The prosecutor of the Odessa region Oleg Zhuchenko and the head of the regional administration of the National Police Dmitry Golovin commented on the information published in the morning by Prosecutor General Yevgeny Lutsenko about the decision taken by the court to return the Odessa oil refinery to state property.

This is reported by the correspondent of the Ukrainian Information Service.

So, according to the head of the Odessa State Unitary Enterprise NP Golovin, in the last few days, 19 figurants of the "Kurchenko scheme" were detained, who helped the fluent oligarch to carry out illegal oil resale operations at the refinery in 2013 and early in 2014, which caused damage to the state of 2 billion. UAH.

Detentions were held in Kiev, Boryspil, the Dnieper and Odessa. Two of the participants of the organized criminal group were detained when they were already boarding an airplane at the airport, - noted Golovin.

The court detainees chose preventive measures in the form of house arrest or personal obligations not to leave the place, but, according to law enforcers, they are all under constant surveillance. On the charges brought forward in fraud, they face up to 12 years in prison.

To detain the participants of the scheme and find evidence against them - documents that appear in court with evidence of illegal operations, the law enforcement officers were helped by the former deputy director of the plant, who also took part in the "Kurchenko scheme" and went to an agreement with the investigation. The court sentenced him to 5 years imprisonment with 1 year suspended sentence.

By decision of the Suvorov district court of Odessa, all administrative buildings, industrial capacities and infrastructure facilities of the refinery were returned to the state ownership - about 38 thousand. Square. The area of ??buildings and 77 hectares of land, worth about 200 million. Doll. USA.

An audit was carried out and it was established that at the moment the plant is ready to use and conduct oil refining, - said Zhuchenko.

According to him, after the transition of the refinery to the ownership of the Cabinet of Ministers, the contract on transferring the enterprise to the temporary management of the company "Ukrtransnefteprodukt", which the former management of the plant considers a raider seizure, was terminated.

Nevertheless, courts are continuing on the loss of fuel from an oil refinery, which was poured and exported in an unknown direction from the fall of 2014.

I can announce that the next actions of the prosecutor's office will be aimed at the return of this fuel or the compensation of money for its waste, - said the prosecutor of the region.