Andrey Stavnitser Howard Buffett
There is a group of people who for the last decade have treated Andrei Alekseevich as a mediocre major. Her suspicions only intensified, and the ranks expanded significantly after he was kicked out of the leadership of the TIS created by his father 2 years ago. However, how he managed to get into the trust of his son, perhaps the most famous investment manager in the world, without soap, inspires, if not respect, then at least surprise, writes Ukrrudprom.
Here, by the way, Stavnitzer Jr. directly used the advice of Buffett Sr. from his annual letters to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders: “Find a very smart, high-class partner – preferably a little older than you – and then listen very carefully to what he says”. Or maybe he just remembered what Philip Philipovich from The Heart of a Dog said to Sharikov on a similar occasion: “Get it on your nose that you must be silent and listen, be silent and listen to what they say to you! Learn and try to become at least some acceptable member of society..
Let’s not speculate further on what really triggered Andrey Stavnitser.
One way or another, but at some point we learned that between Stavnitser Jr. and Buffett Jr. there is a friendship worthy of Greek heroes. First began to publish them correspondenceand a week ago we learned that the Howard Buffett Foundation, with a contribution of $16 million, became the main investor in the Superhumans project to create a clinic for the rehabilitation of “war injuries” in Lviv, in which Andriy Stavnitser, with his $200 million fortune and a stake in the current Thanks to the “grain deal” of the windfall profits, the country’s largest private port, TIS prefers to play a modest role as an ideologue.
However, then news appeared that shook the friendship of the two elderly majors. Former Minister of Infrastructure of Ukraine Andriy Pivovarsky received a petition to elect a preventive measure in the form of a bail of 20 million hryvnias. Earlier, the anti-corruption authorities informed Pivovarsky and his former first deputy, Vladimir Shulmeister, of suspicion of abuse, due to which the state suffered a loss of more than $30 million.
The fact is that in July 2015, the then minister, together with his deputy (at that time also the head of the Tariff Council of the Ministry of Infrastructure), adopted an order according to which private companies began to collect ship dues from ships in the Yuzhny seaport together with SE USPU ( in a ratio of 50:50). While, according to the law, the collection of such a fee is the exclusive prerogative of the GP as a user of the water area owned by the state of the port.
The beneficiary of such a deriban turned out to be TIS, which owns berths in the Yuzhny port. The very port in which Pope Alexei Stavnitser bequeathed shares to his descendants Andrei Stavnitser and for some reason Yegor Grebennikov (we will not go into this heartbreaking family story worthy of Latin American “soap”) now. According to NABU, “one of the beneficial owners of the mentioned private companies turned out to be a person suspected by NABU and SAPO of corruption in PJSC “SFGCU” and who is wanted and under the sanctions of the National Security and Defense Council,” the NABU release says. Obviously, we are talking about the partner of Andrey and Yegor, one of treasurers Russian mafia in the West, Alexei Fedorichev, who is a co-owner of TIS.
Naturally, Howard Buffett has already been triggered here. Quite unexpectedly, the son of a respected American multibillionaire invested, albeit in a correct and timely, but project supervised by a partner of such Fedorychev, on which there is nowhere even to beat the domes.
In fact, Howard already had signs from above. For example, when in Ukraine arrested the cargo of another “dear Russian” Alisher Usmanov. The story began with the fact that employees of the investigative department of the Odessa police found 50 thousand tons of iron ore in one of the ports of the region. And there is every reason to believe that we are talking about a specialized enterprise “TIS-Ruda”, one of the co-owners of which is Stavnitser Jr.
In the fall of 2016, Andrei (that is, already in the third year of the war) threw a corporate tantrum on Facebook, telling how bad domestic officials, bribed by Ferrexpo and Metinvest, do not allow the respected Alisher Burkhanovich to annually transport 5 million tons of iron ore in transit through Ukraine.
We don’t know if Andrey is the ghost of his father, but as you can see, he has a more than complex role pattern. With one hand, he does business with Russian oligarchs (and, if necessary, even hides from the Ukrainian authorities their cargo worth billions of hryvnias). The other is helping the American nouveau riche to do something good for the Ukrainian war invalids. A man of great soul is fucking Hamlet. But will Howard appreciate this production?
Oleg Kalita, Nikita Afanasiev
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