State contracts awarded to firm linked to coal case suspect

State-owned enterprise "Tsentrenergo" signed contracts worth 18 million hryvnia with the company "Kharkivenerghoremont-Holding". The majority of the funds are allocated for the repair of the Zmiivska Thermal Power Plant, which was damaged by missile strikes. In addition, Odesa Thermal Power Plant selected the same firm for the repair of a turbine costing 4.4 million hryvnia.

Link to a criminal case suspect

Lyudmyla Kuziara is listed as a co-founder of the company. She owns real estate jointly with businessman Serhiy Kuziara, who is implicated in the case regarding coal supplies from uncontrolled territories. The same investigation also involves Viktor Medvedchuk and Petro Poroshenko.

Charges of treason and financing terrorism

 In 2021, Kuziara was charged with treason and financing terrorist organisations. However, by 2022, he was released on house arrest.