Also a completely changed group of investigative prosecutors.
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Chief anti-corruption prosecutor of Ukraine Oleksandr Klymenko canceled the decision to close the so-called “Rotterdam+” case, which was adopted in May 2021, as illegal and unfounded.
As reported in the SAP, Klymenko also completely changed the group of prosecutors in this case due to ineffective supervision of compliance with the laws during the pre-trial investigation.
The Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office noted that the decision was made based on the results of studying the case materials and thorough research conclusions of the prosecutors during the closing of this criminal proceeding and according to the results of the meeting with the participation of prosecutors and detectives of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine, who conducted the pre-trial investigation.
In particular, Klymenko found numerous inconsistencies in the conclusions and arguments of the prosecutor during the closing of this case, the inconsistency of the prosecutor's conclusions with the actual circumstances of the criminal proceedings, and the incompleteness of the prosecutor's investigation of the case materials.
The following decisions in this case will be made by the already updated composition of prosecutors.
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We remind you that on September 21, 2022, the Appeals Chamber of the Supreme of the anti-corruption court completed the review of the appeal against the decision of the investigative judge of VAX on the refusal to satisfy the appeal against the decision on closurecriminal proceedings.
According to the results of the review, the court panel partially annulled the decision of the investigating judge and closed the proceedings based on the complaints of representatives of JSC Nikopol Ferroalloy Plant and JSC Zaporizhzhya Ferroalloy Plant against the resolution of the Prosecutor of the SAPS on the closure of criminal proceedings dated March 24 2017.
SAP stated that they are waiting for the full text of the specified court decision, and the legal position will be taken into account during the further implementation of the pre-trial investigation and decision-making in the case.
“At the same time, the illegality and groundlessness of the prosecutor's decision to close this proceeding does not raise any doubts in the head of the SAP,” the anti-corruption prosecutor's office summarized.
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We remind you that in April 2016, the NCRECP began applying a new procedure for forming the forecast wholesale market price (GRC) for electricity. The order determined the price of coal according to the formula “the price in the port of Rotterdam (API2) plus the cost of delivery to Ukraine.” Subsequently, in 2019, the SAP and NABU notified a number of persons of suspicion, in particular, former head of the NCRECP Dmytro Vovka and employees of the “DTEK” group, accusing them of causing losses to consumers and the state. Proceedings in this case were repeatedly stopped, closed and renewed by canceling the procedural decision to close. losses of 39 billion hryvnias.
