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The High Anti-Corruption Court 24 September approved a plea agreement with the former acting Head of the Presidential Administration, Serhii Pashynskyi, in the case concerning the appropriation of seized petroleum products. Under the terms of the agreement, he must compensate the state and the Defense Forces a total of 1 billion 100 million hryvnias. This concerns events from March–June 2014, when the defendant, using his official position, appropriated seized petroleum products, causing the state losses of more than 817 million hryvnias.
The National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine announced the approval of the agreement on its Telegram channel. Under the agreement the defendant fully admitted guilt under part 2 of article 364 and part 1 of article 255 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine and agreed to provide incriminating testimony to the investigation. He is also charged with participation in a criminal organization.
The convicted person committed to reimbursing the state 600 million hryvnias of losses to the general fund of the state budget in stages over 2,5 years from the moment the verdict takes effect. Another 400 million hryvnias or the equivalent in weapons from an agreed list he must transfer to the Come Back Alive Foundation within six months, and 100 million hryvnias for weapon purchases for the Defense Forces to the Charitable Foundation "Sternenko Community" within 30 days.
In addition, the defendant must pay a principal fine of 850 thousand hryvnias and an additional fine of 17 thousand hryvnias, with disqualification from holding positions in state bodies and local self-government for one year. Confiscation of property was not imposed on the convicted person because that additional punishment under article 255 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine was introduced by law only in June 2020 — after the commission of the crime.
The High Anti-Corruption Court examined the agreement for conformity with the interests of society and approved it by its verdict. If the convicted person fails to fulfill the terms of the agreement, the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office will petition the HACC to annul the verdict and have the case tried in the ordinary procedure.
Details of the Kurchenko petroleum-products case
Indictments were served to participants of the criminal organization for appropriating seized petroleum products back in February 2024. The investigation established that the state lost control of nearly 100 thousand tons of petroleum products confiscated from structures linked to businessman Serhii Kurchenko.
5 September 2025 the HACC already approved a plea agreement with another defendant in the same case. That person was sentenced to 8 years of imprisonment, but under part 2 of article 75 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine was released from serving the sentence with a probationary period of 3 years, without confiscation of property. Under the terms of that agreement the convicted person transferred 40 million hryvnias to the Defense Forces of Ukraine and undertook to pay the state budget 110 million hryvnias over three years.
Previously, Informator reported that Serhii Pashynskyi lives in a million-dollar lakeside house in the village of Khlepcha in Kyiv region, where investigators carried out searches, and that he in the meantime switched from a representative "Mercedes" to a British SUV. We also wrote that during the pretrial measure hearing the SAP prosecutor acknowledged the absence of evidence of Pashynskyi’s personal gain in the petroleum-products case, stating that the investigation has so far not proven funds were credited to his accounts.
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