The Ministries of Justice and Finance have postponed until April 1, 2024 the introduction of the order of notification by the subject of primary financial monitoring (SPFM) of the holder of the Unified State Register of Legal Entities and Individuals (USREOU) on the detection of discrepancies on the results of the inspection of the ultimate beneficial owners and/or ownership structure of legal entities with the information in the register.
“In order for all subjects of primary financial monitoring to take organizational measures necessary for the implementation of the mechanism of notification of the holder of the USREOU …”, – this reason for the postponement was given by the Ministry of Justice in a message on its website.
The introduction of the procedure for notification of such discrepancies and the SPFM, which identified them, to the specially authorized body was also postponed for the same period of time.
As reported, it was assumed that these procedures will be effective from December 1, 2023.
The Enforcement Division of the State Enforcement Service Department of the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine has put up a single property complex in Vinnytsia region for sale at an electronic auction on OpenMarket (SE SETAM of the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine). The starting price including VAT is UAH 78,697,765.
The lot includes:
– Complex of buildings and structures.
Total area: 27,129.60 sq. m.
Location: Vinnytsia region, Trostyanets district, Trostyanets village.
– A complex of buildings and structures.
Total area: 137,70 sq. m.
Location: Vinnytsia region, Trostyanets district, Severinivka village.
– Complex of buildings and structures.
Actual area subject to additional information: 1 817.40 sq. m.
Location: Vinnytsia region, Trostyanets district, Trostyanets town.
– Land plot.
Total area: 5.5716 hectares.
Cadastral number: 0524155100:01:001:0002.
Purpose: for the enterprise of other industry.
– Land plot.
Total area: 8.8779 hectares.
Cadastral number: 0524155100:02:012:0022.
Purpose: for the enterprise of other industry.
– Land plot.
Total area: 0.0486 hectares.
Cadastral number: 0524155100:02:012:0016.
Purpose: for the enterprise of other industry.
– Land plot.
Total area: 3.3885 hectares.
Cadastral number: 0524183200:01:002:0002.
Purpose: enterprises of other industry (location of water intake).
– 421 items of movable property (equipment) and 61 units of vehicles.
A full list of the described movable property can be found in the “Attachments” column. The lot is subject to a mortgage.
“The single property complex has been re-launched for the second auction, so the lot is discounted by 15% from the first one. The lot includes not only real estate, but also specialized food processing equipment, electrical equipment, as well as working machines and equipment of the meat processing plant. You can take part in the auction on December 13 by pre-registering for the auction and paying the guarantee fee,” said Oleksandr Mamro, CEO of SE SETAM.
For more information, please follow the link: setam.net.ua/auction/537220
The OpenMarket auction (SE SETAM of the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine) is a simple and effective means of selling and purchasing property via the Internet. The online auction has been operating throughout Ukraine since 2014. The total amount of sales since its launch is UAH 21.4 billion.
Together with the experts of the hosting company HostPro, we have created a material that will be useful to virtually everyone who deals with web resources: website owners and administrators, web developers, web designers, SEO specialists, marketers, and all Internet users.
After reading this article, you will be able to scan your website for viruses on your own, and you will also get effective tips on how to protect your resource from viruses and hacking.
A virus is essentially a malicious code that is installed on a website through security gaps. From our experience, we can say that statistically, most often viruses get to websites through the vulnerabilities of an unupdated CMS (80 percent of all cases), old versions of themes, plugins, installation of additional functions, use of themes and plugins downloaded from unreliable sources, and incorrect distribution of rights between administrators.
What can a virus infection lead to?
– Deletion of important files or changes to the database, which causes a breakdown in the website’s functionality;
– attackers gaining access to the content of your website or its complete administration – as a result, incomprehensible banners, phishing links to other websites, and redirects to third-party and not always legal resources may appear;
– slow loading of the website or even stopping its operation. This situation is usually caused by a high load on the server due to processes launched by malicious code (spamming, viruses, brute force attacks, mining, DDoS).
– theft from the database and leakage of confidential information of administrators and customers (names, emails, bank card details);
– if you do not notice the changes in time, the site may be sanctioned and lose its position in the search results or even stop being indexed and be blocked by the hosting or domain registrar.
How to check a website for viruses?
