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Dragon Capital intends to acquire online store “Parfums

Investment group Dragon Capital intends to buy Parfums LLC (Kiev), an online perfume store Parfums (parfums.ua), whose revenue in 2022, according to the resource opendatabot, fell to 2.4 million UAH from 206.8 million UAH a year earlier.
According to information from the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine (AMCU) on Friday, it gave the Cypriot Dragon Capital Investments Limited permission to buy more than 50% in the Cypriot PFG Corporation Limited, which owns 100% in Parfums LLC and the beneficiary of which is related to Dragon Capital.
At the same time, the AMCU notified that it had granted the same permission to Cyprus-based Redinfine Consultants Limited.
Dragon Capital investment company has not yet commented on this information to Interfax-Ukraine news agency.
According to opendatabot, the beneficiary of PFG Corporation Limited is a Czech citizen Suchy Ivo, a member of the supervisory board of Dragon Capital-owned Unex Bank, representing the shareholder. It is also indicated that for the past five years he was executive director of Dragon Capital (Cyprus) Limited and Dragon Capital s.r.o.
According to opendatabot, previously among the beneficiaries of PFG Corruption Limited was Andrey Logvin – the beneficiary of a major player in Ukrainian Internet retail Kasta Group.
At the beginning of 2022, the share capital of Parfums LLC was increased from 133.72 million UAH to 177.80 million UAH. Assets of the company in the past year decreased from 106.4 million UAH to 81.5 million UAH, liabilities – from 167.8 million UAH to 98.5 million UAH.
The site of the online store indicates that the project has been operating since 2008.
Dragon Capital – one of the largest investment groups in Ukraine in the field of investment and financial services. It provides a full range of investment banking and brokerage services, private equity and asset management for institutional, corporate and private clients.
The company was founded in 2000 in Kiev, the beneficiary is the founder and head Czech citizen Tomas Fiala.
In June 2022, specialized resource RAU reported that as a result of an asset swap the largest player in the market of perfumes and cosmetics in Ukraine MakeUp will receive from Dragon Capital management of online store parfums.ua, but will give it an online store with children’s products panama.ua to the already existing Dragon Capital pampik.com.

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