The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine included in the list of objects of large privatization 66.65% of shares in the authorized capital of the Ocean Plaza shopping center in Kyiv. This was announced by the representative of the Cabinet of Ministers in the Verkhovna Rada Taras Melnichuk.
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“Included in the List of Large Privatization Objects state ownership share in the amount of 66.65% of the authorized capital of the limited liability company “Investment Union “Lybid”,” says the message.
As you know, the Ocean Plaza shopping center was opened in Kyiv in December 2012 on st. Antonovicha, 176. Its total area is 165 thousand square meters. m. Investments in the facility amounted to about $300 million. The partners in the development of the project were UDP and K.A.N. LLC. Development.”
In 2012, the shopping center was sold to the Russian TPS-Real Estate to Arkady Rotenberg.
Later, in 2019, Ukrainian businessman Vasily Khmelnitsky indirectly through UPD Holdings Limited acquired 33, 5% shares of the Ocean Plaza shopping center.
In 2021, he sold his share to the owner of Q Partners, Andrey Ivanov. The agreement was finalized in the summer of 2023.
66.65% of the shares until March 2023 belonged to Russian sanctioned businessmen Arkady and Igor Rotenberg. However, the Supreme Anti-Corruption Court, by its decision, recovered them in favor of the state.