Turkish Onur purchases a 37.5% share in a Ukrainian gold mining company

Turkish company Onur Taahhüt Taşımacılık İnşaat Ticaret ve Sanayi Anonim Sirketi purchased a 37.5% share in Spys Ukraine LLC that was awarded a contract for exploitation of a gold bearing vein within Zhovti Vody area in Dnipropetrovsk oblast, according to nadra.info citing a post on YouControl open data service.

At the end of December 2020, the ultimate beneficiary and the owner of Spys Ukraine was a national of Turkey, Mr Firat Çakmak. The main area of activity of the Company, according to its incorporation documents, was “activity of holding companies”.

Now the main activity is “mining of other non-ferrous metal ores”. According to YouControl, the founders of Spys Ukraine are:

• Emre Karaakhmetohlu, whose contribution into the authorized capital amounted to ₴5.5 million. Share — 5%
• Onur Taahhüt Taşımacılık İnşaat Ticaret ve Sanayi Anonim Şirketi, a joint stock company with the contribution into the authorized capital amounting to ₴41.6 million. Share — 37.5%
• Çetin İşletmeleri İnşaat Taahhüt Proje Mühendislik Taşımacılık Turizm Madencilik Ticaret Ve Sanayi Anonim Şirketi, a joint stock company with the contribution into the authorized capital amounting to ₴11.1 million. Share — 10%
• Özdoğu Sarp İnşaat Madencilik Turizm Taşımacılık Ve Ticaret Anonim Şirketi, a joint stock company with the contribution into the authorized capital amounting to ₴19.4 million. Share — 17.5%
• Yapi Turizm Ve Ticaret, a joint stock company with the contribution into the authorized capital amounting to ₴33.3 million. Share — 30%

All founding natural persons and legal entities are either registered in Turkey or are Turkish nationals respectively. The current ultimate beneficial owners are reported to be the following nationals of Turkey:

• Onur Çetinceviz with a share in the authorized capital of 40.63%
• Murat Kavak — 20.34%
• Güliz Kavak — 12%

As GMK Center reported earlier, on 24 December 2020, Spys Ukraine LLC was awarded a contract through the Prozorro.Sale system for exploitation of a gold bearing vein within Zhovti Vody area in Piatykhatky rayon, Dnipropetrovsk oblast. The price of the contract was ₴5.73 million.

In April 2021, Spys Ukraine LLC was awarded a contract through the Prozorro.Sale system for exploitation of an area with graphite deposits and ground process water reserves.

Spys Ukraine LLC was incorporated in February 2010 in Lviv under the name of Gloria Jean’s Coffees Lviv.

Onur Taahhüt Taşımacılık İnşaat Ticaret ve Sanayi Anonim Sirketi was founded in 1991. The Company builds and reconstructs motor roads, bridges and structures. It has a vast experience in implementing infrastructure projects in Ukraine.