In Odesa region unknown persons seized a maritime terminal that PrivatBank is suing companies of Kolomoisky and Boholiubov over

In the Odesa region unknown persons forcibly seized the maritime terminal "BoriVazh," which for years has been the subject of legal disputes involving PrivatBank and the bank's former owners Ihor Kolomoisky and Hennadiy Boholiubov. The seizure occurred around 7:00 a.m. on 29 September, when a group of unknown individuals numbering approximately 50 people arrived at the territory of the maritime transshipment and storage complex in the port of Pivdennyi. According to preliminary information, they are representatives of the security company "Sapsan," who established de facto control over the facility and blocked access to the territory.

The terminal's management reported a raider seizure, and the lawyer of LLC "Terminal 'BoriVazh'" Yuliia Hryshchenko reported a criminal offense to the police. The incident is reported by Economic Truth citing sources in law enforcement agencies. This concerns a grain terminal with a capacity of 2 million tons per year, the fate of which has long been decided in courts — in particular, the legality of transferring "BoriVazh" into the charter capital of LLC "Agroterminal Logistic" is under review.

The terminal was pledged to the National Bank under a mortgage agreement from the time when PrivatBank was owned by Kolomoisky and Boholiubov. The prosecutor's office previously explained that in 2016 year officials of LLC "BoriVazh," by prior conspiracy with officials of LLC "Agroterminal Logistic" and PrivatBank, committed illegal actions regarding the mortgaged property. The Shevchenkivskyi District Court of Kyiv on 21 February imposed an arrest on the asset, prohibiting its disposal, and on 31 October allowed the use of the terminal while keeping the prohibition on disposal in force.

Who is claiming control over the terminal

In the fall the Office of the Prosecutor General noted that the arrest on "BoriVazh" remains in effect, and the question of transferring the asset to the National Agency for the Search and Management of Assets (ARMA) is still under judicial consideration. ARMA has already begun market consultations regarding the selection of a manager for the strategic asset — the maritime logistics complex LLC "Agroterminal Logistic," associated with the former owners of PrivatBank.

The complainants in the court proceedings are one way or another connected to Kolomoisky and Boholiubov, one of whom is currently abroad and the other in pretrial detention. It is precisely around this asset, worth billions of hryvnias, that in recent years a struggle has been unfolding between the state bank, the insurance company "Ingosstrakh," and companies close to the former owners of "Privat."

Earlier Informator wrote that through the courts PrivatBank could be deprived of 3,5 billion UAH because of the "BoriVazh" terminal — former bank shareholder Oleksiy Martynov noted that the claim right on the loan secured by this asset was bought up by a firm close to Serhiy Tyhypko, and the bank itself had not shown activity in the case.

We also reported that the court case regarding the theft of billions from PrivatBank involving former deputy chairman of the board Volodymyr Yatsenko is still being heard in the High Anti-Corruption Court, where he is accused of embezzling hundreds of millions of hryvnias on the eve of the bank's nationalization.

Additionally, Informator wrote that former top manager of PrivatBank Volodymyr Yatsenko disrupted the auction for the grain terminal in the Odesa region — by order of the Commercial Court in Dnipropetrovsk region, the sale of claim rights to a company associated with "BoriVazh" was suspended until the dispute between "Ingosstrakh" and the state financial institution is resolved.