The State Enterprise “SETAM” (Ministry of Justice of Ukraine) has sold property worth over UAH 22 billion at the OpenMarket electronic auction. Since 2014, more than 83 thousand successful auctions have been held.
Due to competition at the auctions, sellers received an additional UAH 2.3 billion. The average price increase for sold lots is 11.8%.
The auction user base is the largest in Ukraine. Today it includes more than 101 thousand participants, and new ones are added every day. Most lots (68.5% of the total) were sold at online auctions by the State Enforcement Service and private executors.
Among the categories of property sold, most of them were real estate, vehicles and other property.
“Step by step, we are improving the auction and seeing the results of cooperation with both public and private enforcement officers and partners in the area of voluntary sale. Since the beginning of this year alone, we have already managed to sell rights of claim under the agreements of individual borrowers for UAH 13.1 million, premises in Kyiv for UAH 25.2 million, a complex of buildings and premises in Lviv region for UAH 22.6 million, and many other expensive properties. We would like to thank our buyers for their trust in our electronic auction. We will continue to work,” said Oleksandr Mamro, CEO of SE SETAM.
We remind you that SE “SETAM” works in the following areas:
– Sale of seized property by public and private executors, as well as property confiscated by court decisions;
– Sale of bank assets and claims;
– Holding auctions for the sale of property at the request of individuals and legal entities (voluntary sale);
– Holding auctions for lease of property;
– Sale of rights to enter into financial leasing agreements.
The most expensive lots sold for all time:
Building No. 4 and land plot in Kyiv.
Sale price: UAH 563,710,000.
Seller: JSB “UKRGASBANK”.
Link to the auction: setam.net.ua/auction/332803
The building of a hotel, office and retail and office complex in Kyiv.
Sale price: UAH 334,925,314.
Seller: JSC Ukreximbank.
Link to the bidding process: setam.net.ua/auction/484723
Two land plots in Kyiv region.
Sale price: UAH 308,523,316.
The seller: Oschadbank JSC.
Link to the auction: setam.net.ua/auction/466893
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 22 billion.
The court has arrested the property of Oksana Marchenko, the wife of Viktor Medvedchuk, suspected of funding Russian occupation groups, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) said.
“According to the materials of the Security Service, the court arrested the property of Oksana Marchenko, suspected of financing Russian occupation groups. The total value of the seized assets is more than 5.6 billion hryvnias,” the SBU Telegram channel reported Thursday.
According to the report, the court’s decision concerns stakes of 14% each in two oblenergos and more than 4% in a third, which Marchenko owns through five offshore companies.
In addition, two land plots, four residential houses in Kiev and Crimea, as well as 10 cars belonging to the figure, the SBU informs.
“In addition, the assets of Marchenko in 18 investment, agro-industrial, telecommunications and other companies were arrested. Among them – Kiev companies “Terra-Invest”, “Ukrkapital” and “Sport-Tour”, which the wife of Medvedchuk used to conduct subversive activities against Ukraine,” informs the SBU, specifying that “they (these companies – IF-U) founded a firm under Russian law, through which Marchenko transferred millions of dollars to accounts of the Russian Federal Guard Service and the Russian Interior Ministry in occupied Crimea, and also paid ‘taxes’ to the Russian budget.”
Earlier it was reported that SBU investigators notified Marchenko and the head of the affiliated Crimean firm of suspicion under Part 3 Article 110-2 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (financing actions committed for the purpose of violent change or overthrow of the constitutional order or seizure of state power, changing the borders of the territory or state border of Ukraine).
Under the same article, the top manager of Ukrkapital and Sport-Tura was reported as suspected. The perpetrator was detained and a preventive measure in the form of detention was chosen.
As noted in the report of the SBU, the crime suspected Marchenko and the managers of the companies involved, provides for punishment in the form of imprisonment with confiscation of property. Seizure of assets will ensure the possibility of confiscation by a court decision and protect the property from re-registration to other persons.
The investigation continues.
Investigative and operational activities were carried out by employees of the Security Service of Ukraine in Ivano-Frankivsk region under the procedural guidance of the regional prosecutor’s office.
The Verkhovna Rada intends to allow the forced seizure of property during the war.
The relevant bill No. 7605 “On Amendments to Certain Laws Regarding the Optimization of Certain Issues of Forcible Expropriation and Seizure of Property under the Legal Regime of Martial Law” was supported by the people’s deputies in the first reading (256 votes in favor) at the plenary session on Friday, MP Yaroslav Zheleznyak said (fraction “Voice”) in Telegram.
