Kolomoisky’s Fail or Scenery?

Bobyrenko Viktor

Head of the Expert Group of the Bureau of Policy Analysis. He studied at the National Academy for Public Administration. Master of Public Administration, Political Scientist, Political Technologist. Studies the…

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06 September 2021
Kolomoisky’s Fail or Scenery?

Tomorrow is an important event in Ukraine, which is little known according to other information covers. And it applies to everyone.

At stake is 4.7 billion hryvnias.

Igor Kolomoisky will sue the Antimonopoly Committee in the Commercial Court of Kyiv tomorrow.
The bottom line: in 2014-2016, 1,625 gas stations from the Kolomoisky AVIAS group set and agreed on prices at gas stations.
Cartel conspiracy.
The guys operated under different brands.
And they just pushed gasoline of one brand Keropur® ENERGY (exclusive brand of PJSC Ukrtatnafta). This is 25% of all gas stations in the country.
There was a so-called Center, which included several businesses located at the same address in Dnipro. It carried out detailed planning and coordination of network activities.
The same prices were set in the whole network at the same time, regardless of the gas station brand and the region;
The AMCU found a significant number of identical contracts for the sale of petroleum products and property, lease of gas stations, etc. Made on one computer.

A quote of the AMCU:
Such concerted behavior of AVIAS project participants distorts competition between gas station operators in the market. Therefore, the prices for light oil products in the AVIAS network were set in anti-competitive conditions.
In view of this, the Committee decided to impose fines in the total amount of UAH 4.7 billion on the above-mentioned economic entities.
This was back in 2018.

But the famous District Administrative Court of Kyiv (OASK) named after Judge Vovk not only closed the case but decided never to consider it again. Then the appeal continued in the same way.
And only in December last year, the Supreme Court overturned the appeal for Kolomoisky.
And in March, the Antimonopoly (after Zelensky’s correction, when Kolomoisky began to be persecuted in the United States) mentioned his mission and handed out the fine.
Igor Kolomoisky does not like when someone encroaches on his right to mess up with suckers. So he filed a lawsuit.

And tomorrow is a historic day. The case will be heard in the Commercial Court of Kyiv.
Everything is significant in this case.
If the court, which is influenced by the President’s Office, dismisses the case, it will show that Zelensky is fighting the oligarchs just for the sake of it.
As an option - they will try to prolong the case on the principle of Hodja Nasreddin: either the padishah will die, or the donkey will die.
I tend to this version.

Well, if the decision is made in favor of the Ukrainian people and they will begin to ravage a bearded granny Kolomoisky, I do not even know what to think.
It will be like an anecdote: what if the coin hangs in the air ...
Well, a new story may begin.
Find out soon/