HostPro recommends several ways to check a website for viruses that do not require special technical skills and budgets.
– It is advisable to have an antivirus on your hosting. If infected files are detected, as well as programs whose structure is similar to those contained in the malware database, you will receive notifications with recommendations to your contact email.
A good scanner, such as ImunifyAV+, can even detect encrypted malicious code in files.
The Ukrainian host HostPro includes ImunifyAV+ antivirus in all hosting plans, you just need to activate it in the control panel or make a request to technical support, and it will be done for you.
– Google has a good tool for checking for infected files called Google Safe Browsing. Here you can check any website, even if you are not its administrator.
– If you are the site owner, you can simply check for notifications about dangerous content in your email or in your Google Search Console account ⇨ Security and manual measures ⇨ Security issues.
– There are also online services that can check for viruses on a website, such as Sucuri SiteCheck or VirusTotal. The method is simple and affordable, but the scan is superficial. Such tools usually do not scan the core of the site, so even simple viruses can slip through.
How do you know if your website is infected?
Here are some “symptoms” of your website being infected with malicious viruses:
– users report that they cannot access the site because it is blocked by their browsers and/or security programs;
– the website has been added to a database of malicious URLs;
– you see a significant change in traffic and/or a sharp deterioration in search engine rankings;
– the site displays errors; is slow or unavailable at all (please note that this may also be a sign that your domain or hosting has expired);
– users are redirected to another resource when they visit the site or follow internal links;
– additional content has appeared on the website: ads or pop-ups;
– virus notifications from the hosting provider;
– confidential data has been leaked from the website;
– new administrators have appeared in the admin panel to whom you did not grant access;
– the index file or other site files contain third-party code, it can be contained in the [iframe][/iframe] tags, as well as after [BODY] or [HTML].
Checklist for effective website protection against viruses and hacking
1. Install an SSL certificate on your website. Then your resource will work over a secure HTTPS connection. All information sent from your website will be encrypted, minimizing the chances of it being intercepted.
If you don’t have SSL installed on your site, users will see a notification that the connection is insecure instead of the content they need.
Some hosting companies resell SSL certificates, so you can ask your provider about the availability of this service. For example, HostPro can generate one for you and connect it to your website for free.
1. Come up with something more complicated than admin1 or QWERTY – you can use special services such as password generators. A strong password should not be related to words or dates from your biography, but should contain letters, numbers, and special characters. It’s a good habit to change your passwords every month.Also, try to ensure that each resource (e.g., website/blog/billing) and each site administrator has a unique password.
2. Restrict access to the login page for all IPs except those from which you and your colleagues work.
3. Monitor traffic from time to time, if it has dropped sharply, there is a possibility that users are being redirected from your site to another resource or that browsers or security systems simply do not allow access to your resource.Conversely, if traffic has increased, but the number of visitors and operations on the site has not changed, this is also a characteristic sign of a virus infection.4. Keep plugins, themes, and CMS systems up to date. If possible, you can enable auto-updates.
5. Do not install themes and plugins from unverified sources.Download them only from official repositories and reliable marketplaces.6. Host your website with a reliable hoster with antivirus in the tariff and DDoS protection. If you are not satisfied with the level of security on your current hosting, you can always migrate to reliable servers for free.
– Control what data users upload to your website. If customers need to upload files, specify the allowed extensions and the maximum allowable file size. Also, do not neglect scanning uploaded files as they may contain malware.- Install Git, a console utility that will track file changes in your project.If you need to “cure” the site from an infection, you can simply roll back the system in the SSH console to a clean version and deploy a database backup.
You can take a backup of your website from your hosting provider. You can also monitor it manually, but some viruses can change the date of file editing or simply hide so well that it is very difficult to find them on your own.
We advise you to choose a hoster who makes backups of all the sites on the server at least once a day, preferably for free. With HostPro, for example, you can get any archive of your site for the previous 30 days.
In conclusion.
The inability of a business to protect its website from viruses can have negative financial, reputational, and technical consequences and affect its long-term competitiveness.
There are universal recommendations that you can follow to significantly reduce the risk of viruses getting on your website, including installing an SSL certificate, periodically updating CMS, themes, and plugins (because developers eliminate vulnerabilities in each new version that existed in previous versions), and choosing a reliable hosting provider with an antivirus in the tariff.
