Rinat Akhmetov. It’s important not to ascribe to a person what is not in the procedural documents: NABU did not announce...

Rinat Akhmetov. It’s important not to ascribe to a person what is not in the procedural documents: NABU did not announce a personal suspicion of Akhmetov in the “Rotterdam+” case. But among the accused are former DTEK top managers and officials of the NERC (National Energy and Utilities Regulatory Commission). According to the investigation, due to the application of the formula consumers may have overpaid more than 38 billion UAH, and DTEK received excess profits. The investigation began back in 2017, the case was closed and reopened five times, and VACs only moved to substantive consideration in 2025. And some of the accused have already been released from criminal liability due to statute-of-limitations expiration. As of 31 August 2026 the case is still being heard.

Victor Pinchuk. There was a SAP criminal proceeding regarding the alleged extortion and receipt by Leonid Kuchma and Victor Pinchuk of $110 million from Ihor Kolomoisky for control over Ukrnafta. But already on 2 August 2018 the SAP prosecutor closed this proceeding due to the absence of elements of a criminal offense. So here, too, there is neither a guilty verdict nor an active charge that would allow calling Pinchuk guilty.

Ihor Kolomoisky. In August 2026 NABU and SAP referred to court the case in which the former ultimate beneficiary of PrivatBank and five other persons are accused of misappropriating more than 9,2 billion UAH of the bank’s funds.

Kostyantyn Zhevago. In June 2026 NABU and SAP sent to court an indictment regarding the owner of the Finansy i Kredyt group in the case about $2,7 million, which, according to the investigation, were transferred for the desired decision of the Supreme Court in the interests of Ferrexpo.

Oleh Bakhmatyuk. Appears in a case about an alleged bribe to Roman Nasirov of 722 million UAH for assistance in VAT reimbursement to his agricultural companies. The proceeding is with VACs.

And overall there are still real convictions. In seven years of VACs’ work it issued 431 verdict(s) concerning 601 person(s). Of them 398 were guilty verdicts, 33 acquittals. 211 guilty verdicts were issued based on plea agreements. There is a noticeable positive cumulative effect: just in the first seven months of 2026, 68 guilty verdicts concerning 90 persons have already become legally effective. But most of those imprisoned are “small players,” the terms are mostly short, and cases often ended with plea agreements and/or significant mitigation of punishment. Among the most high-profile who actually went to prison:

• Former head of the SFS Roman Nasirov: 6 years. On 2 April 2026 the VACs’ appeal court issued the final decision, after which he was sent to serve the sentence;

• Current member of parliament Anatoliy Hunko: 4 years. On 9 February 2026 the Appellate Chamber changed the previous seven-year sentence and placed him in custody right in the courtroom. The case is already at the sentence-execution stage;

• Former judge Mykola Chaus: 8 years and 6 months. After the appellate decision he remained in custody;

• Former head of the Ternopil Regional Council Mykhailo Holovko: 9 years. On 8 July 2026 the appeal left the term unchanged, and he was taken into custody in the courtroom;

• Former Prosecutor General’s Office official Dmytro Sus: 7 years;

• Former member of parliament Ruslan Solvar: 3 years;

• Former director of the Institute of Agroecology of the NAAS (National Academy of Agrarian Sciences) Orest Furdichko: 8 years.

Former Supreme Court head Vsevolod Knyaziev received 5 years of actual imprisonment under a cooperation agreement with investigators and was taken into custody. But here I would add an asterisk for now: as of the latest available data on the VACs platform this verdict still shows an appellate challenge stage, so I do not yet count it among final verdicts that have unquestionably become legally effective.

So, note, no one has received more than 10 years (who is actually serving a sentence).

I will separately mention the case of Oleh Tatarov, him personally, and a bit of the political context. On 18 December 2020 then-acting head of SAP signed a suspicion notice to Tatarov in a case related to possible falsification of an expert report in the case of developer Maksym Mykytas. Yes, the same one who was with Mudra. NABU detectives went to the Office of the President to serve it. Then the case was taken from NABU and transferred to the SBU by decision of Deputy Prosecutor General Oleksiy Symonenko. NABU called this an unprecedented interference in its investigation.