Occupiers decide to take away enterprises from Ukrainian owners in Kherson region

Occupiers decide to take away enterprises from Ukrainian owners in Kherson region

KATERYNA TYSHCHENKO – SUNDAY, 21 AUGUST 2022, 17:10

The Russian occupiers decided to give a new status to “abandoned” Ukrainian-owned enterprises, which their owners didn’t re-register in the Russian taxation office, and hand them over to the new owners.

Source: Sergei Eliseev, the so-called “head of the administration of the region”, cited by Interfax, the Russian propagandist outlet

Quote: “The (occupying) administration of Kherson Oblast decided to give such enterprises the ownerless status and hand them over to the State Property Fund of Kherson Oblast. The respective procedure has been worked out. These enterprises will be handed over for external management to those who want to be in charge of these assets, and who we deem deserving of being in charge of these enterprises”.

 “The owners, of course, have an opportunity to save their rights to their enterprises. There is only one mandatory condition: they have to re-register in the Taxation office, get the registration, and open bank accounts. They have to be clear and transparent to us. And then they are welcome to keep working; nobody gets in the way”.

Details: Eliseev also claimed that the process of switching from Ukrainian hryvnia to Russian rouble in the occupied part of Kherson Oblast may be durable.

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“The process will be soft and smooth. There will be quite a long transition period until we switch to the single currency system”, he explained.

Eliseev states that two currencies are currently being used in Kherson. In shops, it is possible to pay with hryvnias and roubles. However, the so-called “law enforcement” is using “means of administrative influence” on the entrepreneurs who don’t accept roubles.

Meanwhile, Ukrainian banks don’t work in the occupied territory of Kherson Oblast, and locals are not able to get hryvnias in cash.

Background: Yurii Sobolevskyi, deputy head of the Kherson Oblast Administration, reported that during the last few weeks, Russians strengthened the filtration measures in the Kherson region, and the number of people that they kidnapped is growing.

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