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In the summer and autumn 2025 the two most valuable concert venues in the capital, the October Palace on Instytutska Street and Stereo Plaza on Lobanovskoho, one after the other came under the management of the firm Kombinat Plyus (39799228) — legal address Odesa, Vodoprovidna Street, 1, director per the unified state register Polshkov Serhii Ivanovych, main NACE codes bread and rusk production and wholesale trade in sugar.
The ultimate beneficiary is Dmytro Petrovych Sydorenko, founder of the Atlas Weekend festival, co-founder of PMK Event Agency, owner of the clubs ATLAS, ROOF, the Green Theater and the bar BarBaraBar.
The legal shell of the Odesa bread factory obtained full control over two stages of national importance.
The contract regarding the International Center of Culture and Arts on 17,5 thousand sq. m was signed by ARMA under the leadership of Olena Duma on 9 July 2025, documents were executed on 10 July. Already on 30 July Duma submitted a letter of resignation, and on 14 August Yaroslava Maksymenko was appointed acting head of the agency.
On 8 August 2026 the Commercial Court of Kyiv satisfied the claim of the Kyiv City Prosecutor’s Office and returned the landmark worth about 1 billion hryvnias to state ownership due to illegal privatization by the Trade Union Federation in 2000. However, operational management, as Spilno recorded, de facto remains with Kombinat Plyus.
Stereo Plaza went to the firm via Prozorro tender UA-2025-10-14-015426-a. Three lots at 200 thousand hryvnias, a contract for 5 years, at least 44 million to the budget over the entire term. Mandatory qualification requirement: experience of five concerts in a venue without a concert hall; an independent asset valuation before the competition was not conducted; the sole participant in all lots was again Kombinat Plyus.
The contract was signed on 31 October. On 11 November a group of about 30 people entered the building, who presented themselves as representatives of the new manager and restricted access to the current tenant and other tenants. On 25 December clashes occurred under the premises involving 50–60 persons in balaclavas with weapons; the police used a tactical response unit.
The legal front is working against the new manager. At the suit of LLC Stereo Bar for 900 thousand hryvnias the court obliged Kombinat Plyus to return movable property; on 10 June the Northern Commercial Court of Appeal left the decision unchanged, rejecting ARMA manager’s appeal.
Separately LLC Stereo Events filed a claim for the recovery of 376 items of equipment with a total value of 15,31 million hryvnias.
Government context. The curator of the government’s sanctions and active policy in 2024–2025 was Olga Stefanishyna, Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration.
The investigation by Ukrainska Pravda ‘dARMA’ recorded that, alongside the transfer of assets to the Plyuses, several multibillion ARMA assets (the House of Trade Unions, Ukrainian Berry, Flagman shopping center, Pavlivska) passed into the management of the consortium UK KAMparitet, whose first director was Taras Holub, a former adviser to Stefanishyna. The SAP opened a criminal proceeding regarding ARMA officials. On 5 August NABU and SAP served Stefanishyna with a suspicion of illegal enrichment; a hearing on preventive measure began in the High Anti-Corruption Court. On 3 August the president dismissed her from the post of ambassador to the USA.
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