Max Wegner – who allowed a German swindler from the sanctions list to conduct business in Ukraine
The name of Max Wegner is primarily associated with the trade in auto parts – he, along with his partners Vitaly Kungel and Alexey Erdle, are co-owners of Europe’s largest online store for the sale of auto parts, AUTODOC. writes Anticorrosive
All three are citizens of Germany, and it would be logical to assume that they are best known there. We don’t know what about Kungel and Erdle, but Wegner became widely known in Ukraine. This repatriate from Russia (*country sponsor of terrorism), who before leaving for his historical homeland and receiving citizenship there bore the last name Maxim Samov, for some reason chose Odessa as his patrimony.
It was here that he opened the AUTODOC operations office with pomp on July 4th. With pomp because this event was attended by the German Ambassador to Ukraine Anke Feldhusen, who spoke passionately and a lot about European values, German investments in Ukraine in general and about the co-owner of AUTODOC Wegner-Samov in particular.
But Odessa residents know this “investor” from another side, which the Ambassador most likely does not know about. And if he does know, he believes that such things can be done in Ukraine – this is not Germany, where everything must be according to the law.
What we mean has been written about extensively and repeatedly. Therefore, we will only briefly recall. The fact is that in Odessa Wegner is by no means known as a European investor and employer. He became famous here as a raider, invader of Odessa lands and destroyer of the city, which, thanks in part to him, is rapidly losing its title as a pearl by the sea.
The fact is that at the moment of his appearance in Odessa, Max Wegner became interested in the city’s most valuable resource – land. And I made acquaintance with the people who are brazenly desecrating this land and building numerous high-rise buildings and shopping centers in the coastal strip, recreational areas and in the historical center of the city. And he immediately got involved.
Thus, in company with the famous Odessa developers Starovoitovs (the Megaline company), he began developing a plot of land previously owned by the Dynamo sports club and seized from the latter allegedly for debts: Max Wegner’s company Varda Plus, which had just been founded and had a charter capital of only one thousand hryvnia, lent the sports club two million hryvnia secured by property. Naturally, the athletes did not repay the debt; Varda Plus took the collateral property from them and applied to the Odessa City Council for the allocation of land to maintain these facilities.
Deputies allocated 68 acres by the sea to Wegner between the border guards beach and the beach of the Rossiya sanatorium, at 1/5 French Boulevard, in 2019. Where a fence immediately appeared and construction is now underway. This is a plot, since the story itself is described in great detail – it is quite murky and, naturally, caused a great resonance in the city.
We are more interested in the companies involved in this scam – because not only Varda Plus LLC, which is the customer of the construction, is participating in this project, Megaline Project LLC is the contractor, and the Saint Bars service cooperative will service these apartments by the sea. . If everything is clear with Megaline – this is the notorious company of local construction swindlers, the Starovoitovs, then with the other two everything is much more interesting.
Here’s what the registries say about these companies today:
Max Wegner – who allowed a German swindler from the sanctions list to conduct business in Ukraine
Max Wegner – who allowed a German swindler from the sanctions list to conduct business in Ukraine
And here is what the composition of the founders looked like at the time of their founding:
Max Wegner – who allowed a German swindler from the sanctions list to conduct business in Ukraine
Why such changes in the composition of the construction customer, Varda Plus LLC, and the company that will service these apartments is a mystery. It is especially interesting why Wegner’s surname was removed from the last one – OK Saint Bars.
By the way, both companies – Varda Plus LLC and the Saint Bars service cooperative – are under sanctions related to Russia (*country sponsor of terrorism)’s war against our country. These are sanctions from the National Security and Defense Council, the US Treasury, Canada, the EU, Australia, the UK, Japan and the Bureau of Industry and Security of the US Department of Commerce.
