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Against the backdrop of the fact that the Ukrainian agricultural sector, even during the full-scale war, largely continues to service its debt obligations, the situation around one of the country's largest agroholdings — NIBULON — draws particular attention. This is reported by StopCor.
According to the publication, on 3 September 2026 the police of Mykolaiv region opened a criminal proceeding regarding possible tax evasion by officials of LLC SP “NIBULON.” The investigation is checking the activities of NIBULON’s officials for the period from 1 July 2017 until 31 March 2021.
StopCor also reports that already in the first quarter of 2026 the company unilaterally ceased servicing debt to all creditors — both international financial institutions and Ukrainian banks.
The scale of the situation is also determined by NIBULON’s role in the Ukrainian economy. For years the company was one of the leading exporters of grain and oilseeds and developed its own network of elevators, river, and port infrastructure.
After 2022 the company’s financial indicators deteriorated significantly. According to the publication’s data from Opendatabot and YouControl, in 2025 the company’s liabilities exceeded its assets, and the current liquidity ratio was 0,33. NIBULON explained the financial difficulties as consequences of the full-scale war, including loss of assets, blockage of Mykolaiv’s port infrastructure, and logistics problems.
At the same time, in 2024–2025 IFC, ING Bank, Crédit Agricole, EBRD, FMO, DEG, and the EIB participated in restructuring the company’s financing for up to $500 million. Another $45 million of credit was restructured by Raiffeisen Bank. The total volume of the group’s debt obligations, according to estimates cited by StopCor, approaches $600 million.
Andriy Vadatursky himself previously told Forbes that at the start of the full-scale invasion the company had about $570 million in debts to 26 banks. As of the beginning of 2024 roughly 89% of creditors agreed to restructuring terms under which, over 2024–2026 years, the company was to pay mostly interest.
However, reality turned out to be far more alarming: NIBULON effectively did not fulfill the restructuring terms and unilaterally stopped servicing its debt obligations. While most Ukrainian agricompanies continue to promptly settle with creditors, the current state of the holding increasingly resembles a financial “bubble.”
At the same time the company continues to carry out large-scale export operations and each year receives about 4–6 billion UAH in VAT refunds from the state budget.
If export profits are not used to repay debts to banks, this gives reasonable grounds to suspect their being moved abroad to affiliated structures — which became the central vector of the law enforcement criminal investigation. Without urgent and tough measures, the Ukrainian market risks another large-scale default similar to the notorious cases of the Mriya agroholding or fugitive former VAB Bank owner Oleh Bakhtamyuk.
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