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Intensive shelling of Vuhledar, Avdiivka under massive fire continues - RMA. PHOTOS The enemy continues to shell the territory of the Donetsk region. 2 375 0 Previously in trend: War 
Case of VAB Bank: NABU Finds No Evidence of Losses to the State or Conspiracy between Bank Shareholders and NBU Leadership NABU’s pre-trial investigation found no evidence of criminal conspiracy between Oleksandr Pysaruk and Oleg Bakhmatyuk in the case of VAB Bank. 1 083 3 Ukrainian Politics 
Bakhmatyuk: Ukraine can do without any external borrowing next three years Owner of one of Ukraine's largest agricultural producers, UkrLandFarming Agro Holding, Oleg Bakhmatyuk says "miracles don't happen – you just need to invest in infrastructure, added value, and improve all state institutions." He believes that global economy trends will allow Ukraine to do without external borrowing within the next three years, but this period should be used for investment in the country's infrastructure and the creation of added value. 3 880 11 Ukrainian Politics 
Government should represent Ukrainian businesses' interests abroad – Bakhmatyuk Owner of one of Ukraine's largest agricultural producers, UkrLandFarming Agro Holding, Oleg Bakhmatyuk says the government should represent Ukrainian businesses on foreign markets and promote the Ukrainian products. 709 14 Ukrainian Politics 
UkrLandFarming targeted in NABU leadership's political vengeance effort – Bakhmatyuk The businessman has commented on the halt to his enterprises' work. 1 501 15 Ukrainian Politics Bakhmatyuk Accuses Sytnyk of Destroying 37 Enterprises and 13 Thousand Jobs Having to survive for the past eighteen months under unprecedented pressure by NABU, one of Ukraine’s largest agricultural groups has now been forced to fully shut down operations at 37 enterprises and lay off 13 thousand employees. 3 953 22 Ukrainian Politics 
Ukraine Can Raise Up to 50b Dollars. I Volunteer to Broker Deals in the National Interest, Says Oleg Bakhmatyuk Oleg Bakhmatyuk, the owner of Ukrlandfarming, one of Ukraine’s largest agricultural conglomerates, speaks about a window of opportunity for raising billions worth of investments opening up for Ukraine as the world’s largest economic bloc emerges in Asia. 2 058 16 Ukrainian Politics 
We’ve Built a Bridge That Everything Moves Across: Bakhmatyuk Recounts How He Opened Up Chinese Market for Ukraine Oleg Bakhmatyuk, the owner of Ukraine’s largest agricultural conglomerate, Ukrlandfarming, recounts how he spent 244 days living in China to open up the Chinese market for Ukrainian produce. 10 691 75 Ukrainian Politics 
NABU Had No Right to Seek Oleg Bakhmatyuk’s Extradition, Prosecutor General’s Office Concludes The Prosecutor General’s Office has followed the example of Interpol and denied an extradition request against the businessman Oleg Bakhmatyuk, the reason being that NABU’s request does not conform to international and Ukrainian law, because the businessman’s whereabouts have been formally communicated to the investigation authorities. 3 983 18 Ukrainian Politics 
Oleg Bakhmatyuk: State budget to lose UAH 1.5b in revenue to Sytnyk’s vendetta Businessman Oleg Bakhmatyuk reveals how his persecution by NABU Director Artem Sytnyk has cost the state UAH 1.5 billion in direct losses. 6 603 13 Ukrainian Politics Bakhmatyuk: Sytnyk Has Different Laws for Me Versus Kluyev and Klimenko Oleg Bakhmatyuk has commented on a statement alleging an unwarranted delay in approving a decision to seek his extradition. Mr. Bakhmatyuk calls it an absurdity that NABU is searching for him while it knows his whereabouts perfectly well. He also condemns the double standards of investigation applied in the cases against Yanukovich’s officials, Kluyev and Klymenko, versus his own. 2 614 16 Ukrainian Politics 
