In 2022-2023 detectives of the Economic Security Bureau of Ukraine have already secured over UAH 1.4 billion in budget reimbursement in all criminal proceedings.

The lion's share of the budget replenishment is the payment of excise tax as part of the criminal proceedings on tax evasion by officials of PJSC Ukrtatnafta. This is over UAH 1.2 billion.

In order to ensure that the state budget receives the funds as soon as possible the ESBU offered the company to compensate the state for the losses caused by the illegal activities. PJSC Ukrtatnafta transferred funds to the budget in several payments.

Employees of the ESBU are conducting a pre-trial investigation of the criminal proceedings within which 10 episodes of criminal activity have been documented. These include the transfer of significant volumes of oil products to affiliated companies, tax evasion, creation of debts of oil refineries which led to the impairment and reduction of the value of their assets, abuse of office, misappropriation of fuel etc. As recently reported, detectives of the Economic Security Bureau of Ukraine served a new suspicion on the former Ukrtatnafta executive of misappropriation of fuel worth UAH 2 billion.

The pre-trial investigation in the criminal proceedings is carried out by detectives of the Economic Security Bureau of Ukraine under the procedural guidance of prosecutors of the Prosecutor General's office and with operational support from the SSU.