The doors barricaded by shopping baskets, missing money trays and cash register servers – that was what representatives of Smart-Holding, the retailer’s main shareholder, found in Amstor hypermarket at Pobedy street 64 in Zaporozhye. As a matter of fact, it took them some time to get inside the store. Similar situations were reported virtually in all the stores of Amstor retail chain.

The primary shareholder’s representatives lay the blame for sabotaging Amstor’s operations on the retail chain’s ex-manager Vladimir Vagorovskiy who was suspended from his position after his corrupt practices had been revealed.

Another problem that Smart-Holding representatives had to face was distrustful attitude of Amstor’s employees. Attempts to establish proper dialogue with the company’s staff members resulted in new facts of the ex-managers’ abusive practices being reported.

Smart-Holding is planning to restore full operations of all Amstor’s hypermarkets and eliminate the identified violations.

‘We can see goods on the shelves, but we need to conduct a full commodity and money inventory. To do this, we are contacting local employees asking them to come back to work and help us resume the stores’ operations, as we have many perishable goods in here. We are going to restore the financial documents that have disappeared from the stores. Of course, if we can rely on active support of the team members, we shall be able to do it in the near future,’ said Yevgeniy Zagorulko, Head of PR at Smart-Holding.