“Former President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych has sold half a million tons of coal from the occupied territories of Ukraine in the last two years.”, – WRITE: epravda.com.ua
Former President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych has sold half a million tons of coal from the occupied territories of Ukraine in the last two years. This is stated in the investigation of the Russian edition “Important History”. Yes, journalists found Energoresurs, which in 2023 and 2024 exported almost half a million tons of coal from Russia. Coal suppliers for this company are in the occupied Ukrainian territories, among them – “Trade House” Donskie Ugli “,” RTK “Vostokugol”, Mines “Komsomolets of Donbass”, “Zhdanovskaya” and “Impex -Don”. Alexei Ivanov is indicated as the official owner of Energoresurs. He has been working at at least since 2016 in various law companies related to Alexander Yanukovych – the son of Viktor Yanukovych, says the publication. The advertising: the director of “Energoresurs” Pavel Zemlyakov may also be connected with Yanukovych’s structures. In telephone books, it is recorded as “Pavel DRFC”. The DRFC, or Donetsk Settlement and Financial Center, is a group of several enrichment factories, the ownership of which forbes Ukraine was attributed to Alexander Yanukovych in 2012. According to the annual report “Energoresurs”, in 2023 the company received a loan of $ 7 million for a symbolic 1% of SL Holdings Limited.Prelam: a firm with the same name was registered in Cyprus and previous Yanukovych “Mako”. Currently, Daria Lavrynets is indirectly owned by Cyprus. A woman with the same name is the director and owner of Turssiop. The company was owned by Tatiana Kotova, whose phone number in the notebooks appears as “Tatiana Yanukovych House”. Energoresurs received another loan in 2021 from Sergiy Yermolchuk – the then CEO of Praid M. The firm with the same name was mentioned in the investigation of the Ukrainian Project “Schemes”: according to journalists, through “Pride M” Yanukovych-Jr. can have real estate in Moscow. Energosurs purchases coal in the Donbass and sends it to Turkey by rail and sea. The recipient is an offshore company Energy Union, which receives it at a reduced price. This allows to minimize export duties, and then Energy Union ends at a market price. Such a scheme makes sense only with the affiliation of companies. The Russian Register found a branch of offshore-Energy Union, registered in Rostov-on-Don in July 2022. Its director Artem Opolinsky is at the same time an employee of Energoresurs. In 2024, Nadezhda Opolinskaya, probably his wife, became the successor of the company under the loan agreement. By 2022, Energoresurs supplied coal to Bulgaria, Estonia, the Czech Republic and Romania, but after the EU ban, Turkey became its main buyer. For 2021-2023, the company related to Alexander Yanukovych received 3.5 billion rubles of income at low transfer prices. Recall that the Dutch company Stiron BV, which bought coal from the occupied territories of Donetsk and Luhansk regions according to the “Kurchenko” schemes, invested 10 million euros in Pavel Durov Open Network (Ton) blockchain platform.