Oleh Hladkovskiy, who served as first deputy secretary of the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) until March of this year, again heads the Bogdan Corporation, which he headed from its inception in 2005 until being appointed to the civil service.
“Hladkovskiy, after almost five years in the civil service, has returned to the leadership of the corporation, being the founder and ultimate beneficiary of it. He will oversee the work of importing and dealer enterprises, and will be responsible for the strategy of automobile plants in Lutsk and Cherkasy,” the Corporation spokesman Serhiy Krasulia told the Interfax-Ukraine news agency.
As reported, on March 4, Poroshenko fired Oleh Hladkovskiy as NSDC first deputy secretary and as chairman of the inter-agency commission for military-technical cooperation and export control.
The Bogdan Corporation was established in February 2005 with the aim of implementing large-scale investment projects aimed at creating facilities in Ukraine for the production of all types of vehicles. As part of the investment program, the corporation built automobile plants in Cherkasy with a capacity of 120,000-150,000 cars and in Lutsk with a capacity of 6,000 buses and trolley buses per year.
In 2014, the factory in Cherkasy switched its production to military equipment.
As of 2019, in addition to the two factories, the corporation includes the import business of Hyundai, Haval, Great Wall, JAC auto brands, the Bogdan-Autoholding dealership business with trade and service enterprises in all regions of Ukraine.