The bill proposes to allow the forcible seizure of equipment that can be used for the purposes of the military-industrial complex. Such actions are carried out on the basis of a decision of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine on a proposal agreed with the regional military administration.
The document provides that compensation for the alienated property is carried out at the expense of the state budget (within 5 subsequent budget periods).
According to the bill, movable and immovable property can be transferred to the management of the National Agency for the Detection, Search and Management of Assets Obtained from Corruption and Other Crimes (ARMA).
Creditwest Bank (Kyiv) unreasonably blocks the property that is pledged by it on the repaid loan, the owner of the group of companies Voda UA, Karpatska Dzherelna Vysokohirna, Horianka, Dmytro Nikiforov, has said.
“After all obligations under the loan agreement have been fulfilled, the bank continues to hold the property in pledge, conducts incomprehensible correspondence and constantly asks us to provide certain documents regarding financial reporting, our turnover in other banks,” he said at a press conference at the Interfax-Ukraine agency.
“They made it very clear to us … that they are not going to release pledge from our property,” Nikiforov added.
According to him, the obligations of his companies on the loan to Creditwest Bank were fulfilled on October 1 and, according to the loan agreement, the bank had to remove the encumbrance from the pledge within five days.
Nikiforov clarified that in 2018 the companies attracted a loan from Creditwest Bank in the amount of UAH 15 million to replenish working capital and finance investment projects. Later, according to the owner, he sold one of the companies that was the borrower for this loan, and after a while this company stopped serving him.
For the purpose of settlements, Nikiforov began to negotiate with the bank, at the same time the bank sold the corresponding non-performing loan to a financial company owned by the persons who own the company that stopped servicing the loan, the owner of Voda UA noted.
“Later, the financial company, bypassing the lender, tried to contact me to recover my property as a surety to repay this loan … In this case, we see a very clear algorithm for removing the unscrupulous borrower from liability,” Nikiforov said.
In his opinion, Creditwest Bank can block the pledge in the interests of the partner of its chairman of the board.
“When the story with the loan transfer took place, chairman of the board Ihor Tikhonov … suggested that I transfer part of the business to my business partner. On what conditions I didn’t listen, as I interrupted the conversation,” Nikiforov said.
He stressed that he plans to collect funds from the bank in accordance with the procedure established by law for each day of delay in the unreleased encumbrance from the pledge. In addition, Nikiforov is going to apply to law enforcement agencies regarding possible personal corruption motives of the bank’s management.
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PrivatBank (Kyiv) will start selling its property with discounts, as well as at Dutch auctions through the electronic trading platforms LOT.PB and OpenMarket (SETAM state enterprise), the press service of SETAM has reported.
“In the near future, such auctions will be held on objects agreed by the board of the bank,” the report says.
According to the report, PrivatBank will put up for sale own real estate objects in almost all regions of Ukraine.
“The decline in real estate prices is planned for a large number of non-core assets to accelerate the sale of the facilities that are not used in the bank’s operating activities,” the report says.
PrivatBank specified that, in addition to traditional sales, it is planned to conduct bidding according to the Dutch auction model, which implies the reduction of the lot price during the bidding process.
National Energy Company Ukrenergo in 2018 sold property for the amount of UAH 170 million at open auctions in the ProZorro e-procurement system. “Everything that was written off and accumulated in electric power systems for years, from car tires and used transformer oil to large-sized scrap metal, equipment and old cars, is put up for sale,” the company said.
The received funds in the amount of UAH 113 million in 2018 were sent, in particular, to the reconstruction of the 330 kV Kremenchuk substation, the installation of a group of single-phase transformers at the 400 kV Mukachevo substation and the reconstruction of a number of 330 kV transmission lines with the replacement of a ground wire.
In addition, Ukrenergo held 2,400 tenders in the ProZorro system with the expected cost of purchases of more than UAH 4 billion. According to the company’s calculations, the savings on the concluded contracts compared to the expected price amounted to almost UAH 200 million.
As Director of Supply Chain Management at Ukrenergo Maryna Bezrukova said, the company has developed its own methodology for predicting the cost of goods, labor and services based on the price reference book. “In European companies, the indicator of effective procurement planning ranges from 5% to 15% of savings. Ukrenergo has already reached this level,” Bezrukova said.
