Russian business in Ukraine. Investigation //Companies with Russian roots facing sanctions/Channel 24 collage
The State Bureau of Investigation looked into around 200 companies in different fields of the economy and created lists of companies owned by Russian structures or citizens, which continue to support Russia during a full-scale war.
Lists of companies with Russian connections have been given to the Cabinet of Ministers to impose sanctions. Big data platform Vkursi gathered information about these companies and shared it exclusively with Channel 24.
Russian business in Ukraine: revenue of companies sponsoring Russia
In 2020 alone, these companies made at least UAH 4.27 billion in revenue.
The total land area owned by these companies is 490.8 hectares. Additionally, they secured tenders worth more than a billion hryvnias. Moreover, the companies are heavily burdened, with total obligations amounting to 1.401 billion hryvnia.
The list of companies they want to sanction includes:
- OOO Gazprom Export
- OOO Mezhdurechensky Mining and Processing Plant
- LLC Specialized Sea Port Nika-Tera
- PJSC Pentopak
- PJSC Vinnitsabytkhim
- LLC Tatneft-AZS-Ukraine
- LLC Poltava-Capital
- LLC Kharkiv-Capital
Russian business in Ukraine. Investigation //Companies with Russian roots from the SBI list/Vkursi infographics
Russian business in Ukraine. A subsidiary of Gazprom
OOO Gazprom Export is the export subsidiary of the Russian Gazprom, a multinational company controlled by Russia through the federal state asset management agency. The company supports Russia's armed aggression against Ukraine and pays taxes to its budget.
A subsidiary of Gazprom is also included in the Russian Roots registry, which analyzes companies located in Ukraine, but with Russian roots, and at least 12 legal entities and their founders, the name of which contains a mention of Gazprom.
Note! At the beginning of December 2022, the property of Gazprom Export LLC was transferred to the National Agency for the Detection, Search and Management of Assets Obtained from Corruption and Other Crimes: a property with an area of more than 1,000 square meters and four cars.
This is not the first scandal that the company has been involved in. In 2017, the Moscow prosecutor's office instructed Gazprom Export LLC to repay over UAH 1.7 million in unpaid taxes to the state budget.
The company was registered in Kyiv, where it owned real estate on Olegovskaya Street (near Zhitny Market). The company also had 4 cars on its balance sheet: 2 Toyota Corolla, Toyota RAV4, and Audi A6. All this property has already been transferred to ARMA.
Unfortunately, information about the company's income and economic activities is currently unavailable.
Companies included in GROUP DF
Mezhdurechensky Mining and Processing Plant
The plant is part of the GROUP DF group of companies, the main investments of which are concentrated in the nitrogen, titanium, and gas businesses.
It's worth noting that they were the ones who acquired a controlling stake in Inter Media Group in 2013.
LLC “Mezhdurechensky Mining and Processing Plant” is located in the Zhytomyr region, in the urban-type settlement of Irshansk and is engaged in the extraction of ores and other non-ferrous metals.
Capital, income and export
- The plant's approved capital amount is UAH 207 million.
- Earnings are UAH 739.4 million, equal to 7.9% of the total market share. In 2020, the plant earned UAH 591.35 million.
- The company actively sells its products in the Czech Republic and the Netherlands, and made a total profit of 267 million hryvnias from exports in 2021. png” class=”wpg_image” title=”Financial performance of the Mezhdurechensk Mining and Processing Plant/Vkursi infographics” width=”768″ height=”432″ alt=”Russian business in Ukraine. Investigation” />
Russian business in Ukraine. Investigation //Financial performance of the Mezhdurechensky mining and processing plant/Infographics Vkursi
Based on Vkursi's company profile, the movable assets of the Mezhdurechensky plant are heavily encumbered, with existing encumbrances exceeding 991 million hryvnia. Among the encumbrancers are Oschadbank and AB Clearing House, ultimately owned by Yulia Lyovochkina. According to the credit line agreement, Oschadbank obligated the plant for 16.4 million dollars, and Clearing House JSB, according to the pledge agreement, for 18.7 million hryvnias.
One of the founders is Diago Enterprises Limited, registered in Cyprus, but it is known that the ultimate beneficiary is the pro-Russian and sanctioned oligarch Dmitry Firtash. In April 2022, Dmitry Firtash left the founders of the Mezhdurechensky Mining and Processing Plant. However, as we can see, this did not help to dodge the SBI: according to the company's dossier on Vkursi, Dmitry Firtash is the ultimate owner of the plant and has an indirect decisive influence on him through the Matronovskiy Mining and Processing Plant.
