Russian business in Ukraine. Investigation //Companies with Russian roots facing sanctions/Channel 24 collage
The State Bureau of Investigation investigated about 200 companies in various sectors of the economy and compiled lists of companies owned by Russian structures or citizens, and, accordingly, continue to sponsor Russia during a full-scale war.
Lists of companies that have identified Russian roots have already been transferred to the Cabinet of Ministers to impose sanctions against them. Big data platform Vkursi collected information about these companies and shared it exclusively with Channel 24.
Russian business in Ukraine: revenue of companies sponsoring Russia
In 2020 alone, these companies received revenues of at least UAH 4.27 billion.
The total land bank of these companies is 490.8 hectares. In addition, they won tenders worth more than a billion hryvnias. Also, the companies are significantly burdened, the total amount of their obligations is 1.401 billion hryvnia.
The list of companies against which they want to impose sanctions includes:
- OOO Gazprom Export
- OOO Mezhdurechensky Mining and Processing Plant
- LLC Specialized Sea Port Nika-Tera
- PJSC Pentopak
- PJSC Vinnitsabytkhim
- LLC Tatneft-AZS-Ukraine
- LLC Poltava-Capital
- LLC Kharkiv-Capital
Russian business in Ukraine. Investigation //Companies with Russian roots from the SBI list/Vkursi infographics
Russian business in Ukraine. A subsidiary of Gazprom
OOO Gazprom Export is the export subsidiary of the Russian Gazprom, a multinational company controlled by Russia through the federal state asset management agency. The company sponsors Russia's armed aggression against Ukraine and pays taxes to its budget.
A subsidiary of Gazprom is also included in the Russian Roots registry, which analyzes companies located in Ukraine, but with Russian roots, and at least 12 legal entities and their founders, the name of which contains a mention of Gazprom.
Note! At the beginning of December 2022, the property of Gazprom Export LLC was transferred to the National Agency for the Detection, Search and Management of Assets Obtained from Corruption and Other Crimes: a property with an area of more than 1,000 square meters and four cars.
This, in fact, is not the first scandal that the company has fallen into. In 2017, the Moscow prosecutor's office ordered Gazprom Export LLC to reimburse more than UAH 1.7 million of unpaid taxes to the state budget.
The company was registered in Kyiv, where it owned real estate on Olegovskaya Street (near Zhitny Market). The company also had 4 cars on its balance sheet: 2 Toyota Corolla, Toyota RAV4 and Audi A6. Actually, all this property has already been transferred to ARMA.
Unfortunately, information on the income and economic activities of the company is currently not available.
Companies included in GROUP DF
Mezhdurechensky Mining and Processing Plant
The plant is part of the GROUP DF group of companies, the main investments of which are concentrated in the nitrogen, titanium and gas businesses.
Note that they were the ones in 2013 acquired a controlling stake in Inter Media Group.
LLC “Mezhdurechensky Mining and Processing Plant” is located in the Zhytomyr region, in the urban-type settlement of Irshansk and is engaged in the extraction of ores and other non-ferrous metals.
Capital, income and export
- The size of the authorized capital of the plant is UAH 207 million.
- Income is UAH 739.4 million, which is 7.9% of the total market share. In 2020, the plant's income amounted to UAH 591.35 million.
- The company actively exports its products to the Czech Republic and the Netherlands, and the total amount of profit from exports amounted to 267 million hryvnias in 2021. png” class=”wpg_image” title=”Financial performance of the Mezhdurechensk Mining and Processing Plant/Vkursi infographics” width=”768″ height=”432″ alt=”Russian business in Ukraine. Investigation” />
Russian business in Ukraine. Investigation //Financial performance of the Mezhdurechensky mining and processing plant/Infographics Vkursi
According to the company's dossier on Vkursi, the movable property of the Mezhdurechensky plant is significantly encumbered. The amount of existing encumbrances is more than 991 million hryvnia. Among the encumbrancers are Oschadbank and AB Clearing House, the ultimate owner of which is Yulia Lyovochkina. According to the credit line agreement, Oschadbank obliged the plant for 16.4 million dollars, and Clearing House JSB, according to the pledge agreement, for 18.7 million hryvnias.
One of the founders is Diago Enterprises Limited, registered in Cyprus, but it is known that the ultimate beneficiary is the pro-Russian and sanctioned oligarch Dmitry Firtash. In April 2022, Dmitry Firtash left the founders of the Mezhdurechensky Mining and Processing Plant. However, as we can see, this did not help to dodge the SBI: according to the company's dossier on Vkursi, Dmitry Firtash is the ultimate owner of the plant and has an indirect decisive influence on him through the Matronovskiy Mining and Processing Plant.
