Dec. 7, 2024, 9:02 a.m.
(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 iron ore pellets stored in railway cars in the village of Stari Shompoly in Odesa region.
According to Prozorro.Sale, the auction involves 35 railroad cars with 2,389.5 tons of raw materials.
The auction scheduled for December 6 with a starting price of UAH 9 million 616 thousand did not take place. Therefore, a new auction is scheduled for December 20 with a starting price of UAH 4 million 808 thousand. The cargo in question belongs to the Russian group of companies 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.
In addition, another 158 railcars with such pellets were put up for auction at the Velyki Shompoly station in Odesa region.
They are combined into one lot with the railcars at the station:
The total price of this lot is UAH 25 million 930.5 thousand.
Earlier, ARMA was unable to sell iron ore briquettes stored in Pivdennyi port in Odesa region, which belonged to Russian oligarch Alisher Usmanov.
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