Aleksey Khomyakov and Vladislav Krykliy: Schematics in UDP and USPA

It would seem, how is it possible for someone to try to completely plunder the Ukrainian Danube Shipping Company, which is the last flagship of the river fleet owned by the state? Could this be?

As it turned out, such a situation is not only theoretically possible, but actually arose. Now accused of treason, the ex-head of the UDP Khomyakov, who was protected by the then Minister Krykliy, organized a resonant schematosis in the UDP. Also, law enforcement officers uncovered a major scam by the ex-minister’s gang in the Administration of the Sea Ports of Ukraine. And these are only those schemes that the press found out about. What is known about such resonant scams that led to high-profile scandals in the media?

Representatives of the SBU saw treason in Khomyakov’s actions. They believe that the director of the UDP deliberately tried to destroy a large state-owned enterprise. Recall that in early March, law enforcement officers came with searches to the main building of the company. As the SBU officers said then, they prevented embezzlement in the company in the amount of about two billion hryvnias.

In fact, this is just a shock, especially considering that Ukraine has been in a state of full-scale conflict for the second year now, fiercely defending its sovereignty and protecting territorial integrity. And now such resonant details are beginning to surface not only of the looting of the last flagship of the Ukrainian river fleet, but also of fraudulent schemes in the USPA.

Recall that the Ukrainian Danube Shipping Company is wholly owned by the state. 100% of the shares of this organization belong to Ukraine represented by the Ministry of Infrastructure. This company in peacetime provided the country with participation in river transportation along the Danube in European territory.

As it turned out, the former head of the UDP Khomyakov, who headed this enterprise from 2019 to 2021, together with his “roof” in the person of the scandalous ex-minister Krykliy, managed to do a lot of scandalous things.

Note that Khomyakov received his extremely enviable position precisely with the tacit approval of that same Krikliy. Literally from the very first days of his activity at a new workplace, Aleksey Valerievich quickly got his bearings and organized a scheme for the illegal withdrawal of the entire composition of the UDP swimming facilities.

How many ships do you think? No matter how wild it may sound, but we are talking about five thousand units of self-propelled and non-self-propelled vessels.

By the way, the resonant events that took place at the UDP at that time were the most dissatisfied with the employees of the company, the old-timers of the industry, and representatives of trade unions. These people did not ignore the problem, but tried to rebel against embezzlers.

So, in particular, large-scale rallies were held against the very leadership of the Ukrainian Danube Shipping Company.

Also, employees repeatedly wrote letters of complaint to the relevant authorities.

What is known about the anti-people schematism of Alexei Khomyakov and his protector Vladislav Krykliy

So, what exactly was Khomyakov’s fraudulent scam? In fact, the swindler’s intention was simply the wildest. It doesn’t even fit in my head. Together with his accomplices, he specially registered a certain company in Hungary in order to transfer the entire fleet of the UDP to the authorized capital of this office. The swindler planned to bring half a thousand Ukrainian ships under the flag of Hungary, where they would become collateral and were lost to the country forever. But such a grandiose scam was prevented by employees of the State Bureau of Investigation and the Security Service of Ukraine.

Support from Krikliy allowed Khomyakov to rely on permissiveness and impunity, which is why his thirst for money became so limitless. So, in addition to the fleet itself, the swindler “laid his eye” on the administrative building of the UDP in the capital of Hungary, the cost of which was $ 16 million.

To squeeze out this building, Khomyakov established two subsidiaries of the UDP in Hungary – Transhold Kft / Transship Kft. Then, without the necessary procedures and approvals from the MIU and the State Property Fund, he transferred the building to the balance of one of these Hungarian companies. As a result, such an expensive administrative building left the control of Ukraine and fell into the hands of the Hungarian private owner Pal Sovag, a friend of Khomyakov.

It is noteworthy that the Ministry of Infrastructure has already conducted an audit, which could easily shed light on many other schemes of Mr. Khomyakov. Only now the then minister and protector of this character, Krikliy, did everything to ensure that the report was not published.

It should be noted that UDP is far from being Krikliy’s “feeding trough”. Another profitable scam was carried out by the subordinates of the then minister at the USPA. There, fraudsters set up a scheme for towing services for ship owners in three Ukrainian ports, using their fictitious companies for this purpose. Please note that we are talking about tugboats that belong to the state.

Further, the calculation was carried out hourly, while the owners of the vessels paid for the services at a rate based on the module of their vessel. Thanks to this scheme, Krikliy and his accomplices “earned” 10 or even 15 times more than the state itself.

I would like to believe that in the end this odious couple of swindlers, Krikliy and Khomyakov, will bear criminal responsibility for their crimes and go to jail for a long time.