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All enterprises that were managed by the pseudo-republic are being transferred to the external management of Vneshtorgservice.
Fugitive Ukrainian oligarch Serhiy Kurchenko, former business partner of ex-President Viktor Yanukovych, has received under control major industrial assets in the occupied territories of Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine.
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"A mysterious Vneshtorgservice company is associated with Ukrainian oligarch Serhiy Kurchenko, who fled to Moscow. It was headed by former deputy governor of Irkutsk region Vladimir Pashkov. The company is maximally non-public, there are no addresses of its offices, while its activities are classified as far as possible," RFE/RL's Ukrainian service wrote on September 16, adding that all enterprises that were under the control of the so-called "Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics" ("DPR"/"LPR") are being transferred to the external management of Vneshtorgservice.
As reported earlier, the companies of young energy tycoon Kurchenko are the largest exporters of illegal coal from occupied Donbas to European countries.
As UNIAN reported earlier, in May 2018, Ukraine imposed personal sanctions against the ousted Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych's ally, young energy tycoon Serhiy Kurchenko, as well as persons who hold offices as "energy ministers" in the self-proclaimed "DPR" and "LPR", and Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller.
In May 2014, Ukraine's Interior Minister Arsen Avakov said the companies that were part of Serhiy Kurchenko's EEFEC (Eastern European Fuel-Energy Company) had imported to Ukraine over 5 million tonnes of oil products worth UAH 36 billion under fictitious documents over the previous two years. However, these oil products had to be supplied to third countries instead of being sold in Ukraine, which allowed companies owned by Kurchenko to evade taxation.
Kurchenko's bank accounts were arrested during the investigation, as well as his movable and immovable property worth over UAH 1.5 billion (US$53.3 million).
In April 2014, the oligarch was put on the international wanted list.