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NABU and SAP have completed the pretrial investigation into a case of embezzlement of public funds intended for payments under the “green” tariff on the temporarily occupied territory of Zaporizhzhia region, with the main defendants being former Deputy Chief of the Office of the President Rostyslav Shurma and his brother Oleh Shurma.
This is reported by the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office.
“The SAP prosecutor has made a decision to finalize the pretrial investigation in the case regarding the embezzlement of funds earmarked for the green tariff. It should be noted that the organized group acted in the interests of a number of commercial energy generating enterprises located on the temporarily occupied territory of Zaporizhzhia region,” the statement reads.
At the request of the SAP prosecutor, NABU detectives opened the materials of the case for the defense for familiarization.
Among the suspects are the former Deputy Chief of the Office of the President and the former member of the Supervisory Board of NJSC Naftogaz of Ukraine, the owner of a network of Ukrainian and foreign companies (a close relative of the former deputy head of the OOP), an entrusted person of a former high-ranking official, the head and employees of the controlled enterprises, and the former commercial director of Zaporizhzhia Obedenergo.
Their actions are qualified under Part 5 Article 191, Part 3 Article 209, Part 2 Article 366 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.
“In 2019–2020 years, a former member of the Donetsk Regional Council (even before being appointed to the Office of the President of Ukraine), his brother, and a trusted person established control over a group of companies that owned solar power plants with a total capacity of about 60 MW in the Vasylivskyi district of Zaporizhzhia region. Subsequently, these companies concluded contracts with the State Enterprise “Guaranteed Buyer” for the sale of electricity to the state under the green tariff,” SAP reported.
With the start of the full-scale Russian invasion, the facilities ended up on temporarily occupied territory, and in July–September 2022 of the year they completely lost connection with the unified energy system of Ukraine due to damage to the networks.
“The Deputy Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine decided to create an organized group aimed at unlawfully obtaining funds for electricity supposedly released by producers from renewable energy sources, without its actual entry into the unified energy system of Ukraine. For this, the individuals provided knowingly false data in the reports about the volumes of electricity released and accepted into the grid. As a result, the State Enterprise ‘Guaranteed Buyer’ paid out more than 141 million UAH for electricity that did not reach the energy system at all. The obtained funds were laundered through related enterprises for the benefit of the organizer of the criminal group, his brother, and his relatives,” SAP reported.
By the way:
In August 2023 year, journalists from Bihus.Info published an investigation into Oleg Shurma's solar power plants, which, despite being on occupied territory and lacking connection to the unified energy system of Ukraine, continued to receive payment under the green tariff until the summer of 2023 year.
In February 2024 year the National Agency for Prevention of Corruption drew up a protocol against Rostyslav Shurma. The Agency noted that in 2022 year he organized the Electric Power Committee at the OPU, whose participants gathered under his chairmanship. He did not disclose the existing conflict of interest, and the committee’s decisions ensured multi-million payments to firms owned by his brother.
Meanwhile, Shurma himself did not hide that by the end of 2020 year he had invested in his brother’s company about 10 million dollars, and in 2021–2022 years together with his wife he lent his brother another about 430 million UAH, but claimed he had no involvement in the business.
In July 2025 year, NABU detectives, together with German law enforcement, conducted searches in Rostyslav Shurma’s Munich apartment, after he left the position of Deputy Head of the Office of the President and moved to Germany.
21 January 2026 year, NABU and SAP stated that they uncovered a scheme of embezzling money intended for green tariff payments, in which commercial energy generation enterprises located on the temporarily occupied territory of Zaporizhzhia region profited. A group of individuals, including former Deputy Head of the Office of the President Rostyslav Shurma and his brother Oleh, received and laundered 141 million UAH of state budget funds for electricity that the state did not receive.
21 April 2926 year, the High Anti-Corruption Court chose a pretrial restraint in the form of detention for the former Deputy Head of the Office of the President Rostyslav Shurma and his brother Oleh Shurma, who owns a network of Ukrainian and foreign companies.
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