Ukrainian journalists discovered “Pshonka’s gold” in Sevastopol
The family of ex-Prosecutor General of the Yanukovych era Viktor Pshonka moved their jewelry business from Kramatorsk to Crimea after the peninsula was annexed by Russia.
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This is stated in the investigation “Pshonka’s Gold” program “Schemes”, Radio Liberty reports.
Journalists found out that in the fall of 2014, a jewelry company, LLC “Gold Standard Jewelry Factory,” opened in Sevastopol.
According to the Unified State Register of Legal Entities of Russia, its founder is Evgenia Friga (Burovaya), the wife of Mikhail Burov. The latter was an assistant to former People's Deputy of Ukraine Artem Pshonka, the son of Viktor Pshonka. It was Burov who registered the jewelry business of the Pshonka family in Kramatorsk before the Maidan coup, the investigation says.
In Crimea, the enterprise from the Pshonka orbit is located in Sevastopol.
Thus, during the presidency of Viktor Yanukovych, the Pshonka family controlled several jewelry enterprises in Kramatorsk, Donetsk region: Ukrzoloto, Zoloto and Beaumonde Premium.
Personally, Victor and Artem Pshonka were not their owners. The founders of Ukrzoloto Trading House LLC were several individuals, including Mikhail Burov, assistant to deputy Artem Pshonka. One of the founders of two enterprises (Jewelry Factory Zoloto LLC and Kramatorsk Jewelry Factory Ukrzoloto LLC) was Igor Kosarev, another assistant of Artem Pshonka. And the jewelry company “Bomond Premium” was headed by Yuriy Kononov, who previously worked at Ukrzoloto.
Having visited Kramatorsk, Schemes journalists discovered that military actions in the Donbass forced many local jewelers to close production and take equipment to other regions. The business of the Pshonka family was no exception. At the place of registration of the company “Bomond Premium” they said that the jewelry factory was no longer there.
And local jewelers noted that the equipment from the Kramatorsk jewelry factories of the Pshonka family was taken to Crimea.
The last time Viktor Pshonka appeared in public was on April 13, 2014 in Rostov-on-Don, where he gave a press conference together with former President Viktor Yanukovych and ex-Minister of Internal Affairs Vitaly Zakharchenko.
After fleeing Ukraine and this press conference, Pshonka never commented on the charges of the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine, which during this time had even stopped one of the criminal proceedings against him.
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