We are beginning to publish investigation materials by the International Detective Agency “Absolution” into the machinations of the former People’s Deputy of Ukraine from the political party “Our Ukraine” Anatoly Shkriblyak, who controls the strategic energy enterprises of Ukraine. Which, oddly enough, were never brought to their logical conclusion.
Which is quite understandable. Shkriblyak has been corrupting the Ukrainian law enforcement system for years. He is still corrupt. So, here we go.
SBU case No. 22019270000000059 dated 10/09/2019 under Part 3 of Article 212, Part 1 of Article 258-3, Part 4 of Article 110-2 of the Criminal Code.
Investigators believed that Tekhnova LLC (Chernigov Thermal Power Plant, lease until 2023) was supplied with coal from L/DPR under the guise of imports from the EU.
It was transported from LLC “Carbon-invest” (Popasnaya, owner Roman Sadovy) and private enterprise “Donpromugol” (Shakhtersk, owner Igor Putny) to Russia and Belarus
Putny was a member of the Crimean group “Salem”, whose members are in leadership positions in annexed Crimea
Coal was supplied to the Chernigov thermal power plant by Anatoly Shkriblyak's Exchange Operations Center LLC and New Ark East LLC. For this purpose, contracts were concluded with intermediaries:
- Evenor Energy SA, Fontus AG (Switzerland)
- Effective Strategy sro (Czech Republic)
- Scan Int Logistic Sp.zoo, I-Coal Sp.zoo (Poland)
In fact, coal from the companies 🇷🇺 “Lightlogistic” and 🇧🇾 “Trans Coal” (Novobit Invest), 🇧🇾 “Terra”, 🇧🇾 “Ecoil Chemical” was sent to thermal power plants.
Control over Trans Coal belongs to 🇷🇺 Viktor Podgorny, and the other two belonged to Yevgeny Danishevsky, who was involved in a scandal with bribes for the ex-deputy chairman of the Belneftekhim concern Vladimir Volkov
According to the investigation, this is the only way that Anatoly Shkriblyak’s Technova illegally imported about 280,000 tons of coal from the occupied territories
In 2017, the ex-people's deputy reached a number of agreements with the people's deputy from the ruling party and the president's partner Igor Kononenko. It was about four thermal power plants, which were under the control of a businessman
▪️ “European reconstruction” (Darnitskaya CHPP);
▪️ “Cherkassy chemical fiber” (Cherkasy CHPP, rent until 2050);
▪️ “Tekhnova” (Chernigov Thermal Power Plant, rent until 2023);
▪️ “Sumyteploenergo” (Sumy CHPP, lease until 2023)
Anatoly Shkriblyak remained the beneficiary, but Igor Kononenko placed his managers in key positions. The issue of “closing” the problems that existed at that time in NEURC, regulatory and law enforcement agencies, Shkriblyak had to ensure at the expense of his own resources. During March-May 2017, the ex-people's deputy transferred about $10,000,000 to Kononenko's representatives
“Covering” the activities of the “energy group” was carried out through: the GPU (Vladimir Bedrikovsky, Vladimir Gutsulyak), the SBU (Pavel Demchina), the National Police (Igor Kupranets). The monthly “subscription” for each law enforcement agency ranged from $100,000 to $150,000
After the defeat of President Petro Poroshenko and the withdrawal of his people from the Ministry of Energy, Anatoly Shkriblyak moved to Cyprus
Anatoly Shkriblyak's companies were involved in two cases that were dealt with by NABU
- No. 52016000000000240 (July 13, 2016, part 3 of article 209 of the Criminal Code)
- No. 12015000000000200 (May 26, 2015, part 5 of article 191 of the Criminal Code)
It was about the connection between the ex-head of Energoset Holding Company Dmitry Kryuchkov and people’s deputies Igor Kononenko and Anatoly Shkryblyak in the case of the theft of funds from Zaporozhyeoblenergo OJSC and Energorynok State Enterprise.
From December 2014 to February 2015, Dmitry Kryuchkov, being an official of the Holding Company Energoset, violating the provisions of Part 2 Article 15-1, Part 8 Article 26 of the Law “On Electric Power Industry” of the rules for the use of electrical energy, approved by the resolution of NEURC, organized a group of persons to receive money by concluding agreements on the assignment of the right to claim debt for supplied electricity to the State Enterprise “Zaporozhye Titanium-Magnesium Plant” (ZTMC), LLC “ZMTK”, electrometallurgical plant “Dneprospetsstal im.
