In a recent interview for the UNIAN agency, Ihor Kolomoisky said that he was behind bars because of attempts by the authorities to deprive him of control over Ukraine's largest energy companies, Ukrnafta and Ukrtatnafta. The businessman claims that the Office of the President used the military to raid these enterprises in order to take away his property.
"The soldiers were trivially used because of the president's personal desire to illegally acquire shares and control over Ukrnafta and Ukrtatnafta." During his speech in the Verkhovna Rada, dedicated to the Sustainability Plan, Zelenskyi affirmatively and unequivocally stated that Ukrnafta had passed the nationalization procedure, although official documents say otherwise. According to the documents, the shares were "temporarily alienated" by the military during martial law," the businessman said.
He noted that nationalization is possible under the Constitution, but only as an exception - for reasons of public necessity, on the basis and in the manner established by law, and on the condition of prior and full reimbursement of their cost. In addition, the Law "On the regime of foreign investment" provides that foreign investments in Ukraine are not subject to nationalization. According to it, state bodies do not have the right to requisition foreign investments, except in cases of rescue measures in case of natural disasters, accidents, and epidemics.
"In other words, by law, no discussion can be held about any nationalization of Ukrnafta shares that belonged to foreign legal entities and individuals, including during the war. But in his speech, the president spoke out - he gave out, as they say, "according to Freud" - the true motives of what happened, admitting that in the case of the shareholders of "Ukrnafta" and "Ukrtatnafta" the authorities really made an attempt to carry out illegal nationalization under the guise of the needs of the military and the presence of martial law, Kolomoisky noted.
But he emphasized that the Office of the President used the military to achieve its goal - a raider seizure of control over Ukrnafta and Ukrtatnafta.
"You will not find any explanation of the actions of the military or the claim of the military to Ukrnafta or Ukrtatnafta as of November 6, 2022, expressed by the military themselves. On the contrary, already after the seizure of control over Ukrnafta and Ukrtatnafta in November 2022, trying to explain the decision of the military, at that time the deputy head of the Office of the President, Rostyslav Shurma, openly lied that the reason for such a decision was Ukrnafta's refusal to supply fuel to the Ukrainian army," he said. businessman.
But he added that in the summer of 2022, NABU disclosed in detail the circumstances under which it received an offer from Shurma to "voluntarily" renounce the shares of Ukrnafta and Ukrtatnafta.
According to Shurma, it looked like an offer from the president and head of the Office, Andriy Yermak, which I allegedly could not refuse: Ukrnafta and Ukrtatnafta shares in exchange for settlement agreements in court cases regarding PrivatBank's lawsuits against me, including those cases , which are considered in international courts," said Kolomoiskyi.
The businessman emphasized that at the beginning of these negotiations, his Ukrainian citizenship became the subject of this blackmail, and after receiving a refusal to voluntarily transfer shares, the president secretly deprived Kolomoisky of his citizenship.
"After that, Ukrnafta and Ukrtatnafta shares were also taken from me, and I was put behind bars in order to limit my ability to appeal the seizure of assets," he added.
The businessman also noted that immediately after the transfer of the shares to the ownership of the Ministry of Defense and the appointment of Koretsky, Ukrnafta signed a contract with Reznikov's legal company Asters for almost 120 million hryvnias without holding a competition.
We will remind you that the Supreme Court put an end to the case of contesting the nationalization of PrivatBank: the bank will not be returned to Kolomoiskyi.
