The NABU, SAPO and SBU reported exposing a criminal organisation that caused UAH 967 million in losses to the state in 2014-2018. It is a scheme to misappropriate and sell 97,000 tonnes of state-confiscated oil products that were supposed to go to the army, reports 
with reference to the press services of these bodies.
Reportedly, in 2014, the state confiscated almost 100,000 tonnes of oil products from Serhiy Kurchenko’s structures and transferred them to a specialised state-owned enterprise for sale. This enterprise in return sold the raw materials at reduced prices to a company controlled by one of the organisers of the scheme. The funds were withdrawn to private accounts, thus causing the state to suffer losses of UAH 967 million.
Six people have been notified of suspicion in the case, one of whom is “the former acting Head of the Presidential Administration of Ukraine, a member of the Ukrainian parliament, head of one of the committees of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, and co-organiser of the ML”.
It is known that this is a case involving ex-MP Serhiy Pashynskyi, who is a co-organiser of the criminal organisation.
Former MP and head of the National Association of Defence Industry Enterprises of Ukraine (NAUDI) Serhiy Pashynsky today confirmed that he was searched in the morning of 12 February 2024 in a 10-year-old case. He wrote about this on Facebook, reports
“This morning, the SBU and NABU came to my house with a search warrant. The case of the transfer of Kurchenko’s “fuel”, which is actually the fuel of the Kremlin’s Rosneft, to the state – during Yanukovych’s looting, this oligarch profited from assets worth hundreds of millions of dollars, including almost 100,000 tonnes of oil products, which in 2014 were transferred to state oil operators,”
– he wrote.
According to Pashinsky, in 2015, he initiated the transfer of Kurchenko’s fuel or, as he claims, Rosneft’s fuel to the Ukrainian Armed Forces. For this reason, allegedly on the orders of the Russians, criminal proceedings were opened against him. It is in connection with this case that the former MP’s home was searched today. Pashinsky emphasises that the case was brought up simultaneously with the Russian Investigative Committee.
“Only a few weeks ago, the Russian Investigative Committee accused me of launching the ATO in 2014. And now there is a strange synchronisation on the part of Ukrainian investigators…”
– the former MP added.
He also stressed that he had not been served with a notice of suspicion, as some Telegram channels claim.
Pashinsky’s stories
Former Ukrainian MP Serhiy Pashynsky has become known as an odious figure due to a number of high-profile scandals in which he was involved. For example, on 31 December 2016, he had a conflict with Viacheslav Khimikus, a resident of Kyiv region, during which Pashynskyi shot him in the leg with a firearm. In 2021, the then MP was acquitted and the case against him was closed. It was also reported that Khimikus was paid UAH 1.5 million in compensation, after which he withdrew his claims against the MP.
The most recent allegations against Pashynskyi relate to his allegedly profiting from the supply of weapons to the Ukrainian army before and at the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion. In 2022, after Russia’s full-scale invasion, the revenues of Ukrainian Armor, a weapons company that supplies the Ukrainian army and is linked to Pashynskyi, skyrocketed more than a hundredfold, reaching UAH 13 billion ($350 million). The SBI and NABU opened criminal proceedings and conducted searches in the cases. At the beginning of his presidential term, Volodymyr Zelenskyy even called Pashynskyi “100% bandit”.
At the same time, as the New York Times claimed in its own investigation, Pashinsky secured critical weapons for the Ukrainian army at the beginning of Russia’s invasion, when there was no military assistance from the West.