Profile updated: 27.10.20
Vaja Jhashi
businessman
businessman
Citizenship: Republic of Moldova, Russian Federation, USA
He is the chairman and owner of Trans Oil Group - a conglomerate of companies spread across Moldova, Cyprus, Ukraine, Romania, and Switzerland, running businesses in agriculture, food industry, trade-in cereals, and oil-seeds, transportation, and infrastructure.
Suspected to be a businessman close to oligarch Vladimir Plahotniuc, Vaja Jhashi (in his Moldovan ID he appears as Vazha Dzhashi, a citizen of the Russian Federation) used to sit in the management board of the Moldovan Businessmen Association (AOAM), which Mr. Plahotniuc founded in 2010.
In 2011-2012, Vaja Jhashi also sat on the management board of Victoriabank, which too was controlled by Plahotniuc. According to the businessman, he has known Plahotniuc since 1998, though no business relations would link the two. Mr. Jhashi admitted instead he had been a business partner with Russian banker German Gorbuntsov, a former majority shareholder in Universalbank, which filed for closure under the bankruptcy law in 2012.
Vaja Jhashi took over Trans Oil Group de facto in 2003, succeeding to upgrade to the status of major player in the Moldovan market of cereals and oil-seeds; by the year 2020, it counted more than 20 known companies. Indirectly Jhashi controls two large oil factories in Moldova, many elevators, terminals for grain and vegetable oil at the Giurgiulesti Port. He also owns around 60,000 hectares of farmland.
The assets owned and controlled by Vaja Jhashi are estimated at more than 200 million dollars, which makes him one of the richest business people in Moldova.
Suspected to be a businessman close to oligarch Vladimir Plahotniuc, Vaja Jhashi (in his Moldovan ID he appears as Vazha Dzhashi, a citizen of the Russian Federation) used to sit in the management board of the Moldovan Businessmen Association (AOAM), which Mr. Plahotniuc founded in 2010.
In 2011-2012, Vaja Jhashi also sat on the management board of Victoriabank, which too was controlled by Plahotniuc. According to the businessman, he has known Plahotniuc since 1998, though no business relations would link the two. Mr. Jhashi admitted instead he had been a business partner with Russian banker German Gorbuntsov, a former majority shareholder in Universalbank, which filed for closure under the bankruptcy law in 2012.
Vaja Jhashi took over Trans Oil Group de facto in 2003, succeeding to upgrade to the status of major player in the Moldovan market of cereals and oil-seeds; by the year 2020, it counted more than 20 known companies. Indirectly Jhashi controls two large oil factories in Moldova, many elevators, terminals for grain and vegetable oil at the Giurgiulesti Port. He also owns around 60,000 hectares of farmland.
The assets owned and controlled by Vaja Jhashi are estimated at more than 200 million dollars, which makes him one of the richest business people in Moldova.
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Private Function
Public Function
Career
2011
Victoriabank
2012
member of the management board
10.2010
Moldovan Businessmen Association
2019
member of the management board
2003
Trans Oil Group
chairman
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Agrotest-Lab SRL
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Amableus Limited (Cyprus)
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Anengrain - Group SRL
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Aragvi Finance International DAC (Ireland)
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Aragvi Holding International Limited (100%)
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Ceba Grup SRL
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Combinatul de Cereale Aur Alb SA
beneficiary 63,52%
Combinatul de Produse Cereale Prut SA
beneficiary 85,79%
Danube Oil Company SRL
beneficiary 100%
Elevator Kelley Grains SA
beneficiary 89,77%
Elevatorul Iargara SA
beneficiary 89,73%
Floarea Soarelui SA
beneficiary 84,66%
Floarea-Soarelui Comert SRL
beneficiary 84,66%
Flograin Group SRL
beneficiary 100%
Global Grain International SRL (Romania)
beneficiary 95%
HeliosAgri International SA (Romania)
beneficiary 95%
Kelley Grains Corporation SRL
beneficiary 100%
Molgranum SRL
beneficiary 100%
Prut SA
beneficiary 61,93%
Reni-Line LLC (Ukraine)
beneficiary 66,70%
Reniyskiy Elevator ALC (Ukraine)
beneficiary 94,77%
Stareverest Trading & Investment Limited (Cyprus)
beneficiary 100%
TOI Commodities SA (Switzerland)
beneficiary 100%
Trans Bulk Logistics SRLL
beneficiary 80%
Trans Cargo Terminal SRL
beneficiary 100%
Trans Oil Refinery SRL
beneficiary 100%
Trans-Oil Commodities SRL
beneficiary 100%
Trezeme Limited (Cyprus)
beneficiary 100%
Uleinord SRL
beneficiary 100%
Unco-Cereale SRL
beneficiary 100%
Visions Holding SA (Switzerland)
beneficiary 100%