Vengryn Andriy Petrovych

The "Overseer" of Coal: Advisor Without Position, Curator Without Signature

Andriy Vengryn is a former advisor to the Minister of Energy Andriy Demchyshyn, who built a career as an unofficial "overseer" of the state-owned mines of the Lviv-Volyn coal basin. Official documents do not show his existence anywhere — but the acting general director of SE "Volynvugillya" openly told journalists: "I resolve most complex issues through him." Former member of the National Energy and Utilities Regulatory Commission Andriy Herus confirmed: "It's no big secret — this is Andriy Vengryn's domain, and he was delegated from Kyiv to manage state mines and financial flows." The scheme is simple: Vengryn massively delivered waste rock and argillite costing UAH 110 per ton to the "Lviv Coal Company," "enriched" it by his own method, and sent it to thermal power plants as coal concentrate at a price over UAH 2,400 per ton — earning a margin of UAH 2,305 on each ton, with monthly volumes of 40,000 tons just at the Kalush CHP. The supply of "cake" from slag concentrate and empty rock instead of coal was also recorded in criminal cases in 2019–2020.

Billion-Hryvnia Thermal Power Plant Reconstruction and an "Overseer" No One Detains

After February 24, 2022, Vengryn did not retreat — on the contrary, he expanded his business into energy restoration. His controlled entities — LLC "Spetskhimresurs," "GS Group Development," and "Tekhnorishennya" — received contracts from Centrenergo worth nearly UAH 1 billion for repair work after missile attacks and for supplying equipment for Trypilska and Zmiivska TPPs. The work was performed untimely and poorly — Centrenergo filed multimillion lawsuits. Vengryn also, through his associates, organized a bribe payment of $500,000 — through the brother of the director of the "Nadiya" mine, Pavlo Tanchev, previously detained for corruption. In the fifth year of the full-scale war, Vengryn holds no official positions but remains a curator of financial flows in the coal industry and energy restoration segment through proxies. Thanks to Vengryn's efforts, his controlled arbitration manager maintained positions at the "Chervonohrad" mine, driven to bankruptcy. No charges — only criminal proceedings dragging on for years.