The regional department of the State Property Fund in Kiev sold at auction a single property complex of SE “Elektronmash” (Ring Road, 4) for nearly 121 million UAH, while the two previous failed auctions for its sale could bring the budget 970 million UAH and 430 million UAH.
“Despite the air raid and rocket attacks, the auction to privatize the Electronmash plant took place. Another advantage of electronic bidding on the platform “Prozorro. Sales” platform – entrepreneurs can compete for assets while in hiding,” the press service of the State Property Fund said.
According to the press release, a single property complex was put up for privatization, totaling 110.7 thousand square meters. m of real estate and more than 200 thousand square meters. m of land. In the capital, Electronmash has 36 pieces of property, including shops and administration buildings. The company has 31 vehicles and a recreation base in the village of Sokolovka, Chernigov region.
In the auction was attended by 6 entrepreneurs. The final bid at the auction almost doubled.
The winner was LLC “Incom Rent” with a bid of 120.81 million UAH. As reported in the release, in addition to the winning bid the winner must pay the VAT – 24.2 million UAH and more than 23 million UAH of the debt to employees and the state budget.
The winner has 20 working days to pay the cost of the lot.
According to Youcontrol, LLC “Incom Rent” was founded in 2018, the authorized capital is 1 thousand UAH. The founders of the company are AMC Arivo Asset Management LLC in the interests of PVNZIF Arivo Corporate (60%) and Plates-1 LLC (40%). Lyudmila Yakovleva and Oleg Magalyas are named as beneficiaries.
The second highest bidder at the auction was BSK GROUP LLC – UAH 120.777 million. According to Youcontrol, the company was founded in 2013 with a share capital of 1 thousand UAH. The ultimate beneficiary is indicated as Oleksandr Sokor.
As reported, this is the third attempt to privatize Elektronmash. The previous two auctions for its sale could bring significant investments into the budget – UAH 970 million and UAH 430 million, but unscrupulous investors did not complete the purchase within the prescribed period.
Electronmash” SE (previously – State Scientific Production Enterprise “Electronmash”) was created on the basis of the plant of electronic computing and control machines, which since 1965 provided the Soviet Union with the computing equipment.
In recent years it showed significant damage. In 2022, Elektronmash suffered 8.2 million hryvnias in damages, in 2021 it suffered 24 million hryvnias and in 2020 it suffered 10.9 million hryvnias. The number of employees at the plant is decreasing: if in 2020 there were 175 employees, in 2021 there will be already 149, and in 2022 there will be 127.
At present, the main specialization of the plant is the production of electric motors, generators and transformers, as well as metalwork turning services.
In recent years, it has produced, in particular, automatic gas metering systems, commercial metering and payment systems for energy resources and utilities.
