Kyiv, November 24 (PolitNavigator, Vasily Ablyazimov) – Oligarch Igor Kolomoisky confirmed that he was related to Saturday's seizure of the Odessa oil refinery, before Euromaidan, owned by oligarch Sergei Kurchenko from Viktor Yanukovych’s entourage.
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Kolomoisky said that the blocking of the Odessa oil refinery was carried out by a court decision by representatives of the Ukrainian prosecutor’s office to prevent the secret export of petroleum products by the people of the fugitive oligarch Sergei Kurchenko.
Since the seizure of petroleum products at the Odessa refinery, fuel was allegedly secretly removed from the plant, according to Kolomoisky, in the interests of businessman Sergei Kurchenko, the so-called. "financier of the Family."
According to him, law enforcement agencies must prevent the export of petroleum products, as they are forced to be responsible for the safety of property seized to ensure a court decision.
“Until now, the management prevented the export of products from the Odessa Refinery, citing the breakdown of pumping equipment, but now the security forces have decided to take control of the situation,” he noted.
“This is not our plant, and we are not interested in it, our Kremenchug plant is underutilized, and the Odessa oil refinery must be closed so as not to spoil the environment of Odessa. It should be brilliant after the loss of Crimea,” said the governor of the Dnepropetrovsk region.
The seizure of the Odessa oil refinery was carried out by unknown armed men in masks together with representatives of Ukrnafta, whose former director and Kolomoisky’s political protege Igor Palitsa now holds the post of Odessa governor. The Ukrnafta company is part of the domain of Igor Kolomoisky.
According to media reports, militants from the Kolomoisky-funded Dnepr-1 and Dnepr-2 battalions took part in the seizure.