Tsurkanenko Andrei Mikhailovich

Tsurkanenko Andrei Mikhailovich

Biography

2023: Wanted for alleged IT system manipulation to complicate service applications

The former general director of Krymenergo was put on the wanted list on suspicion of abuse of office. This was reported in the investigative department of the TFR in Crimea at the end of November 2023. The name of the person involved in the case is not named.

RIA Novosti recalls that in September 2023, the general director of Krymenergo, Andrei Tsurkanenko, was dismissed. Then the head of Crimea, Sergei Aksenov, said that the company had established schemes for receiving bribes from the population for connecting to power grids, and also scammed with the supply of equipment and the operation of metering devices. Losses in the company's networks were twice the regulatory figures. Later, Aksenov said that Tsurkanenko "left for Turkey," the agency reports.

According to the Investigative Department of the TFR in Crimea, the head of Krymenergo ordered to make changes to the IT system of the organization, which limited the ability of citizens to apply for Krymenergo services through the official website. In fact, the inhabitants of the peninsula did not have the opportunity to electronize their own houses. By his actions, the ex-general director of the company tried to reduce the poor performance of applications by residents of Crimea.

As part of the investigation of these criminal cases, the investigation conducted 60 searches in the premises of the power grids of all regions of the republic and at the places of residence of the defendants, seized documentation on complaints and appeals of citizens. The prosecutor's office of the republic also checked the implementation of the requirements of the legislation on the electric power industry, the Crimean administration of the TFR reported.

At the end of October 2023, the former director of the department of the State Unitary Enterprise of the Republic of Kazakhstan Krymenergo was detained on charges of abuse of office. He, according to the Main Directorate of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the region, developed a criminal scheme according to which evidence of unaccounted for and non-contractual electricity consumption was created, and then multimillion-dollar amounts of debt were unreasonably charged to subscribers.^[1]

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