Roshen confectionary factory has said that the appointment of former national manager Dmytro Vovk as head of the National Commission of Ukraine for Energy, Housing and Utilities Services Regulation (NCER) is irrational, according to a post on the company's website.

Roshen said that Vovk was hired by the company as national sales manager for Russia on March 2013.

"He worked less than two years and he was dismissed from his post in November 2014 due to unsatisfactory results and not showing high enough qualifications for the post of manager," reads a press release announced late on Friday, January 16.

As reported, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, the major co-owner of Roshen Corporation, on December 30, 2014 appointed Vovk as acting head of the NCER. Before working at Roshen, he worked as the assistant to the vice president of corporate finances for Investment Capital of Ukraine (ICU), a former employee of which, Volodymyr Demchyshyn, headed the commission in 2014. In autumn of the same year Demchyshyn was appointed as Energy and Coal Industry Minister of Ukraine.