the Odesa Port Plant, Mykola Parsentiev and Mykola Synytsia;
  • the acting head of United Mining and Chemical Company JSC, Artur Somov;
  • the two owners of Agro Gas Trading, Volodymyr Kolot and Oleksandr Horbunenko;
  • banker Pavlo Prysiazhniuk;
  • Denys Kudin, executive vice president for corporate strategy and development at Ukrnafta PJSC and former first deputy head of the SPFU.

Investigators identified two episodes.

The first involved the Odesa Port Plant, 99.56% of whose shares are state-owned. As a result of the unlawful actions, between May 2020 and October 2021 the enterprise was deprived of more than UAH 600 million.

The second involved United Mining and Chemical Company, 100% of whose shares belong to the state through the SPFU. Investigators say the state's losses in this episode exceed UAH 111 million.

The NABU and the SAPO uncovered the criminal organization's activities in March 2023.

One of the figures was also Serhii Bairak, who entered a plea agreement with investigators — the HACC approved it in December 2024.

Many of the figures are currently abroad, and the pre-trial investigation was repeatedly suspended while they were on the wanted list. Sennychenko has been on the wanted list since May 7, 2024.

In February 2026, the NABU and the SAPO also uncovered another episode of the criminal scheme — the laundering of money obtained illegally from the schemes at the OPP and the UMCC. It concerns relatives of Andrii Hmyrin and an accountant, all living abroad. With this money, the figures set up companies and bought up luxury real estate, cars, and land plots. Over UAH 300 million was “laundered” through the scheme.