Tuesday, May 7 – the Supreme Anti-Corruption Court of Ukraine (SAC) decided to impose a preventive measure on the former head of the State Property Fund of Ukraine, Dmytro Sennychenko. This event happened after the hearings, which were attended by representatives of the prosecutor's office.
"After the arrest of the suspect, who is on international wanted list, and his delivery to the place of the pre-trial investigation, the investigating judge will decide on the application of this preventive measure," the statement said .
The case of Sennichenko from Derzhmain
On March 22, 2023, the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine and SAP exposed two episodes of activities of a criminal organization.
The first is related to corruption at "Odesa Port Plant" (99.56% of the shares belong to the state). According to the investigation, at the beginning of 2020, the head of the FSMU succeeded in electing "loyal" members of the OPZ supervisory board, who later agreed to the appointment of a member of a criminal organization as the director of the plant. The suspects are the then head of the FSMU, his close associate, two acting officials. the director of JSC OPZ, two owners of the LLC, during May 2020-October 2021, illegally continued the validity of additional agreements with the LLC controlled by them on the processing of gas into urea and ammonia. This was done in order to continue paying the plant less for the processing of raw materials. Subsequently, the members of the criminal organization realized that the constant groundless extension of the contract between JSC OPZ and the controlled LLC could raise questions, so they conducted a competitive selection of a new supplier of raw materials, assuming that the company under their control would win it. When things turned out differently, they illegally canceled the results and signed a contract with a predetermined LLC. The investigation gathered enough evidence that the competition was disrupted on purpose. This is confirmed in the correspondence between the members of the criminal organization. As a result, for the period from May 2020 to October 2021, JSC OPZ received more than 300 million hryvnias.
The second episode of the activity of the criminal organization concerns the "United Mining and Chemical Company" (100% owned by the state in the form of the Federal State of Ukraine). NABU and SAP established that in October 2020, the organizer of the crime succeeded in appointing a "loyal" acting director of OGHC JSC. He, for his part, in compliance with the instructions "from above" during 2020-2021, on behalf of the state-owned enterprise, deliberately concluded four contracts for the sale of titanium-containing raw materials (ilmenite concentrate) with a Czech company under the control of the adviser to the chairman of the FDMU at discounted prices. This product was then resold at market prices. As the investigation established, ilmenite concentrate was delivered to enterprises of the Russian Federation and to the territory of the temporarily occupied Crimea. This resulted in losses to the state of over 118 million hryvnias.
The investigation established that during 2020-2022, the owner of a group of companies, in collusion with the leadership of the State Special Communications Service, developed a scheme to seize budget funds allocated for the purchase of equipment and software.
We will remind, on April 17 NABU announced a search for a People's Deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of the 8th convocation Ruslan Demchak. He was elected from the Bloc of Petro Poroshenko party. Today, he is suspected of abuse of office.
