Ex-Ukrenergo Head Kudrytskyi Remanded in Custody

The Pechersk District Court of Kyiv considered the case of the imposition of a preventive measure on the former head of NPC Ukrenergo Volodymyr Kudrytsky. He was sent to custody for two months during the consideration of the case of abuse of office and illegal appropriation of state company funds. The court granted the prosecutor's office's request in full. Kudrytsky was sent to custody for two months, until December 26, with the possibility of bail in the amount of 14 million hryvnias.

Former head of Ukrenergo Volodymyr Kudrytskyi is suspected of abuse of office because he signed a contract with a company to build a fence, which did not fulfill the contract. The tender for the contract was held in 2018. The company received an advance payment for the tender. Ukrenergo returned the funds by collecting a bank guarantee issued for the advance payment.

Volodymyr Kudrytskyi denied the charges against him. He noted that there are no facts or documents in the case file that would indicate his influence or involvement in the decision to conclude a bank guarantee agreement between the company that won the tender and Concord Bank.

It turns out that I am being accused of Ukrenergo collecting a bank guarantee from an unscrupulous contractor, protecting itself from losses.

At the beginning of the session, several MPs announced their readiness to take the former head of Ukrenergo on bail. In particular, MPs from the Holos party Yaroslav Zheleznyak, Inna Sovsun, and Maksym Khlapuk are currently present in the courtroom, as well as from the Servant of the People party - the head of the energy committee Andriy Gerus and the head of the parliamentary committee on anti-corruption policy Anastasia Radina.

During the hearing, the prosecutor read the indictment to Kudrytsky and drew attention to the risks: the investigation believes that the suspect may be hiding and, having three adult children, is potentially capable of traveling abroad.

Prosecutors requested that Kudrytsky be placed in custody with the possibility of posting bail in the amount of UAH 13,730,000. In addition, the suspect is proposed to be required to: not leave his place of residence without notice, wear an electronic bracelet, and surrender his passport.

Kudrytsky's lawyer stated that he considered the suspicion unfounded, since the materials contain only contracts with Kudrytsky's signature and handwriting examination, without other evidence. He emphasized that the report on the risks of concealment and destruction of evidence is dated the same day as the detention - October 28, at 9:00, which raises doubts about the reality of the circumstances described. It is also noted that none of the Kudrytsky family members had foreign passports with them.

The lawyer asked to deny the prosecutor's request for a preventive measure. Kudrytsky's lawyer also submitted a request to the court for bail.

The court accepted the bail applications of Inna Sovsun and Maksym Khlapuk. The application of Yaroslav Zheleznyak was rejected because he left the courtroom.

Volodymyr Kudrytsky himself considers the request unfounded and denies any intention to hide - the family was going on vacation. According to him, the case has been going on for seven years, and during this time he has never obstructed the investigation. Kudrytsky also emphasized his impeccable business reputation in the energy sector.

I'm going to prove that the suspicion is absurd. And that I didn't even have contact with the people involved in the wrongdoing.

In turn, Kudrytsky's lawyer, Mykola Grabyk, considers the suspicion unfounded, noting that the case materials do not contain any evidence of the illegal appropriation of funds by his client.

We will remind, the day before yesterday in the Lviv region, employees of the State Bureau of Investigation detained the former head of NPC Ukrenergo, Volodymyr Kudrytsky.

Later, the State Bureau of Investigation reported that the former chairman of the board was detained on suspicion of committing a criminal offense under Part 4 of Article 190 (fraud committed by a group of persons in a prior conspiracy, on an especially large scale) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.

We previously reported that the commander of a military unit was exposed hiding in a house in Lviv.