Raider attacks on Agrosvit assisted by judicial authority representatives – company co-owner

KYIV. March 23 (Interfax-Ukraine) - The founder of Kharkiv agricultural holding Agrosvit, Oleksandr Bichuch, has claimed that law enforcement agencies, courts, as well as representatives of the justice system are involved in raider attacks on the company at the behest of its co-owner Serhiy Polumysny and with the assistance of Andriy Levin and Volodymyr Parkulab.

"The raiders failed to take the company over through the process of personal liquidation, while the decision to liquidate Agrosvit made by Polumysny was recognized illegal by all the courts. However, a new stage of raider attacks again testifies to the active coordination between the raiders and the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine," Bichuch said at a press conference at Interfax-Ukraine.

Bichuch explained that on April 15, 2015 Polumysny alone liquidated the company, appointed his fellow Parkulab as a liquidator and with the help of the then director of the company Andriy Levin began withdrawing Agrosvit money and assets to his affiliated organizations. As a result, hundreds of millions of hryvnias have been withdrawn from the company.

According to Bichuch, currently Polumysny is considering the purchase of four elevators from Swiss trader Glencore.

"Where did Serhiy Polumysny suddenly get such funds?" Bichuch added.

At the end of January 2016, on the basis of the judgment the founder of Ukraine's Agrosvit, Cypriot Agrosvit Ltd., started the liquidation of the Ukrainian company, which blocked the actions of the raiders because they made it impossible for them to manage the company.