On August 6, Pechersk District Court of Kyiv allowed Kyiv local prosecutor`s office No.6 to take out copies of credit files of Praym Likero-Horilchanyy Zavod LLC, Kharkiv Likero-Horilchanyi Zavod-Plius LLC, Donetsk Likero-Horilchanyi Zavod Lik LLC (including, but not limited to, the general loan agreement No.6807N7 dated 19.06.2007) in Ukreximbank.
According to court materials, the investigators of the Pechersk Police Department of the National Police Headquarters in the city of Kyiv conduct a pre-trial investigation in the criminal proceedings № 12019100060003135 dated 22.07.2019. As it is noted, during one search the documents related to credit agreements between Ukreximbank and Olymp Group of Companies (in particular, credit agreement No. 6807K35 dated 19.06.2007, credit agreement No. 68108K57 dated 12.09.2008, credit agreement No. 68108K69 dated 24.12.2008) as well as "schemes of protection of companies assets from default of credit obligations" (quote) were found.
"For the purpose of non-repayment of funds the scheme of accounts payable to the controlled enterprises is developed for the purpose of the further bankruptcy procedure. Part of the accounts payable was formed from promissory notes issued to debtors. When a bill issuer goes through bankruptcy proceedings, controlled by the Ministry of Finance will be able to claim the amount of the issued promissory notes", the court materials states.
Background
As Finbalance wrote, in July Ukreximbank opened the procedure of financial restructuring of debts of LLC “Spirits producer Prime”, Secretary’s Department of financing restructuring (affiliated with the Independent association of banks of Ukraine) reports.
Among the affiliated persons of a debtor, there are former people’s deputy Pavlo Klymets, PrJSC Olimp, LLC Olimp, LLC Olimp-Consult, LLC Spirits producer LIK, LLC Kharkiv spirits producer - Plus, LLC Donetsk spirits producer LIK, LLC KUA Finek Asset Management etc.
The size of reschedulable indebtedness, is not specified in the message.
In 2015 Ukreximbank tried to recover UAH 513 million of debts from PrJSC Olimp in lawsuit form (by foreclosure on the mortgaged property). Several of the companies mentioned above appeared as the third parties in this case (No.908/4555/14). On 15.10.2015 the Economic court of Zaporizhzhya region closed the proceedings in this dispute, taking into account the restructuring of the corresponding debts by Ukreximbank.
According to the court materials, as of 21.07.2015 the debt of LLC LGZ Prime amounted to UAH 489,4 million. Provided that, “principal, percent and management fee amortization schedule was established starting from January 2016 to 02.03.2020” (quote).
In April 2019, it was reported about detention of P. Klymets in Moscow. Russian security forces accused the businessman of giving a bribe in order to gain control of the Crimean spirits producer, which had previously been part of Olimp group.