Yuriy Dubinsky Euroenergotrade owner biography

Yuriy Dubinsky
Businessman, owner of an energy company

BIOGRAPHY

Yuriy Dubynskyi was born on April 30, 1969. He has dual citizenship: Ukrainian and Israeli. He leads a luxurious lifestyle in Monaco, getting around the city exclusively in premium-class vehicles. In Ukraine, Dubinsky works in several business areas, the main of which is the purchase and supply of gas (operational activities are carried out through the company "Euroenergotrade"). He has experience in developing a network of gas stations that operated under the brand "Kalina" (PRAT "Kalina Ltd"). Dubinsky Yuriy Lvovich is the owner of the companies "Legal Information Security Agency", "Retail Plus", "Fitness Health" and others.

Yurii Dubynskyi’s business was built on gas trading through fraudulent schemes previously successfully implemented by Members of the Party of Regions and the notorious Oleksandr Onyshchenko. When these schemes ceased to operate, Dubynskyi began taking loans from state-owned banks and profiting from them.

DUBYNSKY'S GAS BUSINESS AND KOMPROMAT

Yurii Dubynskyi manages the company “Euroenergotrade,” which is engaged in the supply of gas and electricity. In addition to its energy operations, the company develops grain supply and sales. On the market, the company is associated with Members of the Party of Regions. Through the party’s lobbying, “Euroenergotrade” actively cooperated with state institutions and was a prominent participant in public tenders. In 2022, the company concluded agreements totaling more than UAH 346 million.

Yurii Lvovych Dubynskyi became involved in a scandal with the state enterprise “Ukrhazvydobuvannia.” The case concerned the supply of gas to Dmytro Firtash’s companies. Firtash has still not paid for the gas received and owes substantial sums to Dubynskyi. Dubynskyi also conducted other schemes with “Ukrhazvydobuvannia,” using fictitious companies to launder money received from gas sales by the joint activity operators of PJSC “Ukrhazvydobuvannia.” As a result of these activities, the state suffered losses of nearly UAH 740 million. According to media reports, the organizer and ultimate beneficiary of this fraudulent scheme was former Member of Parliament Oleksandr Onyshchenko.

On April 18, 2023, by Resolution No. 681, the National Commission for State Regulation in the Energy and Utilities Sectors suspended the license for the right to conduct economic activity in the supply of electricity to consumers due to numerous violations of Euroenergotrade. Back in 2021, the National Commission for State Regulation in the Energy and Utilities Sectors imposed fines on Euroenergotrade LLC for violating the requirements of the legislation and the Licensing Conditions for conducting economic activity in the supply of natural gas. From 2023 to 2025, Euroenergotrade carried out a number of transactions that significantly affected the company's financial condition. In the spring of 2024, it became a debtor to Sokar Ukraine, because it assumed obligations in the amount of more than 1.3 billion hryvnias of other companies: International Gas Company and Yu-GAZ. The next ambiguous action of Euroenergotrade was the alienation of a large amount of assets: the transfer of claims of more than a billion hryvnias to the Plant of Weighted Drilling and Lead Pipes in favor of Maple Leaf LLC. These actions are confirmed by the Ruling of the Northern Appeal Economic Court of January 21, 2026 (case No. 920/162/23).

What is interesting: Yuri Dubinsky's company "Euroenergotrade" itself did not receive any benefit from the actions described above, neither economic benefit, nor equivalent counter-security, but only received significant accounts payable. All this indicates economic inexpediency, disregard for the interests of creditors, and there are signs of fraudulent actions.

During 2024/2025, Dubinsky transferred the entire business of Euroenergotrade to the subsidiary Emporia LLC.

CRIMINAL EXPERIENCE OF YURI DUBYNSKI

1. In 2017, Dubinsky Yuriy received a sentence from the Pecherskyi District Court of Kyiv. The criminal case concerned Dubinsky’s commission of a crime in the field of economic activity, legalization (laundering) of proceeds of crime. Yuriy Dubinsky acquired part of fictitious companies for further laundering of money received during the sale of gas at reduced prices by the operators of the joint venture “Ukrgazvydobuvannya”. The state suffered losses of 740 million hryvnias.

2. Also, criminal proceedings No. 52018000000001011 have been opened against Dubinsky. Dubinsky was found guilty of committing criminal offenses under Part 2 of Article 27, Part 4 of Article 28, Part 2 of Article 205, Part 2 of Article 27, Part 4 of Article 28, Part 3 of Article 209, Part 1 of Article 255 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (fictitious entrepreneurship, money laundering, participation in a criminal organization).

THE CASE OF DUBYNSKY AND UKRGASBANK

How to avoid paying a bank and use loan funds not for the company’s interests, but for personal gain? Almost six years ago, a General Credit Agreement No. 436/2020/Cherk OD-KB-GCD was concluded on 3 November 2020 between AB “Ukrhazbank” and LLC “Euroenergotrade.” Since LLC “Euroenergotrade” began violating the terms of the Credit Agreement and accumulated substantial overdue debt, Ukrhazbank filed a claim with the Commercial Court of Kyiv to recover the debt, totaling UAH 1,350,299,374.09.

On 10 December 2024, a settlement agreement was executed and approved by the Commercial Court of Kyiv. Under this agreement, the debt was to be repaid by “Euroenergotrade” and the guarantors over three years. The company itself acknowledged the debt in the amount of UAH 1,349,146,826.35. Despite the agreement, the company again began missing deadlines and, from July 2025, stopped making payments entirely.

To avoid liability to the state-owned bank, Yurii Dubynskyi re-registered the location of “Euroenergotrade” to the city of Sloviansk in Donetsk Oblast, a territory potentially affected by hostilities. It is likely that Dubynskyi plans to use this as a justification for his alleged inability to fulfill the company’s obligations.

Additionally, Dubynskyi, in collusion with the local management of “Socar Ukraine” acting independently of the Socar group, orchestrated an unfounded arrest by the State Bureau of Investigation, which resulted in the seizure of the company’s pledged monetary claim rights worth UAH 1.35 billion. The state bank was prohibited from taking any actions to dispose of or transfer these rights. In effect, the asset pledged to Ukrhazbank as collateral for Dubynskyi’s company obligations was blocked. Notably, this local management, acting without involvement from the broader Socar group, had previously approached the bank with an offer to purchase these claim rights and subsequently initiated their blocking in favor of Dubynskyi.

Why is Dubynskyi doing all this? He is attempting to bankrupt “Euroenergotrade” and change its ownership—a common scheme for seizing assets from a state bank. Through his fraudulent actions, Yurii Dubynskyi is again attempting to defraud the state, as his debt—almost entirely owed to the Ministry of Finance of Ukraine—creates risks of causing exceptionally large losses to both the state and the financial guarantors.