Trukhanov's case added to the list of high-profile trials stuck in the HACC

The Ukrainian media has published a list of the most high-profile criminal proceedings that have been considered by the High Anti-Corruption Court for years. Among them is the case of Odesa Mayor Gennadiy Trukhanov regarding the acquisition of the Krayan plant.

This is described in an infographic by Slovo i Dilo.

According to the court, as of April 2025, the HACC has more than 300 cases pending, some of which were transferred in 2019, immediately after the launch of the anti-corruption court.

Infographic by Slovo i Dilo.

Odesa Mayor Gennadiy Trukhanov, along with five other people, is accused of embezzling over UAH 92 million in budget funds as a result of a scheme to acquire the administrative building of the former Krayan plant into municipal ownership at a twice inflated price. The case was transferred to the HACC in March 2021, and the indictment against Trukhanov was read out only in January 2024. As of April 2025, the hearings are still ongoing.

In addition to Odesa Mayor Hennadiy Trukhanov, the following people are involved in the case: his deputy Pavlo Vugelman, former head of the Standing Committee on Communal Property of the Odesa City Council Vasyl Shkriabai, former director of the Department of Communal Property of the Odesa City Council Oleksiy Spector, and his former deputy Volodymyr Radionov.

In the summer of 2024, it became known that Oleksii Spektor, the director of the communal property department of the Odesa City Council, who was involved in the case of embezzlement at the Odesa plant Krayan, had died. The SAPO wanted to close the case against Spector because of his death. However, the widow of the accused asked to continue hearing the case for the rehabilitation of the deceased. Therefore, the case will continue to be heard.

In December 2023, the HACC refused to merge two criminal proceedings on the misappropriation of more than UAH 92 million from the Odesa budget during the purchase of the Krayan plant building.

It was a case in which the accused is the mayor of Odesa, Hennadii Trukhanov, and another in which one of the accused is former MP Oleksandr Dubovoi.

In January 2020, NABU detectives served suspicion notices in the Krayan case to four more citizens who, according to the investigation, are aiders and abettors. The new suspects are Anatoliy Kolomiyets, a former deputy of the Kiliya District Council, Oleh Babenko, a deputy of the Odesa Regional Council, and Oleksandr Dubovyi, a former MP, as well as Aliona Popova , a former assistant to the mayor of Odesa when he was an MP. It should be noted that the latter was put on the international wanted list, and the case against the three new defendants is being heard separately by another court panel and has also been delayed at the preparatory stage of the HACC for the second year because of the defendants and their defense.

Ірина Глухова