National Anti-Corruption Bureau summoned the ex-director of the Odesa port plant for questioning

The National Anti-Corruption Bureau summoned the former director of the Odesa Port Plant for questioning.

Former acting Mykola Parsentiev, director of JSC “Odesa Port Plant”, was summoned for questioning, which will take place on December 4. The subpoena was issued by National Anti-Corruption Bureau.

According to the document, on December 4 at 14:00, Parsentiev should arrive at National Anti-Corruption Bureau for “participation in investigative and procedural actions, in particular, interrogation as a suspect and delivery of procedural documents in proceedings No. 12020000000000236 dated March 11, 2020.”

Previously, USM reported that the appeals chamber of the High Anti-Corruption Court quadrupled the bail of one of the former acting officials. director of the Odesa Port Plant.

The former manager is suspected of involvement in the embezzlement of UAH 500 million of funds that belonged to state enterprises. The bail was increased from UAH 5.9 million to UAH 20.13 million.

As a reminder, we are talking about one of the members of the criminal organization, which during 2019-2021 seized more than UAH 500 million of the funds of state-owned enterprises — Odesa Port Plant and UMCC.

The members of the scheme also include:

• a person close to the head of the State Property Fund who is considered a co-organizer of the crime;

• advisor to the head of the State Property Fund;

• two persons who at different times held the positions of acting directors of JSC “Odesa Port Plant”;

• Acting director of JSC “United Mining and Chemical Company”;/• two owners of LLC, winners of the auction at ” Odesa Port Plant “;

• two more natural persons whom the investigation considers complicit in the crime.

The former head of the State Property Fund and nine other participants were charged with suspicion in March. On May 8, in absentia, the court chose a preventive measure in the form of detention for one of the suspected ex-experts of the Odesa Port Plant.