Businessman Kipperman’s Case Stays in Anti-Corruption Court

The Appellate Chamber of the High Anti-Corruption Court left the case in the High Anti-Corruption Court on charges of businessman Mykhailo Kiperman in organizing a scheme to seize electricity from PJSC NPC Ukrenergo for over UAH 716 million and legalizing funds.

This was reported by the press service of the AC HACC, without mentioning the name of the person involved.

According to media reports, these are Kiperman, former director of the Ukrenergo settlement administrator department Dmytro Kondrashov, director of the private company United Energy Andriy Korotkevych-Leshchenko, and chairman of the board of Alliance Bank Yulia Frolova.

On December 27, 2024, the Appellate Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice considered the defense attorney's motion to determine the jurisdiction of the criminal proceedings on the charges of four individuals in the misappropriation of electricity from PJSC "NPC "Ukrenergo" for over UAH 716 million and money laundering. Based on the results of the consideration, the panel of judges of the Supreme Court of Justice refused to grant the defense attorney's motion to refer the said criminal proceedings from the Supreme Court of Justice to another court.

Recall that NABU and SAPO informed businessman Mykhailo Kiperman and others about suspicion of embezzlement of more than 716 million UAH. According to the investigation, in March 2022, United Energy LLC purchased electricity from Ukrenergo for more than 716 million UAH. Despite the company's existing debt to the company, the head of the relevant department of Ukrenergo did not stop the sale. At the same time, one of the commercial banks acted as the guarantor of payment, and the decision to issue the guarantee was made by the chairman of the board alone and in violation of the procedure.

Later, the electricity was sold to real market participants, and the funds received were transferred to the accounts of a foreign company controlled by the organizer of the scheme, which is also a business partner of a participant in the NABU and SAPO case on the embezzlement of PrivatBank funds. Ukrenergo never received the money for the electricity supplied. When it applied to the guarantor bank with a demand to repay the debt, it was refused.

NABU and SAPO were able to seize UAH 721 million in the accounts of companies involved in the criminal scheme. In addition, as part of international cooperation, funds were also blocked in the accounts of a company controlled by the organizer of the scheme in two European countries.

We will remind, earlier the SAPO referred the case of Ukrenergo against Kiperman and others to court.

We also wrote that a party leader was detained in Kyiv for taking a $1 million bribe.