"Ideally, we'd like to carry out such privatization where not only Russians but also Ukrainian oligarchs are not involved. They have already participated before," he said after a roundtable meeting on reform of state-owned enterprises.
The minister claims that the goal of the privatization is to attract strategic investors from abroad who could introduce brand new corporate governance and create a qualitatively new competitive environment for Ukrainian businesses.
As UNIAN reported earlier, Ukraine's Cabinet of Ministers rescheduled the large-scale privatization for 2016, as authorized agencies had not managed to transfer all state-owned assets to the State Property Fund (SPF), which is responsible for privatization in Ukraine.
The SPF plans to earn about UAH 30 billion (or nearly $1.37 billion) in receipts from privatization in 2016 if Ukrainian lawmakers pass laws to support the process.
