Why isn’t Anatoliy Shkriblyak in prison?

An investigation into the machinations of the former People’s Deputy of Ukraine from the political party "Our Ukraine" Anatoliy Shkriblyak, who controls strategic energy enterprises of Ukraine. This is a huge pile of criminal cases and proceedings. Which, oddly enough, were never brought to their logical conclusion. Which is completely clear. 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 (Chernihiv 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" (Popasna, owner Roman Sadovyi) and private enterprise "Donpromugol" (Shakhtersk, owner Ihor Putnyi) 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 Chernihv CHPP by Anatoliy Shkriblyak LLC 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)

Lightlogistics and "Trans Coal" (Novobit Invest), "Terra", "Ekoyl Chemical" were actually sending coal to the CHPs. Viktor Pidhornyi controlled "Trans Coal", and the other two belonged to Yevhen Danyshevskyi, who was involved in the scandal with bribes for the former deputy head of the Belneftekhim concern Volodymyr Volkov.

According to the investigation, this is the only way Tekhnova Anatoliy Shkriblyak 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 Ihor Kononenko. It was about four thermal power plants that were under the control of a businessman

“European reconstruction” (Darnytska CHPP);
"Cherkasy chemical fiber" (Cherkasy CHPP, lease until 2050);
"Tekhnovaya" (Chernihiv CHPP, lease until 2023);
"Sumyteploenergo" (Sumy CHPP, lease until 2023)

Anatoliy Shkriblyak remained the beneficiary, but Ihor Kononenko appointed his managers to key positions. Shkriblyak had to ensure the "closure" of the problems that existed at that time in the NEURC, regulatory and law enforcement agencies at the expense of his own resources. During March-May 2017, the former MP transferred about $10,000,000 to Kononenko’s representatives.

The "cover" for the activities of the "energy group" was provided through: PGO (Volodymyr Bedrikovskyi, Volodymyr Hutsuliak), SSU (Pavlo Demchyna), National Police (Ihor Kupranets). The monthly "subscription" for each law enforcement agency ranged from $100,000 to $150,000.

After President Petro Poroshenko lost the election and his people left the Ministry of Energy, Anatoliy Shkriblyak moved to Cyprus, Anatoliy Shkriblyak’s companies got involved in two cases that were handled 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-chairman of Energoset Holding Company Dmytro Kryuchkov and people’s deputies Ihor Kononenko and Anatoliy Shkriblyak in the case of theft of funds from Zaporizhyaeoblenergo OJSC and Energorynok State Enterprise.

Between December 2014 and February 2015, Dmytro Kryuchkov, as an official of Energomerezha, in violation of the provisions of Part 2 of Article 15-1, Part 8 of Article 26 of the Law "On Electricity" and the rules for the use of electricity approved by the NEURC resolution, organised a group of people to obtain money by concluding agreements on the assignment of the right to claim debts for electricity supplied to the State Enterprise Zaporizhzhya Titanium and Magnesium Plant (ZTMK), ZMTK LLC, and the Electrometallurgical Plant Dniprospetsstal named after A.M. Kuzmin (Dniprospetsstal).

Zaporizhzhyaoblenergo and Energorynok lost revenue in the amount of ₴346,200,000, ₴196,800,000 was transferred to the accounts of Dmytro Kryuchkov’s company to fulfil the assignment agreements, and ₴149,400,000 was paid by the debtors, but in respect of which Energomerezha decided to terminate the obligations by way of forgiveness and discount.

According to the terms of the assignment agreements, Energomerezha HC was obliged to transfer over ₴168,900,000 to Zaporizhzhyaoblenergo’s account in 2015. However, the chairman of the board misappropriated the money by arranging transfers to the accounts of companies with signs of fictitiousness as payment for allegedly rendered services (consulting services, custody) or securities, in particular to the account of LLC Trading House Spetspostach for the alleged return of financial assistance.

The company’s manager transferred ₴57,250,000 to enterprises in the real sector of the economy: "Euro-Reconstruction and Firm Technova, owned by Anatoliy Shkriblyak. The signing of the agreements was organised and managed by the managers of his management company, Oleksandr Shtypelman and Kostyantyn Horkutsenko.

