KIEV, May 22 – The key minority shareholders of Ukrnafta have decided not to participate in the meetings of the company's supervisory board, entrusting representation of their interests to lawyers.

According to a press release from Ukrnafta, the following shareholders were withdrawn from the supervisory board at a meeting on May 18, 2017: Ihor Kolomoisky, Hennadiy Boholiubov, Mykhailo Kiperman and Ihor Palitsa. Volodymyr Yemtsev (participated in the Chernihivoblenergo supervisory board, worked in a number of law firms from Dnipro), Vladyslav Lazorenko (represented the interests of Business-Invest IC LCC in a court), Maksym Yukhymenko (represented the interests of the registrar of Ukrnaftogaz finance company, acted as a secretary of the AeroSvit supervisory council) and Maria Pitta (the lawyer of the Cypriot law firm Soteris Pittas & Co) were introduced instead of them.