Court opens case on bankruptcy of Krymgaz under initiative of UkrGaz-Energo
The economic court in Crimea on January 4, 2013 opened a case on the bankruptcy of public joint-stock company Krymgaz, a gas supply company, the company has reported in the information disclosure system of the National Commission for Securities and the Stock Market of Ukraine.
The initiator of the bankruptcy case was Kyiv-based CJSC UkrGaz-Energo, which Krymgaz owed UAH 10.856 million.
The owner of UkrGaz-Energo is Swiss RosUkrEnergo AG.
As reported, private joint-stock company Gastek (Kyiv), which Ukrainian mass media affiliates with Dmytro Firtash, holds over 32% in Krymgaz. Another 15.5% belongs to state-run Chornomornaftogaz and 25% to national joint-stock company Naftogaz Ukrainy.
Krymgaz services gas pipelines in Crimea. The company provides services of distributing and supplying natural gas and connecting various facilities to the gas network.
Since early 2013, economic courts in the country have opened bankruptcy bases against public joint-stock companies Ivano-Frankivskgaz, Sumygaz, Chernihivgaz, Zakarpatgaz, Kryvorozhgaz, Mykolaivgaz, Kharkivmiskgaz, Vinnytsiagaz, Luhanskgaz and Dniprogaz.
The initiator of the cases for the said nine companies was public joint-stock company Ukrtransgaz and Eurogaz Invest Group LLC initiated a bankruptcy case for one company.
