Russian businessman Tamaz Somkhishvili, who is trying to sue Kyiv for UAH 4 billion and was recently exposed for repairing Russian combat aircraft, may be added to the sanctions list of the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) of Ukraine.
The corresponding appeal to the SBU and other state bodies was sent by blogger, journalist and TV presenter Serhii Ivanov, who tells about this on Facebook.
In 2007, the Ukrainian company of the Russian-Georgian businessman Tamaz Somkhishvili Kiev-Terminal won a competition for the reconstruction of Kharkiv Square in Kyiv. Construction work never began. But in 2018, Tamaz Somkhishvili, as a ‘British investor’, filed a lawsuit against the KCSA demanding to compensate him for losses and lost profits totaling UAH 4 billion. The blogger talked about how the Georgian businessman became a ‘British investor’.
"The Georgian crime lord who has dealt with the Siberian oil issues for half his life suddenly becomes a 'British investor' because of a fictitious marriage that breaks up after acquiring citizenship. After that, he marries a Ukrainian woman who, by a strange coincidence, is a member of the Union of Writers of Russia, writes poems about the ‘Donetsk conflict’ and dreams of the USSR restoration. Then this crime lord goes to Kyiv, declaring his intention to invest in the reconstruction of Kharkiv Square, in fact, he just wants to seize the area, and sell it for commercial development," thinks the journalist.
Serhii Ivanov explains how Tamaz Somkhishvili is associated with Russia and remains a citizen of the occupying country.
"He (Tamaz Somkhishvili) agrees with Yanukovych followers that after the termination of the investment agreement, he will be paid retreats through the court or given land. But the Revolution of Dignity occurs, and Yanukovych followers flee to Moscow. The crime lord is still trying to knock out $100 million from Kyiv through the court. Despite the bluntness of the lawyers, the crime lord manages to engage the judge of the Economic Court of Kyiv, who decides to pay him $25 million. And although the appeal of the decision is overturned, the judge of the Supreme Court, a great friend of the developer Mykytas, returns the case to appeal. Next, security authorities become interested in this process. The Defense Intelligence reports that the Georgian crime lord is a citizen of Russia, and I am writing about it," continues the blogger.
The TV presenter publishes evidence linking Somkhishvili and his son with a contractor of the Russian Defense Ministry.
"The crime lord’s lawyer (a Lviv resident, by the way) comes to me in the comments and begins to defend Somkhishvili, accusing me of Bolshevism. I publish an article in Dzerkalo Tyzhnia, in which I provide not only evidence that the crime lord is a citizen of Russia, has registration and housing there, but also that he controls the Tbilisi Aircraft Plant, which is a co-founder of the Russian company NPK "Shturmoviki Sukhogo" (Sukhoi Attack Aircraft), which, in turn, is a contractor of the Russian Defense Ministry and repairs Russian combat aircraft killing Ukrainians," notes Serhii Ivanov.
The journalist also appeals to the SSU and the NBU with a demand to add Somkhishvili to the sanctions list. "I published a photo of the Russian passport of the crime lord’s son who is a member of the board of the plant that repairs Russian Su fighters and at the same time officially appealed to the Security Service of Ukraine, the Presidential Office, the Verkhovna Rada, the Cabinet of Ministers and the NBU with a demand to resolve the issue of initiating NSDC sanctions against Tamaz ‘Tobolskyi’ Somkhishvili (this is the name of the crime lord)," sums up Serhii Ivanov.