Media name new owner of Yanukovych helipad in Kyiv

Serhiy Moskovsky, a native of Kramatorsk and an associate of Ukrainian Member of Parliament from the Petro Poroshenko Bloc parliamentary faction Maksym Yefimov became a new owner of British FINEROAD BUSINESS LLP, which owns Kyiv's Parkovy Convention and Exhibition Centre, colloquially known as the Yanukovych helipad, via Amadeus Co. Ltd.

Moskovsky is a CEO of a German-based trade representation of Ukrainian's Energomashspecstal plant, while Yefimov is a president and shareholder of the latter, according to a report by Denys Bihus for the Nashi Hroshi (Our Money) investigative project.

Yefimov says Moskovsky is a man he trusts after knowing him for 20 years. However, the deputy noted that he himself had planned to purchase the office center with a helipad but stopped short of doing so, wary of potential reputational losses.

Property of Amadeus Co. Ltd. was seized according to a court ruling and transferred to the state-owned enterprise Financing of Infrastructural Projects. However, the enterprise over the nine months never launched the site after the ruling was handed down.

A total of four criminal cases related to the Parkovy had been opened by the end of 2017. The Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine and Kyiv Prosecutor's Office are probing into the construction of the site for funds illegally obtained by the entourage of former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, as well as into the illegal allocation of especially valuable UNESCO-protected land plots.

Read alsoOver US$76 mln "disappears" from Oleksandr Yanukovych's bank after accounts unfrozen – mediaPrior to Moskovsky, FINEROAD BUSINESS LLP was owned by Yashar Khodjayev, who was among targets in the case related to a bank, owned by ex-president Viktor Yanukovych's son, Oleksandr Yanukovych. According to the investigation, he represented one of the links in a a money laundering scheme. Therefore, until recently, Parkovy has remained in the orbit of interests of the ex-president of Ukraine.

Moskovsky also became a legal owner of Yefimov's business in Crimea. Since August 2017, he has secured ownership over four wind farms, which were part of Wind Parks of Ukraine Corporation. A 25% stake in the company belongs to Yefimov. Another firm of his, Domkrymbud, with land assets in the Russian-annexed peninsula, was also transferred to Moskovsky's ownership in December 2017.