French company pays EUR 3.37 million to Ukraine in NABU case. This is a precedent

The French company Surys, which is a party to the NABU case on corruption at the State Enterprise Polygraph Plant Ukraine, has transferred EUR 3.37 million (equivalent to UAH 163.38 million) to the state budget. About said Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office.

"In the history of Ukraine this is the first time such a result has been achieved based on the results of the activities of the international joint investigation team, which included Ukraine, France and Estonia," the SAPO said.

It is a case of fraud with passports, one of the defendants is the former Minister of Health of Ukraine Maxim Stepanov, who at that time headed the Ukraine printing plant.

The Convention Judiciaire d'Intérêt Public (JDP) settlement agreement with the company was concluded by the French National Financial Prosecutor's Office and subsequently approved by a court in Paris.

The pre-trial investigation in France against the company was related to possible bribery and other criminal offenses in the Polygraph Plant case.

The joint investigation team examined contracts of the Polygraph Plant's counterparty, a French company, which agreed to a court settlement following the pre-trial investigation. The legal entity paid a fine and compensated the damage caused to the state of Ukraine.

The Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office coordinated actions to protect Ukraine's interests in the French court together with the French National Financial Prosecutor's Office (Parquet national financier).

• In July 2023, Stepanov became a defendant in the of the NABU criminal proceedings about the schemes at the printing plant "Ukraine", and in September of the same year he was tried in absentia arrested.
• In December 2024, the Ukrainian side secured a plea agreement with a person close to the former head of the printing plant.
• In February 2025, the Estonian Public Prosecutor's Office sent an indictment against Estonian entrepreneurs is submitted to the court involved in the laundering of 35 million euros for the former head of the Ukrainian Ministry of Health Stepanov.
• In May Stepanov received a new suspicion from NABU as part of an international investigation into passport fraud.