24 November 2024

Russian ore seized at Odesa railroad put up for sale for almost 10 million

(Photo: Prozorro.Sale)

The National Agency of Ukraine for Finding, Tracing and Management of Assets Derived from Corruption and Other Crimes (ARMA) has put up for sale 2,389.5 tons of iron ore pellets stored in 35 railway cars in the village of Stari Shompoly in Odesa region.

This is reported in the system Prozorro. Sale.

The auction is scheduled for December 6 with a starting price of UAH 9 million 616 thousand. The cargo belongs to the Russian group of companies Holding Company Joint Stock Company Metalloinvest (Holding Company Joint Stock Company Metalloinvest).

"Metalloinvest is one of the largest mining and metallurgical holdings in Russia. It comprises mining enterprises (Lebedinsky and Mikhailovsky mining and processing plants) and metallurgical enterprises (Oskol Electrometallurgical Plant and Ural Steel). Metalloinvest also owns 80% of Hamriyah Steel, a steel plant located in the United Arab Emirates.

The entrepreneurs imported iron ore to Ukraine and planned to ship it by sea to third countries for sale.

However, they failed to sell the goods. Law enforcement officers found the raw materials at a railway station of the Odesa Railways and seized them during searches.

Earlier, the National Agency of Ukraine for Finding, Tracing and Management of Assets Derived from Corruption and Other Crimes (ARMA) also put up for sale iron ore briquettes stored in Pivdennyi port in Odesa region.

Two batches of ore are up for auction - 41,989 tons with a starting price of UAH 414,396,439 and 8,159.7 tons for UAH 80,529.6 thousand.

The briquettes produced by the Lebedinsky Mining and Processing Plant, owned by Russian oligarch Alisher Usmanov, were delivered to the port under the transit customs regime to accumulate a ship's consignment for further transportation to the People's Republic of China.

Кирило Бойко

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