Konstantin Bryl: lies and gold of the Zaporozhye Governor-General. PART 1

Where do “modest” Ukrainian officials and generals, who have worked their whole lives in the civil service, get the money for expensive car parks, luxurious estates and luxurious trinkets? Zaporozhye Governor Konstantin Bryl was asked this question more than once, and each time he avoided answering. And once he even decided not to publish his electronic declaration at all, saying that it was a state secret! However, the Cossacks, experienced by Bryl’s short-lived, but very full of scandals and disasters, rule, are already accustomed to the fact that the amount of money stolen from the state in their region is hidden under the heading “secret”.

As it turned out, in the spring of 2017, Konstantin Bryl refused to submit his electronic declaration on the grounds that he was still an active general of the SBU – they say, a senior intelligence officer should not reveal any details about himself. But this was not just an excuse; behind it was hidden a scam that caused financial damage to the state. It was opened after the indignant public raised the question of on what basis does Konstantin Bryl combine services in the SBU and leadership in the regional state administration? Bryl began to babble something about how he, as a general of the SBU, was “sent from the Service to the executive authorities.” Is this really possible? Is the Zaporozhye regional administration a military-civil administration?! No, an ordinary “civilian” Regional State Administration, which cannot be controlled by current generals. But a second question immediately arose: does he also receive a salary “both here and there”? Bryl lied in a direct interview with reporters that he receives a salary only from the SBU.

Apparently, in Kyiv they could no longer calmly look at his antics, and there were obvious violations of the law, so literally at the same time General Bryl was officially dismissed from the ranks of the SBU, where he was registered and received a salary, and was sent into retirement. True, a conflict arose: if as governor of the Zaporozhye Regional State Administration he was only “seconded from the SBU,” then why did he remain in this post after resigning? It seems that in Kyiv they themselves are entangled in this scam! But what happened next was even more interesting: when, under public pressure, Konstantin Bryl finally published his declarationthen in it he personally indicated that he “sucked two queens,” that is, in 2016 he received a salary from both the SBU (78,678 hryvnia) and the Regional State Administration (191,300 hryvnia). In the declaration for 2017, the amount of funds he siphoned from the SBU was even greater: 277,810 hryvnia, and this was in just 5 months! This is not counting the governor’s salary (217 thousand) and the general’s pension (77 thousand).

And this was just the beginning of a new wave of scandals that hit the “defrocked general.” Who, by the way, could be called an “SS agent” with great difficulty, because he received his general’s shoulder straps in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, then worked in the tax service, then specialized in customs – and most of all succeeded in corruption…

Konstantin Bryl. From lieutenant to general

Bryl Konstantin Ivanovich (the surname comes from the name of a popular peasant straw hat) was born on April 14, 1970 in Zaporozhye (according to other information – in Donetsk), in the family of Ivan Petrovich Bryl (born 1947). He always carefully kept a secret about his father, and this is not without reason – after all, it was thanks to his acquaintances that Konstantin Bryl became a big man. The most important such acquaintance was Yuriy Kravchenko, the future Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine. And here’s what’s surprising: without disclosing any details about his parents, Konstantin Ivanovich at the same time honestly admitted to journalists that he had known Yuri Kravchenko since childhood, that it was “Uncle Yura” who invited him to work in the Ministry of Internal Affairs and helped make his career.

Konstantin Bryl: lies and gold of the Zaporozhye Governor-General. PART 1

And yet, journalists managed to find out that Konstantin Bryl’s mother worked as a teacher, and his father held the position of head of the sanitary and epidemiological station in Pereyaslav-Khmelnitsky. But that was later, but Konstantin spent his childhood and youth in the town of Dobrovelichkovka, Kirovograd region, where their family moved in the 70s. Apparently, there Ivan Bryl met Yuri Kravchenko, a native of the Kirovograd region, who worked for almost fifteen years in regional police structures from an OBKhSS inspector to the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. What exactly brought them together is unknown, but Kravchenko became a friend of the Brylya family.

