Head of
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko's administration Boris Lozhkin says
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko is in active search for a buyer of Roshen
Corporation's Russian-based confectionery factory, which is located the city of
Lipetsk, through intermediary companies.
"He [Poroshenko] is in
active search through professional intermediaries for potential buyers of the
Lipetsk factory, and it should be noted that it [the factory] has been closed
many times by the [Russian] tax authorities, and currently, many buyers in Russia
consider it a problem asset," Lozhkin told Radio Vesti on Sunday.
"The president has made a
clear decision that it [factory] should be sold, and I think it's only a matter
of time," Lozhkin said.
As UNIAN reported earlier, on
May 26, 2014, Poroshenko being
a candidate for president, stated he would sell his business assets, except for
Ukrainian news Channel 5. Later, Rothschild Investment Corporation was involved
to assist in the deal.
In January 2016, Poroshenko
signed an agreement to transfer his stake in Roshen Corporation to an
independent trust managed by a foreign bank, which had been authorized to hold
talks on the sale of the company's assets.
Under the Ukrainian
Constitution, the country's president is not allowed to hold a position in the
government or run a business, be a representative of a company's supervisory
board that aims at making profit.
UNIAN's memo. Roshen is
Ukraine's largest confectionery producer. It is owned by Petro Poroshenko.
Roshen's annual output is 450,000 tonnes of confectionery. It consists of
confectionery factories in Kyiv, Vinnytsia, Kremenchuk and those in Lipetsk
(Russia), Klaipeda (Lithuania) and Bonbonetti Choco Kft in Budapest (Hungary).
It also incorporates a dairy factory, which sells its produce to the
confectioneries.
Back in 2014, Russian security
forces repeatedly hampered the activity of the Lipetsk confectionery factory
with the seizure of its assets.
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