Recently, the occupiers’ “official” press released a rather inconspicuous piece of news about yet another “privatization” of property controlled by the Crimean “authorities,” among which a “share in the limited liability company” “Yalita” was mentioned.
This inconspicuous scam relates to the long-standing story of Yalita, a closed joint-stock company with foreign investment, created in Yalta in the first year of Ukrainian independence by various enterprises and institutions from post-Soviet countries, as well as the state-owned enterprise “Yalta Resort.”
The stated main purpose of “Yalita” was the construction of new health resorts, sanatoriums, and boarding houses in Greater Yalta.
However, at the time of the occupation of Crimea, “Yalita” already existed as a private joint-stock company, re-registered in Zaporizhzhia back in 2009.
The beneficiary of the Zaporizhzhia-based “Yalita” is local businessman Dmitry Shvets, who has long attempted to enter mainstream Ukrainian politics without much success.
This Zaporizhzhia-based company also lists three subsidiary LLCs: “DS-BudServis”, “MC-BudServis”, and “MP-BudServis”, registered in occupied Simferopol.
At the same time, a “joint-stock company”, “Yalita”, appeared in the occupation authorities’ “registries,” recently becoming a “limited liability company,” with Yalta football player Anatoly Kruglovenko as its “director.”
This “firm” also has subsidiaries: “DS-StroyServis”, “MC-StroyServis”, and “MP-StroyServis”, albeit now registered in Yalta. This is not surprising, since it was the Zaporizhzhia “Yalita” that, until 2019, “established” its “actual presence” in Crimea in the occupation “courts” in “case” A83-709/2015, and the occupiers’ “ministry of property and land relations” somehow acquired a stake in this “clone.”
However, the “major stake” in the Yalta “clone” of “Yalita” has now been acquired by Sevastopol collaborator and “entrepreneur” Vladimir Plotka, owner of the “Musson” shopping center, through his company of the same name.
Therefore, the choice of football player Kruglovenko, previously implicated in a similar role in the scams surrounding the Yalta “Actor House of Creativity,” as Yalita’s figurehead chairman is also not surprising.
After all, Plotka, who will clearly be given the “state share of the enterprise,” has long and consistently positioned himself as a “sports philanthropist,” laundering considerable “budget funds” in Sevastopol by “leasing out premises at the “Musson” multifunctional sports complex.”
However, the occupiers value Plotka for something entirely different: he also controls the “Musson” plant, and we previously wrote about the marine electronic products manufactured there by “Uranis-RadioSystems”, systematically circumventing sanctions in the interests of the Russian army and intelligence.
Therefore, it is not at all surprising that the seals of the aforementioned Zaporizhzhia-based Yalita, owned by Dmitry Shvets, were seized by a Ukrainian court at the end of 2022 during the investigation of fraud surrounding the Lviv Automobile Plant, in which the beneficiaries of the aggressor were implicated.
Therefore, the details of the interaction between the Sevastopol collaborator of the Russian intelligence services and the Zaporizhzhia “regional politician” in the Yalta development project require further study.
