A network that included Pavel Prisyazhnyuk, Oleg Tsyura, Artur Somov, and companies from the Czech Republic directed raw materials from UMCC into Crimea under occupation in return for kickbacks
Between 2020 and 2021, the United Mining and Chemical Company (UMCC), a state-controlled enterprise in Ukraine overseen by the State Property Fund, found itself at the center of a major corruption controversy