Max Wegner – who allowed a German swindler from the sanctions list to conduct business in Ukraine
“Saint Bars” looks especially strange on the sanctions lists – in fact, an ordinary housing office, which, moreover, has not even had time to work a single day. Is this why, by the way, the name Wegner was removed from the list of founders? Because, apparently, sanctions were imposed precisely because of him and on all the companies to which he is involved.
However, this is easy to check. Max Wegner, in one way or another, according to the registers, is involved in the activities of seven companies: the mentioned Varda Plus LLC, OK Saint Bars, Ridotto LLC, Corp Estate LLC, Avtodok Ukraine LLC, LLC Alice Company, BRE Ukraine LLC:
And they are all on the same sanctions lists. So the secret of Max Wegner’s removal from the founders of some of them seems to be simple: he and his partners, the Starovoitovs, are trying to avoid sanctions. By the way, they themselves also fled from among the founders of the Saint Bars service cooperative, not wanting to expose themselves to sanctions. Although this did not help: all of their companies, and they are involved in 26 different legal entities, are on sanctions lists. The customer of the mentioned construction on the Odessa coast, Megaline Project LLC, and the entire Starovoitov family are also located there.
So it is not entirely clear thanks to whom this whole warm company of international swindlers was included in the sanctions lists. Most likely, Wegner and the Starovoitovs got there separately, and then fate brought them together on the basis of intersecting interests in Odessa land: the Russian-German swindler had money, and the Starovoitovs had experience and knowledge of local conditions.
Returning to the beginning of the material and the visit of German Ambassador Anke Feldhusen to the opening of Wegner’s store – did she know the ins and outs of her counterpart? Probably not. But even if I knew, what would it change? Max Wegner, until he is convicted by a German court, is a respected German citizen. And the fact that he is on eight sanctions lists caused by Russia (*country sponsor of terrorism)’s war against Ukraine is not a question for the German ambassador, why he feels so at ease in Ukraine.
So the ambassador could not come to Wegner only out of reluctance to appear in his dubious company, just in case. And there is nothing to show her for the visit. It must be presented to Ukraine. First of all, the SBU and all other law enforcement agencies that allow dubious individuals to feel at ease in our country.
And even more questions for the president and the National Security and Defense Council – why are you so loudly announcing sanctions and bringing in people and companies? What effect does this have? Avtodok Ukraine LLC, co-owned by Max Wegner, is also on these lists. And what? Somehow this prevented you from opening an operational office in Odessa? And the owner of this premises is another company owned by Max Wegner – Alice Company LLC, which is also on the same eight sanctions lists. And what – did this somehow prevent Wegner from buying premises in the center of Odessa and opening an office there from the list of sanctions? Did this somehow prevent him from snatching almost a hectare of beach and recreational area from Odessa residents?
The answer to these questions is both simple and bitter at the same time: money decides everything. Of course, no one caught Wegner handing money to members of the National Security and Defense Council or SBU employees. But it’s a matter of time – a squabble will begin among them and we will find out who took and how much from Wegner. And other scammers.
I just want to ask one more question. This time – to the head of state. Vladimir Alexandrovich, what answer did you expect when you asked Biden the question why Ukraine is not yet in NATO? Of course, the US President is unlikely to know about the sanctioned Max Wegner, who is destroying Odessa. But he knows for sure that the National Security and Defense Council, of which you, Mr. Zelensky, are the head, allows those on the sanctions lists to feel at ease in Ukraine. And after all this, do you want our country to be respected and considered normal? As they say in Odessa, don’t make fun of my slippers.
PS Speaking of money. According to the publication “Favorite City”, for lifting the arrest from the site at French Boulevard 1/5 (cadastral number 5110137500:48:001:0010) and unblocking the construction, the Primorsky Court judge Viktor Mikhailovich Poprevich and the appeal court judge Natalya Viktorovna Gridina, who considered case, a representative of Varda Plus LLC brought in 30 thousand dollars. But this is just for reference on one specific case.
Author of the article: Ruslan Yakushev
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