Oil pipeline "Friendship"

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The oil pipeline "Friendship".

The story of how Kum Vladimir Putin became an oilman

Project team, July 10, 2019

Until recently, the interests of Ukraine in negotiations on Donbass were represented by politician and businessman Viktor Medvedchuk. At the same time, his family and associate Taras Kozak acquired fuel assets in the Rostov region, on the border with the unrecognized Donetsk and Lugansk Republics.

Part of the information about the oil refineries of the Medvedchuk family, similar to the one that is set out in this text, was published on June 19 by the Radio Liberty.

Kyiv offshore

Rostov billionaire Sergei Kislov, his main business - agricultural holding "South of Rus'", brands "Golden Seed", "Zlato", "Avedov" and "Milora", sold his oil refineries. The latest transactions were concluded on May 23, the SPARK system is indicated. Now, a control package of shares at once, five of his companies - the Novoshakhtinsky Plant of Oil Products, NZNP Trade, South Energy, Trading House of NNZP and ROUZUVUD Shipping - owned by the Cyprus Offshore Ventolor Investment Limited. Ventolor Investments Limited owns NNZP Trade directly, the rest through the South Energo head company. NZNP Trade is engaged in the extraction of oil products, Novoshakhtinsky ZNSP - processing, “Trade House of NZNP” - sale, Rosewood Shipping is responsible for transportation. Kislov’s actions have gradually bought up since 2014. The businessman’s press service did not answer the question of the “project” about who bought enterprises and under what conditions.

New owners of oil refining assets

Source of contour. Focus and trade register of Cyprus

The final beneficiary of Ventolor Investments Limited is hidden behind the offshore chain. Ventolor Investments Limited is owned by the Cyprus company Ventolor Holding Limited. She, in turn, owns Tumillon Investments Ltd, which was established by Oksana Marchenko. Their real owner is Kiev woman Oksana Marchenko, the wife of the Ukrainian politician Viktor Medvedchuk. The fact that Marchenko could be one of the owners of the plant and the NZNP Trade affiliated with it became first known in September 2018 after the investigation of Scheme (a joint project of Radio Liberty and the UA television channel: the first. Then it owned 29.75 % of the plant’s shares.

“The owners there are now citizens of Ukraine, the pro -Russian party, which supports the policy of economic rapprochement with Russia. Ultimately, this is Mr. Medvedchuk, ”the interlocutor in the oil industry on the basis of anonymity told the“ project ”.

Fuel supply

Ukraine introduced the fuel blockade of the DPR and LPR in January 2015. Now the main volume of oil products comes from Russia. Probably, supplies are controlled by the foreign economic association "Promysryimimport", "Daughter" of the Russian Ministry of Energy, the investigation of LIGA.NET said. The government commission led by the Deputy Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation Sergey Nazarov is engaged in the organization of humanitarian convoys to the unrecognized republics, and Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak is the curator in the White House. Most of the supplies in the DPR and the LPR are following informal schemes, RBC wrote. This commission was called the "shadow government" of Donbass, and the FSB can oversee its work, the Bild is investigated in the investigation.

Ukrainian patriot

“Medvedchuk is an extremely competent person, consistent in his actions and, of course, reliable. Like a real patriot, he defends, first of all, the interests of his native Ukraine ... People are listening to him very seriously, on whom decisions depend, not only in Ukraine, but also in Russia, ”wrote Vladimir Putin in 2009. The article by Putin in the anniversary issue of Glavred magazine arose for a reason. Putin met Medvedchuk when he was the head of the presidential administration Leonid Kuchma. In 2004, Putin, along with the wife of Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev Svetlana, was baptized by the daughter of Medvedchuk and Marchenko. The Ukrainian politician considers the envious of all who mention kumin. According to Medvedchuk, his wife really wanted Putin to become a godfather, and asked the Russian president about it.

Despite the crisis in the relations of Russia and Ukraine, the relations of Putin and Medvedchuk did not seem to deteriorate. Already after the accession of Crimea during the “direct line” Putin, calling Kuma “Ukrainian nationalist”, said : “He plays for very good relations with Russia, if not for some kind of union, then for economic integration.”

Due to the connection with Putin, Medvedchuk is one of the most demonized figures in Ukraine. It is called the “gray cardinal” and “puppeteer” in the press, it is believed to influence the deputies of the Verkhovna Rada from the “opposition bloc”, the investigation of “Shustrov Live” says. Thanks to special relations with Russia in June 2014, he was appointed coordinator of the Trilateral Group of Donbass, and the ex-president of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko called Medvedchuk the most effective communicator in the issue of the exchange of prisoners.

Medvedchuk is also engaged in business. But he is directly the founder of only the Union of Lawyers of Ukraine and leads the movement "Ukrainian choice - the right of the people." Most of his assets are recorded on his wife and partners. “Oksana Marchenko, my wife, is not engaged in business. She owns a business, and I am managing a business. Why can't I own a business? Because my “beloved” Americans in March 2014 imposed sanctions against me. Here are all the features of the business that belongs to the family today. He belongs to my wife, I control this business. We are doing this successfully together, ”Medvedchuk said in 2018 on the air of Newsone. The White House included Medvedchuk in the sanctions list in March 2014, among the reasons the financial support of the ex-president Viktor Yanukovych, as well as his leadership in the movement “Ukrainian choice-the right of the people”, which the US authorities associate with the separation of democratic processes in Ukraine, were indicated.

