Court Seizes Property of Ex-Deputy Head of Kharkiv Regional Council

The High Anti-Corruption Court has seized the property of former Deputy Chairman of the Kharkiv Regional Council Volodymyr Skorobagach and his wife Victoria in the context of the case of misappropriation of electricity.

The prosecutor of the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office requested the seizure of the property of Skorobagach and his wife, namely: four non-residential premises in Kharkiv, a 2016 BMW 740LE X DRIVE IPERFORMANCE car, 28 land plots in the Chuhuyiv district of the Kharkiv region. The court granted the request.

The request of the prosecutor of the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office is granted. To seize the property of the suspect (Skorobahach - ed.) with a ban on alienation and disposal of it... To seize the property of (Viktoria Skorobahach - ed.) with a ban on alienation and disposal of it

Volodymyr Skorobagach is a figure in the EBK database. 

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-acquired 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 transferred it to the accounts of financial companies under the guise of repaying loans.

Previously, the AC HACC confirmed the confiscation of the property of a customs official.

We also reported that NABU and SAPO completed the investigation into the prosecutor from Cherkasy.