Sergei Labazyuk: a corrupt wolf in the sheep’s clothing of an innocent agrarian. PART 1

The recent initiative of “Zamaibakh member” Sergei Labazyuk to leave unrealized subventions to local budgets, at first glance, seemed very constructive and important. But why was she greeted with meaningful grins from his fellow MPs? Because they, like no one else, know that Labazyuk does not care at all about the well-being of local communities in Ukraine, and not even about the voters of his 188th district, but only about his own pocket.

After all, these subventions are managed by his brother Petr Labazyuk and spouse Violeta Labazyuk – who, accordingly, are a deputy and chairman of the Khmelnitsky regional council. And the Labazyukov family firms have long been “milking” not only local budgets, but also the state ones – including the “Great Budivnitstva” fund. However, you will not find any mention of this in his perfectly glossy autobiographieswhere Sergei Labazyuk portrayed himself as a hardworking agrarian, who supposedly created his own business from a young age, is a benefactor and philanthropist, surrounded by immensely grateful employees and voters. Well, defending the right of Ukrainians to know the whole truth about their elected representatives, Skelet.Info considered it necessary to fill in the huge gaps in the “life” of Sergei Labazyuk with information that he would like to hide from the public…

How the brothers created a business

Labazyuk Sergei Petrovich was born on June 4, 1980 in the regional center of Volochisk, Khmelnitsky region, where by that time his parents’ family, who had previously lived in the village of Bogdanovka (the same district), had moved. Labazyuk said that his grandfather was a “business executive”, in 1933-39 he headed the local collective farm (Holodomor-33 immediately comes to mind), and in 1944, after a shell shock, he was appointed director of a “tank plant” (apparently, we are talking about a tank repair enterprise) . Parents, Pyotr Tarasovich and Lyudmila Ivanovna Labazyuk, in his words, were simple people and did not hold any leadership positions. Well, the first pride of the parents was not Sergei, but his older brother Pyotr Petrovich Labazyuk, born in 1974 in Bogdanovka.

Petr Labazyuk

After serving in the army (1992-94), Petr Labazyuk worked for a year as an electrician at the Volochissky Machine-Building Plant (part of the Motor Sich group of Vyacheslav Boguslaev), and then joined the fire department. He spent nine years working at the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, even graduated from the Cherkassy Institute of Fire Safety and seemed to get a lucrative job as an inspector, but in the spring of 2004 he left it and became a businessman. It was then that Peter and Sergey Labazyuki registered Agroprom LLC (USREOU 32810350), which was engaged in trading fertilizers and chemicals, servicing agricultural equipment and wholesale grain trade. This enterprise ceased operations in 2012, which could be explained by the creation of a new company “Vitagro Partner” (with the same profile of activities), or the election of Sergei Labazyuk to the Verkhovna Rada, if not for one nuance. The fact is that after the closure of Agroprom, for another 4 years, about a dozen farms from the Khmelnytsky, Zhytomyr and Volyn regions (“Khmelyovo”, “Rus D”, “Na Valakh”, etc.) tried to sue him for their money. It is also worth paying attention to the fact that in 2008, Pyotr Labazyuk established a clone company, Agroprom Company (35659511), which traded in grain, agrochemicals and agricultural machinery, which was then also closed in 2013. It seems that when the brothers had problems in settlements with clients, the Labazyuks simply “ran away” from them, liquidating their companies.

However, according to Sergei Labazyuk, he was the first to enter the field of agricultural business, and not his older brother. This allegedly happened in 1999, when Labazyuk, to quote himself, “together with his school friend, purchased agricultural equipment and provided the villagers with land cultivation services.” Of course, they didn’t plow themselves – after all, that’s not why Sergei Labazyuk took accounting courses in the regional center at the same time! No, a hired man was sitting behind the wheel of the tractor, and Labazyuk, with a notepad in his hands, was counting hundreds and hryvnias. This, they say, is where the successful agricultural businessman Sergei Labazyuk, a big man in the region, began! True, it’s confusing where a 19-year-old boy and his school friend got the money to buy very expensive agricultural equipment? Labazyuk did not admit this, nor did he mention the name of his school friend, who, in theory, was supposed to become his companion.

