Court arrested Kolomoisky’s company "Ukrnaftoburinnia" and handed it over to ASMA’s balance sheet. PHOTOS
As Censor.NET reports, journalist Tetiana Nikolayenko writes about this.
According to her, the company "Ukrnaftoburinnia" is associated with Ihor Kolomoisky, Pavel Fuchs, and Vitalii Khomutynnik, and also appears in the case of a criminal group in power, which through the State Property Fund made money from schemes on the Odesa port.
However, by the decision of the Pechersk Court dated April 11, the company "Ukrnaftoburinnia" was transferred to the balance sheet of ASMA. The day before, on April 7, this asset was seized.
Nikolayenko drew attention to the fact that the company is among the top most profitable companies in Ukraine, although, despite record high gas prices, last year it reduced its net profit from UAH 5.65 billion in 2021 to UAH 3.77 billion in 2022.
"The arrest took place as part of the investigation of criminal proceedings regarding the industrial development of the largest explored Sakhalin gas field in Ukraine (Krasnokutskyi district, Kharkiv region). According to the documents, officials of PJSC "Nadra of Ukraine" (Company), the State Service of Geology and Subsoil of Ukraine not only allowed several companies to develop the most interesting gas fields but also to redistribute profits independently," the journalist writes.
In the court's decision on the seizure of the company's property, it is noted that in violation of clause No. 6 of the Procedure for the conclusion by state enterprises, institutions, organizations, as well as business associations, in the authorized capital of which the share of the state exceeds 50 percent, agreements on joint activities, commission agreements, mandates, and management property, approved by the resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers No. 296 dated 11.04.2012, the Company alienated the shares belonging to it in the joint partial property, based on purchase and sale agreements No. 230/12 dated 15.05.2012, No. 313/12 dated 11.07.2012 and No. 136 /13 dated 04/30/2013 LLC "Golden Derrick" withdrew from the membership and made appropriate changes to the agreements on joint activities.
"Golden Derrick" was partially a state company owned by "Nadra of Ukraine". That is, in fact, through it, people who "understood" the authorities received contracts for subsoil. "Golden Derrick" LLC gained its first scandalous popularity in 2011, during which it was issued more than two dozen special permits for subsoil use on an out-of-competition basis. Such successes were associated with the lobbying of the company's business by the Minister of Energy Eduard Stavytskyi and Mykola Prysiazhniuk," Nikolayenko said.
Until 2009, according to Liga.NET, the main shareholder of Ukrnaftoburinnia was former Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources Mykola Zlochevsky. At the end of 2009, he resold his share to the structures of the Privat group of Ihor Kolomoisky and Gennadiy Boholyubov, who after the operation concentrated almost 90% of the company.
"At the beginning of 2010, the Ministry of Ecology issued Ukrnaftoburynya a new license for the development of the Sakhalin field, which the company had been trying to obtain for more than four years. But after the victory of Viktor Yanukovych, the Ministry of Ecology and the State Service of Geology and Subsoil, headed by Zlochevskyi and Eduard Stavytskyi, took the license away," the journalist noted.
According to Nikolayenko, after the Revolution of Dignity in 2014, Kolomoisky tried to recover what he had lost through the courts. Already in 2016, former People's Deputy Vitaly Khomutynnik became his partner in "Ukrnaftoburinnia". Also in 2017, it became known that 67% of "Golden Derrick" belongs to the offshore Hartlog Limited from the orbit of MosCityGroup owner Pavel Fuchs.
"It is precisely because of Fuchs' connections with representatives of Poroshenko's government that Golden Derrick again began to receive permits for subsoil development. In February 2023, the State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) reported that, together with the Security Service of Ukraine (SSU), they exposed the illegal activities of former high-ranking officials who received illegal excess profits from gas extraction from state subsoils," she reminded.
"But if on April 5 the court arrested only Sakhalinskoye LLC, Sirius-1 LLC, and East Europe Petroleum LLC of Fuchs and Kotvitsky, now the hands of the authorities have reached another asset of Kolomoisky. In addition, the authorities took away his share of Ukrnafta "and the opportunity to operate the Dnipro airport," Nikolayenko concluded.
