Poroshenko: The Kremlin has clamped down on business in Lipetsk and Sevastopol
Kyiv - Sevastopol, May 01 (Navigator, Egor Kagorov) - Russian authorities are creating impossible conditions for the work of the enterprises of Ukrainian billionaire Petro Poroshenko, the main contender for victory in the presidential elections on May 25, which Moscow considers illegal.
Poroshenko himself stated this on the Shuster-Live show.
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According to him, the confectionery factory in Lipetsk, as well as the Sevastopol Marine Plant, are facing difficulties.
“There is severe pressure (including political) on my plant. The same applies to the Russian representative offices of Roshen,” the billionaire said.
“I think this is revenge for my political position. The company does not operate in the Russian Federation. Accounts worth 3 billion are blocked. The enterprise is being destroyed by the Russian authorities,” the oligarch complained.
The head of the trade union committee of Sevmorzavod, Sergei Pikhterev, on Channel 5, clarified that the company still has orders for a month of work.
“Two oil tankers that are facing major modernization. There is work for May - early June. No further details have been seen yet,” he said.
Director of Sevmorzavod Konstantin Kartoshkin is more pessimistic.
“The enterprise was export-oriented, given the fact that the number of ships in Ukraine is small. After well-known events, due to the unclear status of the city of Sevastopol, the customers with whom we worked began to treat us very carefully. As a result, orders did not arrive either in April or May,” stated Kartoshkin.
“We have until the end of May to either find capacity or put the plant in standby mode,” the director added.
As Navigator reported, in early April, State Duma deputy Pavel Dorokhin said that Sevmorzavod should come under the control of the Russian side.
“We discussed the state of Sevmorzavod. Now it belongs to the Ukrainian “chocolate king” Poroshenko. Something needs to be done about this, since the enterprise has been ruined and stolen. But this industrial complex could become a powerful ship repair base not only for the Black Sea Fleet, but also for our naval group in the Mediterranean Sea,” the parliamentarian said.
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