The High Anti-Corruption Court has made a ruling regarding Ihor FurSenko, a figure in the high-profile case of large-scale abuses in the energy sector. On the evening of November 12, the court chose to impose a preventive measure of detention for 60 days with the possibility of bail set at 95 million hryvnias.
This is reported by Kyiv24
Details of the Case and Suspects
This is already the fourth arrest within the investigation of corruption at ‘Energoatom’ in one day. Earlier, a similar preventive measure was assigned to Dmytro Basov, the executive director of security at ‘Energoatom’, former advisor to the Minister of Energy Ihor Myroniuk, and entrepreneur Lesia Ustyimenko.
Ihor FurSenko, who is referred to in documents as ‘Ryoshik’, according to NABU data, served as the accountant of the ‘back office’. In audio recordings attached to the case, he mentioned the ‘inconvenience’ of transporting a box of money. FurSenko is officially registered as a private entrepreneur, whose main area of activity is consulting on informatization issues. His phone number in the lists of other suspects is noted as ‘Ihor, employee of Mykhailo Tsukerman’.
Scale of Corruption and New Suspicions
According to journalistic investigations, among the suspects in the so-called ‘Energoatom’ case are Tymur Mindich (‘Karlson’), Ihor Myroniuk (‘Rocket’), Dmytro Basov (‘Tenor’), Oleksandr Tsukerman (‘Sugar Man’), Ihor FurSenko (‘Ryoshik’), Lesia Ustyimenko, and Liudmyla Zorina. Journalists have established that the Tsukerman brothers were involved in the financial aspects within Tymur Mindich’s structure.
‘Ryoshik’ is referred to by NABU as the accountant of the ‘back office’. He was the one on the recordings who said that carrying a box of money was ‘not exactly a pleasure’.
As NABU reported on November 10, the organized criminal group systematically received illegal benefits from ‘Energoatom’ contractors ranging from 10% to 15% of the contract amounts. The money was laundered through a specially created back office in the center of Kyiv; the total amount of funds that passed through this structure reached approximately 100 million dollars.
During the same period, projects for the dismissal of Herman Halushchenko from the position of Minister of Justice of Ukraine and Svitlana Hrynchuk from the position of Minister of Energy were registered in the Verkhovna Rada.