Nika-Tera Port
This is another company within GROUP DF — the specialized Nika-Tera seaport in Nikolaev. Its founders are the Alandero Investments Limited company, and the ultimate beneficiary is the same Dmitry Firtash.
Additionally, the previous founder of the seaport is ZT Nika-Tera LLC, which was held in the case as a fictitious enterprise under article 205 UCU.
Important! In 2020, the company's income amounted to UAH 1.41 billion. It should be added that Nika-Tera ranked first in terms of income among 339 companies in the industry.
LLC Specialized Sea Port Nika-Tera has encumbrances totaling UAH 1.6 million. The encumbrancer is MTB Bank, to which the seaport provided a Toyota LG GRJ150 car as collateral.
Pentopak PJSC
Pentopak, a private joint-stock company, produces plastic pipes, sheets, plates, profiles, and containers. The company is owned by a Cyprus-registered company, Kosteram Holdings Limited. Until recently, the ultimate beneficiary was Savvidu Kyriaki, but the company's dossier records the withdrawal from membership of the company.
In 2013, there were reports that the Russian food packaging company, Atlantis-Pak, aimed to acquire the Ukrainian Pentopak. In Ukraine, Atlantis-Pack holds a subsidiary, Atlantis-Pack Ukraine, also founded by Savvidu Kyriaki.
Export and enterprise income
- Pentopak is involved in international trade.
- The largest export destinations in 2021 were Belarus and Russia, with goods worth over UAH 80 million being exported there.
- Overall, the company earned UAH 265 million in 2021.
Russian business in Ukraine. Investigation //List of countries where Pentopak PJSC exports its goods/Infographics Vkursi
Vinnytsiabytkhim
PrJSC “Vinnitsabytchim” is known for its trademarks “Eared Nyan”, “Lotos-M”, RIO, etc. Previously, this company's assets were seized for 2 billion hryvnias in the summer, due to the fact that the owners are Russian entrepreneurs who also own Nevskaya Cosmetics company.
Nevskaya Cosmetics bought Vinnitsabytkhim in 2006. The company is ultimately owned by a Russian citizen named Vladimir Plesovskikh.
Earnings and overseas sales of the publicly-traded company
- The company made UAH 857 million in 2021.
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- Vinnitsabytchim also actively sells its products to Moldova, Georgia, Russia, and Belarus.
Financial indicators of PrJSC “Vinnitsabytchim”/Vkursi infographics
Russian enterprise in Ukraine. Businesses owned by Tatneft
Tatneft-AZS-Ukraine
In May 2022, 115 items were confiscated and frozen on the property, accounts, and corporate rights of the Russian Tatneft group: oil depots, fuel stations, non-residential buildings, land parcels, and 118 fuel trucks and cars.
In addition, about 400 million hryvnias were confiscated from the corporate rights and accounts of the company's enterprises.
Let's remind! LLC Tatneft-AZS-Ukraine specializes in the retail sale of fuel and is owned by the Russian PJSC Tatneft.
Corporate earnings
In 2021, the company earned UAH 1.15 billion. During the same year, Tatneft-AZS-Ukraine imported a large quantity of oil or oil products from Belarus and Russia totaling UAH 241 million.
The company is burdened by UAH 304.7 million. The significant burdens include the Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine and the executive service department. The Office of the Prosecutor General confiscated the company's movable property and corporate rights to a 100% share worth UAH 302.7 million. The Kyiv Department of the State Executive Service in the city of Poltava of the North-Eastern Interregional Department of the Ministry of Justice imposed an obligation on the company for 1.9 million hryvnias.
Poltava-Capital and Kharkiv-Capital
LLC “Poltava- Capital” and LLC “Kharkov-Capital” are part of the same PJSC “Tatneft” named after Shashin (Republic of Tatarstan, Russia). Both companies are engaged in renting and operating their own or leased real estate. Additionally, the head of Kharkov-Capital Rustam Kalimullin is a native of Tatarstan and a deputy of the State Duma of Russia from the United Russia party.
Company earnings
Poltava-Capital earned UAH 33.7 million last year, and Kharkiv-Capital earned UAH 35.4 million in 2020.
Encumbrances of Poltava-Capital and Kharkiv-Capital
- Poltava-Capital LLC has effective encumbrances totaling UAH 38.2 million. The primary encumbrance is by the Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine, which seized the property and rights of the company for this amount.
- Kharkov-Capital LLC also has significant burdens. Once again, the main burden is from the Office of the Attorney General. The company has liabilities amounting to UAH 66.2 million.
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