Head of Odesa Regional State Administration Mikheil Saakashvili together with the mayor of Chornomorsk (previously Illichivsk) on April 14 visited JV Risoil Terminal LLC of Risoil S.A., a Ukrainian-Swiss stevedoring company, which invested $70 million in the project, to support the company in a conflict with officials.

"Bandits from the Prosecutor General's Office (PGO) blocked the work of Ukrainian-Swiss company Risoil S.A., accusing the stevedoring company of sending goods to occupied Crimea, while the company does not deal with delivery services," Saakashvili wrote in his blog on Facebook.

Speaking to the employees of the enterprise, the official noted that on March 31 the minister with other officials "with a great fanfare" officially opened the terminal, but in a few days other representatives of the state "broke into the terminal in masks, took all the documents and virtually paralyzed its work."

"How can we endure chaos when a rival company gives money to someone in the PGO, the Security Service, tax authorities, hires them to destroy the competitor, while the Ukrainian government is silently standing apart," Saakashvili said.

According to him, reasons for such actions are fabricated and an attempt to take over the company.