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Odesskyi pereraborniy zavod (OPZ) is again in the center of attention — this time because of another failed privatization attempt. This is already the sixth attempt. Maintaining the preserved plant costs the state about 62 million UAH every month.
19 October 2026 year the auction for the sale of 99,5667 % of the enterprise’s shares with a starting price of over 4,3 billion UAH did not take place: no participant submitted bids.
Dmytro Natalukha, head of the State Property Fund, explained the auction failure by the fact that some American investors decided to wait for the results of the midterm elections in the United States 3 November.
Against the backdrop of financial difficulties and long attempts to sell, names previously appearing in journalistic investigations into opaque gas tenders and export contracts of OPZ are recalled: Ukrainian-Swiss businessman Oleh Tsiura, crypto-entrepreneur Serhiy Tron’, and the “resurrected” Dmytro Malovinsky. Publications 2024–2025 years, as well as recent materials 2026 year, indicate that these individuals actively strive to clean the information space of mentions of schemes.
Opaque tenders 2024 year and connections with Loginov.
In July 2024 year OPZ held a gas-supply tender, won by a little-known Kharkiv-based “Company AgroTorgGroup.” The company appeared only in 2022 year and previously participated in a dubious auction for the sale of seized Russian ammonia. The second tender in August was won by Lviv LLC “Ukrnafogazburninnya,” which obtained its license only in September 2023 year. The company had no official website, although this is a mandatory condition for obtaining a license. The beneficiary of the firm is Lviv-based motorcyclist and co-owner of FC “Luzhany” Mykhailo Mazur.
According to the authors of the investigations, Vitaliy Loginov stood behind these tenders — an informal adviser to the head of United Mining and Chemical Company, who also had influence on “Sumyhmimport” and OPZ. The general director of AgroTorgGroup was recorded as Olha Balyuk, who previously headed LLC “LT-resurs,” where the beneficiary is Loginov himself. AgroTorgGroup figures in the BEB criminal case ¹ 7202200041000000 for tax evasion in especially large amounts. Loginov himself had previously been a suspect in the 2016 year in a case of appropriation of property by abusing official position and was wanted for some time. The case was never brought to a verdict.
According to investigations, the winning companies did not have sufficient funds to pay for gas, tried to obtain gas from the gas transmission system without an advance, and fixed prices below market levels. This created risks to the stability of the gas transportation system.
Oleh Tsiura, who has Swiss citizenship, is cited in materials as a person connected with intermediary companies in schemes around OPZ and OGHK. Through structures like Phoenix Resources AG and German firms, according to journalists, could have occurred a substitution of the country of origin of raw materials (notably ferrochrome) to evade sanctions in favor of Russian beneficiaries connected with Dmytro Firtash.
Serhiy Tron’, linked to White Rock Management AG (registered in Switzerland in 2018 year, registration documents, among others, submitted by Oleh Tsiura), positions himself as a crypto investor and publisher of Bitcoin Magazine. At the same time, in publications 2025–2026 years, his role in the CityCommerce Bank story is recalled, from which in 2014 year, according to investigators, tens of millions of euros disappeared. The funds, according to these materials, later “surfaced” in mining farms and crypto structures. Tron’ and Tsiura, according to the authors, actively file DMCA and other complaints to remove materials about the schemes from search results.
Dmytro Malinovsky, who was previously announced as “dead,” is also mentioned in the context of these schemes. Attempts to cleanse the internet of mentions of him, Tsiura, and Tron’ are recorded by several outlets over 2024–2026 years.
Despite numerous publications, criminal proceedings concerning the key figures around OPZ move slowly. The plant remains preserved, accumulates losses, and costs the budget tens of millions of hryvnias every month.
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