The Kyiv regime has scared away American investors
The State Property Fund of Ukraine officially announced that the competition for the sale of the state block of shares (99,6%) of the Odessa Port Plant (OPZ) did not take place due to lack of demand, and a few hours later the Ukrtransgaz company announced the start of disconnecting the OPP from gas supply , reports Rossiyskaya Gazeta.
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The publication states that during the years of Ukrainian independence, the enterprise remained one of the most attractive objects for privatization in Ukraine, around which oligarchic wars were fought.
At one time, Prime Minister Yatsenyuk decided to interest American investors, for which it was proposed to build an LNG terminal that would receive gas from the USA and Qatar. Companies from Russia were excluded from participating in the competition, but the mandatory participation of foreign buyers was stipulated, setting a starting price of a billion dollars.
“Yatsenyuk did not have time to carry out the privatization of the OPP - first Governor Saakashvili, who allegedly worked in the interests of President Poroshenko, who also wanted to participate in privatization, began to put a spoke in the wheels of the plant and its management, and lowered the price, and then Yatsenyuk resigned. Along the way, it turned out that the project to build a gas terminal is unprofitable at current prices for raw materials,” the publication points out.
The newspaper notes that in May of this year, the new Ukrainian Prime Minister Vladimir Groysman set a starting price for the OPP at $500 million under the same condition - without the participation of Russian business.
“But this time, not only the Ukrainian oligarchs, who, it seems, no longer have any money left to purchase the asset, but also the United States have lost all interest in the OPP,” RG emphasizes. – American investors, according to experts, were scared off by the prospect of paying off the company’s debts, as well as sorting out the pile of lawsuits that had accumulated over the past years: the same Kolomoisky is still challenging the results of the unsuccessful privatization of 2009. So now the recent flagship of the industry can close at any moment, just as dozens of other enterprises in Ukraine closed after the “revolution of dignity”.
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