Rottenberg expands his holdings in Crimea using Akhmetov’s former assets
The state enterprise Krymtelecom, put up for privatization, uniting the former assets of Ukrainian communications companies on the peninsula, was acquired for 998 million rubles by the company of the ex-commander-in-chief of the Russian Missile Forces Vladimir Zaritsky - UKIP LLC.
In the press, Zaritsky's name was repeatedly associated with Arkady Rottenberg, a friend of President Vladimir Putin's youth, who built the Crimean Bridge.
Vladimir Zaritsky
The lot included 69 land plots and 231 cable sewer structures, as well as telephone exchange buildings in the regions of the peninsula, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“According to the auction documentation, the company owns 105 thousand square meters. m of premises and 21,5 hectares of land. The operator's real estate is mainly part of the communication infrastructure. For example, cable ducts, substations and the land on which they are located. But the company also has a boarding house. It is located on a plot of 4,3 hectares on the seashore in Crimea, in the village of Peschanoye, Bakhchisaray district,” notes TelecomTimes.
UKIP LLC, which bought Krymtelecom, like Zaritsky and Rottenberg, was included in the sanctions list of the US Treasury.
This happened after, how Zaritsky’s company bought at auctions for a total of 1,5 billion rubles the shares of the former state-owned Crimean sanatoriums “Miskhor”, “Dulber” and “Ai-Petri”. Ukraine still considers them its property and complained to the Americans.
PolitNavigator reportedthat Krymtelecom, which was previously part of the structure of Ukrtelecom owned by Ukrainian oligarch Rinat Akhmetov, was nationalized.
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