NABU and SAPO have announced new accusations against four persons in connection to the case involving the illegal syndicate of the erstwhile chief of the State Property Fund. They are implicated in laundering more than UAH 300 million, acquired through illicit activities, by buying up possessions overseas.
Law enforcement representatives have declared fresh allegations in the matter of a criminal enterprise that seized in excess of UAH 500 million from state establishments during the period of 2019 to 2021. This was communicated by the NABU information bureau, UNN discloses.
NABU and SAPO communicated new allegations in the instance of a criminal arrangement overseen by the former leader of the State Property Fund of Ukraine. These comprise four individuals implicated in the validation of assets procured via unlawful means
– the dispatch specifies.
NABU mentioned that with the aim of sanitizing dishonest assets, the accused individuals established entities abroad, through which they procured various holdings. Encompassed among these are territories of land in Croatia, costly vehicles, an entire level of dwelling units in a residential edifice within the United Arab Emirates, and similar items. The aggregate worth of validated holdings surpasses UAH 300 million.
The innovative participants in the scheme were pinpointed thanks to operations conducted within a unified investigative cadre alongside numerous European nations.
– supplemented NABU.
NABU reminded that, according to the probe, the prior head of the State Property Fund, jointly with his partners, designated “his” own individuals as executives of JSC “Odessa Port Plant” and JSC “United Mining and Chemical Company”. They formalized accords with prearranged firms and traded commodities at reduced rates. The differential in valuation was channeled out and transformed for the advantage of the criminal organization.
This culminated in detriments to the state amounting to more than UAH 700 million. The affiliates of the illicit syndicate are additionally presumed to be validating assets obtained via criminal methods, valuing in excess of UAH 10 billion.
The comprehensive tally of individuals under suspicion concerning the aforementioned occurrences of the criminal syndicate's undertakings presently totals 15 persons.
We will remind you
In March 2023, the previous Chief of the State Property Fund of Ukraine, Dmytro Sennychenko, faced notification of suspicion for commanding a criminal aggregation that, amid 2019-2021, confiscated more than UAH 500 million in finances from state-run enterprises, notably the foremost potent chemical enterprise in Ukraine, JSC “Odessa Port Plant”.
In October 2024, SAPO finalized the inquiry into the illicit syndicate of the former chieftain of the State Property Fund, Sennychenko. The accused are impeached for embezzling UAH 700 million in state resources and authorizing UAH 10 billion by means of state-owned corporations.