As the aggressor-controlled “Crimean media” simultaneously announced on the morning of May 6, the 75-year-old “head of the association” “Promotion of Trade in Crimea” Sergei Makeev, who allegedly “stopped on the “Tavrida” highway and got out of the car, died in occupied Crimea. He was hit by a passing car”.
Why the Simferopol oldboy suddenly decided to “throw himself under the wheels” is quite easy to guess – he knew too much about the realities of large-scale Crimean trade, and until 2014 he headed the Crimean supermarket chain “Furshet”.
Let us remember, that the Kyiv resident with a very specific military education, Igor Balenko was the beneficiary of the “Furshet ” for several decades. Formally, the key “investor” of “Furshet” was Anthousa Limited, registered in London, and since March 2007, the French “Auchan Group” received 20% in this business. Since 2019, the chain has had “some problems” in mainland Ukraine, after which “Silpo-Food” began to buy it out.
At the same time, “Furshet”, like the “Auchan” supermarkets, calmly and carefree continued to operate in the occupied Crimea, and the current “car jumper” Makeev in 2015 publicly showed “amazing awareness” of the ways of supplying them with products.
“Our other supermarkets operate quite powerfully: Auchan, Metro. They organize wholesale purchases and work well,” Makeev wrote in 2019, gloatingly noting the failure of the Russian competitor of these companies, “Assorti-Product”, on the peninsula.
At the same time, Makeev clearly did not intend to “retire”, having actively participated in the last two years in the “construction of a large wholesale and logistics center” in Chistenke near Simferopol, with its corresponding clients, represented by the same hypermarkets.
Now, after the “extremely timely” death of Makeev, who knew too much about the realities of the so-called “blockades” of Crimea, and about the real beneficiaries of Crimean supermarkets, too many will “breathe easy” not only in Simferopol, but also in Kyiv and Paris.
