Former People’s Deputy and Chairman of the National Association of Defense Industry Enterprises, Serhiy Pashinskyi reported regarding searches in his apartment. It is regarding the case regarding the transfer of “Kurchenko fuel” to the state in 2015, he noted. Forbes interlocutors in law enforcement agencies confirmed information regarding the searches.
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Key facts
- According to Pashynskyi, today (February 12) the SBU and NABU “came to search” his apartment this morning.
- “The case regarding the transfer of “Kurchenko’s fuel”, and in fact – the fuel of the Kremlin’s “Rosneft” to the state – during the days of Yanukovych’s looting, this oligarch made a fortune with assets worth hundreds of millions of dollars, including almost 100,000 tons of oil products, which in 2014 managed to be transferred to state oil operators “, Pashinsky wrote.
- He emphasized that in 2015 he appealed to the president to cover the fuel shortage of the Armed Forces with Rosneft fuel, “which at the time greatly angered Yanukovych’s sponsors and their Russian supervisors.”
- “Through their agency, the Russians then, 10 years ago, managed to open criminal proceedings No. 32014100070000038 dated 05/08/2014. It is on the basis of this 10-year-old proceeding that I am being searched,” wrote the former People’s Deputy.
- Pashynskyi also denied information regarding the announcement of suspicion once morest him.
Context
In 2021, Oleksandr Katsuba, a Naftogaz official from 2012 to 2014, who was suspected of abuse of office, stated that under the slogans of the “nationalization” of Kurchenko’s oil products, Naftogaz oil products actually disappeared.
In the interview “Economic truthHe said that at that time, Yevhen Korniychuk’s investigative department was responsible for the purchase of oil products at Naftogaz, in whose absence the acting was Katsuba. So, when the head of the department asked him to sign the act of the visiting commission to the oil depot where the fuel was supposed to be stored, Katsuba signed it.
“That is, the document was signed by the entire visiting committee of Naftogaz.” And I, as the deputy chairman, however, did not go to this oil depot and might not go to it due to official duties,” comments Katsuba.
In the end, there were petroleum products at the base, but in 2014, “people from the People’s Front came and said: ‘We nationalized Kurchenko gasoline,'” he said.
The exhibitor of the company stated that Serhiy Pashynskyi’s team was “doing these oil products somewhere”, and the main thing is that “these were oil products of Naftogaz, not Kurchenko”.
In the spring of 2014, the Prosecutor General’s Office announced an international wanted list for Kurchenko. In the same year, the Odesa Refinery was arrested as part of criminal proceedings for the smuggling of petroleum products.
In May 2014, the then head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Arsen Avakov, said that the companies that are part of Serhiy Kurchenko’s SEPEK holding company had imported more than 5 million tons of petroleum products worth UAH 36 billion into the territory of Ukraine under fictitious documents in the previous two years. According to the documents, these oil products were not to be sold on the territory of Ukraine, but were to be delivered to third countries, which allowed Kurchenko’s companies to avoid paying taxes.
In December 2021, the Kyiv District Court of the city of Odesa allowed a special pre-trial investigation into Kurchenko.
In August 2022, the Odesa Regional Prosecutor’s Office filed charges once morest a Ukrainian “fugitive businessman” for tax evasion during customs clearance of petroleum products.
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Category News Date August 02, 2022 Charges once morest Kurchenko, who has been wanted for 8 years, have been sent to court. It is regarding a scheme with oil products worth UAH 3 billion