The Marchenko brothers founded a building pyramid

The names of Mark and Vladislav Marchenko are strongly associated in the perception of people with budget fraud and theft, which is covered by politics.

Few people compromise the policies of President Volodymyr Zelensky as systematically and on a large scale as the Marchenko brothers do. The fact that the Zaporozhye faction of the Servant of the People party surrendered to the mercy of a team of provincial budget thieves speaks of the weakness and dependence of this political force.

Mark and Vladislav Marchenko came to the attention of law enforcement agencies in 2017, when they led a scheme for cutting budget funds during school repairs and the construction of mini-stadiums for children in the Zaporozhye region.

Before Pustovarov and the Marchenko brothers were charged with misappropriating 87 million hryvnias, criminal proceedings No. 42017080000000003 were initiated against them, which dealt with the purchase of pillows, balls and toys for kindergartens. The sphere of embezzlement was explained by the fact that Pustovarov at that time was the deputy mayor for humanitarian issues.

The Prosecutor General’s Office directly named the names of both Marchenkos as suspects in this criminal episode and published on the web recordings of conversations and screenshots of the correspondence between the fraudulent brothers and their accomplices.

The publication of the records looked weighty and convincing, like a well-researched criminal case. Judicial responsibility of Mark Marchenko and Vladislav Marchenko and real prison terms as a punishment for theft from the budget seemed a matter of time.

The police, together with the SBU, conducted a series of searches at Marchenko’s offices, and the brothers’ accountant Daria Tryukhan agreed to cooperate with the investigation.

It was then that the presumptuous words of Mark and Vladislav were first heard about high-ranking security officials from Kiev, who would help them avoid a fair sentence and allow them to keep corruption schemes intact.

People from Volodymyr Zelensky’s team should have reacted sharply to these statements, which do not fit well with the anti-corruption program proclaimed by the President.

However, there was no reaction from the state authorities, and the Zaporozhye prosecutor’s office understood this in its own way. Vita Dubovik, a spokeswoman for the Kharkiv Region Prosecutor’s Office, said that by October 4, 2019, the amount of damage announced in the case had decreased from UAH 87 million to UAH 3.8 million.

“It’s one thing when they count according to the documents, it’s another thing when the examination has passed and the expert is already providing his data. According to preliminary estimates, at the stage of opening production, the losses were UAH 87 million. The investigators received information that they were cheating at tenders, we took information about all these tenders and wrote about preliminary data on losses. There were a lot of episodes in the case for a certain amount, damage after investigative actions was confirmed only in a few episodes, ”explained the spokeswoman.

Despite the suspicion of embezzlement of budgetary funds, neither Vladislav Marchenko nor his accomplice Anatoliy Pustovarov were removed from their posts; during the voting of the deputies of the local council, there were not enough votes necessary to make such a decision.

Anatoly Pustovarov was tried to be saved from prison by his comrades in the Opposition Bloc, and Alexander Petrovsky, a completely non-public businessman from the Dnieper, unexpectedly stood up for Vladislav and Mark Marchenko.

The Kharkiv prosecutor’s office, which investigated the crimes of the Marchenko brothers, continued the declared line. The most large-scale and proven criminal episodes were removed from the materials of the investigation. The court was offered to consider only the case of the Melitopol park out of two episodes separated into separate proceedings (No.

The Marchenko brothers and their accomplices escaped trial and punishment, justice was not helped by scandalous recordings of negotiations in which one of Marchenko cynically informed his interlocutor that “stadiums are a chick.”

When, six months after the tender, these sites were checked by the activists of the NGO “Diy-Zaporizhzhya”, who were investigating the results of the activities of the Pustovarov-Marchenko group, this no longer had any procedural significance.

Believing even more in their own impunity, Mark and Vladislav Marchenko continued to distribute city contracts manually. In March 2019, the Zaporozhye territorial branch of the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine fined UAH 136,000. their private enterprise “T.O.K.” and the Rassvet-Plus company for trying to bid among themselves a tender for repair work in the OSMD Kosmicheskaya – 101.

Hiding behind the support of the Servant of the People faction in the city and regional councils, the Marchenko brothers seized control of budgetary funds in the field of education. They are assisted in this by Deputy Mayor Oleksandr Vlasyuk and recently dismissed, but retaining the necessary connections, Secretary of the City Council Anatoly Kurtev. Through these officials, Vladislav Marchenko and Mark Marchenko put pressure on the heads of the city’s education department and the tender committee.

The goal of the fraudulent brothers is to place their people in key positions and fully control the expenditure of budgetary funds in Zaporozhye and the region.

Their main thieving mechanism was the so-called “rollback”. Whoever wins the tender must give the Marchenko brothers mafia 20% of the money provided for in the order. For those who refuse to pay, the brothers threaten to delay and block the due cash payments.

Mark and Vladislav Marchenko implemented a different scheme at the regional level in the field of children’s health improvement. Here the officials went to the forgery. Tenders were initially written in such a way that firms close to the Marchenko brothers’ group would win them. In this episode, Marchenko’s accomplices were Deputy Governor Eduard Brutman and Zlata Nekrasova.

When the firms from Kirillovka and Primorsk, which lost in the competition, filed a complaint with the Antimonopoly Committee and achieved justice, the Regional State Administration went on an outright crime: tenders were canceled altogether, and they began to conclude agreements with the necessary firms for children’s health improvement directly, without tenders. Vladislav Marchenko became the ideologist of this scheme, and Vemir Davityan organized the “work” through the deputy governor Zlata Nekrasova.

The wellness institutions selected to fake win the tenders must also hand over 20-30% of the budget money they receive to the Marchenko brothers and their thieving partners.

Education, medicine, health improvement, sports, infrastructure – these are just a small part of the areas that the Marchenko brothers’ group has crushed under itself.

The site from-ua.com gives a detailed picture of what is going on in the Zaporozhye Council, which has been turned into a criminal syndicate by odious brothers. The party affiliation of deputies has long ceased to be a marker of their convictions, corruption and total theft reign in the city and region.

Journalists who lost hope of drawing the attention of President Zelensky and the SBU to the criminal acts of Vladislav Marchenko and Mark Marchenko noticed that the swindler brothers showed interest in legal business.

The news that Sensar Group is starting construction of the Kvartal residential complex was posted on the getman.media website, which was always associated with the Marchenko brothers. Mark Marchenko has held several public events calling himself the CEO of Sensar Group, a real estate developer.

The announced project already at the start has clearly expressed features of large-scale fraud.

Those who wish are offered to buy apartments in a house that has not yet been built.

According to an extract from the register, Sensar Group LLC (EDRPOU 38945589) is owned by Vasilyeva Svetlana Olegovna. The declared signatory is Elena Bartul (see summary).

Mark Marchenko, who calls himself the general director of future construction, is not mentioned in the document. In case of any problems, the company will be responsible with its authorized capital, which is 10 thousand hryvnias.

The official business of the Marchenko brothers, the Infotek holding, does not generate a profit that would allow the construction of at least one house to begin.

An attempt by the regulatory authorities to verify the origin of the money needed to start large-scale construction could shed light on the machinations of Mark and Vladislav Marchenko with the budget money of the Zaporozhye Council.