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530 thousand hectares of Kernel: where did Verevskyi get the money to expand his agricultural empire during the war?
#Кернел continues to reorganize its agricultural business: the company's land bank grew over the year by approximately 48% to 530 thousand ha.
At first glance this looks like an ordinary corporate restructuring. But a fundamental question arises: 🤷♂️where did Kernel and its beneficiary Andriy #Веревський get the funds for such a large-scale expansion of the land bank amid a full-scale war and the blockade of Ukrainian ports?
Especially considering that this is not a single local deal, but a systemic reorganization of agricultural assets:
🔻in April Kernel acquired Enselco Holding for $348 million from a structure associated with the company's majority shareholder Andriy Verevskyi. Together with the company the holding received about 190 thousand ha, elevators, equipment, and grain carriers.
🔻Meanwhile, already roughly a month and a half later Kernel sold its Kharkiv cluster “Mriya” to “Agroton.”
So the land bank is not just growing; rather, there is a large-scale relocation and concentration of assets in the regions most prioritized by Kernel.
By the way, Verevskyi's and Kernel's activities have already been the subject of our attention. In particular, the companies LLC “#КЕРНЕЛ-TRADE” and JSC “POLTAVA OIL EXTRACTION PLANT KERNEL GROUP” of Andriy Verevskyi, through which the purchase of a share of Kernel's land bank was carried out, undervaluation of asset values, transactions with related structures, as well as tax violations and funds diversion were noted.
We also drew attention to sunflower oil exports and discrepancies between actual export volumes and the data declared by Kernel's Ukrainian entities.
✅As of now, on the basis of our materials NABU is already conducting a pretrial investigation in criminal proceeding No.42026000050000004 under part 1 of article 364 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. So the current growth of Kernel's land bank to almost 530 thousand hectares raises a very specific question: with what financial resources was such a large-scale expansion of assets financed, and are law enforcement agencies verifying the origin of these funds?
Materials on the topic:
▫️How agrabaron Andriy Verevskyi devalued European investments and built the shadow empire “Kernel”
▫️The sunny facade of corruption: how Kernel covers schemes with “green” energy
▫️The agrabaron in law: how Verevskyi’s billions grew on corrupt yeast and offshore schemes
▫️Fictitious leadership under NABU’s sights: how Kernel buys rankings to cover multibillion schemes
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