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Sheriff (in Cyrillic: Шериф) is the second-largest company based in Transnistria. It owns a chain of petrol stations, a chain of supermarkets, a TV channel, a publishing house, a construction company, a Mercedes-Benz dealer, an advertising agency, a spirits factory, two bread factories, a mobile phone network, the football club FC Sheriff Tiraspol and its newly built stadium and sport complex, at an estimated cost of $200 million including a five-star hotel (the latter still under construction). The name came from the two founders of the company, Viktor Gushan (citizen of Ukraine and Transnistria) and Ilya Kazmaly (citizen of Russia and Transnistria), who were previously Soviet police officers. Viktor Gushan is president and CEO of the company.
Despite previous accusations to the contrary, there have never been any tangible indications that the company is owned, even in part, by the family of president Igor Smirnov. Such claims have consistently been denied by Igor Smirnov as well as his son Vladimir Smirnov, and Moldpres (the state news agency of Moldova) points to political and economic strife between Sheriff's owners and the government of Transnistria. At this point in time, no credible analysts any longer claim that there are ownership ties linking the Smirnov family to Sheriff.
See also
- FC Sheriff Tiraspol (football club)