The head of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko nourishes hope for a quick sale of its assets confectionery Corporation Roshen, about it and he said in the forum international organization "Yalta European strategy" (YES) in Kiev.

"very hard to sell something in a country that is at war. My Russian assets in custody, I was not allowed to work. But I'm pretty sure soon you'll get important news, " said Poroshenko.
Roshen is one of the world's largest manufacturers of confectionery products, producing 450 thousand tons per year. The Corporation consists of a factory in the Ukraine, in Lithuania, Hungary and Russia. Poroshenko, in putting forward a candidate for President of Ukraine, made the promise in case of a victory on elections, to sell their main asset, however, as long as it was not - sell deals, the investment company Rothschild, which in the context of the conflict in Eastern Ukraine to find a buyer.

first Russian investigators in the process of criminal investigation arrested the property of the Lipetsk factory of the organization on 2 billion roubles. For example, the detention was imposed for a number of buildings (warehouse, four shops, a utility building), and on 7 plots of land belonging to the Lipetsk factory " Roshen ". The Moscow city court on 6 July rejected the request of the pastry about removal of arrest.

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