On Thursday, the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine (AMCU) allowed Cyprus-based Kapenata Limited, which is affiliated with Andriy Verevsky’s Enselco Agro agricultural holding, to acquire nine companies belonging to the Agro-Region agricultural holding owned by former Ukrainian Economy Minister Aivaras Abromavičius and Swedish businessman Lars Peter Hokansson, according to a statement posted on the AMCU website.
The committee specified that Kapenata Limited intends to acquire more than 50% of the shares in Horosha Logistika LLC, AR Ivky, AR Chudniv, AR Khmelnytskyi, AR Boryspil, AR Kozelets, AR Liubar, AR Borzna, and Bilyi Kolir.
According to YouControl, Kapenata Limited was the owner of Agropolis LLC, part of the Enselco Agro holding, in November 2025, but in December, the Cypriot company Enselco Holding Limited became the owner.
According to information on the Enselco Agro website, in 2023 it was spun off from the Kernel agricultural holding, where Verevsky is the majority shareholder and CEO, and now owns a land bank of 134,000 hectares in the Khmelnytsky and Ternopil regions. In turn, Kernel’s land bank is about 550-600 thousand hectares.
Agro-Region agricultural holding owns a land bank of 41 thousand hectares in the Kyiv, Chernihiv, Zhytomyr, and Khmelnytskyi regions. It specializes in crop production. It consists of 11 companies, which are united into four crop production clusters. It owns two elevators: Boryspil with a capacity of 73,000 tons and Myropil with a capacity of 52,000 tons.
Agro-Region’s annual harvest of grain and oilseeds is 200,000 tons.
According to YouControl, Agro-Region is owned by Garna Stockholm Holding AB, in which Abromavichus owns 53.6% and Hokansson owns 44.28%.
“The deal will be closed in the coming days,” a source familiar with the details of the deal told Forbes Ukraine.
