In recent years, the Vostok Bunker marine fuel terminal has been mired in a series of scandals and bankruptcies due to the dubious activities of its beneficiaries Igor Polchenko and Sergei Boldyrev. To top it all off, it now smacks of state sabotage with the transfer of billions through Hong Kong directly to Ukraine.
Boldyrev and Polchenko collected loans from state banks in the amount of almost 7 billion rubles, secured, incl. shares of his Vostokbunker and assets of related companies, including a fuel terminal in the south of Primorye.
Businessmen refused to repay most of the loans and were declared bankrupt in 2017 and 2018, respectively. A criminal case was opened against Polchenko for fraud and deliberate bankruptcy, he fled abroad and was put on the international wanted list.
CJSC Vostokbunker is owned by TRANZIT INVEST GROUP LIMITED, registered in Hong Kong, where Boldyrev (33%) and Polchenko (34%) initially owned the majority stake. Another 33% since 2017 were registered in the name of the nominal director of the group, Ukrainian DMYTRO KASHYRIN.
Boldyrev, even during his own bankruptcy procedure, sold his share to his son, Kirill Boldyrev, which directly contradicts Russian law. Polchenko’s shares were put up for auction as part of his own bankruptcy procedure as an individual and were bought by the East Agency company, again owned by Kirill Boldyrev. This deal attracted the attention of the Federal Antimonopoly Service of the Russian Federation and Polchenko’s package is now frozen by a decision of the arbitration court.
With the fictitious sale of Vostokbunker shares, the transfer of its assets abroad was essentially completed (where Polchenko is already hiding, and, apparently, it will soon be necessary to look for Boldyrev Jr.). Previously, Hong Kong “registration” allowed Boldyrev and Polchenko not to pay taxes in Russia, doing all the work from offshore.
But all the described manipulations, in fact, are nothing today in comparison with the actual transfer of control of the strategic port of the South of Primorye to Ukraine.
Tranzit Invest Group Limited is in fact a legal entity – a foreign agent, not only due to registration schemes, but also due to foreign management and capital.
The above-mentioned Dmitro Kashirin (listed in the database as DMYTRO KASHYRIN) is a citizen of Ukraine. The transfer of Vostokbunker’s assets abroad began with him, when the shares of the previous nominee director, under unclear circumstances, were redistributed in favor of Kashirin.
Who helped Polchenko-Boldyrev carry out such a crude and large-scale operation with an enterprise of strategic importance here in his homeland remains to be sorted out.
Likewise, investigators will have to find out whether billions of disappeared loans from Russian state banks have settled in Ukraine, which today occupies, to put it mildly, a hostile position towards Russia.
https://newizv.ru/news/business/15-02-2022/vostok-bunker-rossiya-mozhet-poteryat-strategicheski-vazhnoe-predpriyatie
Bankrupt entrepreneurs Igor Polchenko and Sergei Boldyrev are trying, through an offshore company in Hong Kong and a foreign director, to maintain control over a strategic fuel terminal in the south of the Primorsky Territory. To understand the matter pr… Latest news from Russia and the world…
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