sixth attempt of privatization of the Odessa port plant (IPF), by definition, could not be boring. Too large enterprise is at stake and too much government for elections need money.
plant - not only the second in the Ukrainian producer of ammonia and urea, but also owns a terminal for transshipment of liquefied ammonia to the court. Here he is a monopolist.
terminal is extremely interesting as Russia's parties (he completes international ammonia from Togliatti), and our chemists. The share of IPF accounts for half of Ukrainian exports and 20% ammonia - urea.
And yet such frank passions did not expect. The country already accustomed to public neglect of the Government of President, and extremely flexible attitude of our authorities to the law, in general, also not a secret ... And competition for a particular party - not news. But all together and in a few days looks pretty wildly.
For a start it turned out that the 13 applicants who applied to the Antimonopoly Committee of permissions for the contest itself applied for all three. This Russia OOO Nitrogen-Service, the Ukrainian OOO Nortima (Igor Kolomoisky) and OOO Frunze Flora (Konstantin Grigorishin). Funny, but the last specialization - the cultivation and sale of vegetables, houseplants, ornamental horticulture, as well as the provision of gardening beds.
Now she is to participate in the contest, where the starting price of the object - 4 billion UAH., and within five years, the investor should invest 1,3 billion UAH. in the development of production plus 92 million UAH. - In environmental programs. Under the latter may fail and landscaping.
According to unofficial information, the Russians of Nitrogen-Service almost immediately made a pledge of 400 million UAH. (10% of the starting price).
the other hand, does not appear Expected favorite - an international consortium specifically created to participate in the privatization of the Odessa port plant. It includes Yara International (Norway), a world leader in the production of fertilizers, Polish Kulczyk Holding SA and the Libyan Libyan Investment Authority. But to enter the Ukrainian market, he never became ...
But immediately there were some lawsuits. Some, as promised, filed Valentina Semeniuk-Samsonenko, others - Cherkassy Azot Alexander Yaroslavsky and DneprAzot, friendly group Privat. As a result of Kyiv District Administrative Court suspended the sale tender for 99.6% of the shares.
lawyers DneprAzot found just two clues. The plant was not carried out a qualitative environmental assessment (adoption of SPF that it be heldfor eight days, looks really funny). But the main thing - tolerance Nitrogen-Service is contrary to the privatization legislation of Ukraine.
According to paragraph 3 of Article 8 of the Law of Ukraine On privatization of state property, the buyers of privatization objects can not be legal persons, whose property share of state ownership exceeds 25%.
Meanwhile, nitrogen-Service - a subsidiary of Sibur Holding, which is owned by Gazprom subsidiary Gazprombank and its pension fund Gazfond.
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Russia's gas monopoly controlling the public is. So in general, the authorized capital of Sibur-Holding and controlled by him Nitrogen-Service share of government property, estimated to exceed 30%.
claim is serious. As noted in the statement of claim, the fact of a possible privatization sales of state property of Ukraine in favor of the structure, in the authorized capital of which a substantial proportion of government property, contrary to the logic of the process of denationalization of property. Moreover, as a foreign state, it is usually in this case is attached, and an intergovernmental agreement. Or is it still there, but ... on a personal level?
By the way, filed a lawsuit in court Cherkassy Azot later he withdrew due zapolitizirovannosti issue. While Yaroslavsky said that he is still interested in participating in the competition for the privatization of IPF.
Even more interesting was the reaction of the State Property Fund. Instead of the expected explanation and defense of his position ... he tried to hide.
It looked very funny. Acting Chapter Fund Dmitry Parfionenko publicly stated that the State Property Fund has not received any documents, prohibiting the privatization of the Odessa port plant. To date, the fund no court rulings that prohibit conduct a competition for the Odesa Seaport, the existence of any claims we learn from the press, - said the head of the privatization agency.
put it mildly, this is not quite true. The representative of the State Property Fund, as the representative of the Cabinet of Ministers, took part in an open meeting of the District Administrative Court of Kyiv, on 22 September. It is true, then they refused to obtain a court order for security for a claim OAO DneprAzot what was drawn up.
But the game of hide and seek continued. In FGI simply not allowed into the reception room a courier DneprAzot with a determination to stop the privatization of Odessa Portside Plant . He strongly recommended to throw the envelope in the mailbox in the lobby. The situation was vividly recall the glorious times spetsauktsiony Chechetov.
finally did send a letter through the mailbox in the lobby ...
What these officials have sought is unclear. Because in the end they had to admit that the definition of Kyiv District Administrative Court suspending the competition, they still got over it and now they think.
interesting that earlier in the SPF tried to break Valentina Semeniuk-Samsonenko to hand over Mr. Parfionenko injunction prohibiting the competition.
later took correspondence controversy. Parfionenko suggested that his predecessor is working postman enterprise DneprAzot, and Valentina promised that if you want to duplicate, I am on Saturday (September 26) once again I'll bring the solution to them personally. Since I did not subside crown.
and noted that statements by the Fund that they had not received the court's decision - due to or dependence, or pressure on the leadership of FGI.
in the not too distant and not at all democratic times, that is what was called telephone law. And with him, remember, fought a certain bloc of Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc.
general, the graceful of officials have created a persistent belief that MFI ordered to stay at any price for Russians. And silence on the charges of violating the Law of Ukraine On privatization of state property in this sense is very eloquent ...
Moreover, Yulia earlier in the usual manner, promised to myself: Do not pay any attention to it. All lifted after the appellate court. In fact, the ignore it urged investors to Russia's residence permit.
reason, too, is clear: much needed money. Almost any cost. Contest Cabinet outlined on Sept. 29.
President has already commented on the situation, saying that the government plans to show. According to Yushchenko, the tender for the sale OPP plan to begin with 4 billion UAH. and stop bidding at a certain fixed sum, which he does not want to call today, although he knows.
At the same time, the president noted that this amount would be 50% real cost of the plant. And he promised that the results of the competition on the privatization of IPF, in case the vote will necessarily abolished.
What to sell assets to the elections and the crisis - the cause disadvantage, a month ago and admitted one of participants in the current contest Igor Kolomoisky: From the standpoint of the state, I think irrationally. I believe that during the crisis, the privatization must be stopped .
However, despite such recognition, businessmen always and without any pangs of conscience will not mind to buy cheap object ...
At the same time
Kolomoisky predicted: ... the maximum price may go up to a billion dollars. This is if there will be many exhibitors and will buzz. And perhaps a way that does not particularly want to be, and you can pick up at the starting price.
rush something not visible. Is that among the officials. Evidently, they very much need - so that they are willing to ignore the president and the courts. That's the way it looks - urgent sale of the motherland, XXI Century. Oil painting ...
Anatoly Peter
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