OJSC “Zaporozhyeoblenergo” and SE “Energorynok” received less income in the form of ₴346,200,000
196,800,000₴ were transferred to the accounts of Dmitry Kryuchkov’s company to fulfill agreements on the assignment of the right of claim, and 149,400,000₴, which are payable by debtors, but in respect of which Energomerezha decided to terminate obligations through forgiveness and the application of a discount
According to the terms of the concluded agreements on the assignment of the right of claim, Energomerezha Holding Company was obliged to transfer more than 168,900,000₴ to the account of Zaporozhyeoblenergo during 2015. But the chairman of the board appropriated them, organizing a transfer to the accounts of companies with signs of fictitiousness as payment for allegedly provided services (consulting services, safekeeping) or securities, in particular to the account of LLC “Trading House “Spetspostach” for the alleged return of financial assistance
The company manager transferred 57,250,000 ₴ to enterprises in the real sector of the economy: “Euro-reconstruction” and “Technova Firm” by Anatoly Shkriblyak
The organization and management of the signing of contracts was carried out by the managers of his management company, Alexander Shtipelman and Konstantin Gorkutsenko.
These actions were agreed upon with the financial director of the management company, citizen 🇷🇺 Ivanov Vladimir Petrovich. The latter, having actual influence, provided appropriate instructions to officials of firms participating in the scam to sign contracts and make appropriate payments
Frauds involving the write-off of coal “saved” at the CHPP of Anatoly Shkriblyak with the help of ex-head of NEURC Dmitry Vovk, who was arrested in absentia and fled the country
Availability for the period 2014-2022 of four controlled thermal power plants: “TekhNova” (Chernigov thermal power plant), “Euro-reconstruction” (Darnitskaya thermal power plant), “Sumyteploenergo” (Sumy thermal power plant) and “Cherkasy chemical fiber” (Cherkassy thermal power plant), as well as connections in NEUREKU gave birth to another powerful scheme for appropriating funds through the so-called “additional inventory write-off”
Shkriblyak and his business assistants (ex-Podatkovites Sergei Mishchenko, Elena Mazurova, convicted in the bribery case of ex-minister Nikolai Zlochevsky, and his leader Vladislav Shtipelman) met at different times with the head of NEURC Dmitry Vovk. They reached a “mutual understanding” - the commission annually coordinated the applications of four thermal power plants to approve the “necessary” tariff for the next year, the main component of which was coal.
The National Commission also approved the operating modes of enterprises, including inflated consumption rates for coal. In fact, energy production consumed much less fuel than on paper
This led to the accumulation of coal in the warehouses of thermal power plants, which was put into circulation according to the additional write-off scheme and was “returned” to the warehouse through the inventory system, registering it as gross income with the subsequent payment of taxes. This money was divided among the participants of the scheme
In February 2014, as a result of an “inventory” of coal in a warehouse, participants in the scheme wrote off almost 40,000,000₴ worth of coal
In November 2014 - approximately 70,50,000,000₴
In March 2015 – by 37,000,000₴
In February 2017 - about 65,000,000₴
Even taking into account the taxes paid in connection with the receipt of supposed gross income, only from the Darnitskaya CHPP, according to the investigation, corrupt officials received almost 180,000,000₴ from this scheme
In general, according to our data, the scheme for additional write-off of coal reserves in the warehouses of all four thermal power plants brought the organizers about 900,000,000 rubles during 2014-2018, which were included in the cost of energy resources and paid for by consumers
According to 368.media, the funds were withdrawn to foreign offshore accounts of Shkriblyak and his business circle, and after legalization they entered the country as investments in the business of the corrupt official - Budhaus Group and Agricom Group.
The coal schemes of Anatoly Shkriblyak and the people’s deputy from the BPP Igor Kononenko and their accomplices were covered not only by the National Reconstruction and Development Authority, but also by the SBU, NPU, SBI and GPU.
In the GPU, for example, the scams were covered up by Vladimir Bedrikovsky and Vladimir Gutsulyak, in the SBU - Pavel Demchina. Every month, from $100,00 to $150,000 were “brought in” to each of the law enforcement agencies.
In Kyiv, the police and prosecutor's office investigated criminal proceedings No. 42021100000000007 dated January 12, 2021 against the companies of ex-People's Deputy Anatoly Shkriblyak, in particular Darnitskaya CHPP
Then the businessman supplied supposedly European coal for his thermal power plants. This applies to supplies for TekhNova LLC (Chernigov Thermal Power Plant), Euro-Reconstruction LLC (Darnitskaya Thermal Power Plant), Sumyteploenergo LLC (Sumy Thermal Power Plant) and PJSC Cherkassy Khimvolokno (Cherkasy Thermal Power Plant).
