The executives of a company believed to have embezzled 95 million hryvnias while organizing the purchase of transformers for Ukrzaliznytsia have been extradited from Bulgaria to Ukraine, the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) reports.
This is about the head of a company that illegally won a tender for the supply of power transformers at inflated prices during 2022–2024.
After the scheme was exposed in April 2024, the suspect was put on the international wanted list. She was detained in Bulgaria in the fall of 2024, where Ukraine's extradition request was later granted. The transfer took place at the international automobile checkpoint "Ustylug - Zosin" in the Volyn region.
Transfer of the suspect in the theft of 95 million UAH from Ukrzaliznytsia. Photo: NABU
Upon her arrival in Ukraine, she was given a preventive measure - detention with the right to bail in the amount of UAH 9.9 million.
Theft case
The scheme to embezzle funds from Ukrzaliznytsia was exposed by NABU and SAPO in April 2024. An organized group, led by former freelance advisor to the Deputy Head of the Presidential Office Artem Shyl, seized UAH 94.8 million from the state-owned company.
The investigation established that during the tender, the prices for transformers were artificially inflated, which made it possible to misappropriate a significant amount. In total, suspicion was raised against 10 members of the organized group, including a former advisor to the OP and an SBU employee.
As part of the investigation, the court arrested:
- UAH 54 million in the bank accounts of the supplier company;
- real and movable property of the suspects.