By the way, what is the further fate of this friend, is he even alive? This issue should be taken very seriously. Judge for yourself: such money at that time was found either by thieving bosses, or by businessmen, or by crime. But his parents were simple people, and Labazyuk did not say anything about the fact that they could engage in commerce. But I immediately remember his gangster habits: how he threatens people, what words he uses (more on this later). Well, plus to this, local sources Skelet.Info They report that the Labazyuki brothers in the late 90s were associated with dashing people (primarily the elder), from whom they picked up all sorts of bad things (especially the younger). Thus, the most likely version is the criminal origin of their starting capital. Well, or at best, corrupt – if we assume that the rumors about how fire inspector Pyotr Labazyuk took bribes were based on real events.

And then it was even more interesting! In the fall of 2004, the time came for local agricultural enterprises and farmers to pay the Labazyukov company “Agroprom” for fertilizers, seeds, land cultivation and other services. And it so happened that after this calculation, one of the enterprises ended up being leased from a specially created private enterprise “Agrarian Company 2004” (33007579), which began to actively absorb the lands of the region. In the autobiography of Sergei Labazyuk it is described as follows:

“…in 2004, when 70% of the land in the Volochissky region was overgrown with weeds, a young entrepreneur took a serious risk and rented his first farm. Moreover, the villagers unanimously give him their land shares.”

The last sentence just makes you cry with emotion! So you can imagine the Khmelnitsky peasants bowing at the waist to 24-year-old Labazyuk with the words “take, dad, our shares, use them, don’t mind!” It seems that behind this pretentious nonsense, Sergei Labazyuk hides the real picture of how exactly he and his brother began to collect their land bank, which soon amounted to hundreds, and then thousands of hectares. Let us clarify that Labazyukov’s enterprises now control 85 thousand hectares of land in the Khmelnitsky, Rivne and Ternopil regions.

Deputies and roads of Khmelnytsky region

In the midst of the formation of the family business, in the summer of 2004, Sergei Labazyuk received a diploma in economics from the Ternopil Academy of National Economy (formerly the Faculty of Finance and Economics of the Kyiv Institute of National Economy, now Western Ukrainian National University). In 2006, he took his first step into politics, being elected as a deputy of the Volochissky district council. And a year later, Labazyuk participated in early parliamentary elections in the clearly unpassable seat No. 189 on the list of the “Lytvyn Bloc,” which gave him not so much a ghostly chance to get into the Rada, but real privileges as a candidate for deputy. This allowed me to try myself in a new business – road transport.

Interestingly, in his autobiography it is written about this:

“in 2007, the entrepreneur invested in the construction of roads throughout the Khmelnitsky region.”

Considering that there are no toll roads either then or now in the region, the use of the word “invest” in this case is completely incomprehensible – unless in this way Labazyuk was trying to buy votes by campaigning in his area for the “Litvin Bloc”. But really at your own expense? You will be surprised, but this is exactly what Labazyuk likes to say – although all the facts that we will present now indicate the opposite. Not to mention the fact that in Ukraine even the richest businessmen and corrupt officials do not dare to spend such expensive expenses. And why, if the road can be done at budget expense, having extracted the necessary allocations, while also pocketing from 20% to 50% of the cost of the work – and then lie to voters that, they say, “I made the road for you” “! This is exactly what Sergei Labazyuk did, succeeding in the road business even more than in the agricultural business. What’s interesting is that the contractor for the road tenders, both then and later, was the private enterprise “Agrarian Company 2004”, which thus became a “multi-profile” enterprise.

According to sources Skelet.InfoLabazyuk was introduced into the road business by the then chairman of the regional organization of the People’s Party (the basis of the Litvin Bloc) Vasily Shpak. It was thanks to him that Labazyuk became a member of the People’s Party, was elected under the banner of the Lytvyn Bloc to the district council, in 2007 received a place on the bloc’s list in the parliamentary elections, and in 2010, as a candidate from the Lytvyn Bloc, was elected to regional council. But their close relationship was not so much party, but business and corruption, starting with some schemes of “Agroleasing” headed by Shpak (there is a link to the purchase of agricultural equipment). But Vasily Shpak is one of the most famous Ukrainian corrupt officials: in 2014 he was arrested in the Ukragroleasing case, and his son Nikolai Shpak is wanted. As a people’s deputy of the IV and VI convocations, Vasily Shpak was a member of the budget committee and managed government money in his own interests – including providing subventions for road repairs in the Khmelnitsky region. And in 2010, Shpak even applied for the post of chairman of the Khmelnitsky Regional State Administration, but as a “Litvinovite” he lost the fight for the seat to the head of the regional organization of the Party of Regions, Vasily Yadukha.

