He was arrested on suspicion of embezzlement of funds of the Oschadbank, which were intended to compensate for Soviet deposits of Ukrainian citizens older 80 years.
[5] During the second round of presidential elections in 2004 and the Orange Revolution, Pashynskyi worked for the candidate Victor Yushchenko in the electoral district No.
The result of his work was the largest increase of votes for Yushchenko between the first and second rounds of elections among the regions of central and western Ukraine.
[3] The Prime Minister designated Pashynkyi as general director of the State enterprise "Ukrreserv" and from August 2005 till January 2006 he worked actively on overcoming the crisis situation in food markets.
[7] According to the Interrogation Report of the former Minister of Defense of Ukraine Ihor Tenyukh, on 23 March 2014, at the initiative of Pashynskyi and the former head of the National Guard Stepan Poltorak, a meeting of the NSDC was held.
[3] In January 2015, Pashynskyi initiated the restriction of photo and video recording of meetings of the conciliatory council of the heads of the parliamentary factions and committees of the Verkhovna Rada.
Thanks to that system, officials at Ukroboronprom siphoned off funds from a $39 million contract to supply details for Antonov AN-32 aircraft to the Ministry of Defence of Iraq.
Three days later, on 30 November, buses with so-called titushky arrived at the factory - it was a group of 200 sports people who were tasked to seize the enterprise by force.
[17] On 16 July 2016, the head of the Ukrainian branch of the Transparency International, Andriy Marusov, was attacked twice by unknown persons, as a result a laptop with archive data was stolen.
[20] In April 2018, the website "NV" published an investigation in which it was claimed that the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine was involved in the allegedly inflated prices of outdated BMP-1 (produced in the 1980s) from the Polish company "Wtorplast", which received this equipment in the Czech Republic.
[21] Minister of Defence Stepan Poltorak in an interview with the BBC said that "The information is not true, because the Ministry of Defense bought military vehicles for $169,000.
[22] Representatives of the Polish supplier company came to the parliamentary hearings on the mentioned issue for explanations, but the editor-in-chief of the website "NV" Vitaly Sych did not appear despite the invitation.
[23][24] In November 2002, the Prosecutor General of Ukraine accused Pashynskyi of stealing $4 million in 1999-2000, as well as committing fraudulent transactions in obtaining loans from other banks.
He was arrested on suspicion of embezzling the funds of Sberbank of Ukraine, intended to compensate Soviet deposits to citizens who have reached the age of 80.
According to the Ukrayinska Pravda, Yulia Tymoshenko personally came to the Lukyanivska Prison to take out Pashynskyi, whom the investigation allegedly wanted to re-arrest.
[30][31] On 26 July 2017, the Prosecutor General's Office closed the case against Pashynskyi, but on 13 December, Pechersky District Court of Kyiv ordered the resumption of the investigation into the criminal proceedings.
[32] On 29 May 2018, the GPU recognized the fact of the manipulation of video and entered information on this case into the Unified register of pre-trial investigations.
[38] On 18 March 2021 the Vasylkiv Raion Court of Kyiv Oblast acquitted Pashynskyi of the charge (of inflicting grievous bodily harm on Khimikus).
[39] Pashynskyi has two award weapons - Glock 19 pistol (28 March 2014) and Fort-224 assault rifle (copy of IWI Tavor 21) (14 October 2014).
Head of the "SpetsTechnoExport" department — the second-largest Ukrainian state-owned foreign trade enterprise by turnover, which specializes in export and import of military and dual-purpose products and services globally, as well as on promoting innovations and military-technical cooperation, incorporated to the State Concern Ukroboronprom.