Early this morning, the home of Serhiy Pashynskyi, a former member of the Verkhovna Rada who now heads the National Association of Defense Sector Enterprises, was searched. He announced this on his Facebook.
"This morning, the SBU and NABU came to search my apartment. The case concerns the transfer of "Kurchenko's fuel" to the state," Pashinsky wrote.
In April 2014, Pashinsky, while acting as the head of the Presidential Administration, initiated the transfer of almost 100,000 tons of petroleum products to the group of companies “Eastern European Fuel and Energy Company” (SEPEC) for the needs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. However, this was a clash due to procedural restrictions of the Criminal Procedure Code. As a result, the petroleum products were seized and transferred to the balance of Ukrtransnaftoprodukt.
The following year, as chairman of the Verkhovna Rada’s Committee on National Security and Defense, Pashinsky again expressed his concerns about the case to President Petro Poroshenko. “This greatly angered Yanukovych’s sponsors and their Russian handlers,” he noted.
It later became known that petroleum products from the Kurchenko oil depot were transferred to the Ukroylprodukt company, and the funds from their sale were collected in an account at Fortuna Bank. Both the company and the bank belonged to Pashinsky’s classmate and comrade, businessman Serhiy Tyshchenko.
Pashinsky claims that NABU resumed its investigation into these oil products in 2023. He published his letter to NABU Director Semen 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.
