Prometey

Chairman of the Supervisory Board and President of the Prometheus Group of Companies is Rafael Goroyan.

Landbank: 10,000 hectares. The group of companies provides services for storaging, processing, and logistics of grain crops and sunflower.

These are 24 elevators in Mykolaiv, Kirovohrad, Kyiv, Odesa, Kherson, Khmelnytsky, Zaporizhzhia, Sumy, and Dnipropetrovsk regions.

The total storage capacity of granaries is over 1.3 million tons. Turnover of Prometheus at the end of 2019: $220 million.

The share of exports on the Ukrainian market in good years is about 3%, in lean years — 1.5-2%. Main sales markets: Turkey, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Asian countries.

The number of employees is over 1,000 people.

The Swiss company Prometey Swiss SA, in which Goroyan is the beneficiary, shows an annual turnover of $100 million.

In early 2020, the company received an interest-free loan of 500,000 francs for five years, guaranteed by the Swiss Federal Government.

• 1998 — the year of the foundation of the grain trading company "Prometheus".
• In 2001, Prometheus purchased the first elevator in Lotskino village, Mykolaiv region.

The new owner repaired grain storage facilities, installed grain drying and cleaning equipment, as well as a mechanization system. Gradually, the maximum storage capacity of the one-time loading reached 10,000 tons.

• In 2002, Prometey purchased an elevator in Mykolaiv.
• In April 2004, the Novopoltavskyy elevator was acquired.
• In 2014, they bought two more elevators, in the Grebenki village, Vasylkovsky district, Kyiv region, and in Voznesensk, Mykolaiv region.
• In 2015, Prometey bought an elevator complex in the villages of Kazanka and Vladymyrivka, Mykolaiv region. They also opened a trading office in Kirovohrad.

The same year, Prometey and Latvian bank Rietumu signed a $2 million trade finance agreement for 1-year foreign trade contracts.

• In 2016, Prometey purchased 9 elevators in Kirovohrad, Khmelnytsky, and Zaporizhzhia regions.
• In 2017, Prometey got a trading office in Kyiv and an elevator in the Cherkasy region.
• In 2018, they opened agricultural markets at the elevators. There, they sell nitrogen, phosphorus, potash, and complex fertilizers.
• In 2019, the company expanded its elevator base with three elevators in Dnipropetrovsk and one in the Odesa region.
• In June 2020, Prometey made a deal with Glencore Agriculture to acquire an elevator in Lebedin, Sumy region, with a total storage capacity of 53,000 tons.

In the same year, Black Sea bank of development and reconstruction issued a $10 million loan to the Prometey group for seven years.

• In October 2014, not far from Znamenka, Kyrovohrad region, "titushki" (Ukr. — mercenary agents) threw stones at a car with Serhiy Leshchenko, Svitlana Zalishchuk, and Mustafa Nayyem.

'The car is completely destroyed. Thttp://reyestr.court.gov.ua/Review/89179137e attack was committed near a polling place that previously was blamed of bribery of voters in favor of Oles Dovgiy,' Leshchenko wrote back then.

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One of the persons who threw stones at the politicians was Musa Hasan oglu Musazade. According to the court ruling, he is the head of the security service of the Prometey group in Mykolaiv.

In 2020, he was released from criminal liability under the article "hooliganism" due to limitation period had expired.

Back then, Oles Dovgiy won the elections to the Rada in constituency №102. And Andriy Lavrus, a candidate supported by Mustafa Nayyem, Zalishchuk and Leshchenko, did not pass to the parliament.

• In 2016, the head of the Main Department of the State Tax Service in Mykolayiv region Dmytro Prokofiev said that the Prometey group did not pay taxes and he could say it in court, as Rafael Goroyan threatened to summon him to appear before the court.
• In December 2016, the prosecutor of Mykolaiv region Taras Dunas said that one of the Prometey's directors was charged with suspicion under the article "tax evasion, fees, and other obligatory payments".

As part of the investigation, Prometey has already paid UAH 1.5 million to the budget. And in total — UAH 24 million in taxes.

• In May 2017, the head of the State Fiscal Service of the region said that Prometey had underpaid taxes to the state by UAH 215 million.
• In July 2017, Prometey accused Nibulon of not paying large-scale debts. The owner of Nibulon Oleksiy Vadaturskyy said that Goroyan was trying to blackmail his company.
• In September 2017, the Economics Protection Department within the National Police of Ukraine conducted searches in the Prometey offices.

One of the company's employees insisted the search was carried out not in relation to Prometey, but in relation to another company that cooperated with them.

In 2018, the Antimonopoly Committee fined UAH 309,000 LLC RV-capital (part of the Prometey group of companies) for the collecting of more than 50% of the shares of Grebenka-Khleboprodukt PJSC in the Kyiv region without the permission of the department.

• In 2014, Prometey provided children of the paratroopers of the 79th Mykolaiv separate airmobile brigade with products for studying and hobbies.

Prior to that, Goroyan purchased medication for the paratroopers to recover from a concussion.

• In 2017, Prometey set his own export record — it sold 520,000 tons of grain.
• In 2019, Prometey got the status of an exporter of agricultural products to China.
• In March 2020 on the street of Mykolaiv, the company's employees handed out sanitizers and leaflets with recommendations on how to reduce the risk of infection to city residents.