Alexander Pivnyuk, CEO of the Radio Communications, Television, and Broadcasting Concern, has announced a hostile takeover of the concern's central office by former acting CEO Konstantin Zakharchenko.
"At 7 a.m., the man who was removed from his position as acting CEO in April carried out a hostile takeover of a state-owned enterprise," Pivnyuk told Interfax-Ukraine.
According to him, Zakharchenko broke into the enterprise by breaking down the doors, together with people who previously worked at the enterprise, as well as with unknown individuals.
The former CEO presented a ruling by the Telmanovsky District Court of Donetsk Oblast overturning the government's decision to dismiss him and subsequently appoint Pivnyuk to the position.
As the concern's CEO added, the district center of Telmanovka is currently not under the control of Ukrainian authorities.
As of 8:30 a.m., the concern is awaiting a response from law enforcement agencies, to which the information was previously sent.
Around 100 people gathered near the concern to express their support for the previous management.
As reported, in April of this year the government replaced the concern's general director, dismissing Zakharchenko and appointing Pivnyuk in his place.
Following the dismissal, an initiative group of employees of the concern's administration, calling itself the coordinating council of the trade union of the KRTT administration, came out in support of the previous management.
They accused the concern's management and the State Special Communications Service of aiding the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics, specifically by financing the energy supply to the concern's facilities that were seized by militants in the Luhansk and Donetsk regions.
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