Pysaruk Comments on VAB Case: Deadline Approaches as NABU Struggles to Delay the Case at Any Cost Oleksandr Pysaruk, a former first deputy governor of the NBU and former IMF employee, claims that NABU is intentionally dragging its feet on the VAB Bank refinancing case instead of admitting its mistake and closing the case. 1 005 0 Ukrainian Politics Pysaruk Calls VAB Bank’s Case a Fabrication and Total Absurdity Pysaruk, a former IMF employee, has stated that the VAB Bank refinancing case investigated by NABU is a fabrication and total absurdity. NABU must admit it’s made a mistake and close the case, but it is reluctant to do so and is therefore looking for ways to drag out the case by hook or by crook. 2 180 5 Ukrainian Politics "Political pressure": UkrLandFarming responds to NABU statement NABU puts pressure on HACC judges, the company believes. 1 516 9 Ukrainian Politics Debate challenge - Bakhmatyuk invites Sytnyk to face off. VIDEO The owner of the group of companies UkrLandFarming and Avangard, businessman Oleg Bakhmatyuk, says he has invited Director of the National Anti-corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) Artem Sytnyk, who was found guilty of a corruption offense, to face off during a debate at any platform. 2 248 13 Ukrainian Politics 
Bakhmatyuk's UkrLandFarming blocking SAPO HQ, demanding that prosecutors comply with court ruling, cease to terrorize company. VIDEO The morning at the Specialized Anti-corruption Prosecutor's Office (SAPO) began with a rally and blocking. Employees of the UkrLandFarming agricultural holding have been demanding for the second week already that prosecutors comply with the court ruling to close the case against company shareholder Oleg Bakhmatyuk. 1 497 1 Ukrainian Politics 
Farmers rally in Kyiv demanding to close case against businessman Bakhmatyuk. PHOTO The protesters handed over to SAPO representatives the appeal of company employees with about 30,000 signatures to close the case against Bakhmatyuk. 15 271 21 Ukrainian Politics Bakhmatyuk to G7 envoys: Sytnyk's unlawful actions related to economic interests regarding my company In the letter to the G7 envoys, Bakhmatyuk writes the NABU case against him is connected with numerous procedural violations by the investigating authorities and with the personal interests of senior state officials. 88 0 Ukrainian Politics OPG closes Pysaruk, Bakhmatyuk probe which Kasko previously launched The Office of the Prosecutor General complied with the judgment handed down by the Pechersk District Court in Kyiv, canceling the motion by the first deputy prosecutor general to annul the decision on terminate criminal proceedings related to VAB Bank. This judgment is not subject to appeal. 2 052 6 Ukrainian Politics Bakhmatyuk demands that Venediktova comply with court ruling to close trumped-up case targeting him The Office of the Prosecutor General is failing to comply with the ruling of Kyiv's Pechersk district court to close the case against Oleg Bakhmatyuk and his company. 1 773 2 Ukrainian Politics Bakhmatyuk to seek compensation following Supreme Court judgment on Financial Initiative Bank Bakhmatyuk noted that the court actually recognized the National Bank's guilt in the fall of the Financial Initiative. 1 729 6 Ukrainian Politics NBU's move to remove from market Oleg Bakhmatyuk' Financial Initiative Bank unlawful, Supreme Court rules. DOCUMENT Bakhmatyuk says fair punishment of those guilty of these unlawful actions against the bank is important for the whole society. 3 051 22 Ukrainian Politics Saakashvili backs Bakhmatyuk's idea of resolving disputes between government and businesses Today, at the first meeting of the National Reform Council, Head of the Office of Simple Solutions Mikheil Saakashvili announced that settlement agreements would be concluded between the government and businesses allowing the state to return substantial amounts of debts instead of launching criminal cases. 251 0 Ukrainian Politics UkrLandFarming conducts best sowing campaign in three years - Bakhmatyuk The UkrLandFarming agricultural holding, one of the largest agri-businesses by land banks in Europe, is completing the sowing campaign: 340,000 hectares have already been sown and 8,000 hectares are to be sown with soy and maize, said Oleg Bakhmatyuk, the owner of the holding. 1 440 8 Ukrainian Politics 
Bakhmatyuk’s Bank Resolution Proposal Is in The Public Interest, State Deposit Guarantee Fund The State Deposit Guarantee Fund of Ukraine (DGF) responds to a proposal by the former owner of VAB Bank and Financial Initiative Bank of a debt settlement deal through restructuring. 1 559 3 Ukrainian Politics 
