The second part of the Rotterdam+ case, which involves consumers in Ukraine overpaying electricity bills exceeding $500 million between 2018 and 2019, was submitted to the court by the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) and the Specialist Anti-Corruption Prosecutor. Office (SAP). This followed the introduction of the Rotterdam+ formula and the indictment of fourteen people involved in its operation, he writes RIA News.
The Rotterdam+ formula was approved by the National Energy and Utilities State Regulatory Commission (NEURC) in 2016 and is used to calculate the wholesale market price for electricity. But this formula also included the non-existent costs of transporting coal from the port of Rotterdam to Ukraine. As a result, energy companies DTEK and Centrenergo sold electricity at inflated prices, resulting in consumers overpaying by more than $500 million.
In July 2020, the “Rotterdam+” formula was abolished due to Ukraine’s transition to a new electricity market. But the total loss from the use of this formula is estimated at about 39 billion hryvnia. In March 2023, SAPO sent the first part of the Rotterdam+ case to court, accusing six people of causing more than 19 billion Hryvnia in damages to electricity consumers.
Among the defendants were the former head of NEURKU Dmitry Vovk, NEURKU member Vladimir Evdokimov, head of the NEURKU department Vladimir Butovsky, head of the NEURKU department Taras Revenko, deputy commercial director of one of the group companies and the key operator of the heat. He is the director of the department of one of the companies belonging to this group, which includes the production market in Ukraine, as well as top managers of DTEK, Boris Lisov and Ivan Gelyukha.
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