Odesa banker and head of the "Servant of the People" faction in the Odesa City Council, Vadym Morokhovskyi, was threatened with up to 12 years in prison due to his alleged participation in the scheme of illegally obtaining control over the grain terminal "Olympex". According to information, businessmen Serhii Groza and Volodymyr Naumenko are also involved in this case.
The scandal surrounding the "Olympex" grain terminal in the Odesa region is gaining momentum. Every day it becomes known about more and more violations of the legislation that its owners - businessmen Serhii Groza and Volodymyr Naumenko - could have committed. This time it is about an alleged conspiracy between Groza, Naumenko and their old friend - the chairman of the board of the Vostok bank and concurrently the head of the Servant of the People faction in the Odesa local council, Vadym Morochovskyi.
We previously told how Morokhovsky helped Groza and Naumenko gain control over half of the grain terminal, which was pledged to an American investment fund for a $75 million loan. To do this, the businessmen, with the help of the "Southern" bank, worked out a scheme for the transfer of property under a double, and eventually triple, pledge.
Seeing that everything worked and that no one was imprisoned for it, Groza from Naumenko probably decided to repeat their "feat". To do this, they most likely turned to their old friend Vadym Morokhovsky again and persuaded him to take up the issue of "Dry Port".
Last time, Ferko LLC and Vtormetexport LLC, controlled by Grozy and Naumenko, took a loan from Pivdenny. This time, instead of "Ferko", the businessmen's company "Grain transshipment complex "Inzernoexport" entered the game.
With the help of these two companies, Groza and Naumenko took a loan from the Vostok bank against the property of the Olympex terminal, namely the Dry Port. The term of full repayment of the loan under the credit agreement was supposed to expire on May 25, 2023. But without waiting for the end of the credit agreement, as in the situation with "Pivdenny", Vostok bank started the debt collection procedure.
At the same time, according to the mass media, Vostok Bank delivered the official demand on December 2, 2022 deliberately instead of an official notification by mail. Thus, the bank violated Article 35 of the Law "On Mortgages", which provides for sending official notices to the debtor.
In fact, according to the media, the foreclosure procedure began two months after the notification - on February 13, 2023, by making changes to the State Register of Encumbrances of Movable Property, which may indicate that the first notification was a forgery.
As in the case of "Pivdenny" bank, law enforcement officers are checking the activities of "Vostok" bank.
But the story did not end there. Even before the amendments to the State Register, on February 10, 2023, Vostok Bank assigned the right of claim under its credit agreement to FC Solutions Factor LLC.
On the same day, this company transferred it to Dostupni Finance LLC. On the same day, Dostupni Finance sold Dry Port to Sunolta OU, which is part of the Sunalta group of companies.
It is worth noting that the market value of "Dry Port" in 2020 was at least 18 million dollars. And the Sunolta group got it for only 4.7 million dollars. Moreover, as in the previous scheme with the "Pivdenny" bank, Sunolta bought "Sukhoi Port" despite the fact that he was under arrest in one of the criminal proceedings from March 2023.
This also did not prevent Sunolta OU from transferring the Dry Port on April 10, 2023 to its own Grain Port LLC. This company was registered just a few weeks before receiving "Dry Port" and had no other assets on the balance sheet, and its only member was Sunolta OU.
On April 19, 2023, "Zernovy Port" LLC transferred the "Dry Port" of the "Olympex" terminal for 20 years as collateral for a loan of 78,500 dollars to "Mind Set" LLC, which, according to the media, is controlled by Groza and Naumenko.
After studying the movements of the property of the grain terminal "Olympex" with the help of "Pivdenny" and "Vostok" banks, the question arises: was this not a criminal conspiracy aimed at forming grounds (including by entering false data into official documents) for the transfer of ownership rights to mechanism of re-pledge? Why have neither Groza, nor Naumenko, nor the management of the banks been served with reports of suspicions, because the scheme is simple and clear? Who is behind the fact that businessmen continue to work on the Ukrainian market?
