Kolomoisky failed to obtain recognition as a victim in the Rotterdam+ case

Kolomoisky failed to obtain recognition as a victim in the Rotterdam+ case

The decision of the Appellate Chamber of the Supreme Anti-Corruption Court was not subject to appeal by way of cassation, writes ZN.

Supreme Court refused two ferroalloy plants belonging to the Privat group of Igor Kolomoisky and Gennady Bogolyubov, in a complaint in which the enterprises tried to identify themselves as victims in the Rotterdam + case. This is stated in the decision of the panel of judges of the First Judicial Chamber of the Cassation Criminal Court dated January 17, 2023, published in the Unified State Register of Court Decisions.

The factories tried to cancel the decision of the Appeals Chamber of the Supreme Anti-Corruption Court of September 21, 2022, in part, to which the court denied these enterprises the status of victims of the formula.

“The Court concluded that the opening of the cassation proceedings should be refused on such grounds. According to the requirements of Part 4 of Article 424 of the Criminal Procedure Code of Ukraine, the ruling of the investigating judge after its review on appeal, as well as the ruling of the court of appeal based on the results of consideration of an appeal against such a ruling, are not subject to appeal in cassation“, the decision says.

The decision of the Supreme Court is also not subject to appeal.

Thus, in this case, in which the Nikopol Ferroalloy Plant and the Zaporozhye Ferroalloy Plant tried to identify themselves as the only victims, an end has been put. Kolomoisky could not achieve anything.

Recall, on January 16, the National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) announced the completion of the investigation of the second episode in the Rotterdam + case. In this episode, 15 people are suspected of being involved in the introduction of the Rotterdam + formula, according to which electricity consumers illegally overpaid more than UAH 20 billion in 2018-2019 alone.

Generally, due to the introduced Rotterdam+ formula during 2016-2019, end consumers overpaid more than UAH 39 billion.

On business pass Boris Tsyganenko, a former member of the National Commission for State Regulation in Energy and Utilities, and Vladimir Butovsky, ex-Deputy Head of the Energy Market Department, an official of the NEURC. NABU and SAPO suspect these persons of official negligence in the framework of the Rotterdam + case.

Kolomoisky failed to become a victim in the Rotterdam+ case

At the same time, it is known that on October 26, NABU and SAPO reported on suspicion of 15 persons in causing more than UAH 20 billion in damage from the Rotterdam + formula for 2018-2019. Among the suspects are two former chairmen of the NEURC – Dmitry Vovk and Oksana Krivenko, as well as former and current members of the National Commission and other persons.

According to investigators, DTEK Grids CEO Ivan Gelyukh and another DTEK manager Boris Lisovoy, by prior arrangement with ex-chairman of the NEURC Dmitry Vovk, former member of the National Commission Vladimir Evdokimov, deputy head of the energy market department of the NEURC Taras Revenok and head of the department of this department Vladimir Butovsky in advance adoption of the “Rotterdam Plus” formula, discussed the possibility of its implementation.

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