The thermal power plant was supplied with coal allegedly purchased through the mediation of controlled companies from foreign suppliers, which in fact belonged to smuggled coal supplies to Ukrainian businessmen Ruslan Glushchenko, Dmitry Kovalenko and Yulia Ivanechko. In fact, coal mined in uncontrolled territories (L/DPR) and in the Russian Federation was essentially returned to Ukraine🇷🇺
According to cargo customs declarations, the cargo could be in transit from Russia to Moldova, but along the way, new recipients were entered into the declarations, and the coal was sent to thermal power plants, allegedly under contracts with foreign suppliers.
At the same time, due to the participation in the scheme of controlled Ukrainian and foreign intermediary companies, the cost of delivery was significantly increased, and then with the help of these same companies the money was withdrawn “in the shadows”
Investigators investigated relationships with the companies LLC Center for Exchange Operations, LLC New Ark East, LLC Central Commodity Counterparty, LLC Gaur Plus, LLC Caspiy Group, LLC Sumyteploenergo, LLC Tekhnova, OJSC Cherkasy Khimvolokno”, regarding the right to own, use or dispose of coal; coal quality certificates; certificates of origin of coal and others.
The case was again “buried” by the Metropolitan Police
The management system of Anatoly Shkriblyak’s thermal power plant allows uncontrolled use of the financial and material resources of these enterprises, as a result of which they suffer losses amounting to hundreds of millions of hryvnias
Management falsifies reporting data on the actual filling of the tariff, schemes for theft of funds are systematically introduced in the form of artificially inflating costs for the delivery of coal from abroad, the purchase of goods and materials, the implementation of investment and repair programs, conducting various scientific research, and the like. All this increases the price of energy resources, the consumption of which is paid for by the population of Ukraine.
The main schemes and sources of income of the energy group are the supply of coal from the Russian Federation and “L/DPR” with an artificial increase in its cost due to affiliated non-resident structures and the withdrawal of “margin” through controlled companies in Ukraine and abroad. The supply scheme is carried out through interrupted coal transit mechanisms
The direct organizer and executor of the deliveries was Roman Belousov. He is in direct contact with oligarch Sergei Kurchenko, representatives of coal companies in the Russian Federation and representatives of the “L/DPR”, often flies to the Russian Federation to resolve business issues, and through Moscow and Rostov-on-Don to the occupied territories of the Lugansk and Donetsk regions
The schemers have several mines and coal sites in the “L/DPR”, acquired before 2014, and directly control the interaction with non-resident companies through which coal is supplied, as well as the withdrawal of the “margin”. According to operational information, Roman Belousov’s brother is an employee of the senior level of the MGB “LPR”
Law enforcement officers know the main schemes for the movement of coal and funds in 2017-2021 at the Shkribljaka CHPP with the names and details of the companies involved in them, as well as actual data on the formation of the price of coal, the withdrawal of “margin” to controlled companies, statements for non-residents, accounts, invoices, swift enumerations and the like. The “margin” averages about $25-40 per ton of coal; with supply volumes of 1,400,000 tons of coal per year, it brings participants of the scheme about $50,000,000 per year
Criminal cases have been opened, the investigation of which is being blocked by the informal head of Shkriblyak’s security service - ex-Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs V.M. Evdokimov, who has long-term and reliable connections in the Office of the President, the National Police and the Office of the Prosecutor General
- No. 4201700000000353 dated 03/21/2017 for Part 2 of Article 364 of the CCU;
- No. 62019000000001529 dated 09/30/2019 for Part 5 of Art. 191 KKU;
- No. 12019000000000968 dated 10/11/2019 for Part 5 Art. 191 KKU;
- No. 22019270000000059 dated 10/09/2019 for Part 1 of Art. 258-3 KKU;
- No. 42019270000000217 dated 10/23/2019 for Part 2 of Article 364 of the CCU
The investigation has factual data and documentary materials indicating that the funds received by Anatoly Shkriblyak as a result of the implementation of criminal schemes of total theft at controlled thermal power plants were synchronously and systematically withdrawn for many years to foreign offshore accounts of the businessman and his business environment, and were legalized , and then “invested” in the “white” business of the ex-people’s deputy, which made it possible to legalize 5,000,000,000₴
- Budhouse Group
- Agricom group
- Agrofirm Ivanivka AG
- Investoptim
- Lyubava Siti
- Shopping center Fabrika
- SEC Nikolsky
- Factory Solar
- Pan foods
- Pan trade
- Alliance-Auto
- Nest Hanner
- Prominvestgroup-1
- PZVP Kolos
- Meteor plus
- Prominvestgroup
- Lucky strike
- Lucky strike-1
- Health Care Services Agency
- Khortytsya Palace
- Agrobiosis
- Chervone-invest
- Lan Polissya-agro
- Investment and development company Intergal group
- Harvest 2013
- Agro Capital Group
- Miaterra
- Koretsagrotrade
- Globus-2
- Andreychikovo
- Energomed Company
- First Agrostandard+
- TRC 3-Studio
- STOV Progress
- STOV Agrofirm "Partner"
- STOV Zakotnenska
- STOV Agrofirma Zorya
- STOV Polisk region
Ex-People's Deputy Anatoly Shkriblyak is trying to close cases through the courts regarding corruption abuses that occur at his own thermal power plants
In November 2020, the Main Investigation Department of the National Police and the Office of the Prosecutor General opened case No. 42020000000002246 under Part 2 of Art. 364, part 2 art. 205-1 UKU
According to the investigation, since 2018, the management of Euro-Reconstruction LLC has documented the purchase of coal at unreasonably inflated prices from the controlled enterprise New Ark East, which subsequently documented the purchase of insurance services from an enterprise with signs of risk, ODO SK AKS Capital.
