Gennady Minin – who is he – how is he connected to Russia

Main points

• Gennady Minin, owner of the Trypillya Packaging Plant, has business connections in Russia and the occupied territories.
• Minin and his family deny the charges, but journalists have uncovered documents indicating their involvement in Russian businesses.

Gennady Manin's business in Russia and under occupation / Collage 24 Channel

Ukrposhta purchases boxes from a person who has a Russian passport. In addition, the person owns a business in both the aggressor country and the occupied country.

What is known about Gennady Minin?

We are talking about the head of business structures engaged in paper recycling and cardboard packaging production in Ukraine, as Schemy writes.

Gennady Minin owns, in particular, the Trypillya Packaging Plant in the Kyiv region. According to the Bi Prozorro analytics module, since the beginning of the full-scale invasion in 2022, the plant has concluded contracts with Ukrposhta for the supply of boxes and crates worth almost 90 million hryvnias .

Gennady Minimi headed RKTK – “Rubizhansk Cardboard and Packaging Plant” in Luhansk Oblast in 1991. Before the full-scale war, the plant was the market leader among corrugated packaging (cardboard packaging) manufacturers in Ukraine.

After the Russian occupation, Gennady Minin's enterprises – RKTK and Donmakr (part of the RKTK corporate group) – were re-registered in accordance with the legislation of the aggressor country. In the fall of 2022, they appeared in the register of legal entities of Russia with the same names as before. Gennady Minin is listed as the head in the register.

Thanks to journalists' sources in the Russian tax service, we managed to obtain a number of documents containing signatures similar to those of Gennady Minin from the official websites of his Ukrainian enterprises,
– the material says.

Please note! At the same time, Minin and his lawyer denied such accusations.

According to information, Gennady Minin and his wife Natalia have Russian citizenship . However, Minin himself calls himself a citizen of Ukraine.

Journalists also discovered that the businessman's relatives have their own business in Russia – in paper recycling and corrugated packaging. And in the financial reports, RKTK is listed as the main shareholder of the enterprise “Packaging Kuban” in the Krasnodar Territory.

During a conversation with a journalist, Minin confirmed that “there is such a company, it is in Russia, yes.” In addition, the businessman's son , Kirill Minin, is a member of the board of directors of Packaging Kuban.

• He is also a co-owner of a dozen Russian companies in the Krasnodar Territory and the Rostov Region.
• One of them – “Papyr Group” – was co-owned by the wife of Gennady Minin until 2017.
• In the other one – “Papyr” – the businessman himself received a salary.

And together with Kirill Minin, a Russian named Andrey Nikulin had a joint residence permit. He has five companies that sell cardboard in other regions of Russia, as well as recycle paper – also in the territory of the aggressor country.

Nikulin also owned a Cypriot company, which in turn is a co-founder of the company “Darpak”. Now it is the company of Maria Kibireva – the daughter of Gennady Minin. “Darpak” produces paper products, as well as two other companies in which Maria has shares,
– the investigation says.

Note! Moreover, Minin was elected as a deputy of the Luhansk Regional Council from the “Party of Regions” in 2010 and the Seversko-Donetsk District Council from the OPZZH in 2020. And in October 2020, Putin met with Medvedchuk, when the latter asked the Russian president to lift sanctions on some Ukrainian companies. And they were indeed lifted, in particular against Minin's RKTU.

We would like to remind you that one of the important problems for Ukrainian business is the occupation of territories. This was reported by member companies of the European Business Association.

Entrepreneurs identify the following as the top problems that negatively affect business:

1. attacks on the Ukrainian energy system (82%);
2. lack of qualified workers (78%).

War and occupation of territories takes third place – 66%.

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What else is known about business news?

• Almost half of Ukrainian companies – namely 47% – do not expect the war to end in 2026. At the same time, 76% of member companies of the European Business Association will continue to operate in Ukraine regardless of the end of hostilities.

• In particular, Russia wants to take the intellectual rights of foreign companies under “temporary management.” We are talking about businesses from “unfriendly” countries that have left Russia.