Sergey Kurchenko threw DNR and LPR according to the classical scheme

The General Prosecutor's Office of the self-proclaimed Luhansk People's Republic (LPR) and the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD) of the self-proclaimed Donetsk Republic (DPR) found confirmation of the fraud of businessman Sergei Kurchenko, which is associated with the shortage of already paid fuel and lubricants (POL) to the republic.

Kurchenko acted according to the classic “divorce” scheme, promising the heads of the LPNR gasoline and diesel fuel 10 percent cheaper than the market price, but having taken an advance payment, he refused to supply fuel and lubricants. According to the news agencies of the republics, further actions by Kurchenko's companies to supply fuel and lubricants and liquefied gas (propane) entailed a fuel collapse in the region controlled by the militants.

In addition, Kurchenko's enterprises collected money from citizens living in the LPR by the will of fate for the use of natural gas, although, according to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the prosecutor's office of the republics, they had nothing to do with the supply of blue fuel to the apartments at all.

“We will not allow profiting from the war, blockade, difficult economic situation, and all dishonest entrepreneurs who are unable to engage in open and honest business will be severely punished up to criminal prosecution,” the DPR Ministry of Internal Affairs said.

At the end of September, in both republics, criminal proceedings were instituted against Kurchenko in accordance with the decrees of the heads of the LPNR Zakharchenko and Plotnitsky.