{"id":445319,"date":"2018-02-16T15:53:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-16T15:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/?p=445319"},"modified":"2018-02-16T15:53:00","modified_gmt":"2018-02-16T15:53:00","slug":"petro-poroshenkos-affairs-transnistrian-sheriff-rise-moldova","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/petro-poroshenkos-affairs-transnistrian-sheriff-rise-moldova\/","title":{"rendered":"Petro Poroshenko’s affairs with the Transnistrian “Sheriff” \/\/RISE Moldova"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading Time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>

While condemning the separatist regimes in Donetsk and Lugansk, and the annexation of Crimea by Russia, Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko and his firm “Roshen” does not bother doing business with the Transnistrian corporation “Sheriff”. At least, this is what an investigation of Rise Moldova<\/a> shows about Roshen’s\u00a0imports to Moldova’s breakaway region.<\/p>\n

Only until recently, the control of the Transnistrian segment of the Moldo-Ukrainian border was controlled\u00a0by the Ukrainian border police, customs and the so-called “Transnistrian\u00a0customs office”. Only in July 2017, the Kuchurgan-Pervomaisk checkpoint was opened with the attendance of Petro Poroshenko and PM Pavel Filip. At the ceremony, Poroshenko declared that he supports the joint control “for the assurance of transparency and efficiency in the fight against smuggling and corruption”.<\/em><\/p>\n

At the same time, Poroshenko’s chocolate company “Roshen” exported to Transnistria in July 2017 goods worth 1,5 million hrivnas (over 55 thousand USD).<\/p>\n

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Data from Ukraine’s customs registry, Transactions from July 2017 between Roshen and Sheriff. Source: Rise.md<\/p><\/div>\n

Roshen’s Transnistrian partner happens to be “Sheriff” from Tiraspol, founded in 1993 by Victor Gushan and Ilya Kazmaly, two most influential oligarchs in the separatist republic. Rise Moldova found out that from 2014 until the middle of 2017, Roshen sold goods to Sheriff with a total value of some 3 million USD. At the same time, the official distributor of Roshen in Moldova, Tezaurus-VDS SRL, stated that it does not have any commercial relations with Sheriff or other companies from the region.<\/p>\n

Some other 300 Ukrainian companies traded with Sheriff products worth more than 100 million US dollars. Official Ukrainian distributors of big corporations like Coca-Cola Beverages Ukraine Ltd or Nestle Ukraine Ltd are also involved in commercial activities with Sheriff from Tiraspol.<\/p>\n

Rise Moldova could not find out how Sheriff pays its Ukrainian partners, nor could they find relevant information about Sheriff’s total imports from the Moldovan and Ukrainian customs office.<\/p>\n

With an income bigger than the budget of the so-called “Pridnestrovian Moldovan Republic”, Sheriff is commonly perceived as a primary source of power in the separatist republic, tolerated or even encouraged by Moscow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reading Time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>While condemning the separatist regimes in Donetsk and Lugansk, and the annexation of Crimea by Russia, Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko and his firm “Roshen” does not bother doing business with the Transnistrian corporation “Sheriff”. At least, this is what an investigation of Rise Moldova shows about Roshen’s\u00a0imports to Moldova’s breakaway region. Only until recently, the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":445320,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-445319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reintegration","tag-important"],"content_social_share":"Reading Time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>

While condemning the separatist regimes in Donetsk and Lugansk, and the annexation of Crimea by Russia, Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko and his firm “Roshen” does not bother doing business with the Transnistrian corporation “Sheriff”. At least, this is what an investigation of Rise Moldova<\/a> shows about Roshen’s\u00a0imports to Moldova’s breakaway region.<\/p>\n

Only until recently, the control of the Transnistrian segment of the Moldo-Ukrainian border was controlled\u00a0by the Ukrainian border police, customs and the so-called “Transnistrian\u00a0customs office”. Only in July 2017, the Kuchurgan-Pervomaisk checkpoint was opened with the attendance of Petro Poroshenko and PM Pavel Filip. At the ceremony, Poroshenko declared that he supports the joint control “for the assurance of transparency and efficiency in the fight against smuggling and corruption”.<\/em><\/p>\n

At the same time, Poroshenko’s chocolate company “Roshen” exported to Transnistria in July 2017 goods worth 1,5 million hrivnas (over 55 thousand USD).<\/p>\n

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Data from Ukraine’s customs registry, Transactions from July 2017 between Roshen and Sheriff. Source: Rise.md<\/p><\/div>\n

Roshen’s Transnistrian partner happens to be “Sheriff” from Tiraspol, founded in 1993 by Victor Gushan and Ilya Kazmaly, two most influential oligarchs in the separatist republic. Rise Moldova found out that from 2014 until the middle of 2017, Roshen sold goods to Sheriff with a total value of some 3 million USD. At the same time, the official distributor of Roshen in Moldova, Tezaurus-VDS SRL, stated that it does not have any commercial relations with Sheriff or other companies from the region.<\/p>\n

Some other 300 Ukrainian companies traded with Sheriff products worth more than 100 million US dollars. Official Ukrainian distributors of big corporations like Coca-Cola Beverages Ukraine Ltd or Nestle Ukraine Ltd are also involved in commercial activities with Sheriff from Tiraspol.<\/p>\n

Rise Moldova could not find out how Sheriff pays its Ukrainian partners, nor could they find relevant information about Sheriff’s total imports from the Moldovan and Ukrainian customs office.<\/p>\n

With an income bigger than the budget of the so-called “Pridnestrovian Moldovan Republic”, Sheriff is commonly perceived as a primary source of power in the separatist republic, tolerated or even encouraged by Moscow.<\/p>\n

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