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War for Ukrainian gas: how “saboteurs in robes” play along with Russia

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The war for Ukrainian gas: how

Gas fields in the Poltava region/unian.ua

Russian troops continue to attack Ukraine from the outside, and Russian oligarchs continue to attack Ukraine from the inside, using political connections and dubious judicial decisions.

Ukraine may be threatened because of “saboteurs in robes” national security of the country and lose fantastic gas fields in the Poltava region, in particular, the Svistunkovskoye and Krasnolutskoye gas fields, in favor of the Russians.

In total, both contain almost 2 billion 200 million cubic meters of gas, and given the cost of a thousand cubic meters in Europe (more than $ 1,700), at least $ 3.7 billion are “hidden” in these fields.

However, this is not only a matter of money, but also the security of the country, because because of the Russian aggression we are in for the most difficult winter. And gas from our own production will help to survive it more easily.

Ukrainian deposits are in the hands of Moscow

Poltava deposits, as Dengi investigated in their investigation, ended up in the hands of Moscow – the pro-Moscow oligarch Vadim Novinsky, who was helped by the previous Ukrainian government and some judges.

Novinsky was born and enriched in Russia. For years, he poured millions into the “Kremlin” church and, simultaneously with the affairs of the Russian church, did business with Petro Poroshenko, together taking the Poltava “golden” land from Ukrnafta, more than half of which belongs to Naftogaz.

The political interests of the former government and the corrupt interests of the subjects of power coincided, – Yevgeny Kiselev, a lawyer for PJSC Ukrnafta, told Dengi.

“Money” figured out how it happened. Ukrnafta, investing tens of millions of hryvnias, has been exploring the Poltava areas since the early 2010s. Found gas. And she planned to extract and heat the houses of Ukrainians with “native” fuel, protecting energy independence from Russia. There was a “trifle” left – to obtain permission from the State Geographical Committee. However, it was suddenly received by an unknown company – Arkona Gas Energia.

It happened on May 18, 2017, even without an auction, and for quite ridiculous money – 3.8 million hryvnia.

It was actually a shell company, a no-name company. Its owners were some unknown Donetsk guys, – lawyer Yevgeny Kiselev tells Dengi.

NABU investigators prove in courts the version that there was a brazen swindle of the state. In the indictment, they considered Ukrnafta the victim. And they suspect that the state budget was robbed of 196 million hryvnia. But how did Novinsky appear in this story? In 2020, his Smart Energy holding acquired the little-known Arkona Gas Energy LLC. Since that time, the ultimate beneficiary is Vadim Novinsky. And, by the way, for a no-name company, which at that time did not earn anything, he then paid as much as 8.6 million dollars. In fact, “Arkona” was valuable in that it had one important “piece of paper” – permission from the State Geonadr to produce gas from the same Svistunkovsko-Krasnolutsk field.

War for Ukrainian gas: how

That is, Novinsky was ready to pay 8.6 million for this document. Precisely ready, because not everything is simple here either – the payment was divided into several tranches.

The first tranche – at the conclusion of the contract will amount to 4,315,000 US dollars. The company will transfer another $2,157,500 to the former owners of Arkona Gas Energia LLC in the event that certain terms of the transaction are extended (confirmed), Vadim Novinsky's Smart Energy holding said in a press release.

What are these “certain conditions” “?

“For us, the fact is obvious that the terms of this agreement were divided into several tranches, because they are related to the results of the court case,” the lawyer in the case tells Dengi.

In simple words, given that Ukrnafta and the National Anti-Corruption Bureau have been “sounding the alarm” for years about the illegal allocation of a deposit by Arkoni in the Poltava region, and courts are dragging on in the case, it is impossible to mine there. Therefore, Novinsky decided to pay the owners of “Arkona” everything only when the judges make a decision in his interests. And the bet on this was not just done. According to the lawyer of Ukrnafta Yevgeny Kiselyov, from the very beginning of the judicial red tape, judges were under enormous pressure. The reason was found out by the journalists of “Schemes” – the then member of the High Council of Justice Oleksiy Malovatsky, who was the deputy head of the legal service of Petro Poroshenko in the 2014 elections, and also led his legal service during the elections to the Verkhovna Rada, could have been involved in the deal.

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Mr. Malovatsky appeared as one of the legal curators of this scheme. His entourage, even his wife, participated in the sale of the shares of Arkona Gas Energy. Therefore, probably, Mr. Malovatsky, having a certain administrative and disciplinary pressure on judges, could use his official position. – the lawyer told Dengi.

It was in 2017, and already in the next year, 2018, Oleg Olkhovoy, the director of the well-known sports club “5th Element” and the business of Poroshenko and Kononenko, suddenly gets the fate of an offshore company.< /p>

Mr. Kononenko, the notorious comrade-in-arms of Petro Poroshenko, also appears in this case, as far as I understand, as one of the organizers of this corruption scheme. According to media reports, immediately after receiving the summons, Mr. Kononenko disappeared from the territory of Ukraine. As far as I know, now it is not on the territory of Ukraine, – says Evgeniy Kiselev.

The “interest” of the then authorities also explains why the officials suddenly went for a direct forgery of documents (at least, according to NABU) in the interests of Arkona. According to the lawyer in the case, in 2017, two fields – Krasnolutskoye and Svistunkovskoye – will be merged into one and its reserves will be reduced to 320 million cubic meters of gas. Thus, the cost of a special permit falls. Although Novinsky's Envell Energy will later confirm that the gas reserves in the field are 4.9 billion cubic meters. The difference is colossal! And the truth had to be revealed to foreign investors, because Envell Energy is traded on the London Stock Exchange. However, this is the recognition of one's own lies. In addition, all this indicates that the field developed by the state of Poroshenko's entourage was torn apart for a penny: it was registered for Arkona Gas Energia and sold it – with a special permit for subsoil – to a longtime business partner of the ex-president Vadim Novinsky.

Judges were also appointed by Yanukovych

Under new circumstances, new trials began. As Dengi found out, the district administrative court of Kyiv recognized the abuse of officials and annulled Arkona's special permit. And for all the aforementioned “tricks” six people – officials, experts and even the then leaders of “Arkona” – can be jailed for up to six years. However, impudent businessmen do not give up their booty, they file an appeal. And, interestingly, one day “accidentally” the distribution system points to the same “servants of Themis” who once already ruled in favor of “Arkona” – these are judges Fedotov, Shirt and Yegorova, who were appointed by Yanukovych.

“Ukrnafta”, fighting for the site, filed for the removal of judges. But, as expected, they refused. Consequently, it now depends on the decision of the appeal whether Ukraine or Russia will own a strategic gas field worth $3.7 billion.

“We have complaints about the composition of the judges,” Ukrnafta's lawyer told Dengi Evgeny Kiselev.

On July 6, judges Fedotov, Shirt and Egorova again played along with Russia and Novinsky. In fact, they simply refused to consider the case. But in fact – again “postpone” the entry into force of the decision of the District Administrative Court of Kyiv, which “breaks” Novinsky's plans to get the deposit for nothing. But Ukrainian lawyers promise that they will stand for their native gas until victory, like soldiers stand for the entire Ukrainian land.

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