Maize takes up 60% of UkrLandFarming's sown area this season The 2020 sowing campaign is already underway at all enterprises of the UkrLandFarming agriculture holding owned by Oleg Bakhmatyuk. Only in some farms did the sowing campaign start later due to weather conditions. 69 0 Economics "We ask for impartial justice instead of injustice" – Bakhmatyuk's appeal to Prosecutor General Venediktova UkrLandFarming's owner says NABU's director who has a direct conflict of interests in open cases is engaged in common revenge and is trying to destroy the company. 3 624 25 Ukrainian Politics Bakhmatyuk's firm allocates funds for anti-coronavirus efforts in Kherson region YUTS-Agroproduct LLC, which is part Ukraine's largest agricultural producers UkrLandFarming Agro Holding owned by Oleg Bakhmatyuk, has allocated UAH 200,000 (US$7,128) for the support of local medical facilities in their fight against coronavirus in Ukraine's Kherson region. 1 407 23 Previously in trend: Coronavirus from China 
NABU actions against Bakhmatyuk may lead to disaster for entire Ukraine's agricultural sector – British media UK's specialized analytical publication PoultryWorld has published an article on the issues of the Ukrainian egg industry. 158 0 Economics 
Bakhmatyuk's firm acquires lab equipment for Hadiach hospital This isn't the last acquisition for medical facilities the company operating in the Hadiach district is planning. 1 755 9 Economics Deposit Guarantee Fund: Bakhmatyuk's offer to pay off VAB Bank's debts beneficial to Ukraine, backed by IMF Svitlana Rekrut, Managing Director of the Individual Deposit Guarantee Fund, has said Oleg Bakhmatyuk's offer to pay off VAB Bank's debts to the state is most beneficial to the budget. 2 113 1 Ukrainian Politics 
UkrLandFarming demands apology from NABU Director Sytnik to 27,000 employees for his lies Owner of UkrLandFarming and Avangard Group of Companies, Oleg Bakhmatyuk, in his statement harshly responded to a recent speech in Ukraine's Parliament by Director of the National Anti-corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) Artem Sytnyk, told about the grounds for his future sacking, and called on the President to dismiss the corrupt official. 62 0 Ukrainian Politics 
Agricultural employees demand to remove Sytnik from the post of head of NABU because of his pressure on their business More than 1,500 agricultural workers came to a rally near Verkhovna Rada with demands to dismiss Artem Sytnik, director of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU), who is accused of pressure on business and creating the threat of disrupting the sowing campaign. 3 243 14 Ukrainian Politics 
Oleg Bakhmatyuk's companies paid UAH 7.7 billion in taxes The sum of taxes and fees the Ukrainian state budget got from the Ukrlandfarming and Avangard Group of Companies in three years is UAH 7.722 billion, the agricultural giant's press service said in a statement posted on its official website. 106 0 Economics 
Because of Sytnyk, state receives US$9.6 mln from VAB Bank assets sale instead of US$327.6 mln - Bakhmatyuk Former owner of VAB Bank and owner of UkrLandFarming and Avangard Group of Companies Oleg Bakhmatyuk has made a statement on the sale of VAB Bank assets by the Deposit Guarantee Fund. Thanks to the destructive actions of Director of the National Anti-corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU), Artem Sytnyk, the state got a mere UAH 234 million (US$9.6 million) of the proposed UAH 8 billion (US$327.6 million), Bakhmatyuk says, while his company, which pays billions in taxes to the budget and employs 27,000 Ukrainians, is facing a threat of destruction. 4 100 13 Ukrainian Politics 
Several thousand farmers at rally call on president to dismiss NABU chief Sytnyk, protect their jobs. PHOTOS The farmers demand that the pressure of law enforcement agencies on the enterprise cease. 134 0 Ukrainian Politics Deposit Guarantee Fund and Bakhmatyuk renew talks on debt restructuring The Individual Deposits Guarantee Fund on January 30 received a second request from Oleg Bakhmatyuk with a proposal to resume negotiations on debt settlement on loan portfolios of VAB Bank and Financial Initiative Bank to the Fund and NBU. Thus, the Fund is now studying the proposal. 1 288 3 Economics 
