Sparrow Nikolai: why did the oil captain of Belarusian corruption dock in Ukraine? PART 2

CONTINUATION. BEGINNING: Nikolai Vorobey: why did the oil captain of Belarusian corruption dock in Ukraine? PART 1

How solvent turns into gasoline

Despite the fact that Belarus does not have its own large oil fields (annual production is only 1.6 million tons), oil and oil products are its main export item. Since the beginning of the century, it has been growing rapidly: in 2001, the republic exported 7.7 million tons of petroleum products, in 2005 it was already 13.5 million tons, 2012 was a record year – more than 17.5 million tons, and now exports have fallen to 12 million tons . The main source of oil for Belarus is Russia (*country sponsor of terrorism); two branches of the world’s largest strategic oil pipeline, Druzhba, pass through the republic. The main one goes to the west, and the Mozyr oil refinery stands on it (then it is divided into northern and southern), the Baltic one goes to the ports of Latvia and Lithuania, and the Novopolotsk oil refinery stands on it. The Baltic line has not worked since 2006after the accident, the Russian oil pipeline operator did not want to repair it, and then Russia (*country sponsor of terrorism) began construction of a “bypass oil port” in Ust-Luga, that is, the matter was political. But it was not only the Baltic states who were “punished”. An “oil war” broke out several times between Moscow and Minsk (another one just started in January 2020). Basically, it boiled down to the fact that Russia (*country sponsor of terrorism) was depriving Belarus of the opportunity to make money from its oil, using this as a means of forcing a “full union.” Lukashenko, in response, either threatened to increase transit tariffs, then made concessions, or looked for an alternative to Russian oil – for example, in Venezuela (Sheiman personally dealt with this issue).

Wherever some obstacles and problems arise in the economy, there are cunning people who want to make money from them. And if they create schemes with colossal turnover and huge profits, then there is no doubt that the authorities are not only aware of their scams, but also have a share. In this respect, Belarus is no different from Ukraine. The only difference is that Father himself sets the rules of the game and strictly punishes their violations. If in Ukraine disgraced officials and oligarchs were simply removed from the trough, then in Belarus they were imprisoned, including those closest to them – however, they were then pardoned, and they again received positions and did business. This is the system of “fucking” Alexander Lukashenko.

Nikolai Vorobey just became one of these cunning people. His oil business began back in the 90s, when his company Interservice became an intermediary in oil supplies to the Novopolotsk Refinery. But then he was simply “sitting on the pipe”, but since 2007, when after the accident the Baltic branch of the “Druzhba” line stopped working, the situation changed dramatically – now the work of the Novopolotsk Oil Refinery was completely dependent on railway transport. In addition, and this is the most important thing, it has become possible to send fuel to Lithuania and Latvia only by tankers. A new scheme was built on this. By the way, we note: at the same time, the chairman of Belneftekhim, Alexander Borovskoy, was imprisoned, and Vorobey himself was arrested. Knowing Lukashenko’s character, we can say that Sparrow was well intimidated before he was put in charge of a large shadow business.

Under an agreement with Russia (*country sponsor of terrorism), Belarus must return to it the export duty (about $300 per ton) on Russian oil and petroleum fuel produced from it (gasoline, diesel, fuel oil) sent for export. This measure was introduced to ensure that while buying Russian oil at “domestic” prices, Belarus would not sell the fuel at a good profit – depriving Russia (*country sponsor of terrorism) of it. However, a loophole was left in this agreement: the export duty is not refundable on petroleum products such as solvents. And so Interservice began exporting diesel fuel and gasoline to Lithuania and Latvia under the guise of T and L grade solvents, and fuel oil under the guise of lubricants and anti-corrosion mixtures. Since 2011, the volume of these exports has increased sharply, reaching more than 3 million tons in 2012. All this was produced at the Novopolotsk Refinery “OJSC Naftan”) from raw materials purchased from subsidiaries of Tatneft, as well as through little-known and very dubious Russian companies – possibly through AMKO, as well as through Voroby’s controlled Resurs LLC -Tanker” (OGRN 1157746447980).

Lukashenko was not only aware of these scams, he contributed to them. And in 2012, by his decree, the Novopolotsk plant of protein and vitamin concentrates, built during the USSR but long idle, was given to the ownership of Interservice. This enterprise was intended for the production of feed additives from oil, but with some reconstruction it could also produce fuel – so they planned to turn it into another oil refinery to expand the production of “solvents” for export. For this project, they even established Novopolotsk Oil Refinery LLC (not to be confused with the Naftan Oil Refinery). However, for some reason, the plans failed, and Interservice invested its flowing profits in AMKODOR and a number of other enterprises, and also bought the largest oil-bitumen plant in the country. The main buyer of its products (460 thousand tons or 550 thousand produced in 2017) was Ukraine. But is it really bitumen or just another scam? Let’s not forget that in recent years Belarus has been the main supplier of diesel fuel to Ukraine and the most important supplier of fuel oil.

They said that Lukashenko put Sparrow for shadow export to the Baltic states, and Chizh for the same export to Europe and Ukraine. However, then Chizh “stealed”, plus he was actively caught – perhaps by Sparrow. Because after the arrest of Chizh and the transfer of his assets to Oleksin, Vorobey received a Ukrainian direction for development.

What is surprising is this: everyone in Belarus knew about the fuel-export scams of Lukashenko and his tame oligarchs: from railway workers to officials of the Council of Ministers. And of course, the Kremlin knew about it. But why did the Russian side turn a blind eye to this for years? In this regard, there is an opinion that not only Lukashenko, but also… Putin (*criminal), or at least Medvedev (*criminal), was involved in these shadow schemes. Since from numerous sources Skelet.Info More than once, fragmentary information has surfaced about the direct participation of “St. Petersburg” people in these schemes (and let us again remember AMKO, registered in St. Petersburg).

