The free supply of electricity by the National Power Company Ukrenergo for UAH 1.4 billion in March 2022 to the company United Energy affiliated with Ihor Kolomoiskyi may indicate the existence of a conspiracy between the scandalous oligarch and the management of the NPC.
Volunteer and blogger Nazar Prykhodko writes about this on his Facebook page.
"We are talking about the theft of electricity in the amount of more than UAH 1.4 billion. As a result of the "consensus" between Ukrenergo and United Energy, owned by Kolomoiskyi's junior partner Mykhailo Kiperman, the NPC provided electricity worth one and a half billion hryvnias to Kolomoiskyi without any payment, which he successfully sold and withdrew the money," the blogger writes.
According to him, the National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NACB) has opened a case, but the head of the NPC, Volodymyr Kudrytskyi, does not appear in it either as a witness or as a suspect. At the same time, Prykhodko reminds that two top managers of the NPC, who were responsible for this agreement, went abroad on business trips, one of which was signed by Kudrytskyi personally.
Prykhodko emphasizes that in order to avoid responsibility for the lack of funds as a result of this arrangement, the management of Ukrenergo decided to transfer responsibility to the guarantor bank by suing it. But the bank refused to pay, saying that Ukrenergo and United Energy entered into a conspiracy and deliberately violated the terms of the bank guarantee. The bank's conclusions were confirmed by the examination of the State Audit Service of Ukraine and the National Commission for State Regulation of Energy and Public Utilities, where it is directly stated that the responsibility for the situation lies precisely with the officials of Ukrenergo.
The volunteer emphasizes that after the bank won the first instance in court, United Energy joined the legal attack on the financial institution, which is a sign of concerted actions between the company and the NPC.
"Kudrytskyi and Kolomoiskyi joined forces and jointly started a legal war against the bank. The story is absolutely in the style and spirit of Ihor Valeriiovych, it's no wonder that he is currently in a pre-trial detention center (if he really is in a pre-trial detention center) - to steal and then hang it on others," the blogger notes.
According to Nazar Prykhodko, he filed a statement with the NACB about the commission of a crime by Volodymyr Kudrytskyi under Part 2 of Art. 364 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (abuse of power or official position that caused grave consequences) and Art. 214 of the Criminal Procedure Code of Ukraine, which obliges the investigator to start a pre-trial investigation within 24 hours and enter relevant information into the Unified Register of Pre-trial Investigations.
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