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Their theory is based on Arakhamia’s meeting with the ACP representatives in Vienna in November last year. In his comment to Ukrayinska Pravda’s journalist, Arakhamia stated that the main goal of his visit was to have a meeting with the U. S. fund Argentem Creek Partners, which had invested over $150 million into Ukrainian assets.
“I met with them as the chair of UkraineInvest’s supervisory board. I also visited DF Group’s Vienna office to meet with [the group owner] Dmytro Firtash and his manager. We discussed prospects of opening the “grain corridor” to rescue ports of Mykolayiv Oblast where DF Group owns the Nika-Terra port,” the faction chair indicated.
As reported by Hubs with reference to the official response from UkraineInvest, the investment promotion office stated that it was unaware of Arakhamia’s contacts with the ACP as the chair of UkraineInvest’s supervisory board. According to Hubs, during his Vienna visit, the Rada member discussed the possibility of Argentem’s placing the GNT Group’s stevedoring asset under control of Dmytro Firtash’s seaport business that includes the Nika-Terra port in Mykolayiv Oblast.
Journalists call attention to the Rada member’s meeting with Argentem in November. And in December, the American company that had been negotiating debt restructuring earlier started a process that amounts to a hostile takeover in GNT Group’s opinion.
“Regardless of the reaction by DF Group (so far they have left no trace in this story), such an offer can serve as evidence of a corrupt collusion and malicious design on the part of the U. S. company,” Business Censor concluded.
