No matter how hard Hollywood directors and screenwriters try to make films and TV series about resourceful and unprincipled crooks, their fantasies look pale against the background of everyday Ukrainian reality. The former head of the Supreme Economic Court of Ukraine, Viktor Tatkov, and his deputy, Artur Emelyanov, who still retains his judicial status, continue to rob Ukraine and laugh in the face of Ukrainian justice.
Hundreds of articles have been written about their crimes. Dozens of criminal cases have been opened against them. However, Emelyanov, Tatkov, and their faithful squire Malik (aka Murakhver) are still at large. They are still engaged in raiding and financial robbery. During the reign of Yanukovych, Emelyanov and Tatkov created a huge superstructure scheme at the VHSU with the help of which they could always get the court decision they needed. And this add-on still works today.
Dozens of judges, whom Emelyanov and Tatkov dragged to Kyiv from Donetsk and the Donetsk region, remain in place. They make the decisions the raiders need. Not a single criminal case opened against the elusive swindlers and their accomplices has been brought to its logical conclusion. Why? But because our investigators, prosecutors, judges and officials love money as much as before the revolution. And just like before the revolution, they are ready to do anything if they see enough pieces of paper with portraits of American presidents in front of them.
But Emelyanov and Tatkov never spare money for such matters. They enter any negotiations, any office with a suitcase of money. Sometimes with the present. Sometimes – with a metaphorical one. But in both cases the result is the same: huge volumes of criminal cases turn into several folders with dubious evidence, judges change their decisions, new authorities do not notice old criminals and their new crimes.
Now Tatkov and Emelyanov have focused their attention on the ATO zone and uncontrolled territories. They are actively seizing commercial and industrial facilities, whose owners, due to military operations, cannot fully respond to the actions of the bandits. The capture scheme is very simple and tested in the 90s. Remember the manipulation of bills and the purchase of enterprises for debts at bargain prices?
Our scammers do the same. Most enterprises, even large and successful ones, operate with constant use of bank loans. OCG Tatkova and Emelyanova, with the help of accomplices in banks, are seeking the assignment or sale of the right to claim the loan to their companies Avis-Finance and Agon-Invest. Their co-founder is the already mentioned Dmitry Murakhver. The intermediary bank “Artem-Bank” is used as an intermediary.
To make it clearer, I will explain with a simple example. Our bandits at Raiffeisen Bank have their own man named Lavrenchuk. He leaks information about enterprises from the ATO zone that are or have been credited to Raiffeisen. Tatkov and Emelyanov select the assets that interest them and, with the help of the same Lavrenchuk, achieve the sale of debt obligations on these assets to Artem-Bank. He, in turn, assigns the right to collect debts from enterprises to Avis-Finance or Agon-Invest.
As a rule, all legal formalities are completed in one day. Or rather, in a few hours. From “their” notaries. At the same time, the future victim does not even suspect that her debt was sold to someone and cannot influence the situation at all. In this case, formalities are observed. A bank employee sends a notice of debt resale to the actual address of the enterprise. To the ATO zone. Knowing that the post office does not work there. A couple of days after the notification, the transaction takes place.
Then the new manager of credit obligations sends a demand to the company to repay the debt. And again – to the ATO zone, where the post office does not work. Then they wait 30 days and, through the registration service of one of the cities closest to the ATO zone, transfer the ownership to themselves. And they justify this by the fact that according to the rules of a mortgage loan, the mortgaged property passes to the lender in the event of non-payment of the debt by the borrower.
Through this scheme, Tatkov and Emelyanov took over several of the largest trading enterprises in Donbass. And then, after “testing” the scheme, they began to operate in peaceful regions of the country. Today, no one is safe from their new schemes. If you have your own business and work using credit lines, then you are a potential victim of a new form of raiding. And a possible extra in the new episode of the series about how a gang of crooks rob Ukrainian society and spit in the face of Ukrainian justice.
Why does this series continue a year after the Revolution of Dignity? Why do judges who were and remain part of the largest judicial corruption-raiding scheme still work in the courts? Why do criminals – representatives of the previous regime – feel free in the country and continue their atrocities? These are questions for the current government. And the next question that people might ask her would be something like: “How are you different from the Yanukovych regime?”
About the “pocket” arbitration manager of Emelyanov and Tatkov – Alexey Zhmailo, who implements raider schemes, read in our article: Why in Ukraine some criminals are more inviolable than deputies
And also: Raiders of the Yanukovych era are creating a new trading empire commissioned by Vagorovsky
Olga Obashidze, SKELET-info
