Yevhen Romashchin, who heads the engineering company Corum Group, has been appointed advisor to Ukrainian Infrastructure Minister Andriy Pyvovarsky. Corum Group is part of Rinat Akhmetov's SCM. The Ministry of Infrastructure reported that Romashchin has served as advisor to the minister since March 20, 2014. He oversees rail transport issues.
Romashchin announced that he was serving as an advisor to the Minister of Infrastructure "on a voluntary basis" and would be leaving his position as CEO of Corum Group effective April 23, 2014. Corum Group's press service confirmed Romashchin's departure from the CEO position and announced that Yakov Sidlyarenko, a former investment manager at Akhmetov's SCM, had been appointed as the new director effective April 22, 2015.
As a reminder, Yevhen Romashchin was one of three finalists in the competition for the position of General Director of Ukrzaliznytsia, which was conducted by the Ministry of Infrastructure. However, on February 20, 2014, the Dnipropetrovsk District Administrative Court ruled against the Ministry of Infrastructure continuing the competition due to a lawsuit filed by one of the candidates. In his lawsuit, the unsuccessful candidate alleged that the selection process lacked integrity and transparency, and that the nominating committee was incompetent in its decision-making.
The Ministry of Infrastructure of Ukraine filed an appeal against the decision of the Dnipropetrovsk District Administrative Court, but the competition remains blocked.
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