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⚠️ Illegal beryllium mining, embezzlement of humanitarian aid and tobacco smuggling: new details of possible abuses
▪️ It has been established that the founder and ultimate beneficial owner of ATB-Market LLC and the ultimate beneficial owner of Perzhanska Rudna Kompaniya LLC, Hennadiy #Буткевич, having involved Vitaliy Yakymenko, Oleksandr #Настенка, Viktor Tanay, former Deputy Head of the Permit and Auction Activity Department of the State Service of Geology and Mineral Resources Oleksandr Tkachuk, former Director of the State Service of Geology and Mineral Resources Vadym Honcharenko, former Minister of Ecology Ostap Semerak, the head of the parliamentary committee on environmental policy Oleg #Бондаренка, the head of the parliamentary subcommittee on subsoil matters Pavlo Yakymenko, and the offshore BG V Group Limited (Cyprus) in organizing a scheme to illegally obtain a special permit to use subsoil within the Polissia Nature Reserve for the purpose of extracting beryllium.
Only one company, Perzhanska Rudna Kompaniya LLC, participated in the auction to obtain the permit and received the special permit from 01.11.2019 No.6383, although by law such an auction should have been considered invalid.
We draw special attention to
a conflict of interest: the head of the relevant parliamentary subcommittee, Pavlo Yakymenko, is the son of the company's co-founder Vitaliy Yakymenko.
In addition, signs have been identified of a scheme by the BGV group to accumulate “dormant” licenses for strategic minerals, an attempt to obtain rights to uranium deposits through AESU LLC bypassing competitive auctions, the extraction of funds through a Cypriot holding with subsequent legalization in real estate in the state of Florida, as well as possible embezzlement of humanitarian aid by the ATB network in Zaporizhzhia in 2022.
By ruling No.991/9924/26, the High Anti-Corruption Court denied the complaint seeking to obligate authorized officials of the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office to enter the corresponding information into the Unified Register of Pre-Trial Investigations.
▪️ It has been established that Vadym #Альперін, in collusion with the head of the State Property Fund Dmytro Natalukha and officials of customs and tax authorities, involving Tobacco Company Pivdenna LLC, Davos Grupp LLC, Orion Tobacco LLC, Nyz Invest LLC, Samerston Tabaco LLC and other controlled entities, were involved in organizing the illegal production of tobacco products using forged excise stamps, underreporting the customs value of imports, and laundering funds.
A separate scheme was identified to seize the state shareholding of MVO Orion JSC: the privatization auction in 2022 was sabotaged, and the final auction in 2024 was won by Meisship Carry LLC — a company registered in 2022 with authorized capital of only 450 thousand UAH, which seconds before the close of bidding raised the price to 120 million UAH.
By ruling No.991/9949/26, the High Anti-Corruption Court denied the complaint seeking to obligate authorized officials of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau to enter the corresponding information into the Unified Register of Pre-Trial Investigations.
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