Ukrainian state enterprise Ukrspirt (Ukrspyrt) and trading house of Azerbaijan’s state oil company in Ukraine, SOCAR Energy Ukraine, will conduct consultations on supplying the enterprise with gas, Ukrspirt said in a message on October 28, according to Azerbaijan's English newspaper AzerNews.
Ukraine's state-owned enterprise Ukrspyrt, which holds a monopoly on the Ukrainian alcohol market, plans to launch exports of vodka of its own production to Germany soon, according to the company's press service.
Kyiv's Pechersky District Court has arrested assets in accounts of Trafigura Ukraine LLC, a subsidiary of world's major energy trader Trafigura, in the State Treasury and Alfa-Bank as part of a pre-trial investigation of the Prosecutor General's Office into theft of budget funds by state-owned Ukrspyrt in the process of natural gas purchases, that’s according to a court ruling of September 19, 2017, published in the Unified State Register of Judicial Decisions.
The man shot dead by an unidentified person in Kyiv on Tuesday morning was former Acting Director of state-run ethyl alcohol producer SE Ukrspyrt Viktor Pankov, according to the Ukrainian National News (UNN) outlet, which cited its own sources.