Sale of 'Boryvazh' port: former co-owner of Privatbank calls for investigation
Sale of "Boryvazh" port: former co-owner of Privatbank calls for investigation (photo: RBC-Ukraine)
Former co-owner of "Privatbank" Oleksiy Martynov expressed his dissatisfaction with the sale of loans related to the "Boryvazh" port, comparing the deal to dubious schemes. According to the businessman on Facebook, the transaction took place at an undervalued price and shows signs of fraud.
As known, on December 23, "Privatbank" offered for sale a portion of the claim rights under loan agreements with LLC "Boryvazh" worth almost UAH 3.556 billion.
The starting price of the lot was approximately UAH 3.428 billion. However, as a result of the auction, it was sold at a reduced price of UAH 2 billion.
According to Martynov, "Privatbank" sold the loans of LLC "boryvazh" despite a court ban and an open criminal case. The buyer was a company reportedly linked to businessman Serhiy Tihipko.
"What happened around the sale of the 'boryvazh' port strongly resembles the infamous shell game fraud. Boholyubov and Tihipko played with the state. Boholyubov shuffled the shells, Tihipko acted as the stooge — he demonstratively 'lost' UAH 2 billion, and the 'duped' party turned out to be the state, which naively thought it could win, but in reality lost an asset worth UAH 15 billion," he stated.
Martynov criticized the deal, noting that such actions caused significant losses to the state. He also called on NABU to investigate the potential involvement of officials from the National Bank, the prosecutor's office, and the police in the deal.
Meanwhile, representatives of "Privatbank" and other parties to the transaction have not yet publicly commented on the accusations.
