© Volodymyr Skorobagach / Facebook The VAKS sent him into custody in absentia nine months ago.
At the request of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine, former Deputy Chairman of the Kharkiv Regional Council Volodymyr Skorobagach was detained in France, a source at Censor.NET notes .
He is to be extradited to Ukraine. Skorobagach is accused of organizing a scheme to steal almost 60 million hryvnias from Ukrenergo during a full-scale invasion.
The investigation indicates that Skorobagach, together with the director and founder of a private company, acquired three companies with licenses to supply electricity in the first year of the full-scale war. In June 2022, these companies received electricity from the unified energy system and sold it to consumers, but Ukrenergo never received money from the sale of electricity. To hide the sources of origin, the funds were transferred to the accounts of financial companies under the guise of loan repayments. Subsequently, the financial companies transferred them to other controlled companies, which transferred them to the account of a non-resident company registered in Bulgaria.
In January 2025, the Supreme Anti-Corruption Court remanded Skorobagach and his accomplice in absentia into custody.
Volodymyr Skorobagach was one of the figures in the journalistic investigation of “Ukrainian Pravda” about the so-called “Monaco battalion” – Ukrainian officials and businessmen who left Ukraine after the war began and did not return. The ex-deputy was probably abroad at the time of the deal. In December 2022, Skorobagach resigned as a deputy of the Kharkiv Regional Council.
