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The international detective bureau Absolution received a document submitted to the Ministry of Infrastructure (head Oleksandr Kubrakov) 9 August 2022 signed by acting president of the State Joint-Stock Company ChMP Volodymyr Smetanin.
In 1995 the Cabinet instructed the Ministry of Transport to establish the State Joint-Stock Company “Chornomorske Morske Paroplavstvo” as the legal successor of the Blasko concern. And then — 30 years of schemes.
In 1993 ChMP founded in London the company BLASBULK UK ltd — “a coordination center for the fleet moved into offshore structures by decision of the Ministry of Transport.” Authorized capital — 28,7 thousand pounds sterling. Three years later it was renamed BLASCO UK. From 1996 — it is Ocean Agencies ltd.
Founders — former employees of the State Joint-Stock Company “ChMP”:
✔️Sokhan Pavlo Andriyovych
✔️Manyakhin Andriy Eduardovych
✔️Stasevich Serhiy Volodymyrovych
They were sent to the United Kingdom at state expense “to establish servicing and offshore companies.”
In 2007 Ocean Agencies was removed from the balance sheet of the State Joint-Stock Company — “as one that does not conduct entrepreneurial activity and does not bring profit.” The basis — Ministry of Infrastructure order No.9-T dated 10.1999.
Rights were transferred to PrJSC “Sea Trident.” But the firm did not cease operations for a single day. It conducts active business in Britain. It invests in shipbuilding. The amount of loans secured by state vessels: 450 million dollars.
From 2003 to 2022 the year on Chinese shipyards at the state’s expense Ocean Agencies ltd built at least 12 Supramax bulk carriers. Technical maintenance — in Odesa, through Staff Center Shipmanagement. Ocean Agencies is their client. Some employees are from the State Joint-Stock Company “ChMP.”
“These bulk carriers have been operating successfully for years and generate profits, but not for the state; they enrich private individuals and companies who moved from Ukraine and the Russian Federation to the United Kingdom of Great Britain.”
Parallel to the scheme, in 1996 a charitable organization Ocean International Trust was registered in London. The founders are the same: Lokhov, Manyakhin and Sokhan. The formal purpose — assistance to ChMP veterans. The real one: laundering funds obtained from chartering ships on bareboat charters. This trust was one of the founders of Ocean Agencies.
In 2005 BEARBULK (UK) ltd was registered in London. The founders were the same: Pavel Sokhan, Andrey Manyakhin, Sergiy Lokhov. Only now as citizens of the United Kingdom of Great Britain. Quote from P-210: “Ukrainian citizens obtained, thanks to ChMP assets and at the expense of state funds, citizenship of the United Kingdom of Great Britain.” Further: “Former employees carried out their criminal intent with the help of citizens of the Russian Federation and continue to cooperate with them. Hundreds of millions of dollars of state funds are illegally used by former employees of the State Joint-Stock Company ‘ChMP’ and Russian citizens, while the state, represented by the Ministry of Infrastructure, the State Joint-Stock Company ‘ChMP’ and PrJSC ‘Sea Trident’ lost control over Ocean Agencies ltd and the financial flows that enrich certain individuals.”
☑️ To the guys at NABU. SAP. The Office of the Prosecutor General. SBU. BEB. Smetanin asked:
✔️To accept the statement
✔️To notify law enforcement agencies about the crimes committed
✔️To appoint an official investigation
✔️To identify officials involved in the embezzlement of state funds 5. To determine the whereabouts of the ships
✔️To send an appeal to the Embassy of Ukraine in Britain
✔️To create a working group
For 4 years there has been officially no information about these schemes with debts, bulk carriers and Russians.
This year the FDMU order No.1081 transforms the State Joint-Stock Company ChMP into an LLC and does not mention either Ocean Agencies, or 12 bulk carriers, or the trust. This is not privatization.
⚙️ Who at NABU, SAP, BEB, OFGP opened proceedings on P-210? Why—for 4 years—silence?
⚙️Why is the FDMU liquidating the sole legal owner while the asset in London is operating?
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