Stavytsky’s money derived from Ukraine to firms registered in Belize – MP Heraschenko
Former head of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) Valentyn Nalyvaichenko has unveiled the names of offshore companies which he says received the money of former Minister of Energy and Coal Industry of Ukraine Eduard Stavytsky which was derived from Ukraine, Advisor to the Interior Minister, MP Anton Heraschenko has said.
Heraschenko wrote on his Facebook page that Nalyvaichenko had given a list of offshore companies which received Stavytsky’s money, and “those who started to shelter him after the victory of the Maidan.”
He posted a photo of the list.
The photographed document states as follows: “During the period from August 2014 to the present time there have been carried out illegal operations to derive working capital abroad to the accounts of the following offshore companies controlled by the owners of BRSM-Nafta group: Mellian Management Ltd (Belize), Beyrok Finance Ltd (Belize).”
Heraschenko said this data will be useful to investigators of the main investigation department of the Ukrainian Interior Ministry, “who are investigating the case about the violation of legislation by the management and owners of the BRSM-Nafta fuel station network, as well as investigators of the state across which money received from criminal activities could be laundered.”
As reported, on June 12 Nalyvaichenko, then head of the Security Service of Ukraine, at a Cabinet meeting said that the oil depot in Vasylkiv district of Kyiv region, which was ablaze for several days, and the BRSM-Nafta fuel station belonged to Stavytsky.
However, chairman of the board of directors of FreezeOil (the co-owner of BRSM-Nafta), Roland Pieper, at a press conference at Interfax-Ukraine on June 19 stated that the company is not linked to Stavytsky.
“When buying the company, we conducted due diligence – no links with him have been identified,” he said.
On June 15, after an interrogation in the main investigation department of the Prosecutor General’s Office, Nalyvaichenko told reporters that he handed to investigators materials about a corruption scheme at BRSM-Nafta oil depot, which caused losses exceeding UAH 1 billion to the national budget of Ukraine in 2014 -2015.
