Became known the details of the sale of the plant “Bolshevik”
The topic for discussion on the next broadcast of Savik Shuster’s Freedom of Speech was the privatization of the Bolshevik plant, which aroused suspicions in society of corruption during the auction.
This was discussed on the air of a political talk show on November 12.
Savik Shuster recalled that three companies took part in the tender on October 27: businessman Vasily Khmelnitsky, son of the former mayor of Kiev Stepan Chernovetsky and ex-regional Vitaliy Khomutynnik. Won the auction, which lasted only 7 minutes, Khmelnitsky.
The final price at the same time increased by only 1.5 million dollars from the starting one. A huge industrial complex on 35 hectares of land in Kiev was sold for just $54 million. At the same time, the market price of only a part of the object (on Shulyavka) was estimated at least three times more expensive even before the start of the auction – at 133 million dollars. The investor received all the property of the former plant in 4 regions of Ukraine: 1 hectare of land on Trukhaniv Island with access to the Desenka River, the Albatross base on the first line of the sea in Zatoka (Odessa region), the Desna recreation center in Chernihiv region with access to the river and lakes, agricultural land in the Kiev region and the property of the Zhashkovsky machine-building plant in the Cherkasy region.
Such an acquisition for relatively little money for Khmelnitsky was an extraordinary success. Or – a signal that the tender was not entirely fair.
Together with the guests of the studio, Savik Shuster also took a closer look at the identity of the winner of the auction, millionaire Vasily Khmelnitsky. And they analyzed the fate of large state facilities, which he had already acquired earlier – also at a very tasty price and with virtually no competition.
There were some controversies. In particular, a heated discussion over the astonishingly low price for which the state sold the Bolshevik complex arose between ex-Finance Minister Oleksandr Danilyuk, former MP Borislav Bereza, and head of the State Property Fund Dmitry Sennichenko. The latter does not believe that the price was underestimated and compared the state-owned enterprise with “rotten apples” in the market.
