Russian oligarch's ore seized at Chornomorsk railway station put up for sale

The National Asset Recovery and Management Agency (ARMA) has put up for sale assets in the form of 10,772.3 tons of iron ore pellets.

The relevant announcement was published in the Prozorro.Sale system .

This ore belongs to the group of companies Holding Company Metalloinvest Joint Stock Company. The Bureau of Economic Security is conducting a pre-trial investigation in criminal proceedings, which established that unidentified persons, by prior conspiracy with officials of enterprises of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus, during 2020-2022, using railway rolling stock, by illegally using the customs regime of "transit" when crossing the customs border of Ukraine, actually unloading and selling inventory on the territory of Ukraine without proper reflection in tax reporting, intentionally evaded taxation of

The future winner of the auction will have to pay customs duties in the amount of UAH 11 million 321.4 thousand.

In 2023, law enforcement officers discovered and seized nearly 2,500 tons of iron ore pellets belonging to the Russian group of companies, Metalloinvest Holding Company, at one of the railway stations of the Odesa Railways and seized them during searches.

This was not the first cargo of iron ore to be smuggled through the Odesa region. Prior to that, detectives from the Bureau of Economic Security of Ukraine (BES) handed over almost 170,000 tons of iron ore with an estimated value of UAH 1.8 billion to the National Agency for Finding, Tracing and Management of Assets Derived from Corruption and Other Crimes (ARMA), in accordance with a court order.

Кирило Бойко