171:. In 1999, IFK Faktor transferred its shares to J.I.T. Press S.A., a company registered in Luxembourg. In February 2000, the Pühtitsa Convent sold its shares to Batball OÜ. In November 2001, Gaz-Oil and J.I.T. Press transferred their stakes to an offshore company Oriental Chemtrade Ltd. which was registered in the British Virgin Islands. Oriental Chemtrade was interested to purchase also shares belonging to Batball; however, they succeeded only in 2006. In 2006, Oriental Chemtrade was replaced with Balmat Holding Limited, affiliated with Dmytro Firtash and registered in Cyprus. Firtash also became a chairman of the board of Nitrofert. As a result of restructuring of the group of companies owned by Firtash, Ostchem Resources Ltd. became owner of Nitrofert in 2014.
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In 1995, Nitrofert announced a plan to build a methanol plant. For this investment, a decision to expand the company's share capital was adopted in 2000. New shares forming a majority of the share capital were issued to the Greece-based
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Tootmine. At the same year, the plant was separated into a separate company Nitrofert AS and was privatized to Lentransgaz, a subsidiary of
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