Skorobagach case suspect remains under arrest

The Appeals Chamber of the High Anti-Corruption Court has left under arrest in absentia the director of the private company Powerstock LLC, Iryna Khasianova, in the case of misappropriation of electricity.

As is known, the anti-corruption court arrested Khasyanova in absentia. The suspect's lawyer has filed an appeal against this decision.

The appeal shall be dismissed. The ruling of the investigating judge of the High Anti-Corruption Court dated 27.01.2025 shall be left unchanged.

As a reminder, NABU and SAPO reported suspicions to former deputy chairman of the Kharkiv Regional Council Skorobagach and two other individuals. According to the investigation, in April 2022, Skorobagach, then a deputy of the Kharkiv Regional Council, created an organized group with the aim of seizing electricity from the Unified State Economic Power System and legalizing funds from its sale. He recruited the head of a private company as an executor and its founder as an accomplice, while he himself was an investor in this company.

The group members pre-purchased three companies with electricity supply licenses, which in June 2022 received electricity from the United Energy System of Ukraine and transferred it to a controlled company for sale to end consumers. At the same time, the financial responsibility for the electricity received fell on the aforementioned pipeline companies. Ukrenergo never received the funds from the electricity sold, and in order to hide the sources of the money, they were transferred to the accounts of financial companies under the guise of loan repayment.

Volodymyr Skorobagach is a figure in the EBK database.