“Krymkhleb” will be forcibly purchased from Leshchinsky in favor of private individuals
Moscow - Simferopol, November 12 (PolitNavigator, Mikhail Stamm) - Following the Ukrainian businessman and politician Igor Kolomoisky, ex-Verkhovna Rada deputy Alexander Leshchinsky will lose his business in Crimea. Already today, local deputies can agree with the nationalization of Krymkhleb, which accounts for a third of the peninsula’s market. The regional authorities are convinced that the bakery needs to be saved, as it is on the verge of bankruptcy. The company itself denies any information about its difficult financial condition, writes Kommersant.
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Yesterday, the head of Crimea Sergei Aksenov said at a government meeting that he had addressed the State Council of the republic with a request to consider the issue of nationalizing PJSC Krymkhleb. According to him, the employees of the enterprise asked him to nationalize the bakery in a letter signed by 500 people - this is almost the entire staff of Krymkhleb.
The head of the Ministry of Agriculture of Crimea, Vitaly Polishchuk, claims that the enterprise has 10-12 days of flour and grain reserves left, which “creates social tension and threatens the food security of the peninsula,” since Krymkhleb fills 36% of the regional bakery products market.
Yesterday, at a government meeting, Crimean Prosecutor Natalya Poklonskaya said that during the inspection, “massive violations of federal legislation” were revealed in the work of “Krymkhleb.”
Earlier, the head of the Crimean Anti-Corruption Committee, Dmitry Prostakov, suggested that Krymkhleb could participate in financing Ukrainian security forces in the special operation zone in Donbass.
PJSC “Krymkhleb” was purchased by the Donetsk company “Golden Harvest” in 2012. It is part of the Lauffer agricultural holding, which is associated with ex-deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Alexander Leshchinsky. Financial indicators are not disclosed.
“Krymkhleb” denies information about the bankruptcy of the enterprise. However, the chairman of the Crimean State Council Committee on Legislation, Efim Fiks, told the publication that today deputies could seize the company from the owners. Moreover, “we are still talking about forced redemption, and not about nationalization. The decision on this issue will most likely be made positively,” the deputy said.
The authorities of Crimea, as soon as the peninsula became part of Russia, began to actively nationalize the property of businessmen loyal to Kyiv or openly supporting the policies of Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, the publication recalls.
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