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Ukraine’s Prime Minister Denis Shmygal said the state is using the premium of the former top manager of Naftogaz Ukraine by buying national government bonds.
Prime Minister of Ukraine Denis Shmygal, on the air of the talk show “Freedom of Speech by Savik Shuster” on the channel “Ukraine” on December 18, said that former NJSC manager “Naftogaz of Ukraine” had transferred part of his award for four years to the state budget.
The name of the former manager was not mentioned on the air, but judging from the circumstances described, it is the former executive director of NJSC Naftogaz Ukraine Yuriy Vitrenko.
Oleksiy Davidenko, former member of the Kiev City Council, owner of the Medtekhnika + network of medical equipment stores, said: “When you give a 170 million bonus to a state administrator, even a well-deserved bonus, and at the same time, no you can find the money for additional payment to doctors in intensive care units for eight months … So I’ll tell you: 170 million UAH to a top manager of Naftogaz is 4.5 thousand of our Ukrainian doctors, 40 thousand UAH each one in December, an additional payment on the card. “
“As for bonuses for managers. Unfortunately, this is not the state budget. This company and a former manager in a legal dispute came to such a decision. This is not the state budget, this is not in the sphere of government influence, this is an issue that was resolved between Naftogaz and the manager in These are bonuses that were counted and agreed before our government began to work. Today that money is already assigned, but the important thing: that money stayed in the state budget Because this manager left for four years in the state budget, he did not accept them, so it was agreed with him, and this is also an important message: that this money must remain and be distributed. They were transferred from the budget of the company, with which the manager was suing, to the state budget, and today the state budget uses them to buy national government bonds, ”said Shmygal.
Vitrenko has collaborated with Naftogaz since 2002. He was an advisor to the company’s leaders, in 2004-2005 he served as head of one of the NAK departments. In 2014 he returned to Naftogaz, he was Director of Business Development, since 2018-Go was the CEO. It participated in the Stockholm Arbitration, which satisfied Ukraine’s claims in disputes with Gazprom over the purchase and transit of Russian gas. is he work completed in the company in July 2020-he.
In 2018, he received around $ 6 million in awards from the Stockholm Arbitration. On February 11, Vitrenko stated that he appealed to the Naftogaz management for the violation of the labor contract by the company and for not paying him the remainder of the bonus for the victory over Gazprom. In February, he said he had filed a lawsuit in this regard.
On December 15, Vitrenko had an interview with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the deputies of the People’s Servant. December 17 The Verkhovna Rada Committee on Energy and Public Services did not support his appointment to the post of First – Deputy Prime Minister – Minister of Energy of Ukraine. On the same day, the Rada refused to support Vitrenko’s candidacy. Voted for 186 popular deputies with the required minimum 226. Parliament plans to return to this issue in January, said the head of the Servants of the People faction, David Arakhamia.
On December 16, the editor-in-chief of “Censor.NET” Yuri Butusov, citing sources in “Oschadbank” and “Naftogazi”, said that Naftogaz transferred UAH 170 million to Vitrenko’s account prizes for the victory in the Stockholm arbitration over the Russian “Gazprom”. The journalist called what was happening “a bribe for loyalty” and called it a corruption offense related to the possible appointment of Vitrenko as First Deputy Prime Minister. Vitrenko denied receiving money.
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