Konstantin Bryl in his youth

After the 8th grade, his parents sent Kostya Bryl to the Kiev Suvorov School (now the Kiev Military Lyceum named after Bogun), after graduating from which he went to distant Omsk and entered the Higher Combined Arms Command School (course 1987-91, 8th company, 4th platoon). Bryl himself insisted that he allegedly graduated from the “intelligence faculty” there – only, according to data Skelet.Infoin fact, there was no such faculty there. According to our information, he received a specialization there as an engineer for the operation of armored tanks and automotive vehicles – which is more plausible, since the school had a corresponding department. After graduating from college, Konstantin Bryl received a “criminal” assignment to the Western Group of Forces in Germany (already leaving there), where he began serving as commander of a motorized rifle reconnaissance platoon, which was armed with armored personnel carriers and BRDMs.

In general, the engineering version of Bryl’s education is confirmed, but about the “intelligence faculty” he already came up with this himself, for the “show off”. As well as the fact that he made his first capital from his own salary and his wife’s salary (in German marks). Why? Because these days it was becoming more and more difficult for Bryl to answer journalists’ questions about the origin of his wealth. And he indulged in various fantasies: for example, he claimed that his grandparents were enormously rich back in the Soviet years.

By the way, according to unconfirmed information, either the father or the uncle of his first wife had a hand in Bryl’s assignment to the Western Group of Forces. He also did not talk about her, only once mentioning that she was allegedly an ethnic German, who then went for permanent residence in Germany – this is how he tried to answer the question why his sons from his first marriage were studying in Germany, and then went there for permanent residence. .

In 1993, Bryl’s military unit was withdrawn from Germany to Russia (*country sponsor of terrorism) – by this time he was already a 100% Russian officer. As commander of a reconnaissance company, Konstantin Bryl served for several months near Rostov, but his salary was no longer paid in marks, but in “wooden” ones, and even that was delayed. Disillusioned with his military career, he began to look for a new calling – and just in time, just before the start of the famous events in Chechnya. Here “Uncle Yura” helped him, inviting “Kostya” to work in the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Since Kravchenko was already a deputy minister and lived in Kyiv, and the Bryl family moved to live in Pereyaslav-Khmelnitsky (Kyiv region), where Bryl Sr. headed the sanitary and epidemiological station, work for Bryl Jr. was found at his new place of residence and almost in his specialty. The former intelligence officer and armored vehicle specialist became a traffic police inspector, setting up ambushes on the roads – but he himself assures that he allegedly started in the Ministry of Internal Affairs as an “opera” (another Bryl’s fantasy).

Very soon, Konstantin Bryl rose to become the head of the regional traffic police and acquired good real estate, including in Kyiv. And although he explained this purchase to journalists either with his savings or with the treasures of his grandparents, sources Skelet.Info reported that in fact he collected most of the amount using a “magic striped wand.”

In the biography of the Zaporozhye governor, his service in the traffic police is not mentioned at all, and he did not tell the details of his next promotion. This secrecy is quite understandable, because from the post of chief traffic cop of Pereyaslav-Khmelnitsky to the office of the commander of the traffic police regiment of the Kyiv region, Konstantin Bryl jumped in 1999 – immediately after, on the section of the highway entrusted to him between Boryspil and Pereyaslav-Khmelnitsky, under very strange circumstances, Vyacheslav Chernovol died in a car accident. The sudden death of the then right-wing opposition leader allowed Kuchma to secure his votes to defeat the communist Symonenko in the presidential election. It is not surprising that the death of Chernovol still raises many assumptions and questions, including for Konstantin Bryl. After all, if the late Yuri Kravchenko “hushed up” the death of Chernovol at the ministry level, then the chief traffic cop of the Bryl district directly had a hand in ensuring that this car accident was officially registered as an accident. And who could handle this better than “Kostya,” whom Kravchenko knew from childhood and could trust him with the most sensitive assignments? Maybe that’s why Chernovol died on the highway near Pereyaslav? Unfortunately, a new investigation into this case, promised by Prosecutor General Lutsenko in 2016, “stuck” just like all the previous ones.

