Украинская государственная компания «Нафтогаз» требует отменить сделку с американской фирмой Ukrainian Energy на разработку крупного нефтегазового месторождения Варвинское в Черниговской области. Разрешение на освоение было выдано в июле этого года.
Одним из основателей Ukrainian Energy является американский бизнесмен Майкл Блейзер, поддерживающий Рика Перри, который с марта 2017 года по декабрь текущего года был министром энергетики США. Блейзер ранее предоставлял Перри средства на проведение избирательных кампаний.
Экс-министр энергетики США в мае текущего года передал президенту Украины Владимиру Зеленскому список лиц, которые могли бы консультировать власти республики по вопросам, касающимся энергетики. Среди них был Блейзер. (С)
2 декабря министр энергетики и защиты окружающей среды Украины Алексей Оржель заявил, что правительство приняло решение о смене руководства государственных компаний, в том числе «Нафтогаза» и «Укрэнерго».
4 декабря депутат Верховной рады Алексей Гончаренко сообщил о том, что правительство Украины намерено провести аудиторскую проверку деятельности «Нафтогаза» за 2019–2020 годы. Соответствующее распоряжение подписано премьер-министром страны Алексеем Гончаруком. (С)
The suit was filed on Friday afternoon in the District Administrative Court of Kyiv, the sources tell TIME, and has not been previously reported. In a draft of the complaint obtained by TIME on Monday, Naftogaz alleges that the government of Ukraine acted illegally and with bias in July when it granted the oil and gas fields to an American company that is co-owned by Michael Bleyzer, one of Perry’s longtime allies and financial backers.
Bleyzer, a Ukrainian-born energy investor from Texas, insists that his company won the oil and gas exploration rights in Ukraine fairly and without any political influence. He says that the committee of government officials that made the decision was advised by outside experts who saw broader advantages in doing business with the U.S.
“The bid submitted by our company was judged as superior by the interagency committee as advised by a group of independent experts,” Bleyzer wrote in an email to TIME. “It was and is Ukraine’s goal to bring in much needed-foreign expertise and investment to find new fields, a goal advanced by this award.”
The Department of Energy (DOE) denied that Perry advocated for the business interests of any specific individual or company during his tenure as Energy Secretary, which ended this month. Rather, a department spokesperson said, Perry advanced the general interests of the U.S. energy sector. “Throughout his tenure at DOE, Secretary Perry championed the American energy industry all over the world,” Shaylyn Hynes, a spokesperson for the Department, said in a statement on Sunday. “[T]hroughout his engagements with Ukrainian officials Secretary Perry consistently called for the modernization and reform of Kyiv’s business and energy sector in an effort to create an environment that will incentivize Western companies to do business in Ukraine.”
Perry’s efforts to shape the energy sector in Ukraine have played out alongside the Trump Administration’s campaign of political pressure in the country. Starting this spring, Perry was part of a trio of senior U.S. officials—dubbed the “three amigos”—who took the reins of American policy in Ukraine. A whistle-blower’s complaint about Trump’s pressure campaign resulted this fall in an impeachment inquiry by Congress, which ended last week with the drafting of two articles of impeachment against the President. (С)
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