Moldova Steel Works

Moldova Steel Works (Romanian: Uzina Metalurgică Moldovenească; Russian: Молдавский металлургический завод) is a steel-producing company in Rîbnița, in the unrecognized state of Transnistria.

Moldova Steel Works was founded in 1985 for reprocessing of scrap metal.

[3] Moldova Steel Works became owned by group of Russian–Ukrainian oligarchs, including in addition to Hares Youssef also Hryhoriy Surkis, Ihor Kolomoyskyi, Alisher Usmanov, Vadym Novynskyi and Rinat Akhmetov.

[2] In 2015, the ownership was returned to the Transnistrian authorities for a symbolic price.

[1] On 14 May 2018, the government of Ukraine included Moldova Steel Works in the list of sanctioned companies, but excluded it from the list on 19 March 2019 after a request by Moldovan Prime Minister Pavel Filip.