As Interfax-Ukraine reports, on December 16, the district administrative court overturned a Cabinet of Ministers resolution requiring approximately 170 large industrial consumers to purchase natural gas exclusively from Naftogaz of Ukraine by February 28, 2015.
As previously reported, the government adopted Resolutions No. 596 of November 7, 2014, and No. 599 of November 12, 2014, requiring approximately 90 companies to purchase gas exclusively from Naftogaz of Ukraine. Subsequently, a third resolution, No. 647 of November 26, 2014, was adopted, expanding this list to 170 companies.
A lawsuit against the Cabinet of Ministers to cancel these resolutions was filed by OOO Vostochny Geological Union, PJSC Prirodnye Resursy, OOO Tisagaz, OOO, OOO Energy Service Company Esko-Pivnich, Kub-Gaz, PJSC Naftogazvydobuvannya, OOO Naftogaz-Alliance, and JV Poltava Petroleum Company.
As a reminder, on August 12, 2014, the Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine opened a criminal investigation into the embezzlement of more than 320 million hryvnias (US$24,6 million) of budget funds allocated for the development of the mineral resource base by officials of the National Joint-Stock Company Naftogaz of Ukraine in 2012. The criminal case was opened under the article "misappropriation, embezzlement, or seizure of property on an especially large scale through abuse of office."
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