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Oleg Gavrish
Agrarian Fund lobbies in United States for opening Ukraine's land market
Sergiy Lishchyna is one of the most non-public businessmen in the country. At the same time, he ’s created an empire for the production of building materials. Lishchyna has significant stakes in the Izovat mineral wool production plant, in other woodworking assets, several plywood factories, and Ukrainian Saw Mills (USM).
Arrogance and deception fuels Ukrainian real estate scandal
Almost a year has gone by since the Energopol-Ukraine, the Polish subsidiary of Poland's PBG construction conglomerate, stopped following schedules and started reneging on promises to commission the fourth stage of the residential complex on Kondratiuk Street, 1 in Kyiv. The disruptions during the first several months led to conflicts with the buyers of more than 200 apartments. Minority shareholders of the subsidiary, who had not received status reports for a long time, were compelled to take action. As a result, since April 2019, the National Police of Ukraine and the tax authorities have launched investigations and frozen Energopol-Ukraine's assets. The scandal threatens to escalate into one of the biggest conflicts in Ukraine's real estate market.
"French wine exports equal our total grain exports" Interview with HarvEast CEO Dmytro Skorniakov
Ukraine during the 2018/2019 marketing year exported a record 49.7 million tonnes of grain, 26% more than a year earlier. Not only have grain exports increased, so have export prices.
Dragon Capital sells Chumak for a song
Ten years after the purchase of the company, the investor sold it to Singapore's Delta Wilmar CIS cheaper than it bought. Experts say that the market is now on the buyer's side.