Nika-Tera Port
This is another company that is part of GROUP DF — the specialized seaport Nika-Tera, located in Nikolaev. Its founders are the Alandero Investments Limited company, the ultimate beneficiary is the same Dmitry Firtash.
In addition, the previous founder of the seaport is ZT Nika-Tera LLC, which was held in the case as a fictitious enterprise under article 205 UCU.
Important! In 2020, the company's income amounted to UAH 1.41 billion. It should be added that Nika-Tera ranked first in terms of income among 339 companies in the industry.
LLC Specialized Sea Port Nika-Tera has encumbrances in the amount of UAH 1.6 million. The encumbrancer is MTB Bank, to which the seaport gave a Toyota LG GRJ150 car as collateral.
Pentopak PJSC
Private joint-stock company Pentopak produces pipes, sheets, plates and profiles from plastic, and also makes containers from plastic. The company is owned by a company registered in Cyprus – Kosteram Holdings Limited. And the ultimate beneficiary until recently was Savvidu Kyriaki. However, the company's dossier recorded the fact of withdrawal from the membership of the company.
Back in 2013, there was news that the Russian company engaged in food packaging, Atlantis-Pak, wanted to buy the Ukrainian Pentopak. Atlantis-Pack in Ukraine owns a subsidiary, Atlantis-Pack Ukraine, which was also founded by Savvidu Kyriaki.
Export and enterprise income
- Pentopak is active in foreign economic activity.
- The two largest countries in terms of exported goods are Belarus and Russia. More than UAH 80 million worth of goods were exported there in 2021.
- In general, in 2021, the company's income amounted to UAH 265 million.
Russian business in Ukraine. Investigation //List of countries where Pentopak PJSC exports its goods/Infographics Vkursi
Vinnytsiabytkhim
PrJSC “Vinnitsabytchim” is known to everyone by the trademarks “Eared Nyan”, “Lotos-M”, RIO, etc. Back in the summer, the assets of this company were arrested for 2 billion hryvnias. The reason is quite simple – the owners are Russian entrepreneurs who own the Nevskaya Cosmetics company.
Nevskaya Cosmetics acquired Vinnitsabytkhim back in 2006. The ultimate owner of the company is a citizen of the Russian Federation Vladimir Plesovskikh.
Earnings and exports of the joint-stock company
- The company earned UAH 857 million in 2021.
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- Vinnitsabytchim also actively exports its products to Moldova, Georgia, Russia and Belarus.
Financial indicators of PrJSC “Vinnitsabytchim”/Vkursi infographics
Russian business in Ukraine. Companies owned by Tatneft
Tatneft-AZS-Ukraine
In May 2022, 115 objects were seized and arrested on the property, accounts and corporate rights of the group of companies of the Russian Tatneft: oil depots, gas stations, non-residential buildings, land plots, 118 fuel trucks and cars.
Also for the amount about 400 million hryvnias were seized from the company's corporate rights and accounts of its enterprises.
Let's remind! LLC Tatneft-AZS-Ukraine specializes in the retail sale of fuel and is owned by the Russian PJSC Tatneft.
Company income
In 2021, the company's income amounted to UAH 1.15 billion. In the same year, Tatneft-AZS-Ukraine imported a lot of oil or oil products from Belarus and Russia for a total of UAH 241 million.
The company is burdened in the amount of UAH 304.7 million. Among the largest burdens are the Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine and the department of the executive service. The Office of the Prosecutor General arrested the company's movable property and corporate rights to a 100% share in the amount of UAH 302.7 million. And the Kyiv Department of the State Executive Service in the city of Poltava of the North-Eastern Interregional Department of the Ministry of Justice obliged the company for 1.9 million hryvnias.
Poltava-Capital and Kharkiv-Capital
LLC “Poltava- Capital” and LLC “Kharkov-Capital” belong to the same PJSC “Tatneft” named after Shashin (Republic of Tatarstan, Russia). Both companies are engaged in the fact that they provide for rent and operation their own or leased real estate. Moreover, the head of Kharkov-Capital Rustam Kalimullin is a native of Tatarstan and a deputy of the State Duma of Russia from the United Russia party.
The company's income
The income of Poltava-Capital for the last year amounted to UAH 33.7 million, and Kharkiv-Capital — UAH 35.4 million for 2020.
Encumbrances of Poltava-Capital and Kharkiv-Capital
- Poltava-Capital LLC has effective encumbrances in the amount of UAH 38.2 million. The main burden is the Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine. He arrested the property and rights of the company for such an amount.
- Kharkov-Capital LLC is also significantly burdened. And again, the main burden is the Office of the Attorney General. The company has liabilities totaling UAH 66.2 million.
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