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The People’s Deputy pointed out the violation of ARMA with the shares of “Ukrnaftoburinnia”

The Asset Tracking and Management Agency (ARMA) transferred the corporate rights of the company “Ukrnaftoburinnia” to the management of “Ukrnafta” on falsified grounds without an assessment and competition. This was stated by People’s Deputy Oleksiy Honcharenko, RBC-Ukraine reports with reference to his Facebook.

“The Accounting Chamber has recorded serious violations in the management of seized assets. One of the most egregious cases is “Ukrnaftoburinnia”. The corporate rights of the company ARMA were transferred to the management of “Ukrnafta” on falsified grounds without an assessment and competition,” the People’s Deputy writes.

Honcharenko emphasizes that dividends that shareholders were supposed to receive were illegally paid.

“The problem is that neither ARMA nor Ukrnafta are shareholders and had no right to dispose of this money. And what do we have now? Half a billion cubic meters of gas simply were not produced, more than 2.5 billion hryvnias in taxes were not received into the budget, and foreign investors lost control over their assets,” the MP writes.

He recalls that Zelensky recently stated that he had instructed to finance some USAID programs from domestic funds.

“A wonderful initiative. But there is one nuance: it would be possible not to look for domestic funds, but simply not to lose billions through corruption schemes,” the MP is indignant.

Earlier, the first deputy of the parliamentary Committee on Fuel and Energy, People’s Deputy Oleksiy Kucherenko, repeatedly pointed out numerous violations of the law in the transfer of corporate rights of Ukrnaftoburinnia to the management of Ukrnafta.

“The main thing in this spectacle is that the initiators decided to get rid of ARMA in a cheap way and use the simplified abbreviated procedure for transferring seized property by the Government in exceptional cases,” Kucherenko noted.

According to him, the legislation contains an exhaustive list of such grounds, namely the presence of a direct threat of stopping heat/water/gas supply, or involvement in work in the military-industrial complex. This procedure was specifically introduced for the urgent transfer of seized regional gas companies and regional energy companies. Because in another case – going through the legally prescribed procedure through ARMA, there was a direct threat to life support systems.

“In the case of “Ukrnaftoburinnia”, I, as a specialist in housing and communal services and fuel and energy companies with many years of experience, do not see any legal grounds for using such a special transfer procedure at all, because the enterprise produces gas, pays taxes and is not involved in the life support system of the population and the army,” Kucherenko emphasized.