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It still has to be approved by the court.
Former adviser to the president’s office and former head of the Main Directorate for Counterintelligence Protection of State Interests in the sphere of economic security of the Security Service of Ukraine, Artem Shilo, has reached a plea agreement with the investigation in the case of embezzlement at Ukrzaliznytsia.
As reported by the Center for Combating Corruption, during a session of the High Anti-Corruption Court, 29, the prosecutor of the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office announced the reaching of an agreement on entering a guilty plea with Artem Shilo and Konstantin Melnikov (another defendant) and requested that the Shilo case be separated into a separate proceeding.
The High Anti-Corruption Court of Ukraine approved the prosecutor’s request. Next, the High Anti-Corruption Court of Ukraine must review the agreement itself and decide whether it complies with the law and public interest. Details of the agreement are not yet known.
Shilo was charged in the spring of 2024. It relates to events 2021-2022 when an organized group led by Shilo, during transformer procurements at inflated prices, appropriated money from Ukrzaliznytsia. The state losses were estimated at 94,8 million hryvnias. An interesting point was that the transformers were purchased through a shell company owned in part by legal entities from Russia.
As early as November 2022, in an investigation by Bihus.Info it was stated that Artem Shilo, over ten years in public service, amassed property totaling nearly $4 million. He was also described as close to Oleksandr Tatarsky’s deputy chief of the president’s office and those who “watch over the railway.” Additionally, Shilo is associated with the emergence of the Russian bookmaker 1xBet in Ukraine.
Artem Shilo worked in the Security Service of Ukraine from 2012. During the distribution of influence in the SBU between groups of Andriy Yermak and Ivan Bakanov in 2021, he left the service. According to official data, Artem Viktorovych Shilo in February 2022 opened and in July registered in Kharkiv a private entrepreneur, registered to operate in the field of law and informatics. Concurrently, in April 2022 he founded in Kyiv a legal entity, LLC “Prikker,” of which his father Viktor Shilo is director. He returned to the SBU immediately after Vasyl Maluk became its head.
At the same time, before Artem Shilo’s charges were announced, he was dismissed from his post as head of a unit in the SBU. According to ZN.UA, the initiative for the resignation came personally from President Volodymyr Zelensky.
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