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A listed British company, Regal Petroleum plc (part of Smart Energy Group) has informed its shareholders, overseas partners and other stakeholders about searches made by Ukrainian tax authorities at its representative offices in Ukraine. The Company believes that such actions are pointless and cause harm to the general investment climate in Ukraine.

Smart Energy Group suggests creating a register of corrupt law enforcement officers that would contain information about particular executors that carry out culpable orders, fabricate evidence and perform investigative actions in violation of procedural rules to unlawfully press on business. The Group expects that this initiative will be supported by investigative journalists and companies that resist outrage of law enforcement officials.

Using the law enforcement system, the authorities continue their consistent pressure on Smart-Holding’s business. Today, representatives of the State Fiscal Service, upon the initiative of the Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine, are making searches at the gas producing companies of Smart Energy Group, at the head office and at its top executives' homes. Investigative activities are made in Kharkov and Kiev cities, as well as in Poltava region in the framework of investigation of the alleged fictitiousness of Smart Energy and, as a consequence, of the alleged tax evasion by the companies of the group.

Smart-Holding has traditionally supported and awarded its Prizes of Mercy within the framework of Pokrov International Orthodox Film Festival.

Today, Vadim Mokhov, the director of Ukrgazvydobutok (UGV), a volunteer well known in Kharkov and the region, has been detained. According to his lawyer, the detention was made with numerous violations of the criminal procedural provisions.

Smart-Holding and Park Inn by Radisson, the midscale hotel brand of Carlson Rezidor Hotel Group, announce the opening of the first Park Inn by Radisson Troyitska in Kyiv. This is Carlson Rezidor’s fourth hotel in Ukraine and third in Kyiv city. 

The Prosecutor General's Office continues its consistent pressure on the business of Smart-Holding and its beneficiary, an opposition politician Vadym Novynskyi. This is how today’s announcement of suspicion to Vasiliy Fedin, the general director of Smart Maritime Group Shipbuilding Company, is interpreted in Smart-Holding. He is accused of allegedly entering some false information into an official document more than five years ago.

Smart Energy Group reports unjustified pressure from the State Fiscal Service (SFS) and considers this as a biased interference with the group’s business that disturbs the companies’ operations.