On the initiative of Mikhail Kiperman, about 600 million hryvnias were withdrawn from the companies’ accounts.
Law enforcement officials have exposed another scheme for misappropriating money by former leaders Ukrtatnafta, involving Mikhail Kiperman, a business partner of oligarch Igor Kolomoisky. This was reported by the SBU on Friday, June 2.
Investigators learned that at the initiative of this former member of the supervisory board Ukrtatnafta almost UAH 600 million were withdrawn from the companies’ accounts.
“This was done on the first day of a massive Russian raid, perhaps in the hope that the attackers would not have to answer for the robbery,” the report said.
The scheme is on February 24, 2022 Ukrtatnafta transferred to a controlled company in Europe almost UAH 600 million, which was given to another supplier to pay for the previously chartered 84 thousand tons of crude oil.
At the time of the fraud, this raw material was already in the port of Odessa and was supposed to be delivered for further processing to the Kremenchug refinery.
For the execution of the transaction, the former top management Ukrtatnafta created a “clone agreement”, in which he changed the details of the payee.
Thus, the organizers of the scheme transferred money to a controlled company instead of paying the real oil supplier.
As a result, Mikhail Kiperman was declared a suspect under three articles of the Criminal Code of Ukraine:
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misuse, embezzlement or possession of property by abuse of official position (part 5 of article 191);
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illegal actions with transfer documents, payment cards and other means of access to bank accounts, electronic money, equipment for their production (part 3 of article 28, part 1 of article 200);
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official forgery (part 3 of article 28, part 1 of article 366).
Now Mikhail Kiperman is hiding from justice abroad. The issue of placing him on the international wanted list will be decided.
Recall that in February, the SBU and the BEB conducted searches at the house of oligarch Igor Kolomoisky in the case of fraud in Ukrnafta And Ukrtatnafta.
Schemes for the misuse of UAH 40 billion by the former owners and management were exposed Ukrnafta And Ukrtatnafta. The chief accountant and the former director were informed of the suspicion Ukrtatnafta.
Then Ukrtatnafta transferred to the budget more than UAH 1.2 billion of taxes that were not paid by the previous administration.
Source: korrespondent
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