Primorsky district court of Odessa satisfied the petition of Prosecutor’s office about detention of the detainee on 3 February in the river businessman, suspected of involvement in the development of a fraud organized by the fugitive businessman Sergei Kurchenko. Reports a press about it-service of Prosecutor’s office of Odessa region in Facebook.
“On Saturday, February 4, Primorsky district court of Odessa satisfied the petition of Prosecutor’s office of area about the detention of businessman who is involved in the organization of fictitious export of oil through the Odessa region. Also, the court determined the amount of security Deposit of 20 million hryvnia,” – said in the message.
“According to the investigation the defendant was engaged in coordination in the criminal scheme implementation 800 thousand tons of petroleum products, which included representatives of bogus companies, the staff of the Odessa customs and other regulatory bodies in the region”, – said the Prosecutor’s office.
This week had been notified about suspicion of three officials of the Odessa customs, and two representatives of the company involved in the sale of petroleum products under the guise of transit and re-export. As a result of criminal fraud in the state budget did not receive UAH 1.2 billion of mandatory payments.
We will remind, on 28 December 2016, the court of Appeal of Kyiv cancelled the decision of Pechersky district court of Kyiv on election Kurchenko of a measure of restraint in form of detention. In addition, the court of Appeal new ruling, which refused the petition of the representative of the state office of public Prosecutor about election concerning the suspect Kurchenko of a measure of restraint in form of detention.
Kurchenko declared in the international search. During the investigation the pre-trial investigation body seized his property and other assets of suspects totaling more than 2.8 billion UAH.
Kurchenko appears in the criminal proceedings as the head of a criminal organization, which for 2010 and the beginning of 2014, has committed grave and especially grave crimes in the sphere of economic operations with liquefied gas. In particular, in the period Kurchenko organized a Commission headed by OPG misappropriation extracted PJSC “Ukrgazvydobuvannya”, PJSC “Ukrnafta” state-owned liquefied natural gas totaling UAH 2.2 billion through its illegal acquisition of specialized auctions at prices significantly below the market, allegedly for the needs of the population. At the same time, is actually a liquefied gas members of a criminal gang in the future implemented under control to Kurchenko’s entities at market prices on the territory of Ukraine.
