Fictitious services and Newport Management: how the multi-year scheme of withdrawing FFU funds worked under Pavelko’s leadership

Fictitious services and Newport Management: how the multi-year scheme of withdrawing FFU funds worked under Pavelko’s leadership

According to the investigation, no later than May 2015 (the exact date has not been established), Pavlenko, the president of the public union "Ukrainian Association of Football," developed an intention to illegally seize a portion of these funds in an especially large amount.

For this purpose, he created a criminal plan, the main components of which are:

• organizing and controlling the receipt of payments from UEFA in favor of the FFU;
• accelerating the inflow of funds by sending requests to UEFA on behalf of the FFU;
• concealing part of the receipts from the FFU’s accounting;
• organizing the transfer of funds to the bank account of the non-resident company Newport Management LTD (British Virgin Islands, registered on 26.04.1999, registration number 71912);
• disguising the transfers as payments for allegedly supplied goods and provided services (invoices, contracts, acts), which in reality did not exist;
• signing fictitious documents on behalf of the FFU by a representative of the agent company;
• concealing the crime by not including data on these transactions in the FFU’s financial reporting.

To implement the plan, Pavlenko involved a group of individuals (the total number of participants is at least 25, with the exact number not established at the time of the suspicion). Among the key individuals mentioned are:

• Zapisotskyi Yuriy Hryhorovych (born on 28.04.1982) — appointed as the director of the international activities department of the FFU by order of the FFU president dated 22.12.2015 No. 324-k/tr; transferred to the position of executive director of the FFU on 15.03.2016;
• Krasnokutska Kateryna Volodymyrivna (born on 12.05.1976);
• Sahaydak Yevheniya Stepanivna (born on 19.09.1977);
• Heninson Volodymyr (date of birth not specified in the provided fragment).

Payments from UEFA received by the FFU were partially transferred to the account of Newport Management under the guise of payment for goods and services that the FFU neither received nor planned to receive. Documents (invoices, orders) were issued on behalf of the FFU, signed by a representative of the agent company, after which the funds were transferred without actual delivery.

Pavlenko had the authority to exercise general control over finances, issue orders, sign documents, represent the FFU in UEFA and FIFA, conclude contracts, and more.