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There is a decision, but who actually wins: exposing the schemes of a pharma giant and moving on
The Commercial Court of the Kharkiv Region issued rulings in cases No. 922/1423/26 and No. 922/1752/26, which obliged the NGO “NON-STOP UKRAINE” to remove publications about the activities of the “Apteka 9-1-1” network and to retract the disseminated information. Well, we respect the law and the court’s decision, so we are deleting the publications that displeased the other party. ❗️But we warn immediately: the attempt to legally block our organization’s work proved to be another waste of money for the opponents.
The structures of the “Apteka 9-1-1” network, affiliated with the family of Ashot #Данієлян and Nune Danielyan, tried through the courts not only to delete materials but also to declare our official complaints and statements to state authorities false. The beneficiaries’ lawyers convinced their clients to claim the maximum damages in order to recover millions of hryvnias from us.
🤷♂️However, the judicial outcome turned out to be much more modest — about 40 thousand hryvnias in compensation was awarded, which is in fact virtually impossible to collect, since the NGO “NON-STOP UKRAINE” is a volunteer organization without checking accounts or commercial assets.
The only real winners in this situation were probably the plaintiffs’ attorneys, who extracted tens of thousands of dollars from the pharma business for knowingly hopeless cases.
While the beneficiaries were spending money on lawsuits, we built another large evidentiary base regarding the operation of the entire network. We established that an organized group led by the network’s beneficiaries “Apteka 9-1-1” constructed a scheme of artificial business fragmentation through dozens of controlled legal entities sharing the same address and management, which allows them to evade antimonopoly control, hide real profits, and use shared commercial infrastructure with possible violations of transactions through cash register equipment (RRO).
The network’s financial activity has been accompanied by money laundering and tax underreporting. Through knowingly false license agreements with a foreign company, more than 💰2 billion hryvnias were transferred to the accounts of controlled structures under the guise of royalties.
Business operations showed violations of licensing conditions and competition rules: a lack of a proper quality system, failure to maintain required temperature conditions for drug storage, and the use of unfair advertising “Wholesale Price Pharmacy.”
By the way, based on our complaints, the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine began reviewing a case regarding the network’s anticompetitive coordinated actions and the dissemination of unfair advertising “Wholesale Price Pharmacy.”
Overall, based on our materials, law enforcement and regulatory agencies registered a series of criminal proceedings in the Unified Register of Pre-Trial Investigations, and courts issued a number of rulings regarding officials’ inaction.
▪️TO the State Bureau of Investigations in Poltava — No. 62026170020016520 dated
10.07.2026 under part 5 of art. 191 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.
▪️ To the Security Service of Ukraine in Kharkiv region — No. 22026220000001214 under part 1 of art. 212 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.
▪️ To the Kharkiv District Prosecutor’s Office — No. 42026222130000056 dated 18.05.2026 under part 1 of art. 366 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.
▪️ To the Investigative Department of the Main Directorate of the National Police in Dnipropetrovsk region — No. 12026000000001119 dated 18.05.2026 under part 1 of art. 364 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.
▪️ To the Kharkiv Regional Police Department HROUP No. 2 of the Main Directorate of the National Police in Kharkiv region — No. 12026221170001418 dated 26.05.2026 under part 2 of art. 364 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.
▪️ TO the Territorial Department of the State Bureau of Investigations in Poltava — No. 62026170020019249 dated
14.06.2026 under part 5 of art. 191 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.
Attempts to stop our human rights work through lawsuits only add structure to our efforts. We continue to monitor the pharmaceutical market, file new complaints, and prepare appeals against the first-instance decisions.
Read more about the financial schemes, artificial business fragmentation, and the network’s corrupt ties in our previous investigations:
▫️Pharmaceutical cartel of officials: how the “Apteka 9-1-1” network moved billions and evaded taxes
▫️Pharmaceutical mafia, protection by state bodies, and billion-dollar schemes: how pharmacy giants profit from Ukrainians
▫️It seems we stirred up a hornet’s nest: Apteka 911 responds with a lawsuit
▫️How the Ministry of Health and the “9-1-1” network turned pharmacies into a tool for enrichment
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