CONTINUATION. BEGINNING: Stanislav Kovalevsky: “supervisor” from the “Donetsk” in the Ministry of Energy. PART 1

Stanislav Kovalevsky

Professional Pound

Among the first founders of Ecooil LLC was the scandalous Sergei Dyadechko, a former co-owner of the Rodovid bank and the founder of the Soyuz bank, who “warmed up” the state and investors for billions of hryvnia. Dyadechko was also known as Yuri Ivanyushchenko’s banker, a significant part of whose business was coal schemes. Perhaps in this we will find the answer to how Stanislav Kovalevsky migrated from Ecooil LLC, which was mainly engaged in oil fuel, to the coal, so to speak, industry.

Ecooil LLC was created purely as one of the “tender-intermediary” companies; it had neither its own premises, nor its own transport and equipment, only a couple of accountants. She simply “won” tenders, received money, and completed orders with the hands of subcontractors, pocketing the difference. The profits of its owners can be judged by the volume of tenders: under Yanukovych, the company, as it became known Skelet.Inforeceived tenders for the supply of fuel to Ukrzaliznytsia and the Ministry of Defense in the amount of 2.37 billion hryvnia, and in 2014, after the Maidan, for another 1.31 billion hryvnia!

But by this time Stanislav Kovalevsky was already director of other enterprises, jumping from chair to chair almost every year. In 2010, he served as acting director of the Belozerskaya Mine ALC, and then about him infirst mentioned in the press in a report on the dispatch of Donetsk climbers to Antarctica, which included the foreman of the Belozerskaya miners, Vitaly Kutniy.

The second time the media mentioned Kovalevsky was in 2012, after scandalous tenders for the supply of coal to PJSC Donbasenergo. In December 2011, the tender for 750 thousand tons of coal was “won” by TD Energougol LLC, which was created literally on the eve of this tender, in November of the same year. And its director then was Stanislav Kovalevsky. A month later, in January 2012, the same company again “won” the tender for the supply of 1.5 million tons of coal. And both times – 1,120 hryvnia per ton, which was one and a half times higher than market prices.

It seemed to “win” because its only competitor was the company Tekhno-Kommerts LLC, previously founded by Andrei Ignatov (then the founder was replaced). And before that, Ignatov worked… as deputy director for commercial issues at the Belozerskaya mine. Well, yes, he was Kovalevsky’s deputy. Moreover, just at the time of these tenders, Ignatov, having transferred the company to another person, took the position of deputy chairman of the State Tax Service of Ukraine – from where he was kicked out only in March 2014, and then put on the wanted list under Article 364-2 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.

Then Kovalevsky gave up his place as director of the Energougol Trade House to Stanislav Nikishin, a man of Efim Zvyagilsky and his son-in-law Vladimir Vecherko. And after that, Energougol began to play the role of a front company in tender competitions – losing in favor of Trust Invest LLC, a company with an authorized capital of 5 thousand hryvnia and, according to Skelet.Inforegistered at the same address as Akhmetov’s Metinvest. In fact, both companies were controlled by groups of Alexander Yanukovych – Yuri Ivanyushchenko and Rinat Akhmetov, who played some intricate games among themselves, the goal of which was the bankruptcy of the state enterprise Ugol Ukrainy and the deprivation of Donbasenergo. At the same time, the figure of Vitaly Belyakov, who recently became the new “coal watcher” in Kyiv, flashed around both companies. Thus, it is not difficult to understand whose person in the Ministry of Energy Stanislav Kovalevsky is.

What else is known about him? That over the past 6 years he has changed several more jobs: he held senior positions in the State Enterprise Toretskugol, the State Enterprise Ordzhonikidzeugol, as well as DTEK Dobropolyeugol. But for some reason it didn’t last long, only for a few months – and then he left again to manage private companies. That is, if a full work biography of Stanislav Kovalevsky is ever published, it will be very long: such a “boss-flyer”. But in this leapfrog, a pattern could be traced: Kovalevsky managed the enterprises exactly as much as was required to organize and conduct large tenders. Through private companies he sold huge quantities of coal, and for state mines he purchased some equipment, consumables or various services – perhaps also at a greatly inflated price (this is worth checking). Such a professional chairman of the Pound, specializing specifically in successful tenders, but when he left, these companies were already turning into shells. Let us note this in order to understand exactly what role Svyatoslav Kovalevsky will play in the Ministry of Energy. Well, yes, of course, you shouldn’t appoint a specialist in front companies there; you need a person whose LLC has always won tenders.

The last known companies of Stanislav Kovalevsky were Meta Limited LLC (USREOU 41050750), which remained in his declaration as of October 11, 2019, and Baltic System (41224538), which he ceded back in the summer to Lavrin Finance LLC of Dmitry Dervish – associated with Donetsk businessman Sergei Sukhoi. Whether Sukhoi is an independent figure or not, he has a bunch of different companies registered to him; he also headed the branch of Prominvestbank in Makeyevka, and in the past his name appeared in a major scandal around Donbasenergo. Then his financial company “Artfin” gave a loan to Donbasenergowhich raised suspicions of financial fraud with the aim of bankruptcy and takeover of the energy company. In general, the arena is still the same – companies and people who have been “earning money” from coal and Donbasenergo for years.

Thus, having all these direct and indirect facts in hand, we can confidently conclude that Stanislav Kovalevsky is a protégé of the Donetsk groups. First of all, the “coal mafia” controlled by Alexander Yanukovych and Yuriy Ivanyushchenko, who want to “grab” what Rinat Akhmetov did not manage to grab. But keeping in mind Kovalevsky’s earlier connections with Arkallaev’s group, who also has his own interests in the energy sector, we can assume that he will help him too. In the end, one does not interfere with the other, because Arkallaev “earned money” from the supply of petroleum products. It seems that this will become known very soon.

The only thing that is unclear is why Zelensky’s team is actually giving away a huge chunk of energy to the “Donetsk people,” just as Poroshenko did (albeit to other “Donetsk people, but still “Donetsk people”). There is no answer to this question yet. What is clear is that the government in Ukraine is weak, and the country is governed not by the “master”, but by the “servant of the people,” and it is not clear which people. And instead of Goloborodko, we got Truffaldino, trying to please everyone at once according to the principle “take it, the state will not become poorer.”

Sergey Varis, for Skelet.Info

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