Case description
Former Deputy Prime Minister Andrii Kliuyev is accused of embezzling almost UAH 200 million of budget funds together with Oleksandr Taran, former head of the State Investment and Innovation Agency. They are facing up to 12 years in prison with confiscation of property.
According to detectives, in 2010, Andrii Kliuyev, then First Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine, allegedly organized the embezzlement of budget funds through controlled enterprises. He engaged Oleksandr Taran, head of the State Investment and Innovation Agency of Ukraine, in the scheme.
The defendants illegally allocated about UAH 170 million in favor of Semiconductor Plant OJSC. Subsequently, another UAH 25.3 million was transferred allegedly for the development of energy-saving technologies. In total, Kliuyev and Taran embezzled more than UAH 195 million to the accounts of controlled firms.
Taran is charged under Article 191, part 5 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine, and Kliuyev is charged as an accomplice in the case. The former Deputy Prime Minister was put on the wanted list, his parliamentary immunity was lifted and attempts were made to prosecute him, but according to the SSU, he managed to flee to Russia.
