The media found new facts of supply of Ukrainian titanium raw materials to the Russian Federation

The interests of one of the defendants of the scandal with the supply of Ukrainian titanium raw materials in Russia - the Hungarian company Sic Luceat Lux KFT represents in Ukraine the same person as the Polish company Timr Sp. zoo, which supplies Ukrainian raw materials to the Russian market through Turkish advantages The material of Ukrrudprom, reports Apostrophe. Journalists write that the Hungarian service company SIC Luceat Lux Kft has begun to give way to the market of Polish company TIMR SP.

Zoo, and both companies in Ukraine are represented by businessman Alexander Lobach. Previously, he communicated with OGHC and SPF representatives on behalf of the Hungarians, now 50% is the owner of the Polish company TIMR SP. Zoo. The media reports that the Polish Timr Sp. zoo is actively shipping OGHC products to several Turkish companies - Poyraz Hammaddeler Sanayi̇ Ti̇Caret LİMİMİMİRETİ and COLOR PRISMA KIMYA SAN. TIC.

AS which are essentially a transshipment base and licensing composition for sending to Russia. These small trade Turkish companies may not even change the original OGHC packaging with Ukrainian marking. Color Prisma Kimya San. TIC. AS put 15% zirconium concentrate from the total import volume for a permanent counterparty SIC Luceat Lux KFT - LLC "Minco Rus". In the export of Poyraz Hammaddeler's products, the share of Russians accounts for 18. 1% - the publication notes.

According to journalists, in recent months, strange companies that have not been known on the market have begun among the buyers of OGHC products and have no experience in working with rare earth minerals. First of all, it is about the Polish company Agroorganika Polska SP Zoo, which in July-August through the terminal in the Riga port of KS Terminal (Latvia) has shipped 132 tons of rutile concentrate and 44 tons of zircon concentrate for the declared buyer in India.

The end recipient was MSC Agency (India) PTV. Ltd. (Mumbai Port Trust, India, Sea Carrier). The suspicion was caused by the fact of shipment to India through the Latvian port, since the cost of logistics through Riga is higher than through the Polish ports of Gdansk and Gdynia. The company did not provide any document confirming the application for shipment, both batch of minerals and lie in the territory of the terminal in Riga due to the fall of market demand.

Journalists suggest that this product will not reach India and will soon be in Russia. The media noted that another new OGHK partner is Austrian A5 Trading, which also never worked with titanium raw materials. The company was established in July 2022, and is under the control of one of the odious Dnipro businessmen.

Instead of entering into direct contracts with large end consumers and rebuilding the OGHC sales system, the government of the state company is involved in the cooperation of incomprehensible offshore traders with Ukrainian roots - the media concludes. In 2021-2022, the state owned by the state exported 82. 2 thousand tons of titanium ores, a large part of which got into the territory of Russia.