Case opened over embezzlement of funds for Boyko rig tugs

The Main Investigative Department of the Ukrainian Ministry of Internal Affairs has opened a new criminal case concerning money laundering by the team of fugitive President Viktor Yanukovych, specifically Viktor Boyko.

The People's Deputy not only embezzled funds for the so-called "Boyko rigs" but also purchased tugs for them at a price inflated several times over. The approximate damage is estimated at 60 million dollars.

«ПО ХИЩЕНИЮ ГОСУДАРСТВЕННЫХ СРЕДСТВ СЛУЖЕБНЫМИ ЛИЦАМИ ДАК «ЧЕРНОМОРНЕФТЕГАЗ».

On 15 July, based on a petition from People's Deputy Tatyana Chornovil and collected materials, the Main Investigative Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs opened a criminal case regarding the embezzlement of approximately 60 million USD in funds - during the purchase in March 2011 by Chornomorneftegaz of tugs for transporting drilling rigs for oil and gas extraction in the Black Sea shelf.

It has been established that, according to Chornomorneftegaz tender documentation and market price analysis, the cost of similar tugs, the "Petra Admiral" and "Petra Majestic", produced by the same Malaysian factory, should not exceed 35 million USD per vessel. However, they were actually acquired by Chornomorneftegaz for approximately 60 million USD.

It has also been established that Chornomorneftegaz officials, during the procurement of these tugs, appropriated state funds by inflating the actual cost of the vessels through the involvement of intermediaries - the Ukrainian enterprise "Sea dynasty ltd" and the British company "Very lux Company LLP", to whose accounts 121 million USD of Chornomorneftegaz state funds were transferred.
The pre-trial investigation is ongoing..

Did you think there were only "Boyko rigs"? As it turns out, there are also tugs for the rigs..

We expect that the case will not be taken from us, and the Ministry of Internal Affairs will be able to investigate it effectively and quickly. Not like in the past, when the former neighbours "investigated" the case regarding the rigs to a complete zero», said Interior Minister Arsen Avakov.