Interpol detains ex-deputy from Volyn in Canada
Interpol has detained in Canada the former director of the Volodymyrteplo CE and former deputy of the Volodymyr City Council Serhiy Koba, who went on a business trip abroad in 2023 and did not return. He is a defendant in criminal proceedings for embezzlement of budget funds and was on the international wanted list. Currently, preparations are underway to extradite the official to Ukraine.
Criminal proceedings against Serhiy Koba were opened in November 2024. According to the investigation, in February 2023, he, as the head of Volodymyrtepla, concluded a contract with an entrepreneur for the supply of a thousand cubic meters of wood chips for UAH 6.9 million. The contractor was paid an advance of UAH 4 million, although he did not have the necessary production capacity and experience. In the end, he only partially supplied the goods - for UAH 1.3 million, and did not return another UAH 2.7 million to the enterprise.
At the time of the investigation, Serhiy Koba was already abroad. In 2023, he, together with the Deputy Mayor of Volodymyr Yaroslav Matviychuk and the Director of the Polygon Municipal Enterprise Volodymyr Sobipan, went on a business trip to Lithuania to study alternative energy technologies.
The delegation was supposed to return on September 15, but Koba remained abroad and later resigned from his post by sending a letter by mail. Later, he also resigned as a deputy. In August and October 2025, the court twice in absentia elected him a preventive measure in the form of detention, after which the ex-deputy was put on the international wanted list.
According to the publication "The Power of Truth", on February 17, Canadian law enforcement officers detained Serhiy Koba. Sources in law enforcement agencies confirmed this information to ZAXID.NET. The day before, the ex-MP's wife posted a video of the family's vacation at a ski resort in Canada on social networks. Journalists suggest that this could have helped establish his whereabouts.
As a reminder, Serhiy Koba was elected to the Volodymyr City Council in 2020 from the "Strength and Honor" party. In the city council, he headed the party's deputy faction and became the secretary of the standing commission on socio-economic development, budget and finance. He was appointed to the position of head of Volodymyrtepla in 2017.
We will remind, earlier the HACC took former Minister Galushchenko into custody with the alternative of bail of UAH 200 million .
We also reported that the HACC once again assigned duties to former judges of the Kyiv Court of Appeal.