Shpak mainly provided budget funding. Labazyuk’s immediate “companion” in the successful road business was Pyotr Gnidyuk for many years; in 2007-2014. Head of the State Enterprise “Khmelnytsky Regional Road Road”, and then until 2020, the Road Service of the Khmelnytsky Region. This is a very careful and experienced official who knows all the intricacies of road schemes, so his name has never been heard in the context of corruption scandals – although the construction of roads in the Khmelnitsky region was cut no less than in any other region of Ukraine. There were so many high-profile cases and investigations, they dragged first one or another official of the local Avtodor, but Gnidyuk was never touched. And now he has gone to Kyiv for a promotion with a clean biography.

Petr Gnidyuk

And of course, Labazyuk’s successful road business would have been impossible without the help of Ivan Vasilyevich Gladunyak! In 2002-2005, he was deputy chairman, and in 2005-2006, chairman of the Khmelnytsky Regional State Administration, and then in 2006-2010, he headed the Khmelnytsky Regional Council, after which he was repeatedly elected as its deputy. It is interesting that, having previously been a member of Our Ukraine, Batkivshchyna, or Solidarity, Gladunyak is now a member of the For Maybutne party, like Labazyuk.

Ivan Gladunyak

Gladunyak not only participated in the distribution of funds, but was also directly related to road work, since, according to media reports, until 2013 he was the owner of PJSC Khmelnitsky DSU No. 56 (03448860). This enterprise constantly pops up in road maps Labazyuk, it operates in tandem with his Agrarian Company 2004, and in 2016 the SBU conducted searches in the offices of both companies. These were the same searches during which Sergei Labazyuk rushed started a fight with SBU officers, breaking one of them’s head. Apparently, the SBU really stumbled upon something serious then, since Labazyuk became so nervous that he threw off his mask of a peaceful agrarian and bared his wolf fangs!

Sergey Labazyuk: A few facts about the lying road builder

To get an idea of ​​how much money the modest provincial agrarian from the “Lytvyn Bloc” had already put his hand to, and how much could have stuck to this hand, let’s open one of the news for the spring of 2013: The people’s deputy who swore at a journalist received UAH 33 million for roads. It says that Labazyuk’s Agrarian Company 2004 received from the Khmelnitsky Region Highway Service a contract worth 33.18 million hryvnia ($4.14 million at the then exchange rate). It also says that “over the last 5 years” (from 2007 to early 2013), this company has won road tenders totaling almost 125 million hryvnia.

It also mentions a scandalous incident in 2012, when journalists from Channel 33, working on the topic of road corruption, decided to show how easily public funds are stolen, and for an experiment they bought a couple of buckets of crushed stone from the workers of Agrarian Company 2004 (a little, of course , but the journalists didn’t have the money for a whole dump truck). Having turned to Sergei Labazyuk himself for clarification, they first received from him a statement that this is his crushed stone and he is making the road for his own personal money (!), and then a threat “not to do sh… it, otherwise you will be burned.”

In these few seconds of the video, the whole essence of Serezha Labazyuk is clearly revealed! Which, firstly, cannot give up his purely provincial bandit (Kugut) manners of communicating with people. Let’s compare with him former members of the capital’s organized crime groups (“Savlokhovskys”, “Rybkins”, “Kisilevskys”) who went into big business and politics – they do not allow themselves to talk to journalists like that, much less hit SBU officers on the head! And, secondly, Labazyuk again asserted that he was building roads with his own money. Well, apparently, he has been fooling the elderly voters of the Volochissky district for years with such a primitive lie! But at the same time, Labazyuk himself was actually left in the cold, since his ridiculous lies give rise to a response question: if he built the roads at his own expense, then where did he put the hundreds of millions of state hryvnias he received from Ukravtodor and local budgets?

This incident did not in any way affect the position of Sergei Labazyuk, nor did his subsequent vote for the anti-Maidan “laws of January 16th”. He continued to lie, using his signature method of urine therapy in ophthalmology (figuratively speaking), and his “Agricultural Company 2004” continued to win road tenders. And so from the news In October 2014, we see that we received another tender from the Regional Highway Service for 30.74 million hryvnia, and the total amount of government road funds spent by Labazyuk at that time had already reached 236 million hryvnia. A year later, this figure had already exceeded 320 million. “At your own expense”, yeah!

Mikhail Shpolyansky, for Skelet.Info

CONTINUED: Sergei Labazyuk: a corrupt wolf in the sheep’s clothing of an innocent agrarian. PART 2

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