What Poroshenko fed: a Roshen employee told what sweets were made of. Sweets "Ferrero Rocher": producer (country) Poroshenko sweets

The Ukrainian corporation Roshen stops the production activities of the Lipetsk confectionery factory, the decision was made for economic and political reasons. The announcement of the closure was posted on the corporation's official website on Friday.

A complete shutdown of production and conservation of production and infrastructure facilities are scheduled for April 2017.
Roshen is one of the main business assets of the current President of Ukraine, Petro (the name of the corporation is formed from the second and third syllables of his last name). Roshen includes factories and dealerships in Ukraine, Lithuania, Hungary, Poland. Lipetsk production in Russia was acquired by the corporation in 2001.

Poroshenko Corporation is considered one of the largest confectionery manufacturers in the post-Soviet space, producing up to 450 thousand tons of products per year: caramel, toffee, cookies, etc. The most recognizable brand is Shalena Bdzhilka (Mad Bee) jelly candies.

"Mad bee" driven

Sweets from Poroshenko are a quite competitive budget-level product that is in demand both in Russia and Ukraine. But since 2013, due to the fall in incomes of the population, the demand for sweet products began to decline. Production at the Lipetsk confectionery factory fell by 3 times. The range has been reduced. In addition, in July 2013, he introduced a ban on the import of Ukrainian Roshen products. It seems that they found a harmful substance in Ukrainian sweets - benzopyrene. But it was more than just an excuse.

In fact, the ban on the import of confectionery products was a response to the introduction of special duties on imported cars in Ukraine, experts noted. Duties were raised to protect Ukrainian automakers. Russia, which then supplied Ukraine, including products, considered that due to duties it would incur a loss of about $36 million a year. In addition, at the end of the year, Ukraine was expected to sign an agreement on the creation of a free trade zone. This agreement would close Ukraine's path to the Customs Union, although Moscow did not lose hope for Ukraine's partnership.

Then the competitors rushed in, accusing Roshen of misusing Soviet confectionery brands. Searches were carried out at the factory, part of its property and accounts were arrested. For violations of copyright law, the factory paid 270 million rubles.

Claims against the Ukrainian corporation also appeared at. Russian tax officials checked the factory 4 times and charged additional income tax, VAT, first 631 million, and later another 374 million rubles. The factory acknowledged part of the claims and paid the arrears to the budget voluntarily, but it still disputes most of the claims in arbitration.

After Poroshenko came to power in Ukraine in May 2014, political reasons were added to the economic reasons that hinder the confectionery business. President Poroshenko, in order to avoid a conflict of interest, undertook to sell the Lipetsk factory. However, he admitted that the time for the sale is not the best.

“In the conditions of war, investments do not enter the country, no one buys anything,” complained Poroshenko. He did not rule out that if buyers were not found, then Roshen could be sold to management.

As a result, the Rothschild Group took over the search for buyers. The Russian confectionery holding Slavyanka was allegedly interested in the asset. But this information has not received official confirmation. The Ukrainian media also reported that Poroshenko's corporation was ready to be bought out by the son of the former president of Ukraine, Alexander Yanukovych. But these messages remained at the level of rumors.

Zhirinovsky offered Poroshenko barter

“The company could continue to work, but if the shareholders make such a decision, this is their sovereign decision,” commented the press secretary of the President of Russia.

In general, it is surprising that the factory has been afloat since 2014. This, of course, indicates a high margin of safety for this business project, says Georgy, head of operations on the Russian stock market at Freedom Finance Investment Company.

He considers it unlikely that even after the factory closes, competitors will be interested in this asset. At least in the near future. “It is not clear how long the bankruptcy procedure will take, what will remain of the factory,” says Vashchenko.

The Lipetsk factory is not Poroshenko's only geopolitical loss. Mariupolskaya stopped working in February 2014.

Kyiv, January 20 - RIA Novosti. Roshen Corporation, owned by the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko, decided to stop the work of the Lipetsk confectionery factory from April. This was said in a statement.

"Such a decision was made for political and economic reasons ... As it was reported repeatedly earlier, the seizure of the property of the Lipetsk confectionery factory, imposed by the investigative committee of the Russian Federation as part of an initiated criminal case, made the sale of the factory impossible," the corporation noted.

Roshen added that since 2013, production at the factory has halved. The company explains this by a sharp reduction in the range after the ban on the export of Ukrainian Roshen products to Russia by Rospotrebnadzor.

"Due to the decline in production, the factory has constantly carried out massive staff reductions. The remaining staff (about 700 people) have already been informed of the upcoming stoppage of the factory," the statement said.

The company noted that future cuts have already been reported to the Lipetsk Employment Center.

According to Roshen, in 2014-2016, the corporation received and transferred to Ukraine more than $72 million received from the operation of Lipetsk assets.

