The appellate court of the Odessa region refused to open appeal proceedings on complaints of representatives of the Odessa Oil Refinery and Energia and Gas Ukraine, as well as the representative of businessman Sergei Kurchenko, after which the property of the enterprise passed to the state of Ukraine. This was reported by the press secretary of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine Larisa Sargan in Facebook.

"21. 07. 2017 the decision of the Suvorov district court of the city of Odessa on special confiscation in favor of the state of all property of the Odessa oil refinery and limited liability company came into force, "she said..

"The estimated cost of confiscated property is more than $ 200 million or more than 5 billion USD," she said..

Kurchenko Group VETEK bought Odessa Refinery in 2013. In February 2014, after the entrepreneur's flight, the plant was stopped. According to the Prosecutor General's Office, about 65 thousand. Tons of various petroleum products that were stored at the refinery were illegally sold.

In January 2016, the Primorsky Court of Odessa arrested the property of the oil refinery and 99.57% stake in the plant owned by the Cyprus company Empson Limited, whose ultimate beneficiary is Kurchenko.