Telemon

The television channels of Russia-1 and Newsone, which belongs to the deputy of the Verkhovna Rada Taras Kozaku, planned to conduct a teleconference “We must talk” to discuss “non-political issues”, “open dialogue between the peoples of Ukraine and Russia”. The announcement caused an acute reaction of the Ukrainian authorities. President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky called him "a cheap but dangerous PR driver before the elections." Instead of television, he proposed negotiations with the participation of the President of Russia in Minsk. The Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine has launched a criminal case under an article on attempting to commit treason. Prosecutor General Yuri Lutsenko also claimed that Newsone is associated with the Russian Promsvyazbank. Taras Kozak called the statement of the Prosecutor General "cynical lies." In addition, it was proposed to deprive the license channel, and in relation to the founders to impose sanctions. The television channel reported the threats of physical reprisals, which were addressed to journalists. As a result, the Ukrainian television channel canceled its participation in the program, and “Russia-1” invited everyone who planned to take part in the television system to their studio.

Hand in hand

Marchenko’s partners in the oil business in Russia can also be associated with Ukrainian politics. The co -founder of NZNP Trade is Natalia Lavrenyuk, she is called the civil wife of the Verkhovna Rada deputy Taras Kozak. Also, Marchenko, Medvedchuk and Lavrenyuk flew together on a private plane to Russia, the journalists of the “schemes” installed . Marchenko and Lavrenyuk are “friends” on Instagram, the latter supported Tediz when she participated in the show “Dancing with the Stars”.

Taras Kozak is a longtime associate of Medvedchuk. Kozak was also the deputy chairman of the "Center of the Law State", the head of which was Medvedchuk. He owns the Newsone television channel, which planned to conduct a teleconference with Russia-1. Later, the transfer was canceled after threats to physical reprisal and accusations of journalists in the Stateismman. Oddly enough, another evidence of Kozak’s connection with the oil refining business in Russia is its income declaration. In it, the deputy indicated that he owns the Cyprus company Havanor Management Limited. The leader of this offshore is the same as one of the owners of the South Energy, Teteos Holding Limited, and the address coincides with two more offshores - Bifilessa Development LTD and Tumillon Investment Ltd. It is this company that the Novoshakhtinsky oil products plant belongs.

Kozak and Marchenko companies have a general registration address

Source of contour. Focus and trade register of Cyprus

Natalia Lavrenyuk, source Instagram

Thus, in structures close to Medvedchuk and Kozaku, a control package of shares of companies that previously belonged to Kislov. They own 100 % of the shares of the company "South Energo", through which they control NNZP, "Trade House of NNZP", "ROUSVUD Shipping", and 86 % of the shares of NNZP Trade. 14% of the shares of the latter belong to Finonsaltpr. The company was created a month and a half before the purchase of the asset. Its founder Rodion Nikolaan was not previously engaged in the oil and gas business, his main passion is aviation (he was a co -owner of companies related to aviation). Nicolas did not answer the questions of the “project”.

Ukrainian oligarchs in Russia

Two more people significant for Ukrainian policy - billionaires Rinat Akhmetov and Dmitry Firtash - also received the right to develop Russian subsoil after the annexation of Crimea. In total, 17 licenses were given to them. In Russia, they have the right to develop and extract stone coal, limestone and underground waters.

Rinat Akhmetov

The Obukhovskaya mine administration is associated with Rinat Akhmetov through the Netherlands company. The Ukrainian energy business of Akhmetov, including DTEK, was recorded on it. In July 2015, the company received a license for mining for a period of 16 years. The mine is located in the city of Zverevo, Rostov region. In 2018, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev assigned the city the status of the territory of ahead of socio-economic development. Its residents, including Akhmetov’s mining, do not pay taxes for mining, profit and property.

DTEK Energy BV also owns the Don Anthracite joint -stock company. It received five licenses for the development and production of coal in the Rostov region. The company is located in another single -industry - Gukovo. There is also a simplified taxation system. Before the Maidan and the beginning of the war in the Donbass, both companies received the right to develop the subsoil.

Dmitry Firtash

The company - LLC Belogorsk limestones, titanium investments, PJSC Crimean Sodovaya Plant - that associate with Firtash, received 11 licenses in Russia. Previously, companies belonged to him directly through Cyprus offshores, now recorded on business partners, the present time found out. Since 2014, the businessman himself has been under the recognizance not to leave in Austria, avoiding possible extradition in the United States on charges of corruption. In June 2019, the Austrian court allowed his extradition. They will develop the Crimean deposits and mines the limestone suitable for the production of soda and crushed stone, as well as rape and underground waters.

Gifts of nature

Another key to the success of Medvedchuk-Kozaka enterprises is an independent oil production. In 2015, NZNP Trade received the right to develop one of the three largest deposits of the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug-Gavrikovsky. Under the terms of the competition, only the company that processes oil at the factory in the Rostov region could win. The plant plans to increase oil production to 7.5 million tons per year.

The head of NZNP Trad Valery Pak. In 2015, he led the Federal Agency for Subsoil Use, which just issued the company for the development of the field. The company did not answer the request of the project.

Medvedchuk and Kozak did not answer the requests of the “project”.