People's Deputy from the Servant of the People party Oleksandr Dubinsky and non-factional deputy Andriy Derkach registered a bill on the creation of an interim commission of inquiry (TSK) to investigate the facts of international corruption of top officials of Ukraine.
One of the subjects of the TSC investigation will be "illegal lobbying for the production and supply" of energy resources to Ukraine. This was reported on his Facebook page Dubinsky.
According to the draft resolution, the TSK will include 18 people, its head will be Dubinsky, and Derkach will be the secretary, he wrote, adding that the commission will solve the following main tasks:
- investigation of the activities of the ex-head of the NBU Valeria Gontareva;
- investigation of the activities of ex-Minister of Finance Natalya Yaresko;
- verification of information from the Accounts Chamber's report on violations in the use of international technical assistance in the amount of $ 5.3 billion;
- investigation of the facts of illegal lobbying for the issue of extraction and supply of energy resources to the territory of Ukraine and illegal pricing for Ukrainian consumers;
- investigation of illegal actions of the government of Prime Minister Vladimir Groisman.
As reported, in April 2016, the National Commission for State Regulation in the Spheres of Energy and Utilities (NEURCU) began to apply a new procedure for the formation of the predicted wholesale market price (ORP) for electricity, which affects the setting of electricity tariffs for industrial consumers (Resolution No. 289 of March 3, 2016). The procedure, in particular, determines the price of coal according to the formula "cost at the port of Rotterdam (API2) plus the cost of delivery to Ukraine" (Rotterdam +).
The National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) opened criminal proceedings on March 24, 2017, within the framework of which it is investigating the actions of NEURC members who approved the Rotterdam + formula. On July 1, 2019, a new model of the electricity market was launched, in connection with which the previous principles of pricing, including the Rotterdam + formula, ceased to apply, but the NABU investigation continues, and the case began to be heard in courts.
The defense party in the Rotterdam + case filed a motion to close the proceedings in connection with the findings of forensic experts confirming the legality of the formula, the absence of economic damage and losses for electricity consumers, said Natalia Drigval, lawyer of the DTEK group