Roshen is one of the world's largest confectionery manufacturers, producing 450,000 tons of products annually. The corporation includes factories in Ukraine, Lithuania, Hungary and Russia.

Petro Poroshenko, putting forward his candidacy for the presidency of Ukraine, promised to sell Roshen, but the Rothschild investment company still cannot find a buyer.

Earlier, the former Deputy Prosecutor General of Ukraine Renat Kuzmin called on the SBU to initiate a criminal case on high treason against Poroshenko and top managers of Roshen.

An employee of the enterprise of the President of Ukraine noted the terrible quality of confectionery

The other day, President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko said that all the rumors that his “Russian asset”, the Lipetsk confectionery factory Roshen, continues to bring him income, and most importantly, pay taxes to the treasury of the Russian Federation, are unreliable. According to him, the factory is closed and will not be launched again. And President Putin allegedly prevents Poroshenko from selling it. What is happening with the Lipetsk factory, MK found out

To begin with, we were confirmed that production at the Russian Roshen factory is now completely mothballed. There are no more than ten people on the territory of the factory, mostly security guards. However, it is still in the possession of Petro Poroshenko. According to the Ukrainian president, the confectionery factory was arrested on Putin's orders so that the enterprise could neither be sold nor transferred. Thus, the Russian president allegedly set the Ukrainian oppositionists against Poroshenko, who had reason to accuse him of having a business in the “aggressor country”.

However, the company's problems began only in 2015. In April, the TFR conducted searches “on the fact of fraudulent embezzlement of funds in the amount of 180 million rubles through illegal reimbursement of value-added tax from the Russian budget by Lipetsk Confectionery Factory Roshen OJSC. The Russian Investigative Committee claimed that in 2012-2013 the factory sent fake documents to the interregional inspectorate of the Federal Tax Service of Russia for the Lipetsk region about allegedly completed work on the construction of a confectionery factory for a total amount of more than 1 billion rubles, including demanding a VAT refund in the amount of 180 million rubles. In early 2016, the Moscow City Court seized the property of the factory. This was followed by mass layoffs of employees. In total, more than 500 people were left without work.

Now they are all safely employed. “They were sent to other companies, or organized their own business. Many went to enterprises related to confectionery activities or, for example, to the production of pasta, ”Dmitry Zhukov, First Deputy Head of the Labor and Employment Department of the Lipetsk Region, told MK.

One of the former employees of the plant told us that he was even glad that the enterprise was closed. “The salary was normal, the average for the region was about 25-30 thousand rubles. But the quality of that product was terrible. Much of what was added to sweets was not indicated in the composition, and these were tons of chemistry. Huge amounts of ammonia and a variety of other compounds, some of which look like black snot and other waste products with a corresponding smell, ”he said.

The worst thing, he said, was that all production was waste-free. “This means that after the production of one type of candy, everything that remains in the tanks is dumped into one large tank of about 4 tons. All expired products go into the same barrel, everything that did not pass the test in the laboratory. All this, together with candy wrappers, sticks, a huge amount of starch and chemicals, was ground and used to manufacture products. In this way, sweets "Levushka", "Mad Bee" and so on were obtained. A similar situation with cereals and jam. There was a case when the tank overturned and we collected all this mass directly from the floor. It was just a nightmare,” he said.

By the way, in 2013, the sale of sweets by a Ukrainian enterprise was already banned on the territory of Russia, since they contain our benzopyrene. When checking in the retail chains of Moscow, sweets produced at four Roshen factories were selected - in Kyiv, Vinnitsa, Mariupol and Kremenchug. The audit showed that the products "do not meet the declared parameters" and there are violations "to quality and safety" in it.

In February of this year, Roshen President Vyacheslav Moskalevsky (the company was transferred to the trust management of the Rotshild Trust) said that he would prefer that the factory "go to no one" if it was not bought at a market price. He is ready to sell it for no less than 200 million dollars. Previously, Slavyanka holding and Magnit structures were named among possible buyers. However, these rumors have not been confirmed so far.

Finam Group analyst Alexei Kurenev, in an interview with MK, said that the factory remains attractive for purchase. The new owner can be found both in Russia and abroad. “The company has worked well and has no problems with the equipment. Yes, they have losses, because the cost is now higher than the revenue. If they go to someone strong who has an established sales market, then the issue of revenue will quickly return to normal, ”the expert said, concluding that“ it is quite possible to revive production.

Kyiv, January 20 - RIA Novosti. Roshen Corporation, owned by the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko, decided to stop the work of the Lipetsk confectionery factory from April. This was said in a statement.

"Such a decision was made for political and economic reasons ... As it was reported repeatedly earlier, the seizure of the property of the Lipetsk confectionery factory, imposed by the investigative committee of the Russian Federation as part of an initiated criminal case, made the sale of the factory impossible," the corporation noted.

