Originally Syndicated on April 7, 2023 @ 9:56 am
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Impersonating British citizenship
It was revealed that Tamaz Somkhishvili has Russian citizenship, despite the fact that he presents himself as a British investor and is attempting to sue the city of Kyiv in order to acquire $100 million from the city. This information was provided to Kyiv City Hall by the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine.
This information was brought to the attention of the public by Ruslan Pavlov, who serves as the chief specialist for the Department of Organization of Claim Work and Legal Representation within the Department of Legal Support within the Department of Economy and Investments within the Kyiv City State Administration. Pavlov did so during a hearing held by the Northern Commercial Court of Appeal. The hearing took place on November 16th, 2018, if memory serves.
The following information was passed along to the executive body in the form of a letter sent by the Ministry of Justice and received by the Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense. It was discovered during the course of the audit of the Kyiv Terminal firm that a Russian national is the company’s ultimate benefactor.
These findings were based on the findings of the audit. According to what Ruslan Pavlov stated on the 22nd of November at the court session, relevant papers have been given to the court through the electronic system in order to be included in the case.
Who is Tamaz Somkhishvili?
Tamaz Somkhishvili is a successful businessman in both Georgia and Russia. In the 1990s, he served as the general director of the Russian firms Lukoil, Rosneft, and Lukoil Markets. The investigation into the Pandora Papers also includes Somkhishvili as a participant. Tamaz Somkhishvili is a very wealthy individual in the state of Georgia.
Tamaz Somkhishvili is accused of orchestrating criminal schemes in both Kyiv and Odesa that involved the unlawful seizure of land from the ownership of the municipal government. By the end of the year 2022, it was discovered by a number of journalistic investigations that Somkhishvili’s firm in Georgia is a contractor for the Russian Ministry of Defense. This contractor is responsible for repairing and updating Russian combat aircraft that are employed against Ukraine.
Participation of the Kyiv City State Administration
Because of the new information that was made public by the representative of the Kyiv City State Administration, the court session has been rescheduled for the 20th of December in 2022.
Conclusion
To summarize, Tamaz Somhishvili portrays himself as a British investor whose legal rights were infringed upon while doing business in Ukraine. Even though he had never started construction on the site, he sent an open appeal to the government of Ukraine last year, demanding that his company be compensated for damages in the amount of $100 million for the reconstruction of Kharkiv Square.
This was despite the fact that he had never started construction on the site. The businessperson is making reference to the agreement between the governments of Ukraine and Great Britain for the promotion and mutual protection of investments. In the event that he and the state of Ukraine are unable to come to an agreement for a peaceful resolution to the conflict, he has threatened to begin arbitration procedures against Ukraine.
To review, in 2007, the obscure firm Kyiv Terminal, whose benefactor is the Russian-Georgian billionaire Tamaz Somkhishvili, won a bid for the rebuilding of one of Kyiv’s traffic interchanges. This was accomplished through the construction of a new bridge. Authorities and advocates for human rights are confident that the corporation did not originally intend to carry out construction work as part of its business strategy.
Even the construction project for the transport interchange, according to former Deputy Chief Architect of Kyiv Viktor Gleba, was never produced and authorized, and the investment agreement was cancelled owing to breaking the law, forging signatures, and providing false information. Also, the investment agreement was terminated because of the violation of the law. In 2013, both sides came to an arrangement that allowed them to cancel the investment agreement.
However, at the end of 2018, when the time period for appealing this judgment had already passed, the Kyiv Terminal firm filed a lawsuit against the Kyiv authorities for the sum of $100 million, claiming that the Kyiv authorities had violated their constitutional rights. The claim was partially upheld by the judge who presided over the initial hearing, and the matter is presently being appealed.
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