HACC schedules hearing on Ukrnafta case involving UAH 13.3 billion losses

The High Anti-Corruption Court has scheduled a preparatory hearing for April 16 in criminal proceedings regarding the embezzlement of over 13.3 billion hryvnias from PJSC Ukrnafta.

Seven people were on trial: Oleksandr Shal, Petro Zverev, Bohdan Zhuk, Oleksandra Volovodenko, Lyudmila Kyyanytsia, Nataliya Kernytska, and Oleksiy Kushch. They are accused of taking possession of property on an especially large scale by prior conspiracy by a group of persons (Part 5, Article 191 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine).

According to the investigation, during March-August 2015, PJSC Ukrnafta concluded oil purchase and sale agreements with five companies - LLC Techtrade Group, LLC Garant-UTN, LLC Galnafta, LLC Torgovy Dim Prykarpattyanaftotrade, and LLC Kotlas. As a result of these agreements, Ukrnafta supplied raw materials worth UAH 10.7 billion without receiving advance payment, which violates the Cabinet of Ministers' resolution.

In addition, in July 2015, Ukrnafta concluded 52 contracts with Kotlas LLC for the purchase of petroleum products with delivery dates until the end of 2015, paying over UAH 2.57 billion in advance. Subsequently, the delivery dates were repeatedly extended, but the products were never delivered, and the money was transferred abroad through offshore accounts.

As a result, as NABU detectives and SAPO prosecutors established, the state's losses amount to over UAH 13.3 billion. Some of the contracts were declared invalid in commercial courts. The trial in this case will begin on April 16, 2025.

We will remind you that the court extended the duties of the accused former head of Naftogaz.

We also wrote that a former justice minister was sentenced to 5 years for bribery.