Authorizing the sale of assets of debtors "Naftogaz" law entered into force
The law, which will give you the opportunity to cancel the moratorium on the sale of the assets of debtor companies "Naftogaz of Ukraine" came into force on Sunday.
This Law, the Ukrainian Parliament adopted on 16 July, he is included in the package acts that Kiev must take to continue cooperation with the international monetary Fund.
in the explanatory paper to the law it is reported that utilities and energy companies with the share of state participation Over 25% owed to Naftogaz of about 1, 5 billion hryvnia ($68 million at current official rate). They did not have the most effective tools for debt recovery and mechanisms of influence on the enterprises-debtors.
Now, with the lifting of the moratorium, the property of the enterprises-debtors has an opportunity to be subjected to forced sale for debt repayment before "Naftogaz of Ukraine" and its subsidiaries, which supplied natural gas due to the license.
Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk before that, they stated that the document does not contain hidden mechanisms of privatization, because it does not extend to property not subject to privatization under the current law. According to him, the Law will give the opportunity to influence the oligarchs-owners of utility plants, which they collect money from people and not give them for gas to Naftogaz.