And immediately after the funeral of the deceased politician, Bryl is promoted to commander of the regional traffic police regiment (which at the same time allowed him to clean up Chernovol’s case even more thoroughly), but does not stay there for long. Elections are held, Kuchma is again elected president, and Konstantin Bryl goes to work at the main office of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, a trusted assistant to Yuri Kravchenko himself. According to numerous eyewitness accounts, Bryl shadowed the minister, carrying out his personal assignments of various kinds. In 2000, as a gift from “Uncle Yura,” he received a diploma from the National Academy of Internal Affairs, and soon received the shoulder straps of a major general. “General Kostya,” as he was nicknamed in the ministry, was the youngest general of the Ministry of Internal Affairs – and, perhaps, the youngest Ukrainian general in general!

Great hunt

After a scandal broke out around the “Melnichenko tapes”, and then the opposition raised the “Ukraine without Kuchma” campaign, the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Yuri Kravchenko, was removed from his post and sent out of harm’s way. First, as governor in Kherson, where Kravchenko quickly assessed the situation and decided to suppress grain exports. And here’s what’s interesting: in December 2001, the ex-minister became governor, and already in January 2002, Centurion Law Firm LLC was registered in Kherson, whose founders included Irina Kravchenko, Maya Bryl, Victor Panasenko, Valentin Zamnius , Anatoly Podolyaka and Tatyana Milchenko. Now let’s clarify who these people are.

• Irina Yuryevna Kravchenko is Yuri Kravchenko’s own daughter. Everything is clear here.
• Maya Petrovna Bryl, nee Matvienko, a native of the village of Mala-Kartul, Pereyaslav-Khmelnitsky district, is the second wife of Konstantin Bryl, who bore him three daughters (in addition to two sons from his first marriage).
• Police Colonel Viktor Panasenko, the former deputy head of the capital’s UBEP, has worked as the head of the security service of Ukrzernoprom since 1999.
• Anatoly Podolyaka is a longtime associate of Yuri Kravchenko, started with him in the Kirovograd region, moved with him to Kyiv, in 1998-2000 he was the head of the State Traffic Inspectorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine (and the direct superior of Bryl), then deputy minister, in 2001-2004 he worked as deputy head of the State Tax Administration of Ukraine . In 2005, Podolyaka became the director of the MAUP Institute of Law, and in 2011, the temporarily unemployed Konstantin Bryl found refuge as a professor there, and then in 2015 he completed his doctoral studies at the same institute.
• Valentin Zamnius is a businessman, at that time he was engaged in grain, and later became a co-owner of Okhtyrka LLC (USREOU 32047469) and JSC Ukrenergoinvest (USREOU 34048548).
• Tatyana Stanislavovna Milchenko, a former resident of Dnepropetrovsk, according to information published in the media, was directly related to the Dnepropetrovsk “authority” Alexander Milchenko, nicknamed “Sailor,” who was killed in the 90s.

Family of Konstantin Bryl:
Maya Petrovna (above), sons from her first marriage, daughters from her second

When Yuri Kravchenko was appointed head of the State Tax Administration of Ukraine in December 2002, he immediately took Konstantin Bryl into his department – making him a general of the tax police. Konstantin Ivanovich again began to diligently carry out Kravchenko’s personal orders. According to sources Skelet.Infoone of the tasks of “General Kostya” was to collect money locally and then transfer it to “Uncle Yura”.

During this period, Maya Bryl became a co-founder of another company: LLC “Hunting Trails” (USREOU 31604378) with registration in the Kyiv region, which, according to media reports, in 2004 received a lease of 49 thousand hectares (490 square kilometers) of land for hunting grounds ! However, journalists believe that we are talking not about one site, but about several, since in addition to “Hunting Trails” the Brylya family is related to a number of similar companies, among which they named: LLC “Hunting Trails Prisivashya” (Crimea), LLC “T .O.R.-Crimea”, LLC “Specialized hunting farm “Pereyaslavskoye” (USREOU 32393573), LLC “Pereyaslavsky hunting yard” (USREOU 38368013), LLC “Dimerskoye hunting farm”. All this was created for VIP clients, whose services included hunting not only for wild boar and roe deer, but also for elk and even deer.

