{"id":"01a0ffd7-495c-7759-b7e2-76d2c5365d4a","age":56,"slug":"sivets-viktor-994c","isPep":true,"photo":{"url":"/media/persons/01a0ffd7-495c-7759-b7e2-76d2c5365d4a/d8394a41-cf64-4ee5-8265-3405d5a17719-640.webp","credit":"LIGA.net — https://file.liga.net/ua/persons/viktor-sivec","license":"усі права захищені"},"amounts":{"usd":{"alleged":"5626679.94","complete":true,"established":"0.00"},"byCurrency":[{"alleged":"141300000.00","currency":"UAH","established":"0.00"}],"confirmedRatio":0},"summary":"Head of the State Forest Resources Agency of Ukraine in 2011–2014. In 2016 he was served a notice of suspicion of receiving undue advantage from foreign companies for extending timber supply contracts and of laundering the funds. In May 2024 NABU and SAPO sent the indictment to court (UAH 141.3 million according to investigators). According to investigators, he is in Russia. No verdict.","episodes":[{"id":"01a0ffd7-5d7e-7e15-9fc3-a77753e32dfd","title":"Undue advantage from foreign companies for extending timber supply contracts (State Forest Resources Agency, 2011–2014)","status":"indictment","amounts":{"usd":{"rate":"0.0398208064","alleged":"5626679.94","rateDate":"2016-05-26","established":"0.00"},"alleged":"141300000.00","currency":"UAH","established":"0.00"},"dateEnd":"2014-02-28","sources":[{"id":"01a0ffd7-5d86-787d-8879-b2f0091af630","url":"https://nabu.gov.ua/news/mayizhe-150-mln-grn-khabaria-dlia-eksgolovy-derzhlisagentstva-skerovano-do-sudu/","type":"official","title":"Nearly UAH 150 million bribe for former head of State Forest Resources Agency: case sent to court","publisher":"National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine","archiveUrl":null,"archivedAt":null,"publishedAt":"2024-05-07","untranslated":[]},{"id":"01a0ffd7-5d93-70fa-b68f-c5059d80a3e2","url":"https://glavcom.ua/country/criminal/pravookhorontsi-skeruvali-do-sudu-spravu-lisnika-janukovicha-999606.html","type":"media","title":"Law enforcement sends case of \"Yanukovych's forester\" to court","publisher":"Glavcom","archiveUrl":null,"archivedAt":null,"publishedAt":"2024-05-07","untranslated":[]},{"id":"01a0ffd7-5d9b-76f9-9ab9-287978bf7ad5","url":"https://lb.ua/news/2019/02/26/420720_kievskiy_sud_otkazalsya_zaochno.html","type":"media","title":"Kyiv court refuses to arrest former head of State Forest Resources Agency Sivets in absentia","publisher":"LB.ua","archiveUrl":null,"archivedAt":null,"publishedAt":"2019-02-26","untranslated":[]},{"id":"01a0ffd7-5d8c-7e12-8cce-916bd7262a66","url":"https://lb.ua/news/2016/05/26/336106_glava_goslesresursov_vremen.html","type":"media","title":"Head of State Forest Resources Agency under Yanukovych received UAH 140 million in bribes","publisher":"LB.ua","archiveUrl":null,"archivedAt":null,"publishedAt":"2016-05-26","untranslated":[]}],"dateStart":"2011-02-01","caseNumber":null,"description":"According to investigators, in the period from 2011 to 2014 the head of the State Forest Resources Agency of Ukraine, with the assistance of his wife, demanded and received from a number of foreign companies USD 3.7 million and EUR 10.8 million (UAH 141.3 million at the NBU exchange rate at the time of receipt) in exchange for extending timber supply contracts; the funds came in as payment for allegedly “marketing services” and were subsequently laundered. A notice of suspicion was served in absentia in May 2016 (Prosecutor General's Office), after which NABU investigated the case. On 7 May 2024 NABU and SAPO sent the indictment to court (Article 368(4), Article 209(3) of the Criminal Code). Other sources give a different amount: the Prosecutor General's Office in 2016 — over UAH 140 million; NABU materials cited in a 2019 court decision — UAH 144.717 million. The name is not stated in NABU's statement; the full name is according to LB.ua and Glavcom. As of 7 May 2024 there is no verdict; the further course of the case has not been checked. The person is presumed innocent until proven guilty in court.","disclosedAt":"2016-05-26","coDefendants":[],"untranslated":[],"courtCaseNumber":null,"statusUpdatedAt":"2024-05-07","criminalArticles":["ч. 4 ст. 368 КК","ч. 3 ст. 209 КК"],"dateIsApproximate":true,"investigatingBody":"National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine","daysWithoutMovement":882}],"fullName":"Сівець Віктор Миколайович","response":null,"birthYear":1970,"deathDate":null,"indexable":true,"updatedAt":"2026-10-03T17:44:19.924078+00:00","revisionId":"01a102dd-e961-7891-b31e-c0e64bc9bc6e","connections":[],"citizenships":[],"govPositions":[{"id":"01a0ffd7-7cbb-7c72-ace3-6798da58ea2e","title":"Head of the State Forest Resources Agency of Ukraine","agency":"State Forest Resources Agency of Ukraine","dateTo":"2014-03-01","region":null,"sources":[{"id":"01a0ffd7-7cb8-755b-9453-45bf629ba772","url":"https://zakon.rada.gov.ua/laws/show/94-2014-%D1%80","type":"registry","title":"Cabinet of Ministers order of 01.03.2014 No. 94-р \"On dismissal of V.M. Sivets from the post of Head of the State Agency of Forest Resources of Ukraine\"","publisher":"Legislation of Ukraine (zakon.rada.gov.ua)","archiveUrl":null,"archivedAt":null,"publishedAt":"2014-03-01","untranslated":[]},{"id":"01a0ffd7-7cb1-7f83-8cd9-e9a14da7144e","url":"https://zakon.rada.gov.ua/laws/show/21/2011","type":"registry","title":"Decree of the President of Ukraine of 12.01.2011 No. 21/2011 \"On appointment of V. 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