We also recommend installing Git on your website to be able to deploy a backup of your site data in case of emergency, and to give preference to hosting providers that make automatic backups of websites every day.
If it has already happened that malicious code has been injected into your website:
1. Change the passwords for logging in.2. Temporarily restrict access and rights to files and folders.3. Scan for malware with an anti-virus scanner, view a security report in Google Search Console, or contact your host’s support team for help and follow the instructions sent to you by email.
4. Check the .htaccess file in the root folder to see if there are any redirects configured.If a redirect to a third-party site is found, delete the section starting with RewriteEngine On and save the changes.
5. Roll back the system to a clean version using Git and deploy database backups (you can take them from the hosting control panel).
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The goal is to organize analytical discussions on the implementation of industrial investment projects, present a report on the prospects and mechanisms for creating new investment funds, and award investors who have started and are implementing projects after February 24, 2022.
The event will take place on December 1, 2023, at the UCCI and will bring together high-ranking government and business representatives.
The recovery and economic transformation of Ukraine depends on adequate funding for reconstruction projects and attracting private investment. Despite the significant challenges of today, Ukrainian and international companies continue to invest, create new jobs, support the country’s economy, and show the world an example of project implementation without waiting for the end of hostilities.
Participants will discuss the needs of business and the state in terms of industrial, energy-efficient equipment and materials, economic transformation, and factors of Ukraine’s investment attractiveness.
The event will include an award ceremony for companies investing in Ukraine after 02/24/22, public figures and media contributing to the development of Ukraine’s investment environment.
Time: 14:00-18:00
Among the speakers:
– Sergiy Tsivkach – Executive Director of UkraineInvest, the government office for attracting and supporting investments
– Volodymyr Kuzio – Deputy Minister of Economy of Ukraine
– Dmytro Kysylevsky – Member of Parliament of Ukraine, Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Economic Development of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine
– Hanna Zamazeyeva, Head of the State Agency on Energy Efficiency and Energy Saving of Ukraine
Organizers: UkraineInvest, Government Office for Investment Promotion and Support, and the Ukrainian Chamber of Commerce and Industry
Program of the event
https://shorturl.at/gixO4
Media accreditation is required:
E-mail: nazarii.volianskyi@ukraineinvest.gov.ua; tel. +38063-023-11-93
Dmytro Kysylevsky, Hanna Zamazeyeva, Sergiy Tsivkach, UKRAINEINVEST, Ukrainian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Volodymyr Kuzio
How has the full-scale war changed the top 10 Ukrainian wholesalers?
According to the Opendatabot Index, almost half of the top 10 most successful Ukrainian wholesalers are businesses that trade in solid, liquid, gaseous fuels and similar products.
The top 10 of the Index in the wholesale trade sector includes Okko, WOG, West Petrol Market (fuel) and DTEK Trading, which trades in energy products. The list also includes businesses that sell tobacco (Tedis Ukraine and Philip Morris Sales and Distribution). Only two companies on the list sell food: MHP (meat) and Kernel Trade (grain). The Index also includes Optima Pharm and Metinvest-SMC. Together, these businesses earned UAH 458.95 billion last year.
For the second year in a row, Kernel Trade, a part of Andriy Verevsky’s Kernel Group, has been the unchanging leader in wholesale trade. In 2022, the company’s revenue amounted to UAH 67.92 billion, down 21% compared to 2021 (UAH 85.79 billion).
OKKO (Vitaliy Antonov, Universal Investment Group – UIG) moved up to the 2nd position in the ranking with revenue of UAH 67.29 billion. The company’s earnings grew 1.6 times year-on-year in 2022.
Tedis Ukraine, a tobacco company owned by Borys Kaufman, rounds out the top 3. Last year, the company increased its revenue by 7% and earned UAH 64.95 billion. It is worth noting that at the same time, the revenue of another company in the Index that specializes in tobacco wholesale, Philip Morris Sales and Distribution (the Ukrainian branch of the international tobacco manufacturer Phillip Morris International), decreased by 15% in 2022.
Yuriy Kosyuk’s MHP ranks fourth in the Index. This company specializes in the wholesale of meat and meat products. Its revenue in 2022 amounted to UAH 46.73 billion and remained almost unchanged compared to 2021 (UAH 46 billion).
