Solomyansky District Court in Kyiv has chosen a pretrial restriction measure in the form of a Hr 9.5 billion bail and personal recognizance to one of the defendants in the Rotterdam+ case, CEO of DTEK Grids Ivan Gelyukh.
As press secretary of Specialized Anti-corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAPO) Olha Postoliuk told Interfax-Ukraine, another defendant in the case, adviser to DTEK Skhidenergo’s Director-General Borys Lisovy, has already paid a Hr 10 million bail.
Previously, National Anti-corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) agents have served notices of suspicion to Borys Lisovy, an adviser to DTEK Skhidenergo’s Director-General, and CEO of DTEK Grids Ivan Gelyukh in a criminal case regarding the use of the so-called Rotterdam+ formula.
Ukraine’s National Commission for Energy, Housing and Utilities Services Regulation (NCER) at the end of April 2016 began using a new formula for determining tariffs for electricity for industrial users (Resolution No. 289 of March 3, 2016). The procedure, in particular, defined the price for coal according to the formula “price to the port of Rotterdam (API2) plus the cost of delivery to Ukraine).”
On August 8, the SAPO and the NABU notified six people of suspicion, including ex-head of the NCER Dmytro Vovk and ex-member of the commission Volodymyr Yevdokymov. The suspects are charged with abuse of official position committed by prior conspiracy by a group of persons in order to obtain undue benefits for other legal entities contrary to the interests of the service, entailing grave consequences (Part 2 of Article 364 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine). DTEK employees were also notified of suspicion.
NABU Director Artem Sytnyk on August 9 called on suspects to cooperate in the Rotterdam+case investigation. He said many suspects are not located in Ukraine.
SAPO chief Nazar Kholodnytsky said the investigation was waiting for the position of lawyers defending the suspects in the case.
