Privatization during the war: the State Property Fund was accused of not selling, but distributing enterprises

11 May 2023, 12:55 | Economy 
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Privatization of state-owned enterprises during the war is inexpedient, especially at the price that they are willing to pay today. This was stated by MP, member of the parliamentary committee on tax and customs policy Nina Yuzhanina in a comment to UNN.

Yuzhanina stressed that it is first necessary to put things in order in the privatization mechanism, conduct an accurate audit of state-owned enterprises, and only then carry out privatization.

“I believe that we have no right to sell state-owned enterprises at such a price as now - it's the same as giving them away. Our country must have a strategic vision of economic development. And perhaps many enterprises could be re-profiled and start a trend of creating new important industries in Ukraine. I am against what is happening now,” she said..

Yuzhanina said that so far the property of state-owned enterprises has no real value, so first you need to put things in order in this matter.

“We spoke at a meeting with the chairman of the State Property Fund Rustem Umerov that it is necessary to conduct a more or less understandable audit of the cost of objects that they are now going to put up for privatization. This was not done,” Nina Yuzhanina stressed..

Recall, the head of the State Property Fund, Rustem Umerov, told Bloomberg that the so-called " This requires a decision of parliamentarians, which is expected at one of the next May meetings..

The first to be sold under the hammer are the Odessa port plant, Centrenergo, the United Mining and Chemical Company, the Zaporozhye titanium and magnesium plant and the Indar plant, which produces insulin..

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