Dubnevych’s gas fraud case sent to court

The SAPO sent an indictment to the court against People's Deputy Yaroslav Dubnevych in the case of theft of natural gas at the Novoyavorivska and Novorozdilska CHPs in the amount of over UAH 2.1 billion and legalization of illegally obtained profits.

According to the investigation, during 2013-2017, the People's Deputy, involving five accomplices, organized the seizure of natural gas by officials under his control at the Novoyavorivska and Novorozdilska CHP plants in the Lviv region for a total amount of over UAH 2.1 billion.

Under his control, the companies-owners of Novoyavorivska and Novorozdilska CHPs concluded a number of agreements on the purchase of natural gas from NJSC Naftogaz of Ukraine for the production of thermal energy for the population. In order to make heat cheaper for this category of consumers, NJSC supplied gas to commercial CHPs at prices significantly lower than market prices.

However, the received “preferential” gas, which should have been used exclusively for the production of thermal energy to provide heating services and hot water supply to the population, and not for other purposes, was used by Novoyavorivska and Novorozdilska CHPs in their economic activities to produce electricity, which was subsequently sold by SE “Energorynok” at a tariff determined based on the cost of electricity produced from gas at the market price.

Due to the use of cheap gas, the profitability of electricity production at Novoyavorivska and Novorozdilska CHPs exceeded 130% in some periods.

Having received profits disproportionate to those that the CHP would have received if it had purchased gas on a general basis, during 2013-2018, the People's Deputy of Ukraine organized the legalization (laundering) of part of the specified funds by transferring them to the accounts of a controlled company and non-resident companies in the so-called offshore zone, mixing them, disguising them, and ultimately returning them to Ukraine under the guise of foreign investments to finance new businesses in the field of green energy and real estate.

In October 2023, People's Deputy Yaroslav Dubnevych was informed of suspicion under Part 3 of Article 27, Part 5 of Article 191; Part 3 of Article 27, Part 3 of Article 209 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. The pre-trial investigation in this case was completed in August 2024. Since then, for more than half a year, the defense has been familiarizing itself with the case materials.

The cases against the other five participants in the gas scam are being considered in court. The property complexes "Novorozdilskaya CHPP" and "Novoyavorivskaya CHPP" are under arrest.

Yaroslav Dubnevych is also a suspect in the case of the embezzlement of UAH 93 million from Ukrzaliznytsia. The People's Deputy is hiding from the investigation abroad and has been wanted since October 2023.

It was previously reported that the deputy chairman of the Rivne Regional Council will be tried for bribery.

We also wrote that in Lyubotyn, an official demanded a bribe for property registration.