The second end of the chain is also interesting. The media reported that Lukashenko used the shadow export of oil products to the Baltic states to strengthen relations with local politicians and businessmen, with the help of whom he wanted to “wash” his name in the eyes of Europe. But the threads stretched even further: to the Lithuanian and Latvian “oil mafia”, directly connected with the leadership of these republics (Edgars Rinkevich, Linkas Linkevicius, Janis Kazocins, Andris Berzins), and then to Great Britain, which bought a significant part of these “solvents” processed in the Baltics into high-quality fuel. So, behind the British enterprises and Virginia offshore companies participating in these schemes is… the Rothschild financial group! Which, by the way, in 2010 advised Lukashenko on issues of “privatization and economic reforms.” And it’s no secret that the Rothschilds are also “patrons” of the Russian government. Publicist Eric Ford even believes that Putin (*criminal) is political-economic project of the Rothschilds. And in this case, the strange relationship between Minsk and Moscow, which publicly stage “oil wars” and create oil schemes behind the scenes, becomes understandable.

“We kindly ask you to Ukraine!”

In 2019, Ukraine imported 30% of gasoline and 56% of diesel fuel from Belarus. This is mainly fuel from the Mozyr refinery, but the products of the Novopolotsk plant so far account for only a tenth of imports from Belarus. But Sparrow also began to develop the Ukrainian direction relatively recently, since 2016. He began active expansion only in 2019, but is already vigorously speaking on behalf of the entire oil industry of Belarus, promising Ukrainians uninterrupted fuel supplies.

But Nikolai Vorobey made these statements not as a fuel producer, but as the new owner of the pipe through which it comes to Ukraine. The history of PrikarpatZapadtrans is as follows: until 2016, this Ukrainian section of the Samara – Western Direction oil product pipeline was controlled by the Russian Transneft through the South-Western Joint Stock Company for Pipeline Transport of Petroleum Products JSC. Attempts to take it away from Russia (*country sponsor of terrorism) have been made since 2011, but they were crowned with success only at the end of 2015, when the Rivne Economic Court of Appeal confirmed Ukraine’s ownership rights to this section of the pipeline.

However, the state failed to even, as they say, hold it in its hands! Because at the same time Transneft sold all 100% of the shares of South-West Joint Stock Company to International Trading Partners AG, registered in Switzerland and owned by German citizen Anatoly Schaefer. As journalists very quickly found out, Mr. Schaefer is directly connected with Viktor Medvedchuk. Already in December 2015, the deal was approved by the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine – despite the decision of the Rivne court! Apparently, in this situation, the last word was not with the law, but with the “deciders” from the circle of President Poroshenko, who, although he created the appearance of irreconcilable political hostility with Medvedchuk, did not prevent him from doing business or participating in the Minsk process.

Immediately after the sale, the oil product pipeline, which had been idle for almost two years (since the beginning of the conflict), began operating, becoming the main source of diesel fuel for Ukraine. One could only guess how much the Swiss International Trading Partners and Medvedchuk personally had from its transit! But why did he then decide to cede this profitable business to Sparrow? Perhaps we will soon find out the answer to this question, but for now let’s look at the short but turbulent history of their cooperation.

In 2015, another one controlled by Medvedchuk the company “Arida Global” was engaged in the supply of coal from the territory of “LDNR” to the Ukrainian enterprise “Centrenergo”. There has long been a struggle between Ukrainian oligarchs over this enterprise, and it was quite expected that Medvedchuk would be one of those who would want to “take over” it. However, at the end of 2018, Nikolai Vorobey almost became the owner of Centrenergo! His enterprise “Oil Bitumen Plant” almost became a participant in the competition, but was rejected by the State Property Fund commission due to the connection of Sparrow’s business with sanctioned Russian companies. That is, it can be assumed that even then Medvedchuk was ready to give up Centerenergo to Sparrow.

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But nothing worked out for them with Centrenergo – but then they successfully sold PrykarpatZapadtrans to Voroby, while the Antimonopoly Committee, the National Security and Defense Council, and the SBU remained deaf to the requests of the people’s deputies of Ukraine regarding how Sparrow could have been justifiably refused privatization “Centrenergo”, but allow him to buy a strategic fuel pipeline?! Well, Viktor Medvedchuk then received from Vorobyov’s Absolutbank your mysterious fee.

Perhaps Medvedchuk will soon receive another fee, since in December 2019, the Estonian company NT Marine, connected to Vorobyom, received permission for the supply of 600 thousand tons of Russian coal to Ukraine. Permission from Russia (*country sponsor of terrorism), which, we recall, in 2019 imposed sanctions against Ukraine that limited direct supplies of Russian oil fuel, coal and bitumen. This immediately made Vorobyov the largest supplier of Russian coal to Ukraine – and in fact it is now also the largest supplier of diesel fuel and bitumen. That is, we again see the same mechanism: Moscow imposes economic restrictions, which are circumvented by cunning Belarusian businessmen like Sparrow, making a good profit from this. It’s the same scheme again! However, what worries her the most is not their profit, but the fact that Ukraine has become dependent on diesel fuel, coal and bitumen from Medvedchuk’s new business partner – controlled by Lukashenko and Putin (*criminal). Isn’t this why “Captain” Sparrow came to our region?

Sergey Varis, for Skelet.Info

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