Federation of Employers of Ukraine points to law enforcers' arbitrariness in relation to Ukrlandfarming The Federation of Employers of Ukraine notes pressure on Ukrlandfarming and Avangard Group in the case of VAB Bank, which holds hostage 27,000 company employees. 66 0 Ukrainian Politics Bakhmatyuk built Eurasia's largest factories, but NABU, PGO "don't see" them – company's appeal The National Anti-corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) accuses VAB Bank's ex-owner and current owner of Ukraine's agricultural giant, UkrLandFarming, Oleg Bakhmatyuk of not building factories in Khmelnytsky and Kherson regions, which yet were built, opened in 2013 and annually produce about 3.5 billion eggs. Bakhmatyuk and the personnel of the Avangard and UkrLandFarming Group of companies appealed to the Ukrainian president to stop NABU, saying mass protests are possible if the pressure on the company does not stop. 71 0 Ukrainian Politics Deposit Guarantee Fund selling VAB Bank assets for US$8.2 mln while it could get US$330 mln from ex-owner Ex-owner of the bank Oleg Bakhmatyuk is offering to return UAH 8 billion (US$330 million), while no response has been received yet from the Fund and the National Bank. 7 119 11 Economics UAH 3,000 vs UAH 8 bln: Deposit Guarantee Fund fails to sell VAB Bank assets. DOCUMENT Ukraine's Deposit Guarantee Fund has held an auction to sell a pool of assets belong to OJSC VAB Bank. With the estimated value of the lot being UAH 5.85 billion, the Fund has failed to sell it at even 80% lower, and the only deal was the sale of a plot of land for ... UAH 3,200. Meanwhile, ex-owner of the bank Oleg Bakhmatyuk offered to pay off the bank's debt to the budget in the amount of about UAH 8 billion. 9 414 63 Economics 
NABU Detectivs decide to conduct unauthrized interrogation of 10,000 Ukrlandfarming employees In "Ukrlandfarming" such actions consider as illegal intimidation of their employees. 3 499 31 Ukrainian Politics 
Ivan Miroshnychenko: Unsolved problem of Ukrlandfarming will harm both the agricultural sector and the land market - and Ukraine in general Head of the Business Watch and agrarian policy expert Ivan Miroshnychenko believes that the pressure of law-enforcement agencies on Oleg Bakhmatyuk's Ukrlandfarming company could have catastrophic consequences for the country. And the only one possible way out of the situation is peace agreement between a businessman an governmental structures. 1 860 9 Ukrainian Politics 
VAB bank assets are intended to be sold 5 times cheaper than real value On January 16, 2020, the Deposit Guarantee Fund is holding an auction to sell the VAB Bank PJSC assets. At a lot price of UAH 5,858.95 million, it can be sold 5 times cheaper, although Oleg Bakhmatyuk, the bank ex-owner, offers to repay about UAH 8 billion of the bank's debt. 2 030 15 Ukrainian Politics 
Oleh Bakhmatyuk: Andriy Bohdan, the head of the Presidential Office ordered me Oleh Bakhmatyuk, the owner of the largest Ukrainian agricultural holding Ukrlandfarming, accuses the head of the President's Office Andriy Bogdan of takeover his business. 8 830 67 Ukrainian Politics A case was opened against NABU detectives because of false expert report in Pysaruk-Bakhmatyuk case. DOCUMENT ГБР открыло уголовное производство по факту составления возможно заведомо ложного заключения судебным экспертом. Детективы НАБУ подозреваются во вмешательстве в составление экспертного заключения по делу Писарука-Бахматюка. 1 461 8 Ukrainian Politics 
Ukraine faces diplomatic scandal due to unauthorized actions of NABU in Austria The National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine began to conduct unauthorized investigative actions in the case of Pisaruk-Bakhmatyuk in Austria. 6 249 17 Ukrainian Politics Deposit Guarantee Fund: Bakhmatyuk offered to pay the debt of VAB bank, but NABU case prevented it Svetlana Recruit, managing director of the Deposit Guarantee Fund, told that Oleg Bakhmatyuk offered to voluntarily repay the debt of VAB bank, which is the most profitable for the state way to solve this issue. But NABU starting criminal prosecution has frozen this process 1 828 8 Ukrainian Politics 
