State Bureau of Investigation detains former Ukrenergo CEO Kudrytskyi
Ukraine's State Bureau of Investigation detained former Ukrenergo CEO Volodymyr Kudrytskyi in Lviv Oblast on suspicion of large-scale fraud and money laundering tied to 2018 energy tenders, sources told hromadske.
According to sources of Ukrainska Pravda said, Kudrytskyi will be charged. Preliminary qualification involves fraud on a particularly large scale and laundering of criminally obtained funds.
Meanwhile, businessman Ihor Hrynkevych, currently in pre-trial detention, was charged on another count. The investigation believes Kudrytskyi and Hrynkevych could have misappropriated funds from the state company during tenders for the reconstruction of energy system facilities back in 2018.
On October 21, searches were conducted at Kudrytskyi's. They concerned abuse of office and misappropriation of state company funds. This involves inflating the volume of forest felling and the cost of contractor work during the laying of energy transmission lines.
Kudrytskyi headed Ukrenergo from 2020 to 2024. In September last year, the supervisory board dismissed him. At that time, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy demanded that Kudrytskyi submit a resignation letter — due to allegedly poor protection of Ukrenergo facilities.
After that, Ukrenergo Supervisory Board Chair Daniel Dobbeni and member Peder Andreasen resigned. They called Kudrytskyi's dismissal "politically motivated."