Roshen added that since 2013, production at the factory has halved. The company explains this by a sharp reduction in the range after the ban on the export of Ukrainian Roshen products to Russia by Rospotrebnadzor.

"Due to the decline in production, the factory has constantly carried out massive staff reductions. The remaining staff (about 700 people) have already been informed of the upcoming stoppage of the factory," the statement said.

The company noted that future cuts have already been reported to the Lipetsk Employment Center.

According to Roshen, in 2014-2016, the corporation received and transferred to Ukraine more than $72 million received from the operation of Lipetsk assets.

Roshen is one of the world's largest confectionery manufacturers, producing 450,000 tons of products annually. The corporation includes factories in Ukraine, Lithuania, Hungary and Russia.

Petro Poroshenko, putting forward his candidacy for the presidency of Ukraine, promised to sell Roshen, but the Rothschild investment company still cannot find a buyer.

Earlier, the former Deputy Prosecutor General of Ukraine Renat Kuzmin called on the SBU to initiate a criminal case on high treason against Poroshenko and top managers of Roshen.

During an online conference with specialists from the Center for Hygiene and Epidemiology in the Altai Territory, a reader of the Amic.ru portal asked if the sale of sweets of the Ukrainian brand Roshen is now allowed.

“Quite a long time ago, Onishchenko imposed a ban on the sale of Roshen sweets (it was even before the events in Ukraine), because benzopyrene was found in them. But sweets continued to be sold en masse in the markets and are sold to this day. Has the ban been lifted now and what are analyzes on the danger of these products (especially after the Ukrainian events). I love these sweets, they are very tasty, but I'm afraid to take them," a NiGHT reader wrote. We publish the answer of a specialist in the "Question-Answer" section:

Is the sale of Ukrainian "Roshen" sweets allowed in Russia?

The state information resource does not contain information about the withdrawal of the ban established by the letter of the Federal Service of Rospotrebnadzor dated July 29, 2013 No. 01 / 8613-13-32, namely, the suspension of the import into the territory of the Russian Federation of confectionery products (HS codes 1704, 1806) produced on factories of the Confectionery Corporation "Roshen" (Ukraine): PJSC "Kyiv Confectionery Factory "Roshen", PJSC "Vinnitsa Confectionery Factory", PJSC "Mariupol Confectionery Factory "Roshen", PJSC "Kremenchug Confectionery Factory "Roshen".

Then why do they keep selling this brand of candy?

Lyubov Mikhalenko, a specialist at the Center for Hygiene and Epidemiology in the Altai Territory, draws attention to the fact that Roshen brand candies from other manufacturers, including those operating in the Russian Federation, may be on sale.

Thus, the Roshen factory is located in the Russian city of Lipetsk. However, the production process at the factory is completely stopped. In June 2017, the conservation of production was completely completed at the factory. At the same time, the property of the factory was arrested by decision of the Moscow Basmanny Court. That is, the owner of the enterprise cannot sell it.

In addition, the Roshen corporation includes Lithuanian, Hungarian, Kazakh and even Chinese divisions.

Why was Roshen candy banned in Russia?

On July 29, Rospotrebnadzor announced that violations of quality and safety were identified in the products of the Roshen factory entering Russia. In particular, a dangerous chemical compound, benzopyrene, has been found in milk chocolate. As a result, a ban was introduced on the import of this company's products to Russia.

However, Roshen said that the company has always complied with all certification rules, complied with the necessary sanitary standards, observing the requirements of the state regulatory documentation of Ukraine and the Russian Federation.

Checks of the company's products were also carried out by Kazakhstan, Belarus, Moldova and a number of other countries. They did not find any violations. However, in Russia the ban continues to operate.

What is benzopyrene and why is it dangerous?

Benzopyrene is an aromatic compound and is considered a substance of the first hazard class. It is dangerous to humans even at low concentrations, has carcinogenic properties, and is capable of causing a mutagenic effect. In experimental studies, malignant tumors arose in animals.

The main sources of benzopyrene consumed by humans are: ambient air, tobacco smoke, heating (burning wood, coal or other biomass), road transport, asphalt, coal tar. The main food sources of benzopyrene are cereals, oils and fats, smoked products. The WHO recommends a dietary intake of benzopyrene of no more than 0.36 micrograms per day.

Is it true that Roshen is owned by Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko?

Yes. And, according to Wikipedia, the name of the corporation "Roshen" is formed by discarding the first and last syllables from the name of the founder of the corporation - Petro Poroshenko.

However, while participating in the presidential elections in Ukraine in 2014, Poroshenko announced his intention to sell Roshen. In January 2016, he announced that he had signed an agreement on the transfer of his stake in the Roshen confectionery corporation to the management of the independent trust fund Rothschild Trust, due to which, until the end of his presidential powers, he would no longer be able to influence the business.