These actions were coordinated with the financial director of the management company, citizen Volodymyr Ivanov. The latter, having actual influence, gave appropriate instructions to the officials of the firms involved in the fraud to sign contracts and make appropriate payments for the fraudulent write-off of coal "saved" at Anatoliy Shkriblyak’s CHP with the help of former NEURC executive Dmytro Vovk, who was arrested in absentia and fled the country.

The company has four controlled CHPPs for the period 2014-2022: "TekhNova (Chernihiv CHP), Euro-Reconstruction (Darnytsia CHP), SumyTeploEnergo (Sumy CHP) and Cherkasy Chemicals (Cherkasy CHP), as well as connections in the NEURC, gave birth to another powerful scheme of embezzlement through the so-called "additional write-off of stocks".

Shkriblyak and his business assistants (ex-taxpayers Serhiy Mishchenko, Olena Mazurova, convicted in the bribery case of former Minister Mykola Zlochevskyi, and his manager Vladyslav Shtipelman) met with the head of the NERC, Dmytro Vovk, at various times. They reached a "mutual understanding" - the commission annually approved the applications of four CHP plants to approve the "necessary" tariff for the next year, the main component of coal.

The National Commission also approved the operating regimes of enterprises, including inflated standards for coal consumption. In fact, energy production consumed much less fuel than paper.

This led to the accumulation of coal in the warehouses of thermal power plants, which was put into circulation according to an additional write-off scheme and 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 in the scheme.

in February 2014, as a result of an “inventory” of coal in a warehouse, participants in the scheme wrote off coal worth almost ₴40,000,000

in November 2014 – approximately ₴70 50 000

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 Darnitska CHPP, according to the investigation, the 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 during 2014-2018, which were included in the cost of energy resources and paid for by consumers.

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 Anatoliy Shkriblyak and BPP MP Ihor Kononenko and their accomplices were covered not only by the NKREKU, but also by the SSU, NPU, SBI and PGO.

In the PGO, for example, the scams were covered up by Volodymyr Bedrikovskyi and Volodymyr Hutsulyak, and in the SBU - by Pavlo Demchyna. Each of the law enforcement agencies received between $100,000 and $150,000 per month.

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 Anatoliy Shkriblyak, in particular, Darnitska CHPP.

Then the businessman supplied allegedly European coals for his thermal power plants. This applies to supplies for TekhNova LLC (Chernigov CHPP), Euro-Reconstruction LLC (Darnitska CHPP), Sumyteploenergo LLC (Sumskaya CHPP) and PJSC Cherkasy Khimvolokno (Cherkasy CHPP).

The thermal power plant was supplied with coal allegedly purchased through controlled companies from foreign suppliers, which in fact belonged to smuggled coal supplies to Ukrainian businessmen Ruslan Hlushchenko, Dmytro Kovalenko and Yuliya Ivanechko. In fact, coal mined in uncontrolled territories (L/DPR) and in the Russian Federation was essentially returned to Ukraine with cargo customs declarations; the cargo could go in transit from Russia to Moldova, but along the way new recipients were entered into the declarations, and the coal went through contracts with foreign suppliers.

At the same time, due to the participation of controlled Ukrainian and foreign intermediary firms in the scheme, the cost of supplies increased significantly, and then with the help of these same firms the money was withdrawn “into the shadows.”

Investigators investigated relationships with the companies LLC "Center of Exchange Operations", LLC "New Ark East", LLC "Central Commodity Counterparty", LLC "Gaur Plus", LLC "Caspian 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 Anatoliy 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 by artificially inflating the costs of delivering coal from abroad, purchasing goods and materials, implementing investment and repair programs, conducting various scientific research, etc. All this increases the price of energy resources, the consumption of which is paid by the population of Ukraine.