Andriy Gubsky’s Optima Farm took fifth place in the list. In 2022, the company’s revenues decreased by 4% to UAH 44.34 billion.
DTEK Trading, owned by Rinat Akhmetov, saw the largest revenue increase – 1.8 times over the year. The company’s revenue of UAH 36.68 billion allowed it to rise from 18th place in the 2021 ranking to 7th in the 2022 ranking.
But another Akhmetov company in the top 10, Metinvest-SMC, saw its revenues decline by 42% (2021 – UAH 51.39 billion, 2022 – UAH 29.86 billion),
Who did the full-scale war push out of the top 10 Ukrainian wholesalers?
It is worth noting that in 2022, the top 10 Ukrainian wholesalers underwent significant changes compared to 2021.
Last year, 2 companies specializing in energy trading dropped out of the list.
We are talking about United Energy, a company associated with Kolomoisky, which was the second largest earner in the country before the outbreak of full-scale war. Last year, United Energy earned 3.6 times less revenue than in 2021 (UAH 17.24 billion) and lost 19 rating points.
Chemical Trade (owned by Dmitry Firtash) also did not make it to the top. Having reduced its revenue by 1.4 times, the company dropped to the 12th position in the ranking.
Also, two businesses specializing in grain wholesale dropped out of the top ten:
– Nibulon (Andriy Vadatursky) and Nibulon (Andriy Vadatursky). The company’s revenues last year decreased 2.7 times by 2021, and a significant share of its facilities and equipment is still under occupation.
– ADM-Ukraine (a subsidiary of the international agro-industrial corporation Archer Daniels Midland Company): their revenue decreased by 1.5 times by 2021.
It is worth noting that the total revenue of the top 10 wholesale companies in 2022 decreased by 10% compared to the top 10 in 2021.
The OpenDataBot Index is an analytical tool for assessing the real situation and geography of Ukrainian business, based on data from state registers, OpenDataBot registers, financial statements of companies, information on relations with Russia, sanctions lists, and other analytical tools of OpenDataBot.
ADM-Ukraine, DTEK Trading, KERNEL-TRADE, Metinvest-SMC, MHP, NIBULON, OPTIMA-PHARM, Philip Morris Sales and Distribution, TEDIS UKRAINE, West Petrol Market, WOG, ОККО
Ukrzaliznytsia JSC (UZ) with support from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) will develop a feasibility study (FS) of the euro track project that will connect Mostyska station on the Polish border to Sknylyv (a settlement in the suburbs of Lviv), the Ministry of Community Development, Territories and Infrastructure (MCDI) said on Friday.
The corresponding memorandum was signed by Deputy Prime Minister for Restoration Oleksandr Kubrakov, U.S. Ambassador Bridget Brink, from UZ – head of the board Eugene Lyashchenko and board member Vyacheslav Eremin.
It is indicated that further development of the 1435 mm wide section of the track will include its connection to Uzhgorod, Kovel, Chernivtsi, and at a later stage to Kiev and eastern Ukraine.
“The track will be used not only for freight, but also for passenger transportation in the direction of EU countries,” Kubrakov said.
He stressed that one of the important tasks to increase export capacity is to modernize and replace the tracks, and if necessary, to build new ones.
“The signing of the Memorandum with USAID will have a tangible impact on the recovery of the Ukrainian economy and contribute to the European integration processes in general,” the Deputy Prime Minister said.
Earlier, the head of the UZ board, Yevhen Lyashchenko, told the Interfax-Ukraine news agency that the design of the construction of the Euroway from the state border with Poland to Sknyliv will be completed by the end of this year. According to him, the implementation of this project will make it possible to organize communication by euro track from Lviv to Krakow, Prague and Vienna.
As reported, the construction of euro track in the direction Mostyska-Sknyliw was planned to begin in 2020. Also in 2020 the government included this project in the list of priority investment projects until 2023.
The railway station Sknyliw is located in Lviv at a distance of 5.5 km from the Lviv station, 3 km from Lviv airport and 1 km from the bus station.
BRIDGET BRINK, Eugene Lyashchenko, UKRZALIZNYTSIA, USAID, Вячеслав Еремин, Олександр Кубраков, УЗ
