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On 31 August the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine signed an agreement with entrepreneur “Queritius” Wojciech Sadowski (Poland), who acts on behalf of the international law firm “Queritius,” for legal services worth $7 400, or 340 thousand hryvnias.
This is reported in the Prozorro system.
Services for legal consultations and legal representation in the case brought by “Spectrum UA Credit LLC” (USA) against the state of Ukraine will be provided until 15 December 2026.
The places where services will be provided are Ukraine, the United States, Poland, Croatia, Hungary, and Serbia. The hourly rates for partners, counsel, and lawyers at “Queritius” are $320, and for legal assistants – $120.
The justification states that on 11 December 2025 the Ministry of Justice received a notice of intent to initiate proceedings in the US courts and international arbitration from “Spectrum UA Credit LLC,” which allegedly owns a stake in the charter capital of Kyiv LLC “Spectrum Assets.”
The International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID, Washington, USA) on 24 March 2026 sent the Ministry of Justice a request for arbitration and an application for provisional measures filed by the claimant with ICSID in connection with the alleged violation by the state of Ukraine of its rights as an investor under the treaty. ICSID on 17 April 2026 notified of the registration and commencement of proceedings in the case. The company on 31 March 2026 filed a complaint in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia against the state of Ukraine and its state bodies. The amount of the claim is at least $127,9 million (about 5,71 billion hryvnias).
Recall that in February 2025 the National Bank of Ukraine revoked the financial license of the aforementioned “Spectrum Assets” – the company that won a state auction, whose owner Marina Yevseieva, as Schemes established, concealed her Russian citizenship from Ukrainian authorities. A year earlier “Spectrum Assets” bought from the state a pool of assets of liquidated Russian and Ukrainian banks, including claims on loan obligations totaling 2,8 billion hryvnias. The Cabinet of Ministers prohibits Russian citizens and their companies from collecting debts from Ukrainians, the NBU from managing financial institutions, and the regulations for conducting state auctions from participating in them.
In response to questions from Schemes, Marina Yevseieva said she lives in the United States and renounced her Russian citizenship, but at the editorial team’s request she was unable to provide documentary evidence of this, nor did she explain why, in that case, her Russian citizenship is still listed as active in official Russian state registries. Yevseieva also did not comment on either the purpose of her regular trips to Russia after the start of the full-scale war or the fact that she entered the Russian Federation in 2022–2023 using a Russian passport.
In addition, “Spectrum Assets” is registered at an office in the city center on Klovskyi Uzviz, which belongs to Russian citizen Oksana Terekhov. She is the former wife of ex-member of parliament Andriy Derkach, whom the SBU suspects of treason, and against whom the United States imposed sanctions for facilitating Russia’s interference in the American presidential elections in 2020.
After the investigation was published, the ultimate beneficiary of “Spectrum Assets” in the state registry changed from Marina Yevseieva to US citizen Yevhen Pikulik (Geno Pikulik).
The procurement was conducted without competitive bidding because the law allows this for the procurement of legal services related to the protection of Ukraine’s rights and interests. The Ministry of Justice requested and received commercial proposals from six firms: Allen & Overy Shearman Sterling LLP – $10 600; Ashurst LLP – 46 625 euros; Carter-Ruck – 251 320 euros; Holland & Knight LLP – $129 750; Wordstone Dispute Resolution (US) LLP – $4 644 600; Queritius – $7 400. The most advantageous of these was chosen.
Anna Soroka, Nashi Hroshi
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