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The construction company ENSO, which is building three large residential complexes in Kyiv, has stopped work. The company's office is closed, and a co-owner, after writing a farewell letter to investors, left the country. This is reported in a Bihus.Info segment.
ENSO was building the Poetica, Diadans, and Fjord residential complexes in Kyiv. All three are located in the central part of the city, but the company never completed any of them.
After the full-scale invasion began, the company announced a forced pause, but later issued several statements saying work would resume. At the end of May, a post appeared on ENSO’s Instagram from co-owner and CEO Ramil Mekhtiyev that resembled a farewell.
After that, managers’ contact phones stopped responding, and the client space in the Parus business center closed. Some investors say that the former management allegedly held an informal meeting with them in which it confirmed ENSO’s cessation of operations but promised that another unnamed company would supposedly begin finishing the projects. Bihus.Info journalists interviewed the owners of the three largest construction firms in the city, and none of them knew of anyone taking on the completion of ENSO’s residential complexes. Journalists also found that Mekhtiyev left the country at the beginning of April, and that some employees of the Ukrainian ENSO now work for a company of the same name in the UAE. There they are overseeing the construction of two luxury complexes in Dubai.
That UAE company was registered after the full-scale invasion began and, according to journalists, people connected to its establishment and operations include Member of Parliament Vadym Stolar. Previously, journalists repeatedly found links between the Ukrainian entity and him as well.
This is not the only notable political connection of the construction company. Several years ago Bihus.Info reported that, before the full-scale invasion, people from the circle of former MP Viktor Medvedchuk and Artem Koliubaiev, a partner of former Head of the Presidential Office Andriy Yermak, became involved with entities associated with ENSO’s residential projects. Koliubaiev is a film producer, which did not prevent him from joining the ownership structure of one of the funds that sold ENSO apartments.
It is also notable that in the 2022 period, after the war began and a moratorium on currency exports from Ukraine was introduced, the Mekhtiyev brothers’ funds—allegedly with Koliubaiev’s help—obtained permission to transfer nearly one million dollars out of Ukraine to the United Arab Emirates. At the time the funds reportedly planned to purchase a large batch of meat in Dubai, which was presented as the basis for the currency transaction. The meat, by the way, never arrived in Ukraine.
Later, according to Ukrainska Pravda, a company owned by Ramil Mekhtiyev’s brother arranged a “fake” business trip to Finland over the New Year holidays for one of the top managers of the National Securities and Stock Market Commission—the very official who granted permission for the currency transfer.
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