Lawyers for Anatoly Shkriblyak filed a petition to the Pechersky District Court to close the case back in November last year. Allegedly, the period of pre-trial investigation until the date of notification of suspicion to a person should have ended on May 19, 2022. The judge ordered the case dismissed, but an appeal on February 23 this year continued it again. In March, a judge of the Pechersky District Court again dismissed the case, but the prosecutor's office also filed an appeal. Its results are not yet known to us.
Since February 2020, the National Police has also been investigating case No. 42020200000000050, against the ex-people’s deputy’s companies Euro-Reconstruction LLC, Sumyteploenergo LLC, Tekhnova LLC, Cherkasy Khimvolokno PJSC. According to the plot, it was about the seizure of citizens' property as a result of the introduction of unreasonable expenses for the purchase of goods, works and services into the structure of tariffs for the production of electrical and thermal energy. It seems that investigators were unable to find evidence of corruption when checking documents. However, we wrote about how the cover-up of Anatoly Shkriblyak’s schemes works in law enforcement agencies.
Let us remind you that the Office of the Prosecutor General is investigating another case No. 42020000000001477 under Part 5 of Art. 191 of the Criminal Code regarding the purchase of coal from companies of aggressor states for the thermal power plant of Anatoly Shkriblyak
- Case No. 22021101110000160 under Part 1 of Art. 258-3 and part 2 of Art. 258-5 UCU is investigating the SBU
Since April 2015, Ukrainian citizen Alexander Chekmarev (put on the wanted list) registered in the “LPR” LLC “Luchenergougol”, which was engaged in the extraction and sale of commercial coal products. Subsequently, the management of ZF KV Donbass LLC, NPP Luchugledobycha LLC, Anthracite Coal Company LLC and PFK Vostok LLC transferred coal areas to the separatists for permanent use
In the period 2014-2021, the main founders of these enterprises were:
- Metexpo ltd
- Oriposto Holdings ltd
- Zondrioti Holdings ltd
- Sindirouss ltd
- Global Investments Partnership SA
- Pevoz Enterprises ltd
- LLC "AMC Professional Asset Management"
Services for organizing the transportation of coal from ZF KV Donbass LLC from the occupied territory of the Lugansk region were provided by Freight Logistics Company LLC, and the shipper was LTS-2006 Company LLC.
Coal was sold at thermal power plants, which were under the control of Anatoly Shkriblyak
Control over the activities of “ZF KV Donbass” was carried out by Roman Belousov. Investigators found that in 2012, a loan agreement in foreign currency for $15,000,000 at 11% per annum was concluded between Lordtower Holdings and ZF KV Donbass. In 2018 and 2019, additional agreements were concluded to reduce rates to 0%. At the same time, the Lordtower Holdings company formed accounts payable to Firm Tekhnova LLC.
From 2018 to 2022, coal from the “LPR” was supplied in transit through the Russian Federation, the Republic of Belarus, and non-resident companies (registered in Switzerland, Poland, the Czech Republic, etc.). The supply of the specified coal was carried out through Exchange Operations Center LLC, New Ark East LLC, Central Commodity Counterparty LLC and UICE Group LLC, which in turn entered into foreign economic contracts with the following non-resident companies: Evenor Energy SA (Switzerland ), Effective Strategy sro (Czech Republic), Scan Intel Logistic (Poland), Fontus AG (Switzerland), Carbon Trading (Poland), WFI (Czech Republic), etc.
Subsequently, in order to withdraw funds for the purchase of coal, a scheme was organized to withdraw funds to the “shadow” sector of the economy under the guise of purchasing goods and services from controlled business entities at inflated prices, followed by cashing out the funds and misappropriating them through enterprises with signs of fictitiousness
The international detective bureau Absolution expects law enforcement officers to suspect members of an organized crime group
