The government has appointed Stanislav Banchuk as acting director of the state enterprise of alcohol and liquor industry “Ukrspirt”, according to the official website of the government.
“To agree with the proposal of the State Property Fund on the appointment of Stanislav Yaroslavovich Banchuk as acting Director of the state enterprise of alcohol and distillery industry “Ukrspirt”, – noted in the order of the Cabinet of Ministers № 386 from April 30.
On the website of the FGI and Facebook-page “Ukrspirt” so far there is no additional information about the new head. According to information on the Internet, a person with the same surname and initials was the deputy regional prosecutor of Chernivtsi region until 2014, after which he ran an individual law practice in Kyiv region.
According to Youcontrol, Banchuk S.Y. is the founder of a number of companies, in particular, Law Company Standard LLC, Gaztehkom LLC, Newest Energy Systems LLC, Trading House P.E.G.O., VOGA Resources LLC and SpetsOil LLC, which specialize in oil and gas trading.
The Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine (AMCU) has found Ukrspetspostavka LLC, Finance-Service Plus LLC and Glermont Trade LLC guilty of anticompetitive actions that distorted the results of the auction for the privatization of distilleries and fined them UAH 14.39 million.
According to the Committee’s press service, the auction was for the sale of certain property of the Zalozetsky alcohol production and storage site of the State Enterprise Ukrspyrt, which was conducted by the regional department of the State Property Fund of Ukraine in Ivano-Frankivsk, Chernivtsi and Ternopil regions. The amount of the contract concluded as a result of the auction was UAH 96.012 million (including VAT).
“During the investigation of the case, the Committee identified circumstances that, taken together, indicated that the above-mentioned business entities had committed concerted actions aimed at eliminating competition between them during the auction. In particular, this refers to such evidence as the defendants’ joint business activities, communication between them, exchange of information, etc.”, the AMCU explained.
The defendants were fined UAH 14,390,798 for the violation provided for in clause 4, part 2, article 6 and clause 1, article 50 of the Law “On Protection of Economic Competition” (anticompetitive concerted actions related to the distortion of auction results), as well as for collusion at the auction for the sale of state property.
