Ukraine: PGOK accounts arrested

Shevchenkovskiy district court of Kyiv has arrested bank accounts of Poltava Mining and Processing Works. All the payment operations of the company, except for the payment of taxes, have been suspended. “The court took the decision based on the claim of the Prosecutor General’s Office under a case of rent payment evasion,” the company press…

Ukraine: court freezes Poltava GOK shares

A Ukrainian court has limited 50.3% of Ferrexpo Poltava Mining (FPM) shares, belonging to Ferrexpo AG Switzerland, the only shareholder. Ferrexpo AG says the arrest does not affect the ownership of the shares, but prohibits their transfer. The group believes this is connected with issues of the company beneficiary Konstantin Zhevago and a company he…

Ukraine: PGOK reports difficulties with delivering pellets to Port Yuzhniy

Ukrzaliznytsia (Ukrainian Railways) continues preferring Russian transit cargo to local transportation, the letter of the Poltava Mining and Processing Works commercial director Dmitry Spatar to the minister of infrastructure Vladislav Krikliy says. “Despite the promise to decrease the volume of transit cargo from 240 thousand tons to 40 thousand tons, an increase of transit cargo…