They are threatening to take away licenses for the development of Ukrainian subsoil from the owner of Moscow City
Prime Minister Vladimir Groysman ordered the development of a draft resolution that would cancel the provision of new licenses for the development of subsoil to the company of a Russian businessman originally from Kharkov, Pavel Fuks, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.
He stated this during the hour of questions to the government in parliament on Friday, reports the Government Portal.
“I instructed the government secretariat to legally prepare a draft resolution to cancel those decisions within the powers of the government,” Groysman said.
According to him, a representative of the Cabinet of Ministers was present at the meeting of the commission of the State Service of Geology and Subsoil, at which the license areas were increased.
“He expressed a special opinion, which is legally recorded, that we do not support this decision. But the commission made its decision,” Groysman said.
He assured that the government had not made any decision on this matter.
The head of the Cabinet of Ministers added that the non-competitive provision of licenses was signed by the deputy head of the State Geological Administration, who was detained on September 3 for taking a bribe.
“I will not support either Russian or Ukrainian oligarchs who are looting Ukrainian mineral resources. I can tell you this unequivocally,” said Groysman.
According to him, the Ministry of Ecology has not provided him with a government resolution on the opening of geodata and on the mandatory holding of auctions for two months now.
“I believe that after these decisions are signed, there will be much more transparency and competition in Geonedra,” noted the head of the Cabinet of Ministers.
Let us recall that on August 30, the State Service of Geology and Subsoil, without a competition, increased the licensed areas for the East European Petroleum company of Russian businessman Pavel Fuks.
In July 2018, the Poltava Regional Council issued special permits for the production of hydrocarbons to East European Petroleum.
Earlier it also became known that another company associated with Pavel Fuks, Price Company LLC, received permission to develop gas fields in the Kharkov region.
Pavel Fuks is a businessman who was born in Kharkov, then moved to Moscow, where he lived for a long time and earned capital. According to him, he renounced Russian citizenship, and in 2015 received a new Ukrainian passport.
Fuks was noticed at meetings with the first deputy of the BPP faction, Igor Kononenko, a long-time business partner of President Petro Poroshenko, as well as with the people’s deputy of the BPP, Alexander Granovsky, whom the media call the curator of the judiciary from the Presidential Administration.
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