A criminal scheme to dismantle and remelt strategic energy infrastructure facilities – high-voltage power lines – is operating in Zaporizhia. According to sources, it involves business structures connected to former high-ranking tax officials and law enforcement officials.
This is reported by the Telegram channel of the NGO “NON-STOP Ukraine”.
The key enterprise is LLC "Syaivomet" (EDRPOU 40063752), registered in Boryspil, but actually operating in Zaporizhzhia. The founders are listed as Felix Kusaev and Olga Afonova - the wife of former tax official Roman Afonov. In open sources, the actual owners of the company are the Afonov family.
Another structure – LLC “Metpromservis” (EDRPOU 31094633) – also belongs to Kusayev. Both companies are supervised by Yuliana Kozachenko, who was once a subordinate of Roman Afonov.
According to the investigation, during the martial law period, the production sites of "Syaivomet" and "Metpromservis" were used to melt scrap metal obtained as a result of the illegal dismantling of high-voltage power lines on the border of Zaporizhia and Dnipropetrovsk regions.
In June–July 2025, copper from the dismantled 750 kV line from the Zaporizhzhia NPP was brought to the territory of "Syaivomet". Despite statements from "Ukrenergo" and "Zaporizhzhiaoblenergo", criminal proceedings are actually not progressing.
According to sources, the scheme is being covered up by the head of the department of the Prosecutor General's Office, Ashot Gevorkyan, and representatives of the Zaporizhzhia SBU department. It was under their pressure that in July 2025, the Zaporizhzhia police were unable to arrest the trucks with copper debris that patrol officers had detained.
Copper is systematically exported to the Metpromservis site (Zaporizhzhya, Kharchova St., 6), and until August 2025, significant volumes were also stored at the Syaivomet warehouse (Zaporizhzhya, Dokovska St., 3). Operatives of the Main Police Department in Zaporizhzhia region have identified the organizers and executors of the scheme, but the case materials remain motionless.
Strategic facilities of the Ukrainian energy sector have actually been transformed into a source of illicit enrichment for a business group associated with the Afonov family and their partner Felix Kusayev. The cover-up by the prosecutor's office and the SBU makes it possible to further dismantle and sell elements of the energy system, which creates critical risks for the security of the state.
