Director of Nemo Dolphinarium fined by Odesa court for work in Crimea

The Primorskyi District Court of Odesa approved a plea agreement on collaboration between Anatolii Solontsov, director of the Sevastopol Dolphinarium Nemo, and the prosecutor.

As stated in the court's verdict, the director of the dolphinarium was sentenced to a fine of 170 thousand hryvnias, according to the Center for Public Investigations.

He was accused of being the director of NERUM LLC since 2015, and from February 2022 to January 17, 2023, he conducted economic activities in cooperation with the aggressor state, the Russian Federation, its illegal authorities established in the temporarily occupied territory in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, including the occupation administration of the aggressor state in Alushta and Feodosia.

NERUM LLC is the sole founder of the Russian Dolphinarium Nemo LLC, which was established in Russia in 2014. According to the charter, the purpose of Nemo Dolphinarium LLC is to make a profit and meet public needs for products, works or services, combine economic, intellectual and financial capabilities and resources of the Participants to conduct business and other activities. The main activity is other entertainment and entertainment activities.

Therefore, in the period from February 2022 to January 2023, Nemo Dolphinarium LLC, whose CEO was the convicted person, entertained vacationers in the temporarily occupied territory of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea. In addition, on behalf of the Nemo Dolphinarium, the man entered into marine mammal lease agreements with the Russian company Felicistas.

Earlier, the OSINT agency Molfar, in cooperation with the animal and environmental rescue organization UAnimals, revealed the relationship between the founding company of the Nemo dolphinarium network and a former United Russia deputy, the payment of taxes to Russia through Russian legal entities, and the operation of dolphinariums in the occupied Crimea.

Nerum's owners are Raisa Kislovska, Mykhailo and Viacheslav Kuchuk, and the spouses Serhiy and Natalia Keliushko. Also, detectives of the Bureau of Economic Security exposed a deputy of the Odesa City Council for doing business in the temporarily occupied Crimea under the laws of the Russian Federation.

Earlier it was reported that the Nemo dolphinariums are actively operating in Crimea despite the annexation. At the time, Odesa City Council member Andriy Kyslovsky said that the work was resumed thanks to specialists from outside Ukraine.

Кирило Бойко