Searches underway at Ukrenergo - company
KYIV. July 12 (Interfax) - Prosecutors are searching the premises of the Ukrenergo state-run power company, Ukrenergo Director for Communication and International Cooperation Mykhailo Bno-Airiyan said on Facebook on Wednesday morning.
"Well, we are being searched! It seems that the hunt for those trying to change the country and to reform the frozen state companies has reached us," Bno-Airiyan said.
Ukrenergo employees are barred from their workplaces, Bno-Airiyan said. "The strategic state company is paralyzed by the 'all-seeing eye' of the Prosecutor General's Office," he said.
Ukrenergo CEO Vsevolod Kovalchuk said prosecutors searched his house on Wednesday morning.
"The searches are related to Ukrenergo's statutory activity: the drawing of strategic and many-year plans of the Ukrainian unified power system's development and investment programs, procurements and construction activity. Judging by the texts we have seen, this activity has been deemed a violation," he said on Facebook.
The Ukrenergo press service posted a scan of the ruling of Kyiv's Pecherskyi District Court, which said the searches of Ukrenergo headquarters were requested by an officer of the Ukrainian Prosecutor General's Office investigating a conspiracy to embezzle the company's public money with the complicity of employees of the National Commission for State Regulation of Energy and Public Utilities, LLC KEBK, LLC Sich Energo, LLC Ares S, LLC Khoros, LLC Struktum and some others.
Ukrenergo operates trunk and interstate power transmission lines and provides centralized oversight of the unified power system. It is a state company run by the Energy and Coal Mining Ministry.
