We have previously written extensively about the activities of the international fishing mafia associated with the Sevastopol fish canning plant “Aquamarine,” whose formal “beneficiaries” for many years have been local swindlers Vladimir Gelvanovsky and Vladimir Nigar.
In April 2025, we noted that “clouds were gathering over this structure,” after Russian colonizers from the clan of gauleiter Mikhail Razvozhaev “set their sights” on the plant’s facilities, but that the “nationalization” of this lucrative resource is “somewhat complicated” by the mafia’s affiliation with several “wallets” of Belarusian dictator Lukashenko.
Before the occupation, Gelvanovsky was a member of the Sevastopol City Council from the “Party of Regions”, and he “oversaw” fish catching and processing enterprises under the patronage of the head of the Sevastopol police, Major General Vitaly Malikov,
the son-in-law of former Ukrainian Interior Minister Mykola Belokon.
This same enterprise, as well as “Interrybflot-Krym”, where Nigar was also listed as a “co-owner,” were used as brokers for chartering fishing vessels. Nigar was also listed by the occupiers as the “chairman” of the non-profit organization “Association of Participants of the Sevastopol Free Economic Zone.”
In 2025, the occupiers announced the “exclusion” of “Aquamarine” from the “residents” of the same “free economic zone,” and the fake “Sevastopol Arbitration Court” announced the “beginning of bankruptcy proceedings” for the plant.
We wrote that the “bankruptcy” was the result of a struggle for control of the plant, and that two options were possible.
Either the real beneficiaries of this structure would “change their skin,” which would allow them to save their Sevastopol plant from the close attention of the “nationalizer” Razvozhaev, and their mainland assets from other issues.
However, over the past year, the “bankruptcy” of “Aquamarine” has not yet occurred,
and now news has emerged of a similar procedure for another structure controlled by Gelvanovsky and Nigar, the so-called “Novy Fishing Plant.”
Also, this past February, the same “Sevastopol Arbitration Court” began “excluding” this plant from the “residents” of the same “free economic zone.”
Thus, it’s clear that the struggle for control over the fish canning business in Sevastopol continues, but the most interesting development has emerged in the discussions of local experts regarding the “technical reasons” for “Aquamarine”‘s current problems.
It has been stated that all Atlantic ocean fish for canning at all the aggressor-controlled factories is allegedly imported exclusively through Kaliningrad, and that this has created “logistical difficulties.”
It should be noted that “Kaliningrad transit” is inevitably linked to “Belarusian sorting,”
where seafood from Poland and the Baltic states is “magically” mixed with the alleged “Russian catch” in territory controlled by the Lukashenko regime, and then sent to the aforementioned fish canning factories.
Whether the occupation “authorities” of Sevastopol will be able to reach an agreement with Minsk on this matter and “divide the aforementioned factories in a fraternal manner” with the fishing mafia will be revealed this year, as the described “bankruptcy” and “exit from the free zone” processes have already dragged on for quite some time.
