Heating scheme in Ivano-Frankivsk: new suspects named
The director of a Kyiv company may be involved in a scheme to embezzle budget funds for heat supply in Frankivsk. In addition to him, in December 2025, suspicions of misappropriation of 71 million hryvnias were announced against four officials - the organizer of the scheme and three former heads of Ivano-Frankivsk heat and power companies.
This was reported on the Facebook page of the Security Service of Ukraine in the region.
According to the investigation, the group was created by a Kyiv resident, the owner of a number of companies and facilities in the energy sector, in particular a capital-based company that owned 25% of the heat generation and heat supply capacities of Ivano-Frankivsk.
To implement the deal, he founded two more affiliated companies that leased these facilities, and then additionally concluded lease and sublease agreements for the same heat-generating equipment and heating networks. The costs under these agreements were included in the tariffs for the production and transportation of heat energy, which were paid by end consumers.
When setting tariffs, these companies hid the true heat losses in the networks. As a result, Frankivsk residents received less heat and overpaid for fictitious services.
The SSU writes that the organizer of the scheme also gained control over the remaining 75% of the city's heat and power infrastructure — boiler houses and heating networks, which were on the balance sheet of the utility company.
At the same time, this enterprise suffered losses due to non-receipt of compensation for thermal energy losses and payment for the transportation of fictitious volumes of heat.
The alleged organizer of the scheme, the director of the controlled Kyiv company and three officials of the Ivano-Frankivsk heat and power companies were informed of suspicions under three articles of the Criminal Code of Ukraine, in accordance with their complicity in the embezzlement of budget money: Part 1, Part 2 of Article 255 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine - creation of a criminal organization, leadership of such an organization, participation in a criminal organization; Part 4 of Article 28, Part 5 of Article 191 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine - appropriation of someone else's property through abuse of official position by an official, committed under martial law, on a particularly large scale by a criminal organization; Part 4 of Article 28, Part 1 of Article 366 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine - entering knowingly false information into official documents, committed by a criminal organization.
The suspects face up to twelve years in prison with confiscation of property.
We previously reported that the HACC confiscated the assets of the former head of the Zaporizhia TCP for UAH 3.8 million.