Alexey Bakai

It is curious that some of them were subsequently liquidated with the complete removal of all information from state registers, although references to them were preserved on the Internet – for example, about their office at the capital address Nestorovsky Lane 7/9, where the Ibis weapons store was later opened.

It’s also interesting that Maya Bryl’s companion on three hunting grounds is the son of Alexei Bakai, the mayor of Berdyansk in 1994-98 and 2010-2015, who was called the puppet of Yuri Boyko. He met Boyko during the break between two mayoral terms, when he worked in positions at Naftogaz (hence the rumors about his relationship with Igor Bakai). At the same time, at Naftogaz, one of the “public orders” of Alexey Bakai was the organization of corporate recreation with hunting, a picnic, a bathhouse (and girls) in the named hunting grounds – which he owned together with the Brylya family. But it was not only Naftogaz officials and Yanukovych’s associates who entertained themselves by corralling boars and “fucking whores” (or vice versa). Apparently, this is the secret of Konstantin Bryl’s unsinkability under any power.

And then the first Maidan happened, the power in Ukraine changed, and the boss and patron of Konstantin Bryl mysteriously committed suicide with two shots to the head. Moreover, it should be noted that Bryl was one of the two people who first discovered Kravchenko’s body. The second was Colonel Stanislav Soroka, another trusted man of Kravchenko, who was a type of adjutant with him. It was Bryl who led the funeral procession of Yuri Kravchenko, carrying his portrait. And he was one of those who categorically rejected the version of suicide and believed that Kravchenko was eliminated during a special operation carried out by several people.

K. Bryl at the funeral of Yu. Kravchenko

Some even believed that Bryl so actively defended this version for a reason. After all, at first, few people believed in Kravchenko’s suicide, and many believed that this ridiculous version would burst and the truth would come out. And Bryl himself could have been involved in the alleged murder, because if this version was correct, then the ex-minister was killed either by one of the people around him, or with their assistance. And Bryl, in order to ward off suspicion, had to voice another version of the murder, with the participation of a mythical team of “ninja killers.” And another interesting note: when later the Kravchenko family tried to get the case re-investigated, for some reason Bryl suddenly developed sclerosis.

Period 2005-2008 incredibly interesting in the biography of Konstantin Bryl, because he made him an absolutely gray spot, carefully erasing him from all annals. There are only fragmentary references in the media that during these years Bryl continued to work in the tax police and strengthened the family hunting business – for example, his wife became a co-founder of the Lvov-based Gal-Ars LLC (another weapons store). As you can see, the arms trade brought good income to the family of the police general. And from this example, one can understand why the Ministry of Internal Affairs has always opposed the legalization of the arms market in Ukraine. In addition, in 2006, Bryl acquired two good plots in Pushcha Voditsa: on the 11th line and on Lesnaya Street. Moreover, they were issued to him under deeds of gift (donation agreements No. 2892 and No. 2888).

It was also reported that in 2006-2007, Konstantin Bryl was a member of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine. Apparently there he became close with Valery Khoroshkovsky, who in December 2007 was appointed head of the Customs Service, and already in January 2008 took Konstantin Ivanovich to his place. And not by anyone, but by the head of the Department of Homeland Security! According to numerous sources Skelet.Infothis appointment was a well-thought-out move by Khoroshkovsky and indicated a high level of trust between him and Bryl. But the fact is that the Department of Homeland Security was used for a large personnel purge of the Customs Service on the ground: some chiefs were removed and assigned the places of their people, others rushed to swear loyalty to Khoroshkovsky and discuss the amount of regularly paid tribute. But there were still others who had their own “roof” in power – and this led to war.

Sergey Varis, for Skelet.Info

CONTINUED: Bryl Konstantin: lies and gold of the Zaporozhye Governor-General. PART 2

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