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🧩 Veselyi and “Karpatnaftokhim”
11 June 2024 — exactly six months after the arrest was lifted — the owners of LLC “Karpatnaftokhim” changed. Dutch KARPATY CHEMICAL B.V. left the founders. Three participants appeared:
🔸XEDRIAN HOLDING LIMITED (Cyprus), owner Ilham Mamedov — 34% (789+ million UAH in charter capital)
🔸TECHINSERVICE LIMITED (United Kingdom), owner Ihor Shchutskyi — 33% (~766 million UAH)
🔸INVESTMENT CLOSED-END FUND “Herion World” (Kyiv), owner Andrii Veselyi — 33% (~766 million UAH)
For that third, “Herion World” officially paid 35 million hryvnias — less than one million dollars at the current exchange rate.
Law enforcement estimated the plant’s assets at 2,3 billion hryvnias; Ukrainska Pravda journalists — the third at over 60 million dollars. The discount is roughly 22 times.
The fund’s financial statements show: “Herion World” did not have those 35 million. The funds were borrowed in June 2023 — a year before the deal. The creditor is not publicly disclosed. But over 20 years Andrii Veselyi’s official income amounted to 4,15 million hryvnias. He did not have such money... officially.
From 2023 to 2025 Vasyl Veselyi was adviser to the chair of the supervisory board of JSC “Sense Bank.” In a conversation with Oleksandr Tsukerman he names six people for the future supervisory board of the bank. On 18 June 2025 the Cabinet’s order No. 580-r officially approved those same six names. For “consulting services” in 2024 he was paid 2 million hryvnias.
In a conversation on 9 May 2025 Vasyl Veselyi and Oleksandr Tsukerman discuss “Karpatnaftokhim” specifically. From the Ukrainska Pravda transcripts published, a direct intent to influence the situation around the enterprise and to use legal instruments against “other co-owners who oppose him” is heard. From context — Mamedov and Shchutskyi.
Quotes from the recordings were captured: “I need Karpatnaftokhim… Shura,” “For us the whole price of the plant is three million according to the expert opinion.” There is also a remark about the plant’s debt to “a Cypriot company” of 840 million dollars. That figure is from the participants in the conversation, not from a confirmed contract.
On 10 June 2026 investigative actions were carried out against Vasyl Veselyi. Accompanied by the SBU, the article 209 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine was cited — legalization of property obtained by criminal means. There was no arrest: on 11 June the Kyiv City Prosecutor’s Office officially denied reports of an arrest. No suspicions have been announced. The case is handled by the National Police in parallel with the “Midas” proceeding.
To be continued...
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