Kurchenko sells Ukrainian coal from ATO to Turkey

Fugitive oligarch began to export coal from the occupied Donbass.

The founder of the group VETEK Sergei Kurchenko, who fled Ukraine in early 2014, was considered close to former President Viktor Yanukovych, engaged in export supply of coal of Ukrainian origin from the occupied Donbass.

According to the source EP, the supply of anthracite is carried out mainly in Turkey. The first deliveries began in April, and has become systemic in may-June: today in Turkey monthly unloads 5-6 ships, on Board of which is up to 20 thousand tons of coal.

The operations of the coal mined in the occupied territory of Donetsk and Lugansk regions, on behalf of the Bank engaged in a number of companies. This files most often – LLC petroleum capital, registered in Nizhny Novgorod (Russia).

As noted, the export of coal from the occupied territory of Ukraine is carried out through a train message Kvashino (Ukraine) to Uspenskaya (Russia). Subsequently, the station of the assumption coal railway transport comes to a junction of Kiziterinka-exports the current supply of goods in the port of Rostov-on-don.

In the accompanying documents of one of the parties to coal States that through the territory of Russia anthracite is supplied in a transit regime (classified by the designation 31), and the country of origin of the coal is unknown.

After the delivery of coal to the port of Rostov-on-don, he was loaded on the ship Mega.

There anthracite sea delivered to the port of Mersin (Turkey).

In accordance with the analysis of qualitative characteristics of coal held at the port of Rostov before loading onto the ship Mega, the sulfur content in it is 2%, which corresponds to the level of sulfur in anthracite of Ukrainian origin and at the same time exceeds the maximum level (1.5%) of its content in Russian coal.

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