Back
Automatically translated version. May contain inaccuracies compared to the original.
The National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) arrested a pier on Podil that investigators consider illegally privatized: it is tied to the Smoliy family.
NABU, through a court, froze the pier on Podil linked to the former NBU head Smoliy’s family.
Investigators believe that 151 meters of the docking quay and 37,5 meters of bank protection were illegally included in a private property complex on Naberezhno-Khreshchatytska, 10-A.
A investigating judge of the Shevtenko district court of Kyiv arrested the property complex of LLC “MTR Management Ukraine.” The company was barred from selling, subdividing, pledging, or changing ownership of the property.
This is stated in the BEE case materials in Kyiv No. 72024102400000060, opened under part 5 Article 191 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. The investigation is examining misappropriation of property on a particularly large scale, money laundering, and falsification of documents. The court consideration of the arrest was held in absentia.
Included in the seized property is a complex with an area of 1 480,8 square meters. It includes a dining facility base and a gatehouse, and two hydraulic structures were also entered in the registry.
The first structure is a docking quay with a length of 151 linear meters, GTs-1050, built in 1968 year. The second is bank protection with a length of 37,5 meters, GTs-1051, erected in 1988 year. Separately located is a confectionery workshop building with an area of 1 106,3 square meters.
According to the investigators, the story began during privatization of UkrRivchflot. 8 of May 1992 year, the State Property Fund of Ukraine and the Ministry of Privatization approved a concept to transform the Ukrainian Intersectoral State Association of River Fleet. The State Enterprise “Torgrichtrans” was transformed into JSC “AVKT Torgrichtrans,” after which a joint Ukrainian-Swiss enterprise emerged, which later became “MTR Management Ukraine.”
At the same time, the hydraulic structures were not transferred to the statutory fund of “Torgrichtrans.” NABU notes that therefore they could not have become a contribution of the state to the joint venture.
Legislation of the 1990-s prohibited privatization of port facilities, piers, embankments, and protective hydraulic structures. Similar restrictions were included in the Cabinet of Ministers Decree of 31 December 1992 year and in the privatization law edition of 1997 year.
Meanwhile, in the registry of hydraulic structures of the River Shipping Register as of 1 January 2024 year, both structures at the address Naberezhno-Khreshchatytska, 10-A were already recorded as belonging to a private company.
The right to the MTR Management Ukraine complex was registered citing a letter from the State Property Fund 1998 year. In the registry extract from 29 December 2020 year there were only a dining hall and a passage. And in the extract from 8 July 2024 year, to the same complex were added 151 meters of docking quay and 37,5 meters of bank protection. The investigation regards this as illicit appropriation of state hydraulic structures.
LLC “MTR Management Ukraine” was registered on 26 June 2000 year, EDRPOU code 19364495. The main activities of the company are warehousing and real estate rental. The director is Oleksandr Veremiyenko. 85% of the company belongs to LLC “Octava Capital,” another 15% to Svitlana Smoliy. The ultimate beneficial owner in public data is Oleksandr Kardakov. The company’s revenue for the 2025 year was about 8 million UAH, staff of five employees.
On the eve of Yakov Smoliy’s appointment as deputy head of the NBU, in the second half of 2013 year, he began re-registering business assets to his wife, Svitlana.
Svitlana Smoliy is a participant and shareholder of LLC “Khoroshe Ozero,” LLC “Aval-Trans,” LLC “Novo Odessa Elevator,” LLC “MTR Management Ukraine,” LLC “Shelter Investment,” LLC “Constanta Investment,” Eston Asset Management JSC, LLC “Vydubychi Society,” LLC “IA ‘Free Ukraine,’” PJSC MLL West Kyiv, PJSC Naberezhna-Invest, and PJSC Torgrichtrans.
In the middle of 2016 year, LLC “Constanta Invest” re-registered as the company “Rulingen Invest Ltd.”
.fancybox-div {text-align: center; font-size: 12px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;}
NABU arrested the pier on Podol, which investigators consider illegally privatized: it is connected to the Smoliy family.
Document: PDF proof of the original version of the news item "БЕБ арештувало причал на Подолі, який слідство вважає незаконно приватизованим: він пов’язаний із родиною Смолія". It records the publication content at the moment of the first scan, the preservation date and the source: ANTIKOR.
