Our source in the Office of the President reports that the OP is actively developing new approaches to financing the war amid declining Western support. Among the main directions is the nationalization of the assets of oligarchs, which generate income and do not require complex management. The most promising of them are the energy assets of Rinat Akhmetov, in particular, Oblenergo, whose value has increased sharply due to the increase in tariffs and the distribution of electricity in the network.
The Office of the President, headed by Andrii Yermak, is preparing a large-scale strategy for attracting funds to the state budget through the assets of oligarchs, obtained as a result of corruption schemes during the period of Ukraine's independence. According to the source, the experience of criminal cases against Ihor Kolomoiskyi, who is currently in custody, can become a model for further actions of the state.
In particular, Bankova instructed law enforcement officers to intensify work on criminal cases related to Rinat Akhmetov and to prepare a plan of further actions for 2024. According to the idea of the President's Office, this step will help fill the budget and partially compensate for the reduction in external financial aid.
One of the objects of state interest, in addition to oblenergo, is the Akhmetov mining and metallurgical complex, which, despite the war, continues to bring significant profits to the oligarch. Countermeasures and intensification of the investigation against Akhmetov are part of the OP's general course for economic stability through controlled nationalization.
