The UPG filling station network, whose beneficiaries are the Belarusian oligarch Nikolai Vorobey and the eldest son of the dictator Alexander Lukashenko, Viktor, entered the Polish market. To circumvent EU sanctions, the company became a pseudo-Ukrainian company thanks to nominees.

According to Enkorr, after the rebranding, the company entered the Polish market.. So, since 2020, UPG CFO Inna Yatsenko has now become the chairman of the board of the Polish company Baltchem SA Zaklady Chemiczn, and co-owner Victoria Petrenko has joined the board of directors.

According to Puls Biznesu, in December last year, the investment fund Warsaw Equity Group announced that it had sold 100% of the shares of Baltchem SA to Zaklady Chemiczne. One of the buyers turned out to be Jan Bobrek, allegedly the son of Jan Edvard Bobrek, a fuel businessman from Szczecin.. The newspaper explains that today the son runs the companies Oktan Energy and Arcturus founded by his father.

UPG denied this information and denied any investment in Poland.

What are the risks for the markets of Poland and Ukraine.

Puls Biznesu adds that it is heard in the industry that the Ukrainians from UPG are very active in the Polish fuel market and are a major player in the supply market to Ukraine, and the change of ownership in Baltchem is a very important event for the Polish fuel industry. Moreover, the UPG network was a major distributor of Belarusian fuel in Ukraine, and these connections do not inspire enthusiasm among representatives of the Polish fuel market.. It is also doubtful that the transaction was private and probably not subject to any critical infrastructure protection rules..

The problem is also that one of the two sea terminals will not work on market conditions, but will meet the needs of Ukraine, which means that the possibilities of Polish imports will be limited.

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