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LLC 'Euroterminal', which is owned by Russian gangsters, continues to rob Ukraine
The scheme by which the entire cargo flow of the Odessa port ended up in the hands of a private structure was conceived in the mid-2000s. Under Yanukovych it was realized, and the monopolist became LLC 'Euroterminal'.
Currently, through the territory of LLC 'Euroterminal' passes 99% (these are data from the AMCU) of the rail and road cargo flow of the Odessa seaport. Here, 100% of the cargo arriving in Odessa is cleared.
There are no bypass options – the city administration of Odessa under the leadership of Hennadiy Trukhanov has blocked all alternative routes. Saakashvili's attempt to unblock the bypass roads during his governorship did nothing – a day after the hot Georgian, under the lens of TV cameras, knocked down signs prohibiting passage, the municipal services of Odessa restored them, and the police began zealously monitoring traffic rules.
Also read: Schemes of LLC 'Euroterminal' in Odessa: financing of terrorism, exorbitant prices and other criminal activity
Last year there was a pathetic attempt to seek justice in court – three freight forwarding companies filed a lawsuit against LLC 'Euroterminal', demanding double damages for the loss caused by charging for passage of vehicles to the Odessa port, which violates antitrust law.
The claim stated that the company 'Euroterminal' installed a barrier at the entrance to the Odessa Marine Trade Port, which is state-owned. For the passage of one truck, a rate $26 was set. And to keep the flow large and constant, the Odessa city administration adopted a resolution obliging all carriers to go to the port specifically through the 'Euroterminal' barrier.
The effort was doomed to failure - according to the Association of Sea Ports, about 2 500 cars pass daily through the barrier on the road to the port. The total revenue kept by the swindlers is about 40 thousand dollars per day, or 15 million dollars per year.
As you know, no one will pull such money out of their hands easily. Especially considering the owners of LLC 'Euroterminal'. According to registers, the founders of LLC 'Euroterminal' today are two companies: 'Northington Holdings Limited' and 'Cravenplait Ltd', and two individuals: Mazharin Oleksii Hennadiyovych and Eismont Oleksandr Viktorovych, who is also the head of LLC 'Euroterminal'.
The ultimate beneficial owner of 'Northington Holdings Ltd.' is a Russian, Pavel Lisitsin. Previously, the ultimate owner of the Cypriot company Northington Holdings Ltd. was the Cypriot law firm Georgiades & Pelides LLC. The founders of this law firm are two Cypriot lawyers – Markos Georgiadis and Fivos Pelidis, who specialize in creating offshore companies for post-Soviet countries.
Of course, these people merely act as the owners of the enterprise. In reality, the threads to the true masters of Euroterminal extend to Russia. True, the Cypriot law firm Georgiades & Pelides LLC stated that their firm had no relation to 'Euroterminal'.
According to the media, Russian Pavel Lisitsin is closely connected with Leonid Minin, Oleksandr Angert and Oleksandr Zhukov, who were accused of illegal supply of weapons from Ukraine to Croatia during the Yugoslav war.
Additionally, journalists report that the circle of business partners of the head of 'Euroterminal' includes another person with a peculiar biography – Oleksandr Angert, an Israeli citizen convicted of murder and who helped organize profitable trade in oil products through the Odessa port.
Former Odessa resident Oleksandr Angert has a direct relation to current Odessa mayor Hennadiy Trukhanov. Italian police believe Angert is part of an international criminal organization led by former Odessa resident Leonid Minin. According to the project 'Slidstvo.Info', Hennadiy Trukhanov is part of this group.
According to the so-called Panama Papers, Hennadiy Trukhanov holds Russian citizenship and is registered at the address: Moscow region, Sergiev Posad, Parkovaya Street, 5. This is confirmed by the online register of the Russian Federal Tax Service.
Hennadiy Trukhanov is closely connected with the Odessa businessman and criminal authority Volodymyr Galanternyk. Both, along with 15 other persons, were announced last year to be suspects in illegal seizure of the community's assets in Odessa worth 689 million hryvnias and legalization of illegally obtained income.
Also read: LLC 'Euroterminal': the bandit structure of Trukhanov-Galanternyk spits on the law and Ukraine
Despite all this and the evident Russian ownership of LLC 'Euroterminal', which controls the entire critically important during wartime cargo flow of the Odessa port, no actions against it or its owners are taken. This is how the search for LLC 'Euroterminal' looks in the NAZK sanctions list:
The result of the search is – 'assets confiscated' 0.
Ten months into the active phase of the war. Missile strikes, including at Odessa, the deaths of tens of thousands of people, fearsome rhetoric on screens, demands to Biden to arrest Russian money and return it to Ukraine.
And in this background – total zero reaction to the actions of the Russian firm that monopolized cargo transportation of the Odessa port. Among the owners are Russians, Russian-Ukrainian gangsters, a criminal, and, incidentally, an FSB agent.
What more is needed in this situation to confiscate the Russian asset that brazenly robs our country and contributes to state coffers? Biden's decision? Sarkozy? Or what?
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