Holoborodko Ihor Valentynovych

Embezzlement of SE "SkhidGZK" funds through sulphur price increases under supplementary agreements with LLC "TD 'Eko-Servis'" (2015)

According to the HACC verdict of 02.11.2022, in February–May 2015 the Deputy Director General for Production Support of SE "SkhidGZK", together with the director of LLC "Trading House 'Eko-Servis'", after a tender for the purchase of sulphur, signed a series of supplementary agreements under which the price per tonne gradually rose by 31% and then by 57% while the delivery volume decreased; the court determined the state enterprise's excess expenditure at UAH 25,447,120.09 (in 2020 NABU put the losses at UAH 25.4 million, SAPO and TI Ukraine at UAH 24.5 million). A notice of suspicion was served in absentia on 02.10.2019; the accused were in the temporarily occupied territory of Crimea and were put on the wanted list. The indictment was sent to the HACC on 04.08.2020; the case was tried in absentia. The HACC imposed 9 years' imprisonment with confiscation of property (Part 5 of Article 191 of the Criminal Code); on 30.05.2023 the HACC Appeals Chamber upheld the verdict, and it entered into force. On 13.05.2025 the Supreme Court removed from the verdict only the special confiscation of UAH 20.85 million and otherwise left the decision unchanged. Full names are taken from the NACP Register of Corrupt Officials and TI Ukraine (court decisions are anonymised).

Pre-trial investigation body:

National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine

Proceedings:

52018000000000215

Charges:

ч. 5 ст. 191 КК України