At the Brovary plastics plant – an attempt to take over by force: a structure associated with the oligarch Viktor Polishchuk is behind the likely raider attack
“Titushki”, a fight, broken furniture and a broken door: in Brovary near Kyiv, the attackers blocked the local plastics factory. And the legitimate owners of the enterprise spent almost a day in their captivity – without light and heat, in order to protect their property. Who is behind the attempt to forcibly “squeeze” the company? And what does the scandalous Russian politician Medvedev have to do with it? The journalist investigatedStopbark» Natalya Digtyar.
They kicked down the door, blocked the office and beat the reporters. December 13, 2022 at the end of the working day at the Brovarsky plastics plant near Kyiv there was an attempt the forcible takeover of the enterprise with the participation of about 20 young people of a sporty appearance, who acted quite harshly.
“The attackers behaved like Russians in the occupied territories. They forbade giving food to those who remained inside, cut off the electricity – obviously, so that people would freeze and give up”, – says journalist Natalya Digtyar, who became a direct eyewitness to the events.
At the same time, the entrances and exits of the office building were blocked by the police for several hours. The latter explained that investigative actions were underway: the investigative-operational group (SOG) of the patrol police was allegedly called to the place by the “new owners” of the plant.
Meanwhile, one of the young people attacked Denis Shinkarenko, a journalist from Stop Illegal TV, hit him and knocked his phone out of his hands. Denis recognized the attacker.
“Today at the plastics plant in Brovary I recognized one of the attackers. Three years ago, he beat me and other activists near the Gulliver shopping center. And today this same person is already beating the tenants of the enterprise,” the reporter noted.
So what is going on around the plant in Brovary? And who exactly is the legal owner of the enterprise? Medvedev’s relative? Who is the raider?
The same striker, whom the journalist recognized – Sergey Kolesnikov – turned out to be a representative of Star Investment Van LLC. It was this company that allegedly bought the rights to the property of the plant.
The StopKora team managed to communicate with the legal founder of the enterprise. And it turned out that in fact the battle for the Brovarsky plastics plant began several years ago, when the Star Investment Van company acquired the right to claim the integral property complex of the plant at an open auction in accordance with a mortgage agreement concluded between the bank and the enterprise itself.
However, as it turned out, the new owners became the owners of this mortgaged property illegally, since the disputed lot was sold almost for next to nothing, and the right of ownership was acquired illegally.
“Intending to seize the property of PrJSC “BZP”, the FGVFL together with LLC “Star Investment Van” agreed to put up for sale the right to claim the object. After that, Star Investment Van LLC became the winner of the “Dutch auction” and received the right (retreat agreements) for an object with a market value of 150 million US dollars at a price of 3.6 million. That is, the right to register ownership of a large plant at a price of three-room apartment in Kyiv!” – Arkady Garda, the lawyer of PJSC Brovarsky Plastics Plant, comments.
Further more. As it turned out, Star Investment Van LLC, illegally claiming the property of the plant, is connected with Viktor Polishchuk, a well-known metropolitan businessman.
Pro-Russian oligarch Viktor Polishchuk is the owner of the Gulliver shopping and entertainment center in the center of Kyiv, and also owns the Eldorado chain of electronics and household appliances stores. In addition, Polishchuk is known as the owner of the infamous Mikhailovsky Bank. Then thousands of people could not return their invested money, and the bank was declared bankrupt.
And the most interesting thing is that Polishchuk’s wife Lilia Rezvaya is the niece of the wife of Dmitry Medvedev, the former president of the Russian Federation, which is probably the reason for the rapid rise of the businessman in the early 2000s.
During the presidency of Yanukovych, the oligarch was an unofficial “watchman” in the Kyiv region. But even after the escape of the “baty”, Polishchuk remains a loyal subject. It is believed that it is through the hands of Polishchuk that the “clan” is trying to return the assets and prevent their confiscation.
What is the essence of the scheme?
As the lawyers explain, the main content of the scam with the Brovary Plastics Plant is that after purchasing the collateral property within ten days, the Star Investment Van company, according to the procedure, had to re-register the property for itself, but for some reason did not do this, but returned to this issue almost a year and a half later.
“This is a gross violation. That is, the auction took place in the spring of 2019, and the act on the implementation of the mortgage was issued by the private contractor only on November 11, 2022, ”comments journalist Natalya Digtyar.
According to Arkadiy Garda, the lawyer, the plant sees a certain ordered character in such actions, since the cost of the lot was underestimated by almost 50 times. On this fact, representatives of PJSC “Brovary Plastics Plant” filed a lawsuit to cancel these auctions.
The trial is currently ongoing, the details of which have not yet been disclosed.
And how does the performer explain his actions?
So, in exactly 11 days, namely on November 22 of this year, the state registrar makes changes to the Register of rights to real estate on the basis of a false act. Currently, all the disputed property has been seized as part of the lawsuit, but this did not prevent the state registrar from performing registration actions.
The private performer Yaroslav Berezhnoy himself claims that everything supposedly happened according to the law and purely within the framework of enforcement proceedings.
But in the end, the raiders actually received an integral property complex – and this is 58 thousand square meters. meters of real estate located on 9 hectares of Brovary land – almost for next to nothing.
What exactly is the reason for such a cost of the object, the editors of “StopKor” tried to find out in the Deposit Guarantee Fund. However, no response has yet been received.
We will continue to monitor the progress of the case. To be continued.
Recall that the current owner of the plant, Yuri Rud, back on November 22 declaredthat the company was illegally taken over by unauthorized persons. According to him, on November 21, 2022, the Star Investment VAN company “re-registered” the property of the Brovarsky Plastics Plant under a mortgage agreement.