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Ukrzaliznytsia will receive half of the shares of the insurance company Inter-Polis, which is associated with Member of Parliament Oleksandr Yedin. The 50-percent stake of Ukrzaliznytsia will consist of shares owned by the enterprise Inter-Contact of Oleksandr Yedin and shares held by the State Property Fund. This is reported in a segment by Alisa Yurchenko.
Structures linked to Oleksandr Yedin have already gifted almost 42% of Inter-Polis shares to the state enterprise Ukrzaliznychpostach (which is under Ukrzaliznytsia’s management). This transaction is still not reflected in the Unified State Register of Legal Entities and Individual Entrepreneurs, but Ukrzaliznytsia confirms that it was concluded. “There was a donation agreement. I saw it with my own eyes,” said Maksym Blank, first deputy CEO of Ukrzaliznytsia, on the anti-corruption program Nashi Hroshi (airing Tuesdays at 22:00 on ZIK channel). “Why or on what grounds it has not been executed or fully executed, I cannot explain.”
The gift’s value is about 3 million hryvnias. The state enterprise Ukrzaliznychpostach concluded with LLC Inter-Contact a Donation Agreement of securities dated 20.06.2014 No. 14/14T I-K, under which Ukrzaliznychpostach accepts into ownership shares with a total value of 3 075 300,00 UAH,” reported Oleksandr Lozinskyi, the director of that enterprise, to Nashi Hroshi.
Oleksandr Yedin refused to discuss his motives. “Contact the company Inter-Polis,” was all the MP said.
Another 8% of Inter-Polis shares is to be transferred to Ukrzaliznytsia from the State Property Fund by 2015 under Cabinet Resolution No. 200 dated 05.07.2014. Thus, half of the company’s shares should be concentrated in Ukrzaliznytsia.
Railway officials assured that they already control the insurer’s management. “We are in more than trusting relations with Inter-Polis; we own more than half their shares, we manage their management,” said Maksym Blank. At the same time, managers who belong to Oleksandr Yedin’s team still work in the company’s leadership. In particular, Inter-Polis head Stefan Sovinskyi.
Structures of Oleksandr Yedin gifted Inter-Polis shares to Ukrzaliznytsia in exchange for the right to act as the railway’s key insurance partner, Maksym Blank explained. The insurance company Inter-Polis has already received the right to insure passengers and Ukrzaliznytsia employees on most railways of Ukraine. The total volume of insurance premiums under medical insurance contracts for railway workers last year reached 270 million UAH. Premiums for passenger accident insurance amounted to 100 million UAH. Thus, the total market volume that Inter-Polis is being invited to serve is over 300 million UAH.
At the same time, the first deputy CEO of Ukrzaliznytsia assured journalists of Nashi Hroshi that Inter-Polis was chosen to insure passengers and employees of Ukrzaliznytsia temporarily. “This is no more than a temporary solution to identify the bottlenecks that prevent insurance companies from participating in our open procedures,” said Maksym Blank. “I give you my word that we will definitely conduct an open procedure for all insurance procurements to be made by Ukrzaliznytsia.”
Maksym Blank voiced the idea of creating a state insurance company for the needs of the Ministry of Infrastructure at a meeting with insurance market participants in May 2014. This initiative was discussed as an alternative to purchasing insurance services for the transport sector through open tenders. However, it did not receive support from representatives of insurance companies or insurance consumers.
According to Blank, Ukrzaliznytsia will hold competitions to select insurance partners for all types of insurance by the end of 2014. Maksym Blank promises to publish information about the competitions on Ukrzaliznytsia’s website. This is not the first promise by Ukrzaliznytsia’s leadership to hold open competitions before selecting insurance partners.
Previously, the railway was served by companies linked to the former Ukrzaliznytsia leadership and the close circle of Viktor Yanukovych. In particular, medical insurance for Ukrzaliznytsia employees and pensioners in recent years was mostly provided by Naftogazstrakh, among whose owners is Anatolii Chubynskyi, former deputy CEO of Ukrzaliznytsia. Passenger accident insurance was provided by Ukrainskyi Strakhovyi Dim and Dominanta, which are associated with Serhii Arbuzov, Zlahoda, associated with the name Borys Kolesnikov, and others.
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