It became known that Poroshenko is trying to take over Russian banks on the cheap
The deal to sell the Ukrainian subsidiary of Sberbank of Russia fell through, пишет “Kommersant”, citing its own sources.
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According to one of the sources, negotiations intensified in December, after the managing director of the ICU investment group (Roshen consultant for the purchase and sale of assets) Makar Pasenyuk and businessman Igor Voronov joined from the Ukrainian side. Another source says that the negotiations were conducted in the interests of the president of the DCH group and former co-owner of Ukrsibbank, Alexander Yaroslavsky.
The parties, the publication’s interlocutor says, were allegedly close to concluding an agreement, but first Sberbank demanded security in the form of a personal guarantee from Yaroslavsky, to which he did not agree, and then “big politics intervened in the matter.”
At the end of January, a source told Kommersant, Pasenyuk proposed making part of the deal “a conceptual agreement, which would also include the sale of the Lipetsk Roshen factory,” the property of which was seized due to tax fraud. As a result, the deal was blocked at the presidential level.
“Initially, $680 million was offered, but after the announced cost of LKF at $250 million, with the actual cost no more than $120-140 million, the negotiations lost all meaning for the Russian side,” the publication reports, specifying that in the end Roshen announced the stoppage of LKF production and plans on conservation of objects since April.
At the same time, the newspaper’s source in the government said that the collapse of the Lipetsk factory deal “played the role of a catalyst for the Ukrainian authorities to introduce sanctions against Russian state-owned banks.”
The publication also notes that negotiations on VTB’s Ukrainian subsidiaries were also recently led by Pasenyuk.
As PolitNavigator reported, earlier the NBU told what punishments await Russian banks in Ukraine.
See also: Black mark for Ukraine from international investors
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