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Some media outlets posted information that Zaporozhnerudprom Company was shipping its product (crushed granite) to customers in the Russian Federation. This product is allegedly used in the construction of the so-called Kerch Bridge. Smart-Holding officially declares that this information does not correspond to reality. Currently, Zaporozhnerudprom does not have export contracts in its portfolio and supplies its products only to Ukrainian consumers in the domestic market.

Smart-Holding voices its protest against regular searches made in the Group’s companies and in the head office. We consider this kind of investigative procedures as unjustified pressure on business. We appeal to the Prosecutor General of Ukraine, the Head of the Security Service of Ukraine and personally to the President with a demand to stop using these grossest methods of penetration into the Company’s offices accompanied by damage to property. The legislation provides for such action only in extreme cases.

On 22 July 2016, several companies of Smart-Holding were searched on the basis of the respective court decision. 

Illegal searches are yet again made today in some of the companies included in the sphere of interests of Smart-Holding. Representatives of the Security Service of Ukraine under the guise of some questionable court decisions entered the offices of the companies saying that their goal was to study the question of the alleged "involvement of the Group's companies into financing of terrorism." Smart-Holding officially declares that neither the management company nor any of its subsidiaries or its beneficiary, one of the leaders of the Opposition Bloc Vadym Novynskyi, have anything to do with these trumped up charges.

Dear metallurgists and miners! Let me offer you my heartiest congratulations on the Metallurgists’ and Miners’ Day!

RBC-Ukraine: We met with the CEO of Smart-Holding Alexey Pertin to discuss the development outlook of the Ukrainian shipbuilding industry since forecasts by industry analysts predict a protracted global crisis for all shipyards. In particular, DanishShipFinance predicts that the world's largest shipyards may be left without any orders by 2017.

Shareholders of Kherson Shipyard made changes to the membership of the company's supervisory board.

The shareholders of Chernomorsky Shipyard approved the company's 2015 financial performance report.

Speaking at the Business Protection Forum, Lada Konduforova, Chief Legal Officer and General Counsel of SMART-HOLDING, noted that today businesses face two threats. The first one is competition. This is a normal threat that stimulates development. The second threat is the government authorities, which is not normal phenomenon for a state governed by the rule of law.

Chernomorsky Shipbuilding Yard (ChSY) commenced the implementation of a new contract by request of Dunaysudremont. The company will make undercoating, rolling, cutting and bending of metal totalling 100 tonnes. Further on, this metal will be used in the upgrade of Dmitriy Donskoy motor ship in Izmail.