“The Agency for Search and Asset Management (ARMA) auctioned seized alcohol products worth 14.2 million.”, — write: www.epravda.com.ua
The Agency for Search and Asset Management (ARMA) auctioned seized alcohol products worth UAH 14.2 million.
About this reported ARMA press service.
“To ensure the effective sale of assets, ARMA divided the total amount of seized alcohol into smaller lots,” the message said.
As writes LIGA.net with a link to “Prozorro.Prodazhi”, this is alcohol from Poland and Italy, which is stored in warehouses in the village of Solonka, Lviv region.
The most expensive lot with a starting price of almost UAH 9.58 million consists of of 163,268 bottles of Żubrówka and liqueur tincture Soplica.
The second lot – 76,140 bottles of Żubrówka vodka – was put up for auction for over UAH 3.96 million. These auctions are scheduled for October 2.
The third lot – 14,646 bottles of Sincero Fragolino Rosato and Sincero Fragolino Roso – planned to be sold on September 23. The starting price of the lot is UAH 684,100.
The batch of alcohol found in warehouses in Solonka belongs to Rust Ukraine LLC. The ultimate beneficial owner of “Rust Ukraine” LLC is Russian vodka tycoon and owner of “Russian Standard” holding Rustam Tariko.
The assets of Rust Ukraine LLC and Bank Forward JSC (previously known as Russian Standard) were seized in the summer of 2022 at the initiative of the Security Service of Ukraine. Rustam Tariko was also listed as the controller of the Forward banking group, which broke up on December 29, 2019.
In October 2022, Tariko was included in the list of persons against whom sanctions were applied by the National Security Council.
ARMA also put 40,000 liters of herbicides up for auction. The starting price of the lot is almost UAH 3 million. The auction is scheduled for September 20.
We will remind:
Agency for tracing and management of assets (ARMA) chose the manager of the strategically important Ovrutsky crushed stone plant in the Zhytomyr region, which previously belonged to the Gomel city council.