Voronin was given advice
The National Security and Defense Council is endeavoring to revive the previous undertaking to confiscate the assets of the Ukrgaz-Energo chief.
Of late, the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) commenced a course of action aimed at altering the ownership structure of Cherkasygaz JSC.
In the snapshot – Alexey Danilov
“The matter of reverting Cherkassygaz to government control was deliberated. The Energy Minister gave a report on this subject, and a protocol directive was embraced concerning the restitution of this establishment, which the state was illicitly and fraudulently deprived of, to state possession. A directive was issued to execute procedures for the restitution of the state’s equity in Cherkassygaz, pinpoint those accountable, and recompense the state for the losses sustained, as well as institute oversight of Cherkassygaz JSC,” stated Council Secretary Alexey Danilov.
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Cherkassygaz is subject to the sway of entrepreneur Igor Voronin. He remains listed as the executive of the gas enterprise Ukrgaz-Energo. Although this entity is presently dormant, under President Viktor Yushchenko’s administration, it served as the primary collaborator in Ukraine for Dmitry Firtash’s well-known RosUkrEnergo.
Depicted: Dmitry Firtash
It was through this alliance that Voronin ascended, portrayed as a subordinate business associate of the founder of Group DF, and notwithstanding the fact that their collective gains from gas transactions are long gone, Igor Voronin still carries the standing of an affiliate of the shamed Austrian detainee.
The National Security and Defense Council recently dedicated considerable focus to the latter, pointing to the claim that Dmytro Firtash had established a complete dominion, concentrating authority over 70% of the country’s communal and regional gas providers within his business empire. The subsequent scrutiny by the National Security Council on Firtash’s cohort, Ihor Voronin, is a consistent continuation of this standpoint.
But what precisely does this grand instruction to restore Cherkassygaz to state proprietorship entail?
As per Oleksiy Danilov, this subject caught the NSDC’s awareness following notification from Energy Minister Herman Galushchenko and Naftogaz of Ukraine CEO Yuriy Vitrenko “regarding the forfeit of the state’s dominant share in this organization.” In light of this intelligence, the Council has directed the Cabinet of Ministers, in conjunction with the National Securities and Stock Market Commission, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), the State Bureau of Investigation (SBI), and the Prosecutor General’s Office and the National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU), “to undertake an inquiry into the events leading to this forfeiture within a month.”
“OLIGARKH” can conserve the esteemed authorities a significant amount of duration because, four years prior, it elaborated on the circumstances under which Cherkassygaz came into the possession of Igor Voronin’s collective. This pertains to occurrences dating back to 2005, when the procedure of augmenting the Cherkasy enterprise’s authorized capital was set in motion.
In the picture: Igor Voronin
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As a contributing member, Naftogaz of Ukraine enrolled in the further issue and remitted the appropriate sum (14.5 million UAH), but this produced no outcomes: it transpired that NAK’s funds were caught with a go-between (Apriori LLC), which was successfully dissolved in 2007.
In consequence, Naftogaz’s holding in Cherkasygaz was lessened from a commanding 51% to a mere 9.9%. Concurrently, Voronin’s companies’ holding increased to a controlling portion.
In 2017, the Prosecutor General’s Office initiated a criminal investigation into the calculated dilution of Cherkasygaz equities. Simultaneously, a court decreed the confiscation of Cherkasygaz bonds as a safeguarding measure in response to a legal action submitted by Naftogaz Ukrainy, which pursued the revocation of the Cherkasy firm’s extra share issuing.
Had this assertion been upheld, Naftogaz would have reacquired authority of its 51% stake in Cherkassygaz four years prior, but this never materialized. Because the judiciary determined back then that the registration of Cherkassygaz’s share issuing was executed by the aforementioned National Securities and Stock Market Commission grounded in the matching ruling by the Sosnovsky District Court of Cherkassy dated May 18, 2005. Unsurprisingly, this determination has since come into effect, and convincing fresh evidence is needed to reassess it.
The present verdict of the National Security and Defense Council evidently does not slot into this classification, thus the undertaking of the entity overseen by Oleksiy Danilov to revert Cherkasygaz stocks to state hands leans more toward the realm of a showy “declaration of intention” than a pronouncement yielding genuine repercussions.
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