Russian oligarch Giner served with notice of suspicion for building TPPs in Crimea and supplying ammunition to Russia's army
The State Bureau of Investigation, together with the Security Service of Ukraine, has served a notice of suspicion on Russian oligarch Yevgeny Giner, who built two thermal power plants in temporarily occupied Crimea and supplied ammunition to the Russian army.
Source: State Bureau of Investigation (SBI)
Details: Russian oligarch Giner belongs to the close circle of Russian President Vladimir Putin and is the president of the CSKA Moscow football club.
Law enforcement officers established that the suspect ensured the construction of Balaĸlava (Sevastopol Combined Cycle Gas Turbine Thermal Power Plant (CCGT-TPP) and Tavriia TPP (Simferopol CCGT-TPP) on the territory of temporarily occupied Crimea in 2019 through a company controlled by him. The power plant was connected to the electric networks in Russia.
Quote: "In this way, the suspect caused damage to Ukraine's energy security and contributed to Crimea's dependence on the Russian Federation in the energy sector," the SBI added.
Apart from that, the suspect gave instructions to supply rounds for various types of small arms to the Ministry of Defence, the Armed Forces and other military formations of the Russian Federation as the owner of the Design Bureau of Automatic Lines named after Lev Nikolaevich Koshkin management company in 2022. The supply of a large number of rounds was carried out throughout the entire period from the beginning of the armed aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine.
"Giner was served with a notice of suspicion in absentia for aiding and abetting actions to change the borders of the territory and the state border of Ukraine, which led to serious consequences based on a prior conspiracy by a group of persons. The sanction of the article provides for punishment in the form of life imprisonment with confiscation of property," law enforcement officers said.
Background:
- Yevgeny Giner, through related persons, is one of the beneficiaries of the VS Energy International Ukraine group of companies and owns the corporate rights of Ukraine’s regional power distribution companies, Kirovohradoblenerho PJSC, Rivneoblenerho PJSC, Chernivtsioblenerho JSC, Zhytomyroblenerho JSC, Khersonoblenerho JSC and Sevastopolenerho energy company JSC, as well as hotels, metallurgical plants and shopping centres.
- At the end of June, the Ministry of Justice submitted a lawsuit to the High Anti-Corruption Court of Ukraine to collect the assets of the owners of VS Energy – Russian oligarchs Babakov, Giner and Voevodin – into state revenue.
- Currently, the court has arrested Rivneoblenerho JSC (93.2%), Khersonoblenerho JSC (99.9%), Chernivtsioblenerho JSC (96.8%), Zhytomyroblenerho JSC (95.5%), Kirovohradoblenerho JSC (72.9%), as well as seven hotels and two malls of the VS Energy group with a total value of UAH 2 billion [approximately US$54 million].
- In February, the High Anti-Corruption Court of Ukraine decided to confiscate 88.89% of the shares of the First Investment Bank (PINbank) owned by Russian oligarch Giner.
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