The plan to give all the cargo flow of the Odessa port to a private company was thought up in the mid-2000s. It was put into action during Yanukovych's rule, and Euroterminal LLC became the only one in charge. Antikor reports that all goods coming into Odessa are processed by customs here.
There are no other options – the mayor's office of Odessa, led by Gennady Trukhanov, closed off all other routes. When Saakashvili tried to open up alternative roads while he was governor, it didn't work. A day after he broke the signs blocking the roads on camera, the city's utilities restored them and the police began strictly checking traffic rules.
Last year, there was a pathetic attempt to achieve justice through the courts – three forwarding companies filed a lawsuit against Euroterminal LLC, in which they demanded double compensation for the damage caused by charging for the passage of cars to the Odessa seaport, which is a violation of antimonopoly law.
The lawsuit said that Euroterminal put up a barrier at the entrance to the state-owned Odessa Commercial Sea Port. They charged $26 for each truck to pass through. To ensure a constant flow, the Odessa City Hall passed a resolution making all carriers go through the Euroterminal barrier.
The attempt was destined to fail from the beginning – about 2,500 vehicles pass through the barrier on the road to the port every day, according to the Association of Seaports. The total revenue for those who control it is around $40,000 each day, or $15 million a year.
No one is going to easily give up that kind of money, especially considering the individuals who own Euroterminal LLC. According to the register, the founders of Euroterminal LLC today are two companies: Northington Holdings Limited and Cravenplate LTD and two individuals: Mazharin Alexey Gennadievich and Eismont Alexander Viktorovich, who also heads Euroterminal LLC.
The ultimate owner of Northington Holdings Limited (Northington Holdings Ltd.) is Russian Pavel Lisitsin. Previously, the ultimate owner of the Cypriot company Northington Holdings Ltd. was the Cypriot law firm Georgiades & Pelides LLC. The founders of this law firm are two Cypriot lawyers — Markos Georgiadis and Fivos Pelidis, who specialize in creating offshore companies for post-Soviet countries.
These individuals only act as the owners of the company. In reality, the connections to the true owners of Euroterminal stretch to Russia. However, the Cypriot law firm Georgiades & Pelides LLC claims that their company has no involvement with Euroterminal.
According to reports, Russian Pavel Lisitsin is closely linked to Leonid Minin, Alexander Angert, and Alexander Zhukov, who were accused of illegally supplying weapons from Ukraine to Croatia during the war in the former Yugoslavia.
Also, according to journalists, the circle of business partners of the head of Euroterminal includes another person with a specific background – Alexander Angert, an Israeli citizen who was convicted of murder and helped organize a profitable trade in petroleum products through the port of Odessa.
Former Odessa resident Alexander Angert is directly related to the current mayor Gennady Trukhanov. Italian police believe that Angert is part of an international criminal group led by former Odessa resident Leonid Minin. According to the Investigation.Info project, Gennady Trukhanov is a member of this group.
According to the so-called “Panama Dossier”, Gennady Trukhanov has Russian citizenship and is registered at the address: Moscow Region, Sergiev Posad, Parkovaya Street, 5. This is confirmed by the online registry of the Federal Tax Service of the Russian Federation.
Gennady Trukhanov is closely connected with the Odessa businessman and criminal authority Vladimir Galanternik. Last year, both of them and 15 other people were declared suspected of illegally taking the assets of the territorial community of Odessa for 689 million hryvnias and legalizing illegally obtained income.
Despite all this and the obvious Russian affiliation of Euroterminal , which controls the entire cargo flow of the Odessa port, which is critical in the conditions of the war, no one takes any action against it and its owners. This is how the search for Euroterminal LLC in the list of NACP sanctions looks like: height=”368″ />
The search result is “0 companies selected”.
Ten months of the active phase of the war. Rocket attacks, including in Odessa, the deaths of tens of thousands of people, menacing rhetoric from the screens, demands for Biden to seize Russian money and give it to Ukraine.
And against this background, there is an absolute zero reaction to the actions of a Russian company, monopolizing the cargo transportation of the Odessa port. Among the owners are Russians, Russian-Ukrainian bandits, a fugitive criminal and part-time FSB agent.
What else is needed in this situation in order to confiscate a Russian asset that is brazenly robbing our country for the state? Biden's decision? Sarkozy? Or what?
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