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Yanukovich's Assets http://yanukovich.info Andriy and Serhiy Kliuyev Part one Andriy Petrovych Kliuyev was born in Donetsk on August 12, 1964; he has been Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine since February 14, 2012. In Ukraine, Andriy Kliuyev is known as a close associate of Viktor Yanukovych and good friend of pro- Russian lobbyist, Viktor Medvedchuk. From 1994 to 2002, Andriy Kliuyev held various senior public positions in municipal and regional councils of the city of Donetsk, as well as in the regional state administration. In particular, Mr. Kliuyev was Deputy Chairman of Viktoy Yanukovych’s Regional State Administration in Donetsk from 1998 to 2002. Andriy Kliuyev was elected to the Verkhovna Rada (Parliament) of Ukraine in 2002. He was appointed Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine three times between 2002 and 2012. Since 2001, A. Kliuyev is Deputy Chairman of the Party of Regions of Ukraine. In the 2012 parliamentary elections, he headed the electoral headquarters of the Party of Regions. Moreover, he has been appointed head of Viktor Yanukovych’s electoral headquarters for the presidential elections that are scheduled in 2015. In March 2013, President Yanukovych officially appointed Andriy Kliuyev as Chairman of Ukraine’s group in charge of preparations for the signing of the Association Agreement with the EU. It is common knowledge that Azarov’s government rejected this agreement, which caused thousands of protests and demonstrations throughout Ukraine. According to the online edition of Ukrayinska Pravda (Ukrainian Truth), it was A. Kliuyev who was responsible for the violent dispersal of peaceful protesters in Kyiv on November 30, 2013. This thesis was confirmed by by Oleksandr Popov’s testimony(Mr. Popov was Head of the Kyiv Municipal State Administration). Serhiy Kliuyev, Andriy Kliuyev’s brother, has been a deputy from the Party of Regions since 2006. He has also been a ??member of the National Bank of Ukraine since 2007. He is also in charge of an inter-parliamentary group working with Austria. S. Kliuyev is currently a member of the Parliamentary Committee on Finance and Banking and of the Special Oversight Commission of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on privatization. The business activities of the Kliuyev brothers are closely linked; it is precisely for this reason that their wealth and business capital are usually regarded as joint assets in Ukraine. In March 2013, Focus magazine estimated the Kliyev brother’s fortune at 618 million dollars. In 1 / 13 Yanukovich's Assets http://yanukovich.info 2011-2012, Korespondent magazine estimated both brothers’ fortune at 130-140 million dollars. Andriy Kliuyev’s official salary as a public servant amounted to 395,892 UAH in 2012. According to his tax declaration, A. Kliuyev did not have any revenues or profits from abroad. Serhiy Kliuyev’s official salary as a public servant totaled 189,561 UAH in 2011. That same year, he made ??a profit amounting to 946 UAH abroad. Serhiy and Andriy Kliuyev reside on luxury estates near Kyiv. In September 2013, Serhiy Kliuyev bought Tantalit LLC for 146.6 million UAH,which leases a luxurious residence in Mezhyhirya to Viktor Yanukovych, the President of Ukraine. The Official Residence of a Business Empire in Austria The Kliuyev family business empire is centered around Zavod Napivprovidnykiv PrJSC and Ukrpidshypnyk PrJSC, whose ownership was registered through two Austrian companies - ActivSolarGmbH and SlavHandelVertretungundBeteiligungAG (SlavAG). Both Activ Solar GmbH and Slav AG are listed at the Austrian bank UniCredit Bank Austria AG, 1010 Vienna, and both are registered at the same address – 35 Wipplingerstrasse, 1010 Vienna. The Kliuyev brothers own more than 70 companies in Ukraine that are directly or indirectly related to the above-mentioned Austrian holding companies. These include large industrial plants, financial holding companies, banks and front companies that are used to optimize taxation, develop budget funds and inhibit the identity of the actual business owner. Moreover, their business empire includes dozens of offshore companies in Cyprus, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and many other countries in Europe and around the world. These companies operate thanks to important groups of professional international lawyers and experts in offshore business. Slav AG was founded in 1994 and is completely owned by the Kliuyev brothers. Ms. Iryna Kliuyev, Serhiy Kliuyev’s wife, is a member of the board of directors. She is also registeredat 12 Groissaustrasse, Tulbinger (an expensive suburban building owned by the Austrian company GBM Handels-und Vertretungs GmbH). The shareholders of GBM are composed of two legal entities - Bulinga Ventures LLC and Revaldo Holdings Ltd. As of December 2013, Slav AG showed a turnover amounting to 108,990,000 euros. The company seems to be very successful and profitable. Through its subsidiaries, Slav Ag is engaged in renewable energy, financial services and business development. The company provides a wide range of services - loans, deposits, securities holding, gold trading, accounts for investment transactions and insurance services. In addition, the company sells various metal products and boilers. Slav AG runs operations in the CIS countries, Poland, the Czech Republic, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Israel, Denmark, Hungary, Romania, France, Turkey, Russia, Kazakhstan, Great Britain, India, the Netherlands, Pakistan, Slovakia, Slovenia and 2 / 13 Yanukovich's Assets http://yanukovich.info Switzerland. Slav AG is the majority owner of the Gazometer Business Centre in Austria. Slav Handel shares were placed on the Austrian stock market by the end of 2009. Activ Solar GmbH was registered in Austria on February 15, 2008 by Slav Beteiligung GmbH, which, in turn, was founded on December 7, 2005 and is owned by Slav AG. At the end of 2008, Kaveh Ertefai, Serhiy Kliuyev’s son-in-law, became the sole owner of Activ Solar GmbH. Kaveh Ertefai is also the director of a subsidiary of Activ Solar GmbH in Cyprus - AST ACTIV SOLAR TRADING LTD. Information and videos about Olha Kliuyev (Serhiy Kliuyev’s daughter) and Kaveh Ertefai’s expensive wedding in Liechtenstein Palace in Vienna can be easily found on the Internet. Since July 2009, 100 % of the shares of Activ Solar GmbH have been controlled by P&A Corporate Trust in Liechtenstein, which is managed by a lawyer called Reinhard Proksch. Andriy Kliuyev’s son, Bohdan, is the Business Development Manager of Aktiv Solar LLC, the Ukrainian subsidiary of Activ Solar GmbH. Activ Solar GmbH is currently the largest producer of solar energy in Ukraine. In June 2013, in an interview with Bloomberg, Kaveh Ertefai stated that the company plans to extend its achievements in solar energy development in Ukraine to the Middle East, particularly to the United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Jordan. Moreover, the company also invested in energy projects in the U.S. in 2012, and plans to invest in Mexico. How Activ Solar GmbH became the largest and most successful producer of solar energy in Ukraine… On its website, Activ Solar GmbH reports that it is building eleven power plants in Ukraine, ten of which have been completed. These power plants are located in three regions of Ukraine, namely Odesa, Mykolayiv and Crimea. According to the Activ Solar website, the development of these power stations involves planning, searching for and structuring financing, as well as building and managing ready sites. According to Mykhailo Cherevko, Director of Activ Solar LLC, the Ukrainian representative company of Activ Solar GmbH, the company invested 8.1 billion UAH in the Crimean power plant alone. Once again, according to Mr, Chernenko, these investments were basically loans from foreign banks; not a single penny was taken from budget funds for the construction of these stations. However, there are reasonable grounds to believe that Activ Solar owes its success to the full support of the Ukrainian government and the assistance of the highest state authorities, particularly those where Andriy and Serhiy Kliuyev work and exercise a certain influence. Who owns the power plants? The eleven solar power plants, mentioned on Activ Solar GmbH’s website, are used by 28 Ukrainian companies, which are officially licensed to produce solar electricity. 25 of them are 3 / 13 Yanukovich's Assets http://yanukovich.info already using the green tariff rate, which was introduced in Ukraine in 2008, when several amendments were adopted to the Lawof Ukraine “On electric power engineering”. The companies were registered between 2009 and 2012. They have similar names, similar official addresses and management, as well as an impressive network of offshore ownerships. 4 / 13 Yanukovich's Assets http://yanukovich.info 5 / 13 Yanukovich's Assets http://yanukovich.info For example, the Perovo Power Plant, which has the largest industrial facilities in the world, is registered in the name of five companies: Delta Solar, Zeta Solar, Alpha Solar, Beta Solar and Gamma Solar. They were all registered on ??June 23-25, 2010 at 12/4 SERGEYEVA- TSENSKOHO/TURETSKA STREET, Tsentralny District, Simferopol, 95011, Autonomous Republic of Crimea, and they both have a common executive director - Roman Viktorovych Kovalenko. The founder of the companies was either the Austrian company Activ Solar GmbH or its subsidiary company Activ Solar, the address of which is identical to Serhiy Kliuyev’s public reception office at 3 Reznitska Street in Kyiv. Activ Solar GmbH invested 488.7 million UAH in Delta Solar, which it also controlled until 2013. Recently, this portion of Delta Solar’s authorized capital was purchased by another Austrian company - BlackSeaRenewableEnergiesGMBH, founded on March 25, 2011. The latter owns Aurnia Commercial Ltd in Cyprus, founded in February, 2011. The newly-formed Aurnia Commercial Ltd, with an authorized capital amounting to 1,000 euros, somehow managed to raise the necessary funds and “invest” about 900 million UAH in Ukrainian solar companies, purchasing a controlling stake in Zeta-, Alpha-, Beta- and Gamma- Solar.
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