A company that may be related to the Russian leadership enters the Ukrainian market - the media

Vitkovice Steel is a manufacturer of hot -rolled rolled rolled board and, according to Anton Makodzoba, a representative of the company (responsible for development in the Ukrainian market), is ready to work with all - with small buyers and with large infrastructure projects. According to GMK Center, the Czech plans are construction of warehouses in Ukraine. The first - in Kiev, Lviv and Dnipro.

According to the media, by 2014 Vitkovice Steel belonged to Evraz Putin's oligarch Roman Abramovich, which is under Western sanctions.

After the Russian invasion of Crimea, he changed the structure of the company, hiding his share behind a group of private investors in Cyprus offshore Martinley Holdings Limited, Nabara Holdings Limited, Vitect Services Limited, Haystoon Investment Invest This Cyprus five is well known in Russia, as related to the projects of the Russian State Investment Bank web.

The bank is under sanctions, but it is hidden in complex structures of the company's ownership continues to work and influence the economic situation in European countries. As stated in the material, Vítkovice Steel holds leaders in the organization "Forum of European Metallurgical Manufacturers", which is the main lobbyist to prevent sanctions on the Russian metallurgical sector.

In May 2022, the Czech Republic blocked the Vitkovice Steel property to comply with the EU sanctions - due to the presence of Russian companies from the sanction list among the owners of Russian companies, but the company did not stop operating activities. She did not even change the composition of the Supervisory Board, leaving in it the Russians Olga Serov and Yulia Kasperskaya-Birman.

The latter was also a member of the ISD Dunaferr Directors, a company that controls a metallurgical plant in Hungary. According to the media, Vítkovice Steel produces its products that it plans to be supplied to Ukraine from Russian semi -finished products. Almost 100% of imports come from the Lower Tagilian Metrobaminat (NTMK), which is owned by the oligarch of Abramovich and is controlled by a web.