The USA imposed sanctions on a russian company that steals grain from Ukraine
28.02.2023 - 14:40
A russian company and its manager involved in the theft of grain from Ukraine have been sanctioned by the United States. Grain could be exported to Crimean ports.
The company “Gosudarstvennyj zernovoy operator” created by the russians and its head Nikita Busel were included in the US sanctions list. The company was created to steal and export grain from the occupied part of the Zaporizhzhia region, reports the Center for Journalistic Investigations.
In May 2022, this “enterprise” was created in the occupied territory of the Zaporizhia region, and already in December it was registered in the unified state register of legal entities of russia.
The legal address of the company is Melitopol. However, its owners are hidden in the state register of the russian federation.
“State Grain Operator” was supposed to buy, store and ship grain grown in the Zaporizhzhya region for export to russia or the ports of the occupied Crimea.
At the same time, farmers had to cooperate with this “enterprise”, and the purchase prices of the occupiers were lower than the market prices.
The occupiers claim that they collected 3.5 million tons of grain in the Zaporizhzhia region last year. Currently, grain is bought there in 14 branches of the “State Grain Operator”.
According to the Center for Journalistic Investigations, the general director of “GZO” is Nikita Busel, a St. Petersburg businessman who owns hotels in St. Petersburg and moscow suburbs, as well as a chain of confectionery shops. Previously, Busel founded the company “Impulse”, which before that was called “Megapolis” and received multibillion-dollar road construction contracts.
