Oligarch-deputy Taruta wants to get the Odessa film studio, activists
Odessa, December 08 (PolitNavigator, Victoria Litovchenko) – Member of the “Save the Odessa Film Studio” movement, former film studio employee Dmitry Kulikovsky believes that oligarch Sergei Taruta is making every effort to auction off the Odessa Film Studio.
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According to him, at the end of 2005 the film studio was created as a closed joint stock company. A private shareholder invested UAH 31 million in cash, and the state invested the same amount in the form of real estate and other tangible assets. The controlling stake remained with the state. The difference in favor of the state is 1 share, worth 1 UAH.
About 2 years ago, Andrei Zverev appeared at the film studio, first as financial director, who then became chairman of the board. The activist claims that Zverev was appointed through a fictitious competition as Deputy Chairman of the Board of the State Property Fund of Ukraine by Yuri Nikitin.
The private investor of the film studio through affiliated companies is the oligarch, ex-governor of the Donetsk region Sergei Taruta. Andrey Zverev is his former subordinate, a top manager of a metal structures production company.
The Odessa Film Studio includes two dormitories in its state share of property. “The management of the film studio came up with a way to remove one of the dormitories from the state part of the authorized capital of the company and transfer it to the municipal property of the city. Thus, the size of the state share in the authorized capital of the company would be significantly reduced, which would allow a private investor to receive a majority of the shares and take full control of the film studio,” the publication writes. "Odessit".
To do this, people who had nothing to do with cinema were hired to work at the film studio as watchmen, couriers, and security guards, and they were immediately given places in the Ekran dormitory.
At the same time, according to Kulikovsky, they did not go to work, then quit, but refused to move out. Allegedly, in order not to develop a scandal and to protect these residents, the management of the film studio decided to transfer the Ekran hostel to the ownership of the city.
The scandal began to flare up precisely because of these “dead souls.” Three out of five activists who spoke out against this scheme were fired or forced to resign by studio management. In addition, some of them were subsequently evicted from the hostel and accused of stealing property from the film studio. They began to threaten criminal prosecution.
The only hope now to save the film studio is to prevent a private investor from taking control of it, and to entrust the management of the state part to the Ministry of Culture, and not to the State Property Fund, activists note and write letters to the President of Ukraine, the Verkhovna Rada and the Ministry.
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