An investigation into a deal involving a historic building at 29 Deribasovskaya Street in Odessa is ongoing. Investigators believe the sale, through companies controlled by Ruslan Tarpan and offshore companies, could have been used to finance subversive activities.
Ruslan Tarpan
This is reported by Bankova Mail.
The 2024 scheme is as follows. Until the beginning of the year, the building was owned by OKS Capital LLC. The key offshore founder was the Cypriot Silverill Trading Limited. On February 16, 2024, Silverill Trading Limited (through Standard Capital Holdings LLC) and KEST SAPS LLC entered into a purchase and sale agreement for a 99,9% stake. The right to claim a $550 loan also transferred to Standard Capital Holdings.
A few days later, the company was renamed Business Equipments Ukraine LLC. Bohdan Kirichenko became the director. The listed beneficiaries were London-based Business Equipments Limited and Vladislav Yakimov. Registration procedures were carried out with violations—copies of documents were used instead of originals.
Ruslan Tarpan was previously identified as the beneficial owner. Specific criminal proceedings have been opened against him.
Case No. 42024163010000015, dated March 15, 2024, is under Part 1 of Article 111-2 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (aiding an aggressor state). The investigation indicates that Tarpan handed over a collection of vintage cars worth approximately $10 million to the Russian Federal Protective Service and used the proceeds from the real estate. In May 2024, the Primorsky District Court of Odesa sentenced him in absentia to pretrial detention. Dozens of properties have been seized, some of which have already been transferred to the ARMA.
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Separate proceedings are ongoing under Part 5 of Article 191 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine for embezzlement during the implementation of the Deepwater Release project—the misappropriation of UAH 244 million in budget funds and an attempt to embezzle another UAH 177 million. Tarpan's companies were awarded the contract without a competitive bid, and the prices were inflated by nearly six times. Some of the defendants have been acquitted, and Tarpan himself has been wanted by the national police since 2017 and by the international Interpol police since 2021.
His ex-wife, Oksana Shishovskaya, was implicated in materials concerning the withdrawal of funds (transfers to accounts in Monaco) and remains a beneficiary of related entities, including the Senate Law Firm. Legal disputes over the corporate rights of OKS Capital/Business Equipments Ukraine and Silverill Trading Limited continue.
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