KIEV, April 29 – Kiev's Pechersky District Court has satisfied a claim of the Chief Investigation Department of the Interior Ministry and seized around 500 million cubic meters of natural gas belonging to Ostchem Group.

"In a ruling the Pechersky District court of Kiev satisfied a claim of the Chief Investigation Department of the Interior Ministry on arresting almost 500 million cubic meters of natural gas stored in special gas storage facilities of public joint-stock company Ukrtransgaz and belonged to the Ostchem Group. The court obliged Ukrtransgaz to store natural gas and banned anyone from managing this amount of gas, including sale and transfer of gas," the press service of the Interior Ministry said on Wednesday.