The office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine on Monday announced the arrest of the corporate rights of an enterprise for the production and sale of mineral water, owned by a Russian oligarch.
Assets worth more than UAH 53.4 million (more than $1.8 million) were seized.
The name of the oligarch was not called.
The Bureau of Economic Security of Ukraine clarified that the arrest was imposed on securities and funds that are shares of the authorized capital of an enterprise owned by an oligarch from Russia “through Cypriot companies.”
They also explained that “Russian businessmen tried to avoid possible sanctions and seizure of property rights.”
Allegedly, “under fictitious agreements,” they “planned to withdraw assets located on the territory of Ukraine from their property.”
One of the Ukrainian publications reported that we are talking about the Morshynska mineral water company, owned by Mikhail Fridman, writes RBC.
In Ukraine, Fridman, with partners Petr Aven and German Khan, as the Ukrainian edition recalls, owns a company that is the exclusive importer of Borjomi water in Ukraine and is represented in the country by a number of other brands – in particular, Mirgorodskaya and Morshynska waters.
A request has been sent to confirm or refute this information.
