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Today at about 11 o’clock, police officers in civilian clothes and in camouflage armed with automatic weapons forced open the doors of the office centres at the addresses Igorevskaya 7А and Igorevskaya 5\10, where, among others, office of Smart-Holding Company is located. Next, they went to the reception of Vadym Novynskyi, Member of the Parliament, and began the searching activities. Vadym Novynskyi informed them about the illegality of these actions, but the law-enforcement officers ignored his appeal in spite of the fact an agreement for lease of the office space was shown to them by the MP.

Smart-Holding, the principal owner of Amstor Group, applied to the law-enforcement authorities with the request to give a legal evaluation to the actions of Amstor’s ex-managers, Vladimir and Alexandr Vagorovskiy, who used the company’s funds to acquire securities to the amount of UAH 15 million, while the retail chain started accumulating debt to its suppliers.

Specialists of Smart-Holding and Amstor Group continue preparation of the retail chain’s stores for reopening. In most of the stores, IT infrastructure and databases have been restored, goods inventory and assortment replenishment have been made, testing of the sales process in one of Kiev's stores has been successfully completed.

The Supreme Administrative Court of Ukraine satisfied the cassation appeal of Yernamio Consulting LTD demanding revocation of the Deposit Guarantee Fund’s decision to wind up Bank Forum.

Smart-Holding, the main shareholder of Amstor Group, arranged for payment of salaries to employees of Amstor retail chain for December.

Smart-Holding, the main shareholder of Amstor Group, is going to terminate the labour agreements with the retailer’s employees staying away from their workplaces without valid excuses.

Smart-Holding addressed the employees of Amstor hypermarkets to come back to work to bring back the shops to normal life.  

Smart-Holding begins to restore the operation of a number of Amstor retailer’s hypermarkets. 

Amstor hypermarkets in Zaporozhye come back to normal operation gradually. Similar situation is reported in other regions. 

Representatives of Smart-Holding, the owners of Amstor Group, together with police officers have managed to get into some of the retailer's stores that were earlier blocked by armed men at the direction of the minority shareholder Vladimir Vagorovskiy