HACC Extends Duties for Ex-MP Pashynskyi

The High Anti-Corruption Court has extended the term of office of former MP Serhiy Pashynskyi until September 11. The NABU and the SAPO suspect him of misappropriating nationalized oil products of oligarch Serhiy Kurchenko worth approximately UAH 817 million.

As is known, the High Anti-Corruption Court took former People's Deputy Serhiy Pashinsky into custody.

As an alternative, he was given UAH 272.52 million in bail. These funds were paid and the politician was released from custody. Pashynskyi was also given the following obligations: to appear upon every request; to report any change in his place of residence and place of work; not to leave the city of Kyiv and the Kyiv region without permission; to refrain from communicating with other suspects and witnesses; to hand over his foreign passports for safekeeping.

Later, Pashinsky was allowed to move freely around Ukraine and his international passports were returned. Therefore, the prosecutor of the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office requested that the remaining obligations be extended.

The motion is granted. To extend for the duration of the resolution the term of the obligations imposed on the suspect (Pashynskyi – ed.) in connection with the application of a preventive measure in the form of bail to him. The term of the resolution is two months, until September 11, 2025 inclusive, but within the term of the pre-trial investigation

Serhiy Pashinsky is a figure in the EBK database.

As a reminder, NABU and SAPO reported suspicions of former People's Deputy Serhiy Pashinsky, businessman Serhiy Tyshchenko , and others in the seizure of Kurchenko's seized petroleum products, which were subject to nationalization.

The investigation established that in 2014 the court imposed an arrest on 97 thousand tons of petroleum products imported into Ukraine in violation of the law. According to the investigation, Tyshchenko and Pashinsky developed a scheme to seize the seized property and created a criminal organization for this purpose. They achieved the transfer of fuel and lubricants to a state-owned enterprise, in which they appointed controlled persons to management positions. At the same time, Pashinsky ensured control over petroleum product storage bases by units of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, whose actions were directed on the ground by members of the criminal organization.

Later, under the pretext of "forced sale", the state-owned enterprise sold the raw materials in full at undervalued prices to a company controlled by the organizer of the scheme. Part of the funds received for this were transferred to the companies' accounts, while not a single hryvnia was received by the state budget. The total amount of losses caused to the state as a result of the scheme is UAH 817 million.

We also reported that the court allowed Pashinsky to leave for the Czech Republic.