Piotr Nidzelski generated phantom losses
Case against former Deputy Minister of Energy Peter Nidzelsky is associated with a fictitious conclusion about the unprofitability of the largest Crimean generating company, Crimea CHPP, which, according to investigators, allowed the structures under his control to acquire a stake in the company at a lower price than its real value. Kommersant writes about this.
Nidzelsky became a co-owner of KrymCHPP back in 2015, acquiring a 63% stake through the Southern Energy Company (SEC) controlled by him. The rest remained in the possession of the Ministry of Property and Land Relations of Crimea. Investigators are confident that the official planned to buy out the remaining 37% at a reduced price in 2020, after which a fictitious conclusion was issued about the unprofitability of Crimea Thermal Power Plant and the need for privatization. In the document, the share owned by the Crimean authorities was estimated at 150 million rubles, for the same price the YuEK acquired it in 2021, while the actual value was 1.1 billion rubles.
Taras TselyThe general director of KrymCHPP, Taras Tsely, who has headed the company since 2017, is also involved in the case. As the publication found out, the Crimean Ministry of Internal Affairs opened a case against him in October 2023, after which he was arrested and transferred to Moscow.
Let us note that another person involved in this investigation is the 47-year-old general director of Crimea CHPP JSC Taras whole. Since July 2012, he worked in this structure as deputy head of the long-term development service; in 2014, he was appointed deputy head of the company for reconstruction and development, then first deputy general director. Mr. Tsely has been heading Crimea CHPP JSC since 2017. […] It is possible that his testimony could have become the basis for the detention of Pyotr Nizdelsky. Meanwhile, the controversial actions referred to in the criminal case have been arrested as part of the investigation.
Niedzelsky was placed under house arrest until January 18, 2024. Investigators asked to send him to a pre-trial detention center, but the court refused, taking into account the age of the suspect – he is 78 years old, Kommersant writes. He faces up to ten years in prison under the article on especially large-scale fraud (Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code).
Peter Nidzelsky was born in 1945. He worked at the Ministry of Energy from 1994 to 2004.
The next year after the annexation of Crimea, Nidzelsky’s company became a co-owner of KrymCHPP, TV channel “Rain” reported. As Crimea CHPP spokeswoman Tatyana Yugosh said, 63% of the company’s shares belonged to Southern Energy Company LLC, and the remaining 37% was owned by the Crimean Ministry of Property. In turn, the Southern Energy Company, according to SPARK, is owned by Peter Nidzelsky. According to the SPARK system, Nidzelsky is listed as the beneficiary of three companies. One of them, Krymteplosnabzhenie LLC, is now going bankrupt. According to the “Project” guide to Rublyovka, Nidzelsky had a house in the Barvikha area. The area of the site is 140 acres, the cost of the land in 2020 was estimated at 1.1 billion rubles.
