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Airport CEO of Boryspil Yevhen Dykhne failed to give up the state airport’s earnings from servicing passengers and aircraft in favor of firms connected to Ihor Kolomoisky – Interavia and Aerohandling.
Airport CEO of Boryspil Yevhen Dykhne failed to give up the state airport’s earnings from servicing passengers and aircraft in favor of firms connected to Ihor Kolomoisky – Interavia and Aerohandling. This is reported in a segment by Alisa Yurchenko on the TV program Nash Hroshi.
12 December 2014 Dykhne issued an order that the airport would stop providing services with its own staff and would begin purchasing ground handling services from the named companies. The director also sent letters to airlines, proposing that they have their passengers serviced by Interavia and Aerohandling.
It is worth noting that today 93-95% of the passenger service market and 65-70% of the airport’s ground handling market at Boryspil already belong to Interavia and Aerohandling. The remaining shares belong to the airport’s own services.
According to the TV program, it was expected that 640 employees would terminate their employment with Boryspil and, if they wished, be rehired by the selected company. Moreover, the private companies were also to rent airport equipment.
The airport’s benefit from this would have been as follows: the company winning the tender to provide ground handling services for aircraft would return 10% of net revenue to Boryspil.
Ultimately, after mass appeals from Boryspil employees to the Ministry of Infrastructure, the controversial decisions to abandon the state enterprise’s handling services were revoked.
In addition, a competition has been announced for a new head of Boryspil, which, according to Minister of Infrastructure Andriy Pyvovarskyi’s estimates, should be completed in February.
The largest of the private firms – Interavia – is directly owned by the carrier Ukraine International Airlines (UIA), which after the bankruptcy of AéroSvit has been associated with the name Ihor Kolomoisky. A number of top managers moved from AéroSvit to UIA.
Renorm Limited, a Cyprus company, owns 99,9% of Aerohandling; Renorm Limited in turn is owned by another Cypriot company, S.I. Cylaw Services Limited. The latter is known in Ukraine as a nominee company that holds assets on behalf of other clients. For example, Mykola Zlochevsky and Serhiy Kurchenko. Among the current clients of the Cypriot S.I. Cylaw Services Limited is also the founder of UIA – the Cypriot company Ontobet Promotions Limited.
0,1% of Aerohandling is owned by Zhanna Prokopenko, who previously worked at the bankrupt AéroSvit. She also headed the companies Capital Investment Project and Investment Projects Management, which are also owners of UIA.
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