15.11.2024
Investigations
Money laundering
Мobilization
How Chinese companies put pressure on Ukraine and monopolize the agricultural sector

Shmyhal and the Cabinet of Ministers announced a review of absolutely all decisions on reservations for persons liable for military service and an audit of the “critical” status of enterprises.
However, it is hard to believe that the audits will take place, especially for those who received reservations not according to the law but for a fee. The top of the government has long been saturated with internal agreements and kickbacks, so neither daily detentions of MSEC heads nor revision of their conclusions will help to eradicate corruption during the mobilization procedure.
Therefore, we have previously written that there are suspicions about the integrity of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy in terms of issuing “critical” statuses. One of the cases is Order No. 577, which confirmed the status of LLC “COFCO AGRI RESOURCES UKRAINE” as critical for the functioning of the economy and ensuring the livelihoods of the population during the special period.
Why is this so?
Cofco Agri Resources Ukraine is a part of the Chinese national food corporation Cofco, which is one of the largest state-owned holdings in the Chinese food industry. Cofco not only provides food for millions of Chinese, but also has a significant impact on the agricultural market.
But the question arises: how did it happen that a company associated with China, which, according to foreign sources, supplies spare parts for Russian military equipment, receives the status of critical infrastructure in Ukraine? Cofco employees have reservations and protection from government agencies. Double standards?
At the same time, Cofco uses fraudulent schemes and artificially inflates its production volumes to reduce taxes. All payments are made in cash, which allows it to hide real data and avoid taxation.
So should we consider this company to be critically important for Ukraine, which now needs economic support?
Litigation and pressure from Cofco
For a year and a half now, Cofco AGRI RESOURCES UKRAINE has been trying to drag us into endless litigation. Numerous court manipulations and thousands of dollars in legal fees have already been incurred by the Chinese company. What’s the point? Another decision of the Kyiv Commercial Court confirmed that all of Cofco’s attempts were in vain. The agroholding only spent a lot of money and time on a lawyer and manipulations with the defendants’ involvement and abuse of procedural rights.
For example, in order to avoid repeated appeals to the Economic Court of Kharkiv Region, Cofco brought Gugl LLC as a co-defendant to the case in order to change the jurisdiction. In addition, Kofko tried to recover UAH 2 million in non-pecuniary damage from the NGO Non-Stop, but again failed.
So will this decision be the final chord in the case? Or will Kofko’s lawyers try to circumvent the law again and try to establish their own rules?
In any case, we know that the truth is on our side, so we will continue to catch up with those who are mercilessly robbing the country during the war.
At our initiative, tax audits have already been conducted by Kofco’s counterparties at EXPORT PLUS K LLC regarding compliance with tax legislation in the declaration for April 2024. Based on the results of the audit, the following tax violation notices were issued:
- TND (form “В4” dated 08.08.2024 №00450990704 – negative value in the amount of UAH 945,973 was reduced;
- TND (form “P” dated 08.08.2024 №00450940704 – additional VAT in the amount of UAH 1,784,630.00;
- TND (form “PS”) dated 08.08.2024 No. 00451000704, according to which a financial penalty in the amount of UAH 1,020.00 was applied.”
We will continue on. We will also work on initiating a review of the decision to book Kofko employees and recognize the company as “critical”.
We remind you that based on our materials, the BES detective unit is already conducting an investigation within the framework of proceedings No. 72024101400000019 under Part 1 of Art. 212 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. And the Main Department of the National Police in Dnipropetrovs’k region under No. 42023040000000579, which is combined with criminal proceedings No. 42023042040000052, No. 42024040000000154, No. 12023040000001223 on the grounds of criminal offenses under Part 1 of Art. 1 of Art. 212, ч . 1 Art. 209, ч . 3, ч . 4 Art. 190 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine, on the facts of possible tax evasion, duties and mandatory payments on the territory of Ukraine in 2022-2023, legalization of proceeds of crime and misappropriation of property by officials. It is therefore not surprising why Kofco’s arguments are not convincing.
We hope that law enforcement officers will properly investigate the fraudulent schemes, gray grain exports by Kofko and their alleged harborers.
We will not stop: Anyone who tries to silence us will be brought to justice. Soon we will mention another “hero” of the investigations – Kharkiv MP Subbotin, who is also trying to prevent the disclosure of the truth.
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