Asset Recovery Agency decides who will sell the vessel arrested in Reni

The National Asset Recovery and Management Agency (ARMA) has announced the winners of the tender for the sale of the Anka vessel seized in Odesa region.

According to ARMA's press service, the winner of the tender for the vessel is Polonex, a limited liability company that has already sold seized assets in the region, including iron ore and nitrogen fertilizers.

According to the YouControl service, the company was registered in Kyiv in 2021. The owners are Myroslav Kasyan from Mykolaiv region and Tetyana Khrustytska from Kyiv. ARMA announced its intention to sell the vessel back in August.

The Dniprovsky District Court of Kyiv handed over to the National Agency of Ukraine for finding, tracing and management of assets derived from corruption and other crimes (ARMA) a Russian-linked vessel detained in the Danube River. The vessel in question is the bulk carrier Anka, arrested by court order in April 2025 after the Security Service of Ukraine detained it on suspicion of being used by Russia to steal Ukrainian agricultural products from the temporarily occupied regions of Ukraine.

The arrested vessel was part of Russia's shadow fleet, which the Kremlin uses to sell looted Ukrainian grain to third countries. According to the case file, at the end of 2024, the bulk carrier transported 5,000 tons of wheat from the port of Sevastopol, which was stolen in the temporarily occupied territory of southern Ukraine. The bulk carrier Anka was flying the flag of Tanzania. Previously, it was called Victoria. The vessel left the Moldovan port in the spring and was heading to the Turkish port of Gömlık.

Earlier, the National Agency for Asset Recovery and Management announced a tender for the selection of legal entities to take measures to organize the sale of the seized USKO MFU, which was transferred to ARMA's management in accordance with the decision of the Dniprovsky District Court of Kyiv.

Кирило Бойко