OREANDA-NEWS. August 16, 2012. The press-conference of NSIC “Oranta” concerning the situation which arose in the media scene around the company’s name took place. As IGOR PUGACHOV, the Chairman of the Management Board of NSIC “Oranta” said to the reporters on the night of Thursday, July 19 to Friday, July, 20 the clients of NSIC “Oranta” received the spam SMS message from the subscriber who calls itself OrantaInfo from the 044-373-69-95, and possibly from some other telephone numbers. The false messages purportedly being sent on behalf of the company continued to be sent to the clients during all weekend up to Monday, July 23. The contact clients’ data were used illegally by the persons undefined till now.

The SMS message stated the client must come to the nearest representative office of the company to receive the payments and the contact telephone numbers were indicated being corrupt only for one number of the telephone number of the call-center and the office telephone number of NSIC “Oranta”. Herewith the most part of the messages was sent to the insured persons who did not have the loss events or whose loss events have been already paid by the company in the form of the insurance compensation. “It is obvious that this campaign was purposely held by the ill-wishers in order to destabilize the company’s activity, to disorient the clients and to dissatisfy them, to shutter the confidence of the insured persons to the company”, -commented Igor PUGACHOV.

Moreover, as the response to the current statement of the company that the distribution is the false information and the settlement of losses and the payment of the insurance compensations are made to the clients in the standard mode less than in a day at the Internet-sire “Obozrevatel.com” the anonymous article appeared which accuses the company “Oranta” in the fact that this SMS distribution was made by the employees of the company with the sole purpose – to cheat the clients. This article has slanderous character in order to further discredit NSIC “Oranta” and disorients the clients of the company.

The Chairman of the Management Board of NSIC “Oranta” noted that the other illegal deeds were made towards the company. During the last month the company received the information from the greater part of the clients about the illegal gathering and use of the personal data by the unauthorized persons who act as it said to be on behalf of the public organizations, so-called “Forum on Kiev conservation” and “Fund of the Insured Persons protection”. Herein the insured persons complained that the unknown persons during the telephone conversations busily insisted on signing by the clients of the declaration letters which would as it called assist in acceleration of the insurance compensations payments.

"These actions clearly are directed against “Oranta” and took place on the background of the fact that during the last five weeks in the Internet the anonymous articles appeared and continued to appear which can be classified only as the slander. Most of these texts were published for publicity purposes through the commercial departments of the publishing house. It is not difficult to follow the system: the articles are anonymous, they use the facts about the company which were interrupted and warped”, - told the Chairman of the Management Board of NSIC “Oranta” to the reporters. According to the report of the several sources in the mass-media the negative information at the Internet resources is placed by the employees of “Context-Media”, LLC who distribute the text of the knowingly untrue message concerning the NSIC “Oranta” as the press-release with the request to put this text as the publication on the commercial basis.

Together with the campaign concerning the publication of the slanderous messages in mass-media directed against NSIC “Oranta” in the publication “Vedomosti GKYSBFR” ¹133 on 17.07.2012 the message appeared specifying the fact that the registered at the British Virgin Islands the company WEST MIDLANDS HOLDINGS CORP. is intended to buy the shares of NSIC “Oranta”, the block of which together with the blocks being owned by its affiliated structures will make more than 50% of the common shares of the company. Also it was informed that this corporation together with its affiliated persons does not possess the shares of NSIC “Oranta” now.

Besides on Monday, July 23, 2012 NSIC “Oranta” received the letter from the authorized representative of the mentioned company O.Borobinets in which the corporation informs about its intension to but the shares of NSIC “Oranta” and requests the documents necessary to get the permission of the Anti-monopoly Committee of Ukraine for the economic concentration. According to this letter the corporation asks to transfer the requested documents at the Kyiv address of “Investment group “INEKO”, LLC.

"Most of the Shareholders of the company are not intended to sell the blocks of the shares which they own in NSIC “Oranta”. That’s why the questions arises in what way th corporation WEST MIDLANDS HOLDINGS CORP. and its affiliated persons are going to obtain the 50-percent control over NSIC “Oranta” if the most of the owners of the company’s shares do not know about it? – shared the doubts Igor PUGACHOV.

All events mentioned above took place practically simultaneously during the several days on the background of the aggressive “black” campaign being organized against “Oranta” in the Internet-Mass-media and it brings the Management of the company to the conclusion that the insurer became the object of the attempt of the hostile takeover or the raiding. "Such methods including the illegal ones directed against “Oranta” can be used with the purpose to ruin the image of the company, to belie and discredit the company before the clients, the business partners and the publicity as the result to decrease the value of the company to the maximum, to force the shareholders to hurriedly sell the shares of NSIC “Oranta”. It turns out that the unknown to us corporation in the clear manner states about its intension to get the control over NSIC “Oranta” on the background of the outright use of the raiding technologies directed against the company", - commented the situation the Chairman of the Management Board of “Oranta” Igor PUGACHOV.

According to the above mentioned events NSIC “Oranta” addressed the Ministry f Internal Affairs of Ukraine with the request to check how the company WEST MIDLANDS HOLDINGS CORP. and its Ukrainian representative “Investment group “INEKO”, LLC are connected with the raiding attempts and the attempts to discredit NSIC “Oranta” and if these attempts were organized by the mentioned companies. "We hope that the law enforcement authorities will consider our request and the intruders will be found and punished", - underlined Igor PUGACHOV.

It should be noted that NSIC “Oranta” finds impossible the scenario of the hostile takeover and claims that he Management of the company continues to work, aims to strengthen its leading positions and continues frankly inform the publicity about all processes taking place in the company. “Nowadays we see that the plan of the intruders to destabilize the company’s activity failed, “Oranta” works consistently, and there are no factors for the change of our stable work. For us it is very important now to protect the interests of the clients, to minimize those negative consequences being caused by the illegal deeds of the intruders. NSIC “Oranta” is the powerful strong company with the 90-years history. We are sure that the law enforcement authorities and the representatives of the impartial mass-media will help the company honourably and with its head high to solve this unpleasant situation”, - underlined Igor PUGACHOV.