The long-awaited meeting of shareholders of PJSC Kyivgaz, which was held in the strictest secrecy, ended with Serhiy Gorovoy (pictured left, son-in-law of one of the leaders of the Opposition Bloc, Yuriy Boyko) Yuriy Boyko – "The Untouchable") – pictured on the right) retained his position as chairman of the company’s board.
Yevgeny Fomenko, who is associated with Sergei Levochkin, was dismissed from his post as head of the supervisory board (Read more: Levochkin. "The Gray Cardinal" and his sister), former head of the Presidential Administration of Viktor Yanukovych. However, the public joint-stock company has never published a financial report, meaning there is no talk of paying dividends to shareholders. Furthermore, Kyivgaz shares have not been traded on the stock exchange since the beginning of the year.
KV learned of this from a message from Kyivgaz PJSC in the SMIDA information disclosure system.
The main surprises expected at the long-awaited shareholders' meeting of the public joint-stock company—the replacement of the board chairman and the payment of dividends to shareholders—did not materialize. Serhiy Gorovoy, son-in-law of Yuriy Boyko (one of the leaders of the Opposition Bloc and Deputy Prime Minister for Fuel and Energy in Mykola Azarov's last government), remained as the board chairman of Kyivgaz. The public joint-stock company's financial report was not published, meaning shareholders will not receive dividends.
It's worth recalling that Serhiy Gorovoy was elected Chairman of the Board of PJSC Kyivgaz in 2010 for a three-year term. At the time, his father-in-law, Yuriy Boyko, held the post of Deputy Prime Minister for Fuel and Energy in the government and was a very influential figure in the country's energy sector.
It seems Yuriy Anatolyevich hasn't lost all his influence even after President Viktor Yanukovych fled. Otherwise, how can one explain the fact that Kyivgaz's shareholders' meeting hasn't been held for three and a half years? And all this time, Boyko's son-in-law occupied the position of chairman of the board of the public joint-stock company, while the joint-stock company itself hasn't paid any dividends to its beneficiaries.
But another curious turnover occurred at the public joint-stock company: Yevhen Fomenko, the head of the supervisory board, was dismissed. No one has been appointed to replace Fomenko. Volodymyr Bondarenko, the head of the Kyiv City Council's standing committee on housing and public utilities, explained to KV: "Whether Serhiy Gorovoy will retire or not depends on the will of the supervisory board and the distribution of votes within it."
From 2010 to 2014, Yevhen Fomenko served as the head of Kyivenergoholding JSC. He also chaired the supervisory boards of Kyivgaz and Kyivvodokanal. Prior to this, Fomenko worked as a top manager at Ukrgasbank, which was serviced by the law firm Puzanov & Partners.
Oleksandr Puzanov, a longtime friend of Serhiy Lyovochkin, the former head of Viktor Yanukovych's presidential administration, took over as deputy head of the Kyiv City State Administration (KCSA) for municipal property in 2010. Essentially, Puzanov's purview included Kyivenergoholding, Kyivgaz, and Kyivvodokanal.
It was Puzanov, during the nationalization of Ukrgasbank, who took Fomenko and several other top managers and placed them in municipal utilities. Furthermore, rumor has it that Puzanov helped Levochkin gain control of Kyivmiskbud Holding Company.
Now, with the resignation of Yevhen Fomenko as head of KyivEnergo's supervisory board, it can be said that Levochkin's influence over the utility monopoly has significantly weakened. Meanwhile, Yuriy Boyko's influence has increased.
Thus, notary Valeria Goloskokova, a member of the supervisory board of the "Rukh Molodi" charitable foundation, founded by former MP and former first vice-governor of the Kyiv region, Volodymyr Polochaninov, has been appointed to the Kyivgaz supervisory board. It's worth noting that he served as vice-governor under Kyiv Regional State Administration Head Anatoliy Prysyazhnyuk, a protégé of Yuriy Boyko.
Furthermore, Goloskokova is listed as an independent director of Kyivgaz. New members of the supervisory board also took the same position:
— Alexander Primak, who worked as editor-in-chief of the Glas TV channel (previously owned by former Prosecutor General Gennady Vasiliev) and managed the Israeli company VA Logistic;
— Volodymyr Tereshchenko, who ran for mayor of Sumy and previously held the position of acting director of the Ministry of Defense's state enterprise "Ukrviyskbud."
The supervisory board also includes:
— CEO of Kyivenergoholding PJSC and head of the supervisory board of Kyivvodokanal Vitaliy Naidyuk, who previously worked as the financial director of Energomerezha PJSC and the financial director of Luhansk Energy Association LLC;
— Deputy General Director of PJSC KyivEnergoHolding and member of the Supervisory Board of Kyivvodokanal Nikolai Kovalenko, who previously worked as the director of PJSC Glosar;
— Director of the Department of Municipal Property of the Kyiv City State Administration Andriy Gudz.
It's worth noting that Gudz had previously been a member of the supervisory board of PJSC Kyivgaz. However, according to his own statements, he did not participate in the shareholders' meeting on August 17. Specifically, Andriy Gudz told KV that his deputy, Yuriy Beregovoy, represented the interests of the Kyiv community at the meeting. However, Gudz didn't know what happened with the report or what actually happened at the meeting.
Moreover, according to SMIDA data, shares of PJSC Kyivgaz have not been traded on the PFTS stock exchange since at least the beginning of this year.
And by the way. Vitaliy Naydyuk has sparked a veritable conspiracy theory battle over who controls Kyivenergoholding and, by extension, Kyiv's utility monopolies. Some believe that Igor Kononenko, a business partner of President Petro Poroshenko, is behind Naydyuk.
Others believe that the Kyivenergoholding CEO's handler is Konstantin Grigorishin, a Ukrainian oligarch with Russian roots. Both sides offer the same explanation: Naidyuk worked as a top manager in organizations directly linked to both Kononenko and Grigorishin.
Considering that 60% of Kyivgaz PJSC is owned by Kyivenergoholding PJSC (and 61% of the latter's shares are owned by the Kyiv community), the question of Vitaliy Naidyuk's clan affiliation is important. However, KyivVlast is currently unable to subscribe to any of these theories.
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