Former chairman of the supervisory board of the Ryzhevskyi granite quarry V. Kovalchuk (pictured) in an interview with "Obozrevatel" lied about the creation of the organization "Legal Protection of Business".
There are 4 organizations in the YouControl database and the open Unified State Register that contain the words "Legal Protection of Business" in their names. None of them were created by Kovalchuk.
V. Kovalchuk was exposed in his lies by the chairman of the board of PJSC "Ryzhevskyi granite quarry" Serhiy Koryavchenkov.
"Firstly, a business cannot be protected from raiders by a raider. Secondly, the register does not list an organization ’Legal Protection of Business’ founded by Vadym Kovalchuk," stated Koryavchenkov in his blog on the Censor publication website.
Koryavchenkov also claimed that V. Kovalchuk lied about the price of 3 million dollars which he allegedly paid for the shares of PJSC "Ryzhevskyi granite quarry" in the 2000s.
"Kovalchuk says: ’I bought shares amounting to 67%. Their value at that time was about 3 million dollars’. This is false. The purchase price of the shares, which belonged to LLC "TC VIM" until 2010, whose director was Vadym Kovalchuk – was unlikely to have exceeded 165 thousand hryvnias. Here’s a copy of the contract under which LLC "TC VIM" sold these shares to LLC "RGQ" in 2011. ... he could not sell them at a price lower than the purchase price. Thus, Kovalchuk might have paid for the shares not 3 million dollars, as he claims, but a maximum of 165 thousand hryvnias," stated S. Koryavchenkov in his blog.
Koryavchenkov published copies of documents evidencing the voluntary sale by the director of LLC "TC VIM" V. Kovalchuk (who was also the founder of this enterprise) of a package of shares to the buyer LLC "RGQ" in 2011. In particular, a copy of the Decision with Kovalchuk’s personal signature dated December 30, 2010, was published.
Also, a copy of the share sale agreement dated January 20, 2011.
Koryavchenkov also stated that to seize the Ryzhevskyi granite quarry, V. Kovalchuk and his assistants used a series of raider techniques. For example, a "legal trap" with illegal appointments of company leaders (using "black" registrars), as well as "front" investors, whose goal was to obtain key information about the quarry to simplify the takeover of the enterprise. Koryavchenkov also reminded that in 2017, Kovalchuk’s first attempt to seize the Ryzhevskyi granite quarry was thwarted with the help of the Anti-Raider Commission of the Ministry of Justice. Then the case was personally handled by Deputy Minister Olena Sukmanova, who was recently appointed the First Deputy Minister of Justice.
"Kovalchuk is a raider. Denying this, in my opinion, is to lie to people. Kovalchuk was essentially recognized as a raider, as he was involved in the illegal change of leadership of LLC "RGQ" and PJSC "Ryzhevskyi granite quarry" in the summer of 2017. The change of leadership of these enterprises was declared illegal and canceled by the Anti-Raider Commission of the Ministry of Justice, as evidenced by the relevant orders of the Ministry. Meanwhile, at the moment when the Ministry of Justice was considering my complaint, as the legitimate leader of the quarry, an attack on the quarry was being prepared by a battalion of hired raider thugs.
Thus, on September 4, 2017, the National Police of the Poltava region detected the movement of 8 black MERCEDES Vito buses, in the salons of which were about 70-80 men armed with combat weapons in camouflage. The mentioned column was moving towards the granite quarry of PJSC "Ryzhevskyi granite quarry". To prevent bloodshed, a plan for interception was announced, and the "Fortress" operation was developed: 30 people were deployed at the quarry checkpoint to protect the quarry. Only after assessing the police and miners’ preparedness to repel a possible attack did the raiders’ mercenaries, having stood in a column in Kremenchuk, leave for the Dnipropetrovsk region," stated S. Koryavchenkov.
Thus, the former chairman of the supervisory board of PJSC "Ryzhevskyi granite quarry" V. Kovalchuk has been attempting for the second year to capture the Ryzhevskyi granite quarry, misleading law enforcement agencies by spreading unreliable or distorted information – just from the mentioned interview Kovalchuk lied, distorted, or concealed important information at least 17 times!
It should be noted that, as previously reported by the media, V. Kovalchuk, who is attempting to seize the Ryzhevskyi granite quarry, is supported by his godfather, the former prosecutor of the Poltava region and Kyiv, Anatoliy Melnyk.