Group plants Ostchem Dmytro Firtash denies the charges, the Ministry of internal Affairs of Ukraine of stealing public funds, reported in the treatment of Ostchem on the last working day of the week. yesterday the head of the Ministry of internal Affairs Arsen Avakov said that the interior Ministry brought the case under the criminal code by abuse of official position, which led to the theft of budget funds by officials of the group of plants Ostchem Dmytro Firtash. According to him, the actions of officials of the plants of PJSC " NITROGEN ", " Rivneazot ", " Concern styrene ", "Severodonetsk Association" NITROGEN " is measured as the actions that led to the theft of the country funds in the amount of at least 2, 3 billion UAH. "because of this Ostchem informs the following: company Ostchem group - PJSC" NITROGEN ", " Rivneazot ", "Concern" styrene "and PJSC" Severodonetsk Association "NITROGEN" are not stewards of public money, therefore do not have the opportunity to dispose of them and moreover " to plunder ", - the statement reads. The Firm also emphasizes that the debts plants Ostchem structures before the NJSC "Naftogaz of Ukraine" were formed fully in practice in the period before the acquisition of these plants Group DF (2010-2011), and " for this reason, any attack on the current officers of the plants at least incorrect ". It is noted that the debts of state entities before nitric Ostchem group significantly exceed the debts of the Ostchem before state agencies. For example, state-owned "Odessa port enterprise" until now obliged to enterprises for the group of at least 5 billion UAH, anyway, Ostchem not take any measures to recover these debts, realizing financial and economic situation in the state, the report says. "We emphasize that the companies of the group continue to fully and timely pay wages for its thousands of workers. In this case, two of the 4 companies - "styrene" and "Severodonetsk AZOT" - were stopped for safety in may of last year due to the military conflict, " the press service informs.