Conditions have been created around the state-owned enterprise "Administration of Sea Ports of Ukraine" to facilitate the activities of an organized criminal group whose goal is the unscrupulous embezzlement of funds from the strategic enterprise.
Thus, certain "gentlemen" who were "the Yanukovych Family's wallets," affiliated with PJSC Platinum Bank and PJSC Finbank (suspected of financing separatist movements in Ukraine), privatized the largest dredging company, Chornomortekhflot (Odesa), in 2009, which operated approximately 70 vessels. Chornomortekhflot PJSC was created on its basis. Between 2009 and 2012 alone, this company "earned" over 350 million hryvnias from dredging. The "gentlemen" in question are none other than Boris Kaufman and Alexander Granovsky (Read more: Kaufman-Granovsky and their business interests: airports, vodka, cigarettes, banks, hotels ) – oligarchs who to this day represent the interests of the fugitive Yanukovych and his family.
Boris Kaufman - Alexander Granovsky
Currently, PJSC Chornomortekhflot is a monopoly on dredging operations in Ukraine, with the volume of dredging amounting to approximately 12 million cubic meters, and the average cost per cubic meter being 50-60 UAH.
In 2013, under the protection of the "Family," the State Enterprise "Administration of Sea Ports of Ukraine" was created with the aim of "privatizing" a number of ports. Under Yanukovych's thuggish rule, control over this enterprise was exercised by Portinvest LLC, which, for some reason, still collects "tribute" from the port business. The annual cash "tribute" amounts to approximately $100 million. The previous "justified" reason for collecting the cash was to ensure Viktor Yanukovych's election victory.
Today, the enterprising werewolf overseers have once again taken the initiative, sponsoring the appointment of a certain Mr. Andrey Nikolaevich Amelin, who previously held the directorship of Transcargo LLC, to the position of head of the State Enterprise "AMPU." Amelin has the same connection to the maritime industry as he does to the Odessa National Academic Opera and Ballet Theater (he graduated from the Odessa Academy of Civil Engineering and Architecture, and his activities are far removed from the maritime industry).
Andrey Amelin
Andrey Nikolaevich Amelin, Chairman of the Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority (USPA) since April 2014, has been unquestionably following the orders of his superiors to lobby for the interests of private enterprises controlled by the aforementioned group at ports in the Odessa region. This "experienced specialist," in order to carry out illegal schemes to embezzle funds from the state enterprise, has appointed individuals to leadership positions and branch managers at the USPA who, unquestionably and skillfully, carry out his orders to embezzle public funds.
Among them are Mr. Igor Markovich Shuba, Deputy Chairman of the State Enterprise "AMPU" for Finance (a former tax police officer known to law enforcement agencies as the organizer of a conversion center operating in the region from 2009 to 2014), and Yuriy Yuryevich Vaskov, former Deputy Minister of Infrastructure of Ukraine and former head of "AMPU" and the Odessa Port. It is Yu. Vaskov who directly oversees criminal schemes for the theft of funds. Yu. Vaskov also submits proposals on the scope of work that must be completed in order to "master" a specific amount of "AMPU" funds.
The only thing Amelin does outside of following the orders of his criminal overseers is actively lobbying for the interests of his brother, Vladimir Amelin.
Vladimir Amelin
The brother owns the following businesses:
LLC "Transport company Cargotrans" (33507866);
Odemara Inter LLC (23869953);
International Cargo Service LLC (24763530);
Amelin's brothers
Andrey Amelin, using his official position, made the aforementioned companies leaders in cargo handling at the ports of the Odesa region. Through these same companies, the Amelin family receives kickbacks, which are successfully channeled to offshore companies.
During dredging operations, over 75 million hryvnias were embezzled through inflated volumes and costs and fictitious execution. 144,603,000 hryvnias were transferred to the accounts of Ligos Ua LLC, Chernomorgidrostroy LLC, and Chernomortekhflot PJSC, which are directly controlled by family overseers.
In addition, such enterprises as Ukrzvyazokhydrobud LLC, Inflot-Danubius Agency LLC, and Iniya LLC, controlled by the above-mentioned group of persons, are known to be used to embezzle AMPU funds by signing fictitious documents for supposedly completed work.
Funds were transferred from the accounts of the aforementioned companies to fictitious enterprises and converted into cash. The AMPU was provided with deliberately forged documents containing false information about the work performed. The cash withdrawals were distributed among the criminals and the corrupt AMPU officials mentioned above.
Ameliny (a "fixer" on a yacht)
This year, Andrey Amelin has planned dredging operations at 11 Ukrainian seaports, as well as at the Bug-Dnieper Liman Canal and the Danube-Black Sea State Agricultural Enterprise. Specifically, the company plans to dredge 14 million 15 thousand cubic meters. By comparison, in 2015, the dredging volume was just over 3 million cubic meters.
Thus, large-scale work is planned as part of the reconstruction of the approach channel at the Yuzhny seaport (3,443,000 cubic meters). Other major planned projects include:
technical maintenance of the approach channel and water area of the Berdyansk seaport (1 million 584 thousand cubic meters);
deepening of the coal harbor channel and the water area of the Mariupol seaport (1 million 420 thousand cubic meters);
deepening of the Bug-Dnieper Liman and Kherson sea canals (in the amount of 2 million 170 thousand cubic meters);
deepening of the Dniester-Liman Canal Belgorod - Dniester seaport (1 million tons);
During the implementation of the said dredging works, by inflating the volume and cost of the works and their fictitious implementation, it is planned to appropriate almost 360 million hryvnia.
Such criminal activity by A.N. Amelin not only leads to the embezzlement of state-owned enterprise funds and the illegal enrichment of dubious financial groups and corrupt officials of the USPA, but also to the fact that Ukraine's seaports lack adequate water depth and are effectively unable to handle heavy-duty vessels. Furthermore, it reduces the competitiveness of Ukraine's export and transit potential and poses a threat to the national economy as a whole. The state loses foreign exchange earnings from the export and transit of goods, port fees, and tax and fee revenues to budgets at all levels.
The actions described above by AMPU officials and Andriy Mykolayovych Amelin himself are classified as a crime under Part 5 of Article 191 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine, namely, embezzlement on an especially large scale. However, to date, the National Police and the Prosecutor's Office have not initiated a single criminal case, and these facts are not being investigated. Therefore, we ask you to open a criminal case on these facts and hold those responsible accountable to the fullest extent of Ukrainian law.
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