The main schemes and sources of income of the energy group are the supply of coal from Russia and L/DPR with an artificial increase in its cost at the expense of non-resident affiliated 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 Bilousov. He is in direct contact with oligarch Serhiy Kurchenko, representatives of coal companies in Russia and representatives of the “L/DPR”; he often flies to Russia to resolve business issues, and through Moscow and Rostov-on-Don to the occupied territories of the Luhansk 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 “margins”. According to operational information, Roman Bilousov’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 transfer of “margin” to controlled companies, statements for non-residents, accounts, invoices, swift enum etc. 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 initiated, the investigation of which is being blocked by the informal head of Shkriblyak’s security service - ex-Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs V.M. Yevdokymov, 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 March 21, 2017 under Part 2 of Article 364 of the Criminal Code;

No. 62019000000001529 dated 09/30/2019 under Part 5 of Art. 191 UKU;

No. 12019000000000968 dated 10/11/2019 under Part 5 of Art. 191 UKU;

No. 22019270000000059 dated 10/09/2019 under Part 1 of Art. 258-3 UKU;

No. 42019270000000217 dated 10/23/2019 under Part 2 of Article 364 of the Criminal Code

The investigation has factual data and documentary materials indicating that the funds received by Anatoliy 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 entourage, legalized, and Then they “invested” in the ex-People’s Deputy’s “white” business, which made it possible to legalize ₴5,000,000,000.

Budhouse Group
Agricom Group
Agrofirm Ivanovka AG
Investoptim
Lyubava City
Shopping center Fabrika
SEC Nikolskyi
Factory Solar
Mister Foods
Mister trade
Alliance-Auto
Nest Hanner
Prominvestgroup-1
PZIN Kolos
Meteor plus
Prominvestgroup
Lucky strike
Lucky strike-1
Real estate service agency
Khortitsa Palace
Agrobiosis
Krasne-invest
Lan Polesie-agro
Investment and construction company Intergal group
Harvest 2013
Agro Capital Group
Miaterra
Koretsagrotrade
Globus-2
Andreychikovo
Energomed Company
First Agrostandard+
TRC 3-Studio
STOV Progress
JLLC Agrofirm "Partner"
STOV Zakotnenskaya
SOOO Agrofirma Zarya
STOV Polesie region

Ex-People’s Deputy Anatoliy Shkriblyak is trying to close cases of corruption abuses that occur at his own thermal power plants through the courts.

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, the management of Euro-Reconstruction LLC since 2018 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 IC AKS Capital.

Lawyers for Anatoliy Shkriblyak filed a petition to the Pechersk District Court to close the case back in November last year. Allegedly, the period for pre-trial investigation by the day the person was informed of suspicion was supposed to expire on May 19, 2022. The judge ordered the case dismissed, but an appeal on February 23 this year extended it again. In March, a judge of the Pechersk 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. 420202000000000050, in relation to the ex-deputy’s companies Euro-Reconstruction LLC, Sumyteploenergo LLC, Tekhnova LLC, and Cherkasy Khimvolokno PJSC. According to the plot, it was about the seizure of citizens’ property as a result of the introduction of unreasonable costs 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 Anatoliy 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 UKU on purchases of coal from companies of aggressor states for Anatoliy Shkriblyak’s thermal power plant. Case No. 22021101110000160 under Part 1 of Art. 258-3 and part 2 of Art. 258-5 of the Criminal Code is being investigated by the SSU.

Since April 2015, Luchenergougol LLC, which was engaged in the extraction and sale of commercial coal products, was registered in the “LPR” by Ukrainian citizen Oleksandr Chekmarev (put on the wanted list). Subsequently, the management of ZF KV Donbas 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 by LLC ZF KV Donbas from the occupied territory of the Luhansk region were provided by LLC Freight Logistics Company, and the shipper was LLC Company LTS-2006.

Coal was sold at thermal power plants, which were under the control of Anatoliy Shkriblyak

Control over the activities of ZF KV Donbas was carried out by Roman Bilousov. 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 Donbas. In 2018 and 2019, additional agreements were concluded to reduce rates to 0%. At the same time, Lordtower Holdings formed accounts payable to Firm Technova 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) and others.

Subsequently, in order to withdraw funds for the purchase of coal, a scheme was organized to withdraw funds into 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.