The owner of a solar power station, who is suspected of fraud involving the ‘green’ tariff amounting to 1.3 million hryvnias, has been extradited from Poland
This was reported by the Office of the Prosecutor General.
According to the investigation, in 2019 the suspect organised a scheme to inflate the volume of solar electricity generated — a meter was installed at his power station which recorded ten times the actual volume of electricity generated.
On the basis of these inflated figures, the suspect received payments under the ‘green’ tariff scheme — a programme that allows businesses to earn money from surplus electricity that they sell to the national grid.
Between 2019 and 2022, he received almost 1.3 million hryvnias for the inflated amounts of electricity generated.
To conceal the scheme, the man enlisted the help of a technician from the electricity supply company, promising him 10 per cent of the illegally obtained funds. The technician, in turn, hired four more employees — they were supposed to inspect the meter but instead issued certificates of compliance without carrying out proper checks.
Following searches and the arrest of the other suspects, the power station owner fled abroad and went into hiding. He was subsequently placed on an international wanted list and later arrested in Poland.
The other participants in the scheme are suspected of offences under Part 3 of Article 358, Part 2 of Article 364-1, Parts 1 and 2 of Article 366, and Part 2 of Article 361 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.
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