Court places former Energoatom official under house arrest
The Solomiansky District Court of Kyiv has chosen a preventive measure for the former owner of Energoatom and former First Deputy Minister of Energy of Ukraine Yuriy Sheyk - 24-hour house arrest for two months (February 2, 2026) with the wearing of an electronic bracelet.
Sheiko was detained in Kyiv on December 2 and is suspected of taking possession of property by abuse of office on a particularly large scale (Part 5, Article 191 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine), which concerns manipulations during the conclusion of a contract for compulsory civil liability insurance for nuclear damage in 2022. The prosecutor's office claims that Sheiko signed an additional agreement that, without economic grounds, increased the amount of insurance by 18 million hryvnias (from 105.642 million hryvnias to 130.925 million hryvnias), which caused losses to the state. Law enforcement officers also point to the ties of the counterparty insurance company, PJSC "Prosto-Insurance", with the Russian holding "RESO". According to the prosecutor, Sheiko entered into a conspiracy with other persons and acted intentionally.
The lawyer explains the increase in the amount in hryvnia by the change in the National Bank's exchange rate against the SDR at the time of signing the additional agreement. He emphasizes that in terms of SDR, there was a saving of 40 thousand hryvnia. The defense denies the unfounded suspicion and risks, as well as the fact that Sheiko (as vice president for operations) could not give orders to the accounting department.
Yuriy Sheiko denied his involvement in the schemes, stating that he signed the documents only at the final stage after they were approved by all relevant departments: legal, financial, and contractual.
I was never an organizer, I did not participate in any schemes or schemes, I did not give instructions to do anything, to do any fraud. This is the first. Secondly, as the lawyer has already said, I never gave any instructions.
Also, as we reported, anti-corruption authorities previously reported on a large-scale operation in the energy sector. They said that a criminal organization had built a scheme to systematically obtain illegal benefits from contractors of JSC NNEGC Energoatom in the amount of 10% to 15% of the value of contracts.
