Participants of the press conference held on September 29 in the premises of the "UNIAN" information agency expressed sincere surprise at the actions of the Lutsk City Council, which at a session meeting on June 20 of this year adopted a decision to sell the land plot where the production premises of the joint venture "Bonita" are located to another enterprise - "Escape".
The press conference was attended by: director of the enterprise with foreign investments "Bonita" Ivan Shumytskyi, director of the investment fund "Ukraine" John Chapman (USA) and billionaire Felix Zivi (Switzerland).
According to Ivan Shumytskyi, the story began with the sale to the enterprise "Escape" of a refrigerator building at 26 Rankova Street in Lutsk. Subsequently, this action was challenged in the Commercial Court of Volyn Oblast. The director of "Bonita" claims that city officials took into account neither the enterprise's appeal to the prosecutor's office dated May 26, nor "Bonita's" documents confirming ownership of the allegedly sold refrigerator.
The main argument for removing "Bonita" from the list of candidates for the land plot, which the enterprise has been using for several years, was the statement that the funds from the sale of the plot to the enterprise with foreign investments would be directed to the state rather than the local budget, although this does not correspond to reality.
John Chapman believes that the investors will manage to resolve the problematic issue with the help of senior Ukrainian officials; in particular, he asked the US Ambassador to Ukraine John Herbst for assistance in this matter at their meeting, which also took place yesterday. The general characterization that Mr. Chapman gave to the situation is that "local hooligans are trying to take away our business".
The investors and managers of the enterprise "Bonita" are convinced that the deputy corps of the Lutsk City Council, after familiarizing themselves with all the circumstances of the situation, will cancel its decision regarding the sale of the land plot, and all the dots over the "i" will be placed by the courts.