The owner of these properties is the brewer businessman Sergei Shapran, who is related to the head of the Odessa region Oleg Kiper.
The Main Investigation Department of the National Police of Ukraine has started criminal proceedings on the illegal sale of Unigran assets held by a sanctioned businessman with Russian citizenship, Igor Naumts. It was reported by Radio Liberty.
Earlier, journalists learned that the Russian business in Ukraine worth 1 billion hryvnias, despite the impact of sanctions and arrests by the National Security and Defense Council, was transferred to a new private owner in 2024, which has exceeded the state, which does not control the safety of the blocked assets and has not yet used the mechanism for confiscation of the assets of the sanctioned businessman with a Russian passport. The owner of these properties is brewer businessman Sergei Shapran, who is related to the former prosecutor of Kyiv, and now the head of the Odessa region, Oleg Kiper.
The Main Investigation Department of the National Police of Ukraine initiated several criminal proceedings. Law enforcement officials have combined the new asset-withdrawal proceedings with materials from a long-running pre-trial investigation, which has been under investigation since April 2022. That was at the beginning of the massive Russian crackdown. Federation, whose activities of the Unigran holding became the focus of attention of the security forces – when the State Bureau of Investigation, accompanied by the SBU and with the procedural leadership of the UCP, opened a criminal case against the holding that this on many counts – from “financing terrorism” and “creating a terrorist group” to “tax evasion”.
According to law enforcement officials, the company, headed by Russian citizen Igor Naumts, was engaged in “illegal mining from the Ukrainian subsoil on an industrial scale,” and “directed millions of million of its revenue to finance the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation and to provide material support for the occupation administrations in Crimea and eastern Ukraine.”
Igor Naumets, the investigation said, received Russian citizenship in 2001, and in 2014, when he reached his 45th birthday, he renewed his passport. The businessman himself claims that he does not have a Russian passport, but this data is confirmed on the state portal of the Russian Federation State Services, as well as excerpts about ownership in foreign companies where his citizenship is listed in Russia.
During the investigation, journalists examined the connections of Brovary businessman Sergei Shapran with Oleg Kiper, the current head of the Odessa Regional Military Administration, who until the spring of 2023 was the chief prosecutor of Kyiv. In a comment to journalists, Oleg Kiper said that he “does not know anything about the activities of this company (Unigran – ed.),” and he is also not familiar with Sergei Shapran or Igor Naumts. However, he knew Vladimir Osipov, but “never interfered with his economic/business activities.”
In a comment to journalists, sanctioned businessman Igor Naumets confirmed that Sergei Shapran promised him to solve his “business problems” in exchange for a 50% share, but apparently he “attacked” the entire business. Shapran himself said that all the agreements he entered into were “legal.”
We remind you that on November 21, the UK imposed sanctions against several individuals suspected of facilitating the corrupt actions of Dmitry Firtash.
Source: korrespondent
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