According to the company, this was preceded by years of legal proceedings and attempts by the previous owner to regain control of the enterprise in violation of current legislation.

The limited liability company “STAR INVESTMENT VAN” (Ukraine, the founder – the limited liability company “STAR INVESTMENT CEZET VAN” (STAR ​​INVESTMENT CZ ONE SRO, Czech Republic) declares to enter into the legal ownership and management of the property complex “Brovarsky” by court decisions as the legal successor of the mortgage claim in accordance with the agreement between VAB Bank (declared insolvent and transferred to the Deposit Guarantee Fund of Individuals (FGVFO) in 2014) and the borrower “Brovarsky Zavod Plasmat” dated August 6, 2009.

This is stated in the company’s official statement.

According to the company, this was preceded by years of legal proceedings and attempts by the previous owner to regain control of the enterprise in violation of current legislation. The courts, including the Supreme Court of Ukraine, and the prosecutor’s office stopped these illegal actions, and the illegal transactions, including the re-registration of mortgage objects, were declared null and void.

“On July 13, 2022, the Supreme Court of Ukraine put an end to the years-long opposition of the former owners and persons under their control to the legal requirements of the FGVFO and the successor of the right of claim regarding the mortgage in the person of “STAR INVESTMENT VAN” and stopped all attempts to illegally seize “Brovarsky”. STAR Investment VAN “on the basis of court decisions, it carried out all the necessary legal procedures for entering the ownership of “Brovarsky Zavod Plastam”, – the statement said.

The company notes that on December 9, 2022, its representatives, acting as the new legal owner of the property complex that belonged to “Brovarsky Zavod Plastam”, accompanied by security police officers, visited the company to enter into legal ownership.

“STAR Investment VAN” resembles the chronology of the legal confrontation.

After VAB Bank was declared insolvent in 2014 and its management was transferred to FGVFO, the previous owners of the bank and the management of the plant made a number of attempts to take possession of the mortgaged property, namely: an attempt to cancel the mortgage; re-registration and splitting of the mortgage object into 16 new objects – such measures by the ex-owners were aimed at depriving the state, represented by the FGVFO, of liquid collateral as collateral for the return of loan funds from a bankrupt bank.

In 2019, the FGVFO sold through a transparent competitive auction a pool of loans secured by the plant’s real estate.

The winner of the FGVFO auction for the sale of mortgage claims against VAB Bank loans was a foreign investor, a company with 100% European capital, registered in the Czech Republic, “STAR INVESTMENT VAN” LLC, which paid to the budget of Ukraine for a pool of problem loans secured by the “Brovarsky Zavod” mortgage ” “, a record amount at the time of the FGVFO auction.

After acquiring the right of claim, “STAR INVESTMENT VAN” completed the procedure initiated by the FGVFO to counter the illegal actions of the former owners of “Brovarsky Zavod Plasmat”, VAB Bank and persons controlled by them.

Pursuant to the decision of the Northern Appellate Commercial Court of Ukraine, on April 27, 2021, the Commercial Court of the Kyiv region issued an order to enforce the decision of the Northern Commercial Appellate Court dated 03/04/2021 in case No. 911/1850/18. In the future, by the decision of the private executor, enforcement proceedings were opened to enforce the order of the Commercial Court of the Kyiv region dated 04/30/2021 in case No. 911/1850/18. On November 11, 2022, the private executor of “STAR INVESTMENT VAN” issued a deed on the realization of the subject of the mortgage, on the basis of which, on November 21, 2022, the private notary of the company “STAR INVESTMENT VAN” issued a certificate of acquisition of property from public auctions and registered as a company located in the city of Brovary (Kyiv region) blvd. Nezalezhnosti, 53 with a total area of ​​57,606 square meters.

Certificate: “Plastics Brewery” was under the direct control of Sergey Maksimov, a native of the Russian city of Smolensk, who until 2011 was the owner of VAB Bank. Through lending schemes of enterprises controlled by him, the list of which included “Brovarskyi Zavod Plastam”, Maksimov carried out illegal withdrawal of funds from the bank, the total scale of which is estimated at 2 billion UAH. Therefore, in 2011, the new shareholders of VAB Bank initiated a criminal case against Maksimov for theft from a financial institution in particularly large amounts, and already on December 26 of the same year, he was arrested. After being released on bail, he ran away and was declared an international wanted man. Maksimov has been banned from entering the US for many years due to arms smuggling and ties to the criminal world. After leaving the shareholders of the Ukrainian VAB Bank in 2011, Maksymov transferred part of his Ukrainian assets, including “Brovarsky Zavod Plasmat”, to his business partner – Gregory Hanna Volodymyrivna. Since 2016, in favor of Maksimov, she has been waging a legal war against Ukraine and the FGVFO, as well as against the new owners of “Brovarsky Zavod Plasmat” in order to maintain control over the enterprise and its assets.