“Earlier, this special permit belonged”, – WRITE: www.radiosvoboda.org
Earlier, this special permit belonged to the group of companies “Unigrant” of the sub -Russian businessman Igor Naumts, who was told in their investigation “Schemes”. At that time, journalists found that the Nauma’s business in Ukraine cost a billion hryvnias, despite the NSDC sanctions and arrests, in 2024 moved to a new private owner bypassing the state, which did not control the conservation of blocked assets and still did not use the mechanism of confiscation of assets. Instead, as the schemes found out, the new owner of these assets was Brovar businessman Sergey Shapran, connected with the former prosecutor of Kiev, and now the head of Odessa Oleg Kipper.
According to the text, in April 2024, Korostensky Career, related to the sub -businessman Igor Naumts and his group of companies “Unifran”, sold a special permit for the use of a carrier in the Zhytomyr region – novel – novel. And within a few months, in October of that year, she resold these rights for more than two million hryvnias of the Korostensky Mining Company, where Sergei Shapran is the final beneficiary.
In September 2024, the Cyprus company IE Mining Limited Company, as a shareholder of Korosten Career, appealed to the Commercial Court of Kyiv to declare the sale of the special permit invalid. According to the plaintiffs, the priority agreement with the Novelti Proma took place without the consent of the shareholders, since they could not dispose of property because of the sanctions imposed on Igor Naumts and his assistant Elena Kalp as the final beneficiaries. In addition, the plaintiff argued that “if the permission to use the subsoil of the deposit was granted the State Geogadra, only the initial price of the auction would be 32 million hryvnias.”
The Security Service, the Office of the Prosecutor General and the Ministry of Justice, as third parties in the case, also emphasized that these operations had been violated by sanctions restrictions. Representatives of the SBU asked the court to recognize the sale and purchase agreements and subsequently to recover in favor of the state itself the special permit and 3 million hryvnias from its resale.
Judge Roman Boyko denied the plaintiff – a Cyprus firm – and made the decision to confiscate the rights to produce minerals in state income and mentioned 3 million hryvnias.
By making a decision, the judge also relied on facts with Investigation of “Schemes” On the withdrawal of sub -assets of the group of companies “Unigran” Igor Naumts.
The investigation stated that in the spring of 2023, the NSDC sanctions were imposed against Naumts, his trustee of British citizen Elena Kaptus, which was tried to rewrite the assets of a businessman after the opening of a criminal case, as well as against a number of Cypriot firms owned by Ukrainian holding companies. The transition of these assets to other private hands instead of confiscation in favor of the state was made possible by the fact that the judge of the Pechersk District Court of Kyiv, Sergei Vovk, withdrew from them arrest, and at the last moment the prosecutor refused his appeal for this decision, as well as due to lack of punishment for bypassing sanctions in Ukrainian legislation.
Thus, journalists, numerous assets of the UNIGRAN Holding for a billion hryvnias, which extracted minerals from quarries in Zhytomyr region and produces pavement tile – are production complexes, equipment, hundreds of wagons, hundreds of hectares of land – were included in the property of Sergei.
Shapran is an entrepreneur and former deputy of the Brovar City Council, who headed the branch of the party for the future, which is associated with Igor Kolomoisky. In the investigation, the Schemes investigated his ties with Oleg Kipper – the current head of the Odessa Regional Military Administration, which by the spring of 2023 was the chief prosecutor of Kiev. In a comment, Kiper reported that “he is not aware of the activity of this company (” Unigrant ” – Ed.)”, As well as that he is unfamiliar with either Shapran or Naumts. ”
In a comment to journalists, Naumets confirmed that Shapran promised him to solve his “business problems” in exchange for a share of 50%, but eventually allegedly “raged” all business. And Shapran himself stated “Schemes” that all the agreements he concluded “are legitimate.”
In December 2024, the National Police opened proceedings in December 2024 in December 2024, which were combined with the materials of an ancient pre -trial investigation, which has been investigated since April 2022.
It was then, at the beginning of the Russian full -scale invasion, the activity of the UNIGRAN HOLDING fell into the focus of the security officers – when the DBR is accompanied by SBU and for procedural guidance OGP They opened a criminal case against this holding under a number of articles – from “Terrorism Financing” and “Creating a Terrorist Group” to “Tax evasion”. According to law enforcement officers, a company headed by a Russian citizen Igor Naumets was engaged in “illegal production from Ukrainian subsoil on an industrial scale”, and “its millions of profits sent its millions of profits to finance full -scale aggression of the Russian Federation and to financial support of occupation administrations in the Crimea and in the East.”
The Ministry of Justice, in response to a request from Scheme journalists, “stated that it” takes measures to identify, search and analysis of assets “by Igor Naumts and related sub -persons, as well as assets they can indirectly dispose of. In order to form an evidence base and substantiation of sanctions, as well as the collection of assets into the state income, they reported in the ministry, they sent requests to “competent authorities”, in particular, the SBU, the Office of the Prosecutor General, the National Police and the State Geo -Gaadra.
