Tuesday 18 September 2012

Private gas monopoly in Ukraine?

In August 2012 Ukraine's Fund of State Property began to sell state shares of Ukrainian regional and city gas companies to private firms at specially organized auctions, thus it shouldn't be more than 25% state shares in every regional and city gas company. But why did Ukraine's Fund of State Property decide that regional and city gas companies must be more private property, than state? It's a huge question. And state shares of "Mykolayivgas" were sold the first this summer - private firm "Gastek" bought its 25% on August 1st, 2012. But "Gastek" has already 25,221% of "Mykolayivgas" earlier, so nowadays this private firm owns 50,221% of "Mykolayivgas". And state company "Naftogas" owns 50%+1 shares of "Mykolayivgas", thus "Mykolayivgas" is more state, than private city gas company in Ukraine now, but it's one of rare exceptions, sorrowfully. On August 30th, 2012 "Gastek" bought 25% state shares of "Ivano-Frankivskgas"and had also 10,19% shares of "Ivano-Frankivskgas" earlier, so nowadays owns its 35,19%. On September 4th, 2012 "Gastek" bought 25% of "Sevastopolgas". On September 5th, 2012 "Gastek" bought 26% state shares of "Dnipropetrovskgas" and, having 24,8% shares earlier, owns 50,8% shares of "Dnipropetrovskgas" now. On September 6th, 2012 "Gastek" bought 25% state shares of "Zaporizhgas" and because of owning of some "Zaporizhgas" shares earlier, nowadays owns its 49,76%. And on September 7th, 2012 "Gastek" bought 26% state shares of "Luhanskgas", 25,788% state shares of "Sumygas" on September 10th, 2012 and 26% state shares of "Tysmenytsyagas" on September 13th, 2012. Then "Gastek" bought 22,059% state shares of "Vinnytsyagas" on September 14th, 2012 and, having its 12,73% earlier, now owns 34,789% shares of "Vinnytsyagas". On September 17th, 2012 "Gastek" bought 15,864% state shares of "Zhytomyrgas" and, having more 35% shares of "Zhytomyrgas" earlier, has its 50, 93% now. And this day, on September 18th, 2012 "Gastek" has already bought 20,393% state shares of "Chernivtsigas" and owning its 14,69% shares earlier, nowadays has 35, 083% shares of that city gas company. Besides it the private firm "Gastek" owns 50%+1 shares of "Khmelnytskgas", 24,12% shares of "Rivnegas", 24,75% shares of "Rivneoblgas", 15,23% shares of "Zakarpatgas", 14,44% shares of "Volyngas", 10, 608% shares of "Lvivgas",10% shares of "Ternopilmiskgas". Though official owners of the private firm "Gastek" are 4 less known Cyprus private firms - "Krezer Holdings Limited", "Nesiba Venchers Limited", "Pasler Enterprise Limited", "Polara Venchers Limited", but many different Ukrainian mass media and economic analysts say that "Gastek" is controlled by Ukrainian oligarch Dmytro Firtash. Till March 2012 these 4 Cyprus firms had owned 3 Ukrainian private firms - "Rolux", "AgroPromKomplekt", "TernoPromService", and these 3 (also less known) firms have many shares of such Ukrainian regional and city gas companies as "Volyngas", "Zakarpatgas", "Lvivgas", "Chernivtsigas", "Ivano-Frankivskgas", "Chernihivgas" and "Vinnytsyagas". But this spring less known Ukrainian firms "Lasfano of Ukraine" and "Budbrok" and new less known Cyprus firms "Solvotore Enterprise" and "Olubera Ventures" bought the firms "Rolux", "AgroPromKomplekt" and "TernoPromService". But as it is often in Ukraine, such unkown or less known firms are like a screen of the real situation in the deals, which are controlled by very rich and influential people in Ukrainian state.
In September 2012 Ukrainian journal "Correspondent" wrote that Ukrainian private firm "Finlex-Invest" also concerns to the sphere of the influence of Dmytro Firtash. And "Finlex-Invest" owns 24,45% shares of "Cherkasygas", 15,13% shares of "Kirovohradgas", 40,82% shares of "Melitopolgas". "Finlex-Invest" has already bought 26% state shares of "Poltavagas" at special auction, organized by Ukraine's Fund of State Property on August 29th, 2012 and has also bought 26% state shares of "Lubnygas" at the similar state auction on September 11th, 2012.
All these last gas events look like a creation of Ukraine's private gas monopoly of one person - Dmytro Firtash. It looks so, isn't it?   









P.S. The article's dates were taken and analysed from the different informational and mas media sites - smida.gov.ua, gasua.com, RBC Ukraine, UNIAN, "Economic Truth" (the part of "Ukrainian Truth"), "Correspondent".

1 comment:

  1. Дякую за допис, дуже важливе дослідження!!!

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