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The Ministry of Justice has filed a lawsuit with the HACC to recover in favour of the state a network of gas stations and other assets of Tatneft in Ukraine

The Ministry of Justice has filed a lawsuit with the HACC to recover in favour of the state a network of gas stations and other assets of Tatneft in Ukraine

29.01.2025 08:27

On January 27, the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine filed lawsuits with the High Anti-Corruption Court (HACC) to impose a sanction in the form of asset recovery for the benefit of the state against the PrJSC "Tatneft named after V.D. Shashin" (Tatneft, Russia), Deputy Minister Inna Bogatykh reported on Facebook.

According to her, the reasons for this appeal are that Tatneft is one of the largest Russian oil companies controlled by the top political leadership and provides significant revenues to the budget of the aggressor country; its products can be used by the military-industrial complex of the Russian Federation.
In addition, as I. Bogatykh pointed out, the Ministry of Justice filed three more similar lawsuits – against Kirill Vyshinskyi, executive director of the Russian state media company Russia Today (two real estate properties, two vehicles, and shares in two legal entities); Oleksandr Kuzmenko, who held the post of the so-called "Minister of Culture of the Kherson Region" (three real estate objects), and Volodymyr Sergienko, who participated in propaganda talk shows on Russian television and radio (1/2 share in one real estate property and 50% share of corporate rights in Health Care Ukraine LLC).
As reported, in August 2023, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine transferred the seized assets of the Russian Tatneft to the management of Ukrnafta, and in June 2024, the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine allowed Ukrnafta to receive them. In particular, this concerns more than 50% in Tatneft-AZS-Ukraine LLC, Poltava-Capital LLC, and Kharkiv-Capital LLC.
Earlier, Ukrnafta's press service noted that it was about 110 facilities of various types (gas stations, oil depots, and other outbuildings) located in the Poltava and Kharkiv regions. According to the company, most of these facilities are in poor condition: out of almost 70 filling stations of the Tatneft network, about 15 can operate. The situation with idle oil depots is similar.