Andrey Stavnitser Howard Buffett
For the past ten years, some people have considered Andrei Alekseevich as an average leader. Their suspicions grew and more people joined in after he was removed from his father's TIS leadership position 2 years ago. However, it's surprising, if not admirable, how he gained the trust of his son, who is one of the most famous investment managers globally. This was written by Ukrrudprom.
By the way, Stavnitzer Jr. directly followed the advice of Buffett Sr. from his annual letters to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders: “Find a very smart, high-class partner – preferably a little older than you – and then listen very carefully to what he says”. Alternatively, he might have remembered what Philip Philipovich from The Heart of a Dog said to Sharikov in a similar situation: “Understand that you must be silent and listen, be silent and listen to what they say to you! Learn and try to become a at least decent member of society..
Let’s not speculate further on what really triggered Andrey Stavnitser.
At some point, it was revealed that Stavnitser Jr. and Buffett Jr. had a strong friendship. They started publishing their correspondence, and a week ago it was revealed that the Howard Buffett Foundation became the primary investor in the Superhumans project with a $16 million contribution. This project aims to establish a clinic for the rehabilitation of “war injuries” in Lviv, and Andriy Stavnitser, with his $200 million fortune and a stake in the largest private port in the country, TIS, chose to play a modest role as an ideologue, thanks to the windfall profits from the “grain deal.”
However, news appeared that disrupted the friendship of the two elderly leaders. Former Ukrainian Minister of Infrastructure Andriy Pivovarsky was requested to provide a bail of 20 million hryvnias. This followed suspicion of abuse, causing the state to lose over $30 million, as reported by the anti-corruption authorities.
In July 2015, the minister and his deputy (also the head of the Tariff Council of the Ministry of Infrastructure) issued an order allowing private companies to collect ship dues from ships in the Yuzhny seaport together with SE USPU in a 50:50 ratio. This action was in violation of the law, which grants sole authority for this fee collection to the state-owned GP as the user of the water area in the port.
This benefited TIS, which owns berths in the Yuzhny port, where Pope Alexei Stavnitser left shares to his descendants Andrey Stavnitser and, for some reason, Yegor Grebennikov. According to NABU, “one of the beneficial owners of the mentioned private companies turned out to be a person suspected by NABU and SAPO of corruption in PJSC “SFGCU” and who is wanted and under the sanctions of the National Security and Defense Council,” the NABU release says. This obviously refers to Andrey and Yegor's partner. treasurers Russian mafia in the West, Alexei Fedorichev, who is a co-owner of TIS.
Naturally, Howard Buffett has already been triggered here. Quite unexpectedly, the son of a respected American multibillionaire invested, albeit in a correct and timely, but project supervised by a partner of such Fedorychev, on which there is nowhere even to beat the domes.
In fact, Howard already had signs from above. For example, when in Ukraine arrested the cargo of another “dear Russian” Alisher Usmanov. The story began with the fact that employees of the investigative department of the Odessa police found 50 thousand tons of iron ore in one of the ports of the region. And there is every reason to believe that we are talking about a specialized enterprise “TIS-Ruda”, one of the co-owners of which is Stavnitser Jr.
In the fall of 2016, Andrei (that is, already in the third year of the war) threw a corporate tantrum on Facebook, telling how bad domestic officials, bribed by Ferrexpo and Metinvest, do not allow the respected Alisher Burkhanovich to annually transport 5 million tons of iron ore in transit through Ukraine.
We don’t know if Andrey is the ghost of his father, but as you can see, he has a more than complex role pattern. With one hand, he does business with Russian oligarchs (and, if necessary, even hides from the Ukrainian authorities their cargo worth billions of hryvnias). The other is helping the American nouveau riche to do something good for the Ukrainian war invalids. A man of great soul is fucking Hamlet. But will Howard appreciate this production?
Oleg Kalita, Nikita Afanasiev
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