Businessman Kostyantyn Zhevago claims that the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) sold the single property complex of the Bilotserkiv thermal power station to the Bilotserkiv city council in violation of the law and underestimating the value. According to him, this sale is "pure corruption".
In the statement of the press service of Konstantin Zhevago, it is said that in 2015, the shareholders of the bank "Finance and Credit", which he is the owner of, pledged the property as a guarantee to the NBU for the refinancing of loans. These loans were paid in full, and the guarantor was Bilotserkivska TEC, PrJSC.
According to the decision of the Commercial Court of Kyiv, in May 2023, Belotserkivskaya CHP came under the management of the National Bank. However, at the beginning of December 2023, the city council of Bila Tserkva bought this property complex from the National Bank for 298.6 million hryvnias.
Zhevago claims that the National Bank should have chosen a transparent auction for the sale, but deviated from the law by selling the object to a fixed buyer at an underpriced price. The businessman estimates the losses caused to the state and legitimate shareholders at over 500 million hryvnias.
Zhevago considers this sale to be "pure corruption" and hopes for an adequate assessment of the situation by the anti-corruption authorities of Ukraine.
Earlier it became known that Bilotserkivska city council bought the property complex of Bilotserkivska thermal power plant from the National Bank. However, the company Mulready Ventures Limited, associated with Konstantin Zhevago, tried to block this deal in the courts, but was unsuccessful. We will remind you that Bilotserkivska TPP was a guarantor for the obligations of "Finance and Credit" to the NBU for loans.
