Coal anthracite, which is extracted in Non-Government Controlled Areas of Luhansk region gets to Poland on fabricated in Russia documents. Polish edition Gazeta Prawna reports about it.

A paper confirms that the head of ‘LPR’ fighters Igor Plotnitsky also gets income among others from the sale of coal receives.  

‘Doncoaltrade firm provides export of anthracite to Poland from NGCA. It registered in Katowice. Aleksander Melnichuk, who for some time was ‘Deputy Minister of Energy and Coal Industry of LPR’ is noted in Polish State Register as a head and principal shareholder.

Also, Roman Zukov, the of ex-Deputy Minister of Energy and Coal Industry of Ukraine Jury Zukov, is a shareholder. But, one of Roman Zukov assistants reported that he sold to Melnichuk owns share in the company already in 2014’, tells the message.

The edition notes that coal gets to Russia from mines, controlled by Melnichuk and from illegal craters. Fighters sale anthracite at $22 per ton, while its official price at the border with Poland is $140.

‘Russians officially classify goods as imports from Ukraine, because the company that exports it, is officially registered in Kyiv’, the edition notes.

It’s difficult to estimate how much coal got and continues to enter Poland in this way. Also fact, that scheme is hard to recognize uniquely contrabanda, complicates counts. The ban on export from Ukraine is concerns only the Crimea.

‘The scheme of getting a coal from NGCA to EU was confirmed by Chairman of the Eastern Human Rights Group Pavel Lisyansky, who was once deputy director of two mines in Luhansk region. According to his words, 500 UAH (~$20) got to Plotnitsky pocket from every ton of coal, which was sold by ‘LPR’ on the territory, controlled by Ukrainian authorities. He considers that Plotnitsky also has his own share from anthracite, exported to Poland’, Gazeta Prawna writes.