The Main Investigative Department of the National Police of Ukraine is investigating large-scale fraud involving the frozen accounts of the former head of NJSC "Naftogaz of Ukraine," Yevhen Bakulin.
This became known from the ruling of the Pechersk District Court of Kyiv.
In March 2014, the head of the board of NJSC "Naftogaz of Ukraine," Yevhen Bakulin, was detained on suspicion of embezzling natural gas. In 2012, the company "GazUkraine-Commercial" belonging to Serhiy Kurchenko received natural gas without 100% prepayment. At that time, the state did not receive 1.4 billion hryvnias for the gas.
Additionally, Bakulin was accused of abuse of power by instructing PJSC "Ukrtransnafta" to transfer dividends for the results of 2011 not to the state budget of Ukraine, as required by law, but to the account of NJSC "Naftogaz of Ukraine." The dividends of 129 million hryvnias received were used by NJSC "Naftogaz of Ukraine" at its discretion.
On April 25, 2014, the Pechersk Court of Kyiv released Bakulin on bail of 10 million hryvnias. Some citizen named Telesh acted as the bail provider. In the fall of 2014, Bakulin was elected to the Verkhovna Rada from the "Opposition Bloc."
In June 2016, Bakulin left the territory of Ukraine on a Kyiv-Minsk flight through Zhulyany airport. Subsequently, his family members also crossed the border.
In 2019, Bakulin was declared internationally wanted.
Since 2014, the suspect’s accounts in Ukraine have been frozen. In the bank, Bakulin had approximately 843,000 euros, 585,000 dollars, and 436,000 hryvnias.