Serhiy Pashinskyi, a former deputy of the Verkhovna Rada, who is now the head of the National Association of Defense Sector Enterprises, was searched at his home early this morning. He announced this on his Facebook.
"This morning, the SBU and NABU called to search my apartment. The case concerns the transfer of "Kurchenko's fuel" to the state," Pashinsky wrote.
In April 2014, Pashinsky, acting as the head of the Presidential Administration, initiated the transfer of almost 100,000 tons of oil products to the Eastern European Fuel and Energy Company (SEPEK) group of companies for the needs of the Armed Forces. However, it was a collision due to the procedural limitations of the Criminal Procedure Code. As a result, petroleum products were seized and transferred to the balance sheet of Ukrtransnaftoprodukt.
The following year, as the head of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on National Security and Defense, Pashynskyi again expressed his concern about this case to President Petro Poroshenko. "This made Yanukovych's sponsors and their Russian curators very angry at the time," he said.
Later it became known that oil products from the Kurchenko oil base were transferred to the Ukroylproduct company, and the funds from their sale were collected in an account at Fortuna Bank. Both the company and the bank belonged to Pashynskyi's classmate and friend, businessman Serhii Tyschenko.
Pashynskyi claims that in 2023 NABU resumed the investigation into these oil products. He published his letter to the director of NABU Semyon Kryvonos, in which he writes that criminal suspicion may block his activities as the head of the Association for the supply of weapons and ammunition for the needs of the Defense Forces of Ukraine.
