In this article, we will tell you how financial companies buy up debts and make money on it.. "Vesta" buys up troubled debts of banks for “Prozorro. Sales”. To read our material before publication, the financial company wrote on its website, that its portfolio of assets is more than 100 bn, and only in 2019-2020 years "Vesta" bought more 50% problem debt, put up for auction by the Fund for Guaranteeing Deposits of Individuals (ФГВФЛ ), which manages the assets of bankrupt banks. According to skelet.info, as of April 2021 only "Vesta", without its affiliated structures, took part in 75 auctions on Prozorro. Sales with total purchases over 421 million.
AT 2019 in the publication skelet.info noticed, that FGVFL began to enlarge the sold bullets. And only such large players can buy them., like "Vesta", because only they have money for it. The Mirror of the Week recently wrote about the productive relationship of the Deposit Guarantee Fund and Vesta in an article about the sale of claims, where the assets of Konstantin Zhevago and Taras Barshchovsky were pledged – tire plant "Rosava" and the company "Yablochnyi Dar", which produces Galicia juices (the Fund itself, true, called the text "Mirrors" as follows, that "does not contain a balance of opinions").
And this is where we come to, who can have Vesta. Direct speech about, what exactly he bought "Rosava" and "Yablochny Dar" recently said businessman Pavel Fuks in an interview with journalist Kristina Berdinskikh:
“I buy a lot of distress assets ( distress assets – the, what is on sale at a discount or discount) … I also buy from the Deposit Guarantee Fund. Various assets, a lot of different debts. “Rosava”, “Apple Gift”. Many small. There are pools, which the Fund sells. I participate in various trades as an investor ".
Fuchs also noted, that he "likes to do debt":
“I have a good legal team. And I understand, what did people take loans, did not return, enjoyed the situation in the country, but legally everything can be returned – to every penny ".
Fuchs is not among the official owners of Vesta. AND, as they told us in "Vesta", "Fuchs does not have the corporate rights of Vesta", but only took part in the purchase of a separate lot "Apple Gift". But today I have already sold my share of the invested funds ".
but, people, that, according to official documents, control the company, associated with Fuchs. So, in June 2020 indirect ownership permit 74,25% in the authorized capital of Vesta received Lilian Bakunenko – wife of the head of "Ukrnaftoburiene" Mikhail Bakunenko. AT 2017 year, the program "Schemes" recorded Fuchs and Mikhail Bakunenko, as well as businessman Vitaly Khomutynnik on one private jet. The joint flight was explained by many journalists to, that the shareholders of Ukrnafteburenie through offshore companies are probably Fuchs, Khomutynnik and oligarch Igor Kolomoisky.
Also in June 2020 permission to indirectly control 24,74% "Vesta" was received by the head of the board of "Alfa-Bank" Andrey Volkov. AT 2018 the Finbalance edition recorded Volkov at a meeting of the Kyiv City Council committee as a representative of the company "Ukrrosleasing", according to which Fuchs became the owner of the project on the debts of the Kiev metro. According to the register in the official ownership structure of Vesta there is a mixture of companies from Ukraine, Cyprus and Seychelles with "foreign investors" with Cypriot names and the already mentioned Volkov.
