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The OGHC case over nearly 13 million dollars in damages: The High Anti-Corruption Court released one of the defendants from liability
The High Anti-Corruption Court closed the criminal proceedings against former Deputy Chairman of the Management Board of the United Mining and Chemical Company (UMCC) Yurii Pertsev due to the statute of limitations expiring.
Imagine: two “top managers” in 2014 took charge of a state enterprise that extracts raw materials (referring to ilmenite, rutile, zircon, and kyanite-sillimanite concentrates) and supplied them abroad through intermediary companies, so-called “sandwich” companies, controlled by or related to them.
The raw materials were sold to those companies at undervalued prices, and those companies, in turn, resold them to end customers in various regions of the world at market prices.
👉 According to NABU and SAP, the losses amounted to 12,8 million dollars.
This concerns the state enterprise United Mining and Chemical Company (UMCC) and acting CEO Ruslan Zhuryl and former Deputy Director Yurii Pertsev.
❗️ And so the High Anti-Corruption Court, after 7 years of hearing the case, 6 of which were spent just examining evidence, released Pertsev from criminal liability and closed the case—because at the end of July the statute of limitations expired in this case.
As for Zhuryl, the proceedings are currently suspended due to his mobilization. But something tells us that as soon as the ruling regarding Pertsev becomes final, Zhuryl will suddenly be able to attend High Anti-Corruption Court hearings. Apparently, he’s not opposed to being released from criminal liability as well.
▪️ We note that the case was heard (over 7 years!) by a panel consisting of presiding judge Oleh Fedorov and judges Larysa Zadorozhna and Yaroslav Shkodin.
Could the judges have handled the case more quickly? We believe so, because frequent postponements, scheduling the case only once a week or even once every two weeks, and passive case management only helped Pertsev avoid liability.
Recall that a bill has been registered in the Rada that would remove the ability to evade criminal liability in this way by closing all loopholes in the statute of limitations.
But Zelensky’s deputies are not rushing to adopt it, demonstratively declaring it and a number of other euro-integration bills “not relevant.”
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