The National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) has put on the wanted list three participants in the scheme to seize electricity from NPC Ukrenergo.

According to a report on the Bureau's website, this concerns the organizer of the scheme, Mykhailo Kiperman (a business partner of Ihor Kolomoisky), Board Chairperson of Alliance Bank Yulia Frolova, and the former head of the department of the settlement administrator of Ukrenergo, Dmytro Kondrashov.

As reported, on January 11, 2024, NABU and SAPO announced the exposure of a scheme for the seizure of Ukrenergo electricity by United Energy LLC and the laundering of funds received from its sale, as a result of which the damage to Ukrenergo exceeded UAH 716 million.

According to them, in March 2022, United Energy purchased electricity from Ukrenergo worth more than UAH 716 million. Subsequently, the electricity was sold to real market participants, and the proceeds were transferred to the accounts of a controlled foreign company. NABU claimed that Ukrenergo never received money for the supplied electricity, and Ukrenergo was also refused to repay the debt by the guarantor bank (Bank Alliance).

United Energy, which the media associates with businessman Kolomoisky, was registered in Kyiv in February 2018. Its owner is Andriy Korotkevych-Leschenko.

For its part, Ukrenergo provided its explanation of the essence of the dispute with the trader: in March 2022, when Ukraine was at the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion, United Energy took advantage of these circumstances to consume unpurchased electricity and did not pay Ukrenergo for the created imbalance.

The amount of debt to Ukrenergo at that time reached UAH 1.7 billion, while the guarantor bank did not provide the company with a financial guarantee.

Ukrenergo said that to date it has already managed to recover UAH 600 million of debt from the trader and the bank, and Ukrenergo is trying to recover another UAH 1.1 billion, including fines, in court.

The company also said that the former Ukrenergo employee mentioned in the NABU report, like all employees of the company, then worked in critical conditions – in the process of arranging workplaces the places of evacuation or bomb shelters, "and this could lead to certain slowdowns in processes."

"The extent to which this can be qualified as a crime under Part 2 of Article 364 of the Criminal Code shall be decided by the court," Ukrenergo said.