Odessa has always been famous for swindlers and swindlers. What kind of deception schemes were not used – some of them are sophisticated and non-trivial. Others are rough and direct. In any case, they are all aimed at theft, writes Anticorrosive.
In recent months, Odessa has been in a fever from searches and scandals. Loud names sound, but often non-public people are behind the schemes. One of these people will be discussed today. Meet Nikita Petrakov.
Nikita Petrakov. History of success”
The path of Nikita Petrakov began with the position of assistant to the people’s deputy of the former regional and organizer of the Bessarabian People’s Republic Vitaly Barvinenko, a close friend of the Odessa mayor Gennady Trukhanov. Recall that today Barvinenko is the head of the Odessa region. It is the position of the former employer and friendship with the mayor of the city that help close some of Petrakov’s questions.
But Nikita is a talented guy, so at the beginning of 2012 he met a well-known lawyer in narrow circles / “decisive” Kamila Deminskaya. Deminskaya helps Petrakov open the necessary cases and “put pressure on business” through the prosecutor’s office. After all, a close friend of Deminskaya is the Deputy Prosecutor General of Ukraine Dmitry Verbitsky. Of course, this post he received recently. Prior to that, he was the deputy regional prosecutor of the Odessa region, in charge of the activities of law enforcement agencies. Reliable friends began to “cover” Petrakov. And things started…
BCA stolen hectares
Each city has parking lots and garage cooperatives. Some of them belong to the All-Ukrainian Union of Motorists (VSA).
These are dozens of hectares of land in Odessa and the region, which Petrakov simply stole.
The scheme that Petrakov has been running for many years is not new. In the 2000s, it was used in Kyiv by Andrey Yuga, a native of the harsh 90s, nicknamed “Long”. Then the gangster authority was seized by the “Kyiv City Union of Motorists”. “Long” re-registered more than 40 hectares of Kyiv land with parking lots, service stations, and an autodrome for its companies.
In Odessa, the same story. Changes were made to the charter of the Odessa organization of the Union of Motorists, while removing the All-Ukrainian Union of Motorists from disposing of real estate and making the Odessa organization the sole manager of parking lots. Well, then it’s a technical matter – the Odessa organization of the union, under the leadership of another participant in the scheme, Dmitry Kanevsky, began to register parking lots with the help of local councils and state registrars (mostly in Odessa, but also in the region). For this, their registrars were involved, especially Yulia Langolf, who re-registered the parking lot in Odessa for the organization of Kanevsky.
For understanding it is not only about the earth. The Odessa ECA owns a huge number of parking lots and parking lots, as well as garage societies and cooperatives from which Petrakov and Kanevsky consistently receive income. Parking lots on Inglezi, Vympel, Joyful streets, etc. In total – 11 parking lots and 17 thousand (!) Parking spaces. Monthly payment for a parking space 800 hryvnia. We receive an income of 13 million 600 thousand hryvnia. Of these, 600 thousand goes as payment to the City Council – the bottom line is about 300 thousand dollars of monthly profit per month, it remains for the enterprising businessman.
“N.A.Sh.N.A.P”
Since 2015, parking lots have been re-registered for a certain state of emergency “N.A.Sh.N.A.P.” It should be noted that even now the founder in the documents of the enterprise is the wife of Petrakov – Evgenia and the son of the head of the Odessa Regional ECA Kanevsky – Mikhail. The company has already re-registered parking lots on Gastello, General Shvygin and Heavenly Hundred streets.
But even here, Petrakov threw a partner. Thus, the enterprising Ostap Bender scammed a former Odessa official, who previously held the position of the former head of the department for the protection of cultural heritage objects of the Regional State Administration, Natalia Shterbul, for $1.5 million.
She had an unofficial share in the N.A.Sh.N.A.P. state of emergency. Interestingly, the very name of the company stands for Natalya Anatolyevna Shterbul and Nikita Aleksandrovich Petrakov.
Petrakov took 1.5 million USD from Natalya Anatolyevna. for the alienation and registration of lands of the ECA.
Later, Petrakov found himself a new patron in the person of Sergei Kushnir. At the same time, Sterbuhl asked to transfer her share in the company to her, but this was refused to her.
CROCUS
It all started with the PRAT “OZOM”, where the main character was Petr Kosyuga, and Petrakov ingratiated himself to him.
Subsequently, Kosyuga Petr and Kucheryavenko Sophia created another enterprise, LLC Crocus, the main activity is the manufacture of wallpaper.
In June 2016, Kosyuga, led by Petrakov, decides to leave the founders of Crocus LLC, and a week later Crocus LLC buys a car for UAH 17 million, at that time it was about $ 1 million. Kosyuga and Petrakov begin to create problems, the remaining founder Kucheryavenko, since they decided that Kosyuga should own a share from this car, as well.
As part of the desire to get rich at someone else’s expense, ERDR appears, which is organized by Kamila Deminskaya, Petrakov and their influential friend Verbitsky. This ERDR is used to exercise illegal pressure on Kucheryavenko, knowing full well that Kucheryavenko did not commit any crime. However, Petrakov, smelling money, forgets about everything, and his friends Deminskaya and Verbitsky help him put pressure on an innocent person.
Subsequently, they disconnect Crocus LLC from communications: electricity and water, since they were supplied through the “shareholder”. By these and other means they tried to put pressure on TOV Crocus.
Subsequently, the decision of the Economic Court appears, according to which Kosyuga owes more than 9 million hryvnias as compensation for his share in Crocus LLC.
TOV “Krokus” pays Kosyuga this money in installments, not all at once, but instead of acting through the executive service, Petrakov and Kosyuga are trying to put pressure through the ERDR. This is taking into account friendly relations with the Deputy Prosecutor General, Verbitsky.
So, Nikita Petrakov, who is also known in Odessa as the former deputy of the scandalous ex-head of the Odessa land resources department of the Odessa City Council Elena Tyutyunnik, with the support of an influential friend Verbitsky, who helps Petrakov close various ERDRs, solves his affairs and increases his profits, from illegal activities.
In May 2011, the scandalous official Petrakov received from the Odessa Regional Council the position of head of the newly created KP “Fortetsya”. This news was received by many with discontent, remembering how Petrakov helped Tyutyunik to rip up the Odessa land. However, his business partner, Odessa official Natalya Shterbul, has already vouched for the Odessa swindler.
At the moment, Petrakov is the founder and founder of six operating companies, one of which is registered in Kyiv (trade in building materials), another in Kiliya (rent of fishing houses), and four in Odessa (construction companies and rental of construction equipment). Two more enterprises, opened earlier, under his leadership have already ceased their activities.
Nikita Petrakov. Instead of totals
As it was written earlier, Odessa and the region are shaken by high-profile searches and detentions. All this invariably leads to a change in leadership not only in law enforcement agencies, but also in the region. And here the most interesting begins. After all, this whole story about the Odessa swindler Petrakov is connected just the same with personnel rotations in the Odessa region. After all, it is precisely this “miracle of a businessman” Petrakov that Deputy Prosecutor General of Ukraine Dmitry Verbitsky is moving to the position instead of Marchenko. Verbitsky is doing this very correctly, through Prosecutor General Andrei Kostin. After all, Kostin has direct “access to the body” of the President, and has not yet stained himself in high-profile scandals.
Maxim Govrilenko
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