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The husband of 'anti-corruption activist' Tyshchenko, with involvement of Korban's state enterprise, is already selling Kurchenko's seized gasoline
Companies linked to the Faktor group have begun selling gasoline that, by court decision, was expropriated from Serhiy Kurchenko’s enterprises. OilNews reports this citing market participants from Odesa and Kherson regions.
“They are selling Romanian gasoline below market. There is a lot of resource,” said one of the region's fuel operators.
According to the interlocutor, in Kherson region A-92 gasoline is being sold at 23,50-24,00 UAH/l, and in Odesa A-95 is offered at 24,50-25 UAH/l. These prices are on average 1-1,5 UAH/l lower than offers across Ukraine.
Most of OilNews’s sources expressed a shared assumption about the origin of this fuel. “This resource definitely wasn't imported by sea recently; it was stored somewhere. Most likely, it's Kurchenko's fuel from the Kherson transshipment and the Odesa refinery. The fuel that was seized and not customs-cleared,” traders said.
According to one of them, the start of fuel sales strangely coincided with the suspension of the heads of the Tax and Customs services from their positions.
As Anatoliy Makarenko told Ekonomichna Pravda 24 February, who at the time of the interview had already been temporarily suspended from his post as head of the Customs Service, there had previously been an attempt to export 10 thousand tons of fuel from the Kherson transshipment, 8 thousand of which were not declared into free circulation.
“They tried to move them out of the customs control zone, hiding behind good intentions, with decisions of the Odesa district court. We took the position: 'Colleagues, whatever is declared—please. The rest, 8 thousand tons—we will not give. Either under customs control: we take armed guards and accompany to the place where you want to offload, and again apply the customs seal. There was a serious conflict. We held our ground,'” the official recalled.
Recall that the Kherson oil transshipment complex and the oil products of the runaway businessman Serhiy Kurchenko’s VETEK group were, in October 2014, transferred by court order to the management of the state enterprises Ukrtransnaftoproduct and the Enterprise for the Supply of Oil Products. The corresponding ruling was made by the Prymorskyi District Court of Odesa.
By the same scenario, the Odesa refinery (22 November) and the Vasylkiv oil depot of Rosneft in Kyiv region (17 October) were seized.
In all three cases, by decision of the same Prymorskyi court, the fuel was transferred into responsible storage with the same companies.
After the Rosneft depot was seized, fuel removal was carried out by the company Ukroilprodukt. Tanker trucks that removed fuel from the Vasylkiv depot were also spotted at the seized Odesa refinery in December.
The firm Ukroilprodukt is part of the Faktor group of companies of Serhiy Tyshchenko, the former husband of Olena Tyshchenko. After the Maidan, she was invited to work in government as head of the Interagency Working Group on Anti-Corruption Legislation. She was invited by the then acting head of the Presidential Administration of Ukraine, Serhiy Pashynskyi. In an interview with Ekonomichna Pravda, Olena Tyshchenko warned against selling Kurchenko's confiscated fuel at a reduced price.
Since June 2014, Ukrtransnaftoproduct has been headed by Volodymyr Havrylov, known as the founder of JSC Concern Vesna, which is a co-founder of PJSC Insurance Company Vesna-Polis. The shares of the latter are owned by Volodymyr Horb, who headed Slavutych-Capital, Gennaidy Korban’s company—Korban is the current deputy governor of Dnipropetrovsk region Ihor Kolomoyskyi.
Recall that an audio recording of a phone conversation between Kolomoyskyi and Kupchenko from 14 November 2014 was previously leaked online. Kolomoyskyi assured Kurchenko that he had no relation to the seizure of the Kherson transshipment and the enterprise Ukrtransnaftoproduct, hinting at the involvement in this matter of MP Ihor Yeremeyev. In turn, Kurchenko expressed the view that the fuel moved to Ukrtransnaftoproduct would be stolen and that this was happening with the connivance of Odesa governor Ihor Palytsia, who earlier had been a top manager in the Privat group.
Nashi Groshi
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