Amstor Retail Team manages commercial properties in central and eastern Ukraine.

Business partners Shifrin and Vahorovskyi offered Vadym Novynskyi 70% of Amstor's stock in exchange for working capital and restructuring the company's excessive credit portfolio.

Similar schemes were used when withdrawing vehicles and special machinery that belonged to the retail chain.

From the publication of receipts in social media from the supermarkets in December 2014, Volodymyr Vahorovskyi was discovered to have used the money to buy an apartment in Hrushevsky Street in Kyiv, an expensive car, etc.

In 10 days, servers were removed, labour books of employees disappeared, and the IT infrastructure of Amstor, contacts of suppliers, and accounting papers were destroyed.

[9] Amstor LLC was declared bankrupt by the decision of the Commercial Court of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast on 23 July 2019.

[10] In December 2020, Madera Development, whose beneficiary is Ihor Mazepa, acquired several shopping centers, land, and commercial equipment from Amstor at an auction in the Prozorro system.

These stores were initially operated under the supervision of Vahorovskyi, who had negotiated with the leaders of the temporarily occupied territory of Donetsk.

Subsequently, Vahorovskyi lost control of the Amstor stores in the territory of the Donetsk People’s Republic due to actions by local militants.