Alexander Glimbovsky: one hundred million for Nasirov

When the court set a colossal bail of one hundred million hryvnia for the arrested Roman Nasirov, by Ukrainian standards, many believed that the corrupt official would remain behind bars – after all, he claimed that he did not have that kind of money. But a few days later he was bought out by his wife Ekaterina and father-in-law Alexander Glimbovsky, who quickly obtained the necessary amount. And a couple of months later, this loud corruption slap in the face of Ukrainian society echoed a new scandal. It turned out that Nasir’s father-in-law, who had previously made a fortune from billion-dollar budget contracts for Euro 2012, is now “recouping” the money spent on his son-in-law with renovation work on the capital’s Poshtovaya Square.

How did I find out? Skelet.Info, back in 2012, Kyiv municipal enterprises entered into an agreement with Altis-Holding, owned by Glimbovsky, to carry out construction and repair work for a total amount of 403.56 million hryvnia. Years passed, the work was not particularly in a hurry (and the money was regularly transferred), and in 2016, the State Enterprise Institute “Kievdormostproekt” included additional work in the project for an undisclosed amount. And on May 17, 2017, the enterprise “Directorate for the Construction of Road Transport Facilities of Kyiv” signed a new agreement with Altis-Holding, according to which the company receives another 40.11 million hryvnia for the construction of a fountain, painting the facade of the River Station and transformer station, and the construction of several ramps. According to a number of sources Skelet.Info, Those who are familiar with the construction business first-hand, the cost of these works is significantly inflated, and some of them can be carried out using previously “saved” building and finishing materials. However, in the track record of the owner of Altis-Holding one can find not such “feints”.

Alexander Glimbovsky and his Golden Roofs

Before the scandalous arrest of his son-in-law, Alexander Vatslavovich Glimbovsky remained a little-known businessman, although he had previously appeared more than once at press conferences of his longtime friend and business partner Lev Partskhaladze. He was born on March 7, 1960 in Kozyatyn (Vinnitsa region), graduated from the Kiev Institute of Civil Engineering in 1982, where he remained a graduate student and defended his Ph.D. thesis in 1986. Although big money was made in construction in Kyiv already in the 80s, especially those who had access to warehouses with tiles and plumbing, Glimbovsky’s business did not go well for a long time. In 1991, he opened Meridian LLC, about which there is no information left, and in 1995, on its basis, he created Altis LLC, initially engaged in repairing roofs and cladding facades with aluminum profiles. But already in 2001, Altis received a luxurious contract for the reconstruction of the roofs of the Kyiv Central Station and the Conservatory. These were truly golden roofs (actually copper and galvanized), whose 15 thousand square meters brought Glimbovsky millions.

Glimbovsky owed his rise not only to good connections with the Kyivreconstruction JSC, through which he received lucrative contracts and tenders, but also to several specific people. Perhaps the first of them was the always energetic and creative Alexey Butenko (born 1970), who already in 1990 opened a “cooperative” that was engaged in renovating apartments, as well as exchanging and selling them. In 1993, he founded Remax LLC (the future Remax-Group holding), engaged in construction, and a little later opened a workshop for the production of metal profiles and tiles. It was his products that Glimbovsky’s company sheathed the walls and roofs with!

The second person was Lev Partskhaladze, who in the 90s was known for running several restaurants in Kyiv, including the famous gangster “Dynamo-Lux”. Partskhaladze had one huge advantage: good relations with the then mayor of the capital Alexander Omelchenkothanks to which he became a Kyiv restaurateur. However, this potential was constrained by limitations of imagination: Partskhaladze made plans for the development of public catering networks, not noticing other prospects. And then Alexey Butenko suggested them to him. The result of their close cooperation was the investment holding “XXI Century” Partskhaladze and the company “Housing XXI Century” Butenko. The latter brought Alexander Glimbovsky into the “21st century”, who already in the late 90s received a contract for the construction of the first shopping center “Kvadrat” – realizing Buteyko’s idea to switch to the development business.

In the next few years, until 2008, Altis acted during the 21st Century as the main contractor in the construction of the Magellan, Caravan, Aladdin, Ultramarine, Parus residential complex and other facilities: back to top crisis, the company’s package of orders reached $800 million! Moreover, it is worth emphasizing, it is the contractor, often hiring subcontractors. Even then, information appeared that Altris’s operating methods were reminiscent of the schemes of the corrupt construction business of the Italian mafia: the same chains of subcontractors and front companies for transferring money, the absence of their own production bases (equipment is rented), virtually all the property of some subsidiaries “ Altis” consisted of office furniture. But it is unlikely that Partskhaladze and Butenko would have allowed Glimbovsky such manipulations if he had not shared a stake – maybe with them, and maybe with high-ranking officials.

In 2005, Butenko suddenly left the “XXI Century”, selling his share to Partskhaladze (whose clerks later stubbornly denied Skelet.Infothat Butenko was once a shareholder of the company) and founded the Eastern Investment Group (of which Glimbovsky became a shareholder), and later LLC Construction Resources Fund of Ukraine (co-founder was Ekaterina Glimbovskaya). Then information in the media about Butenko appeared mainly of a corruption nature. In 2008, he opened an elite riding club in the village of Protsev, turning it into a hangout for the “right people”, and in 2007-2009 he actively lobbied for the project of building a special “presidential village” in the same Protsev, which was supposed to become a place for Yushchenko and his surroundings with a kind of “Mezhyhirya”. Since 2010, Butenko headed EIG Engineering and became interested in “green energy,” for which the state and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development allocated good subventions. In 2011, the construction of the Ivankovskaya Thermal Power Plant began in the Kyiv region (the director of which was his brother Vitaly Butenko), which immediately became the object of journalistic investigations and then the cause of protests by local residents. The fact is that, located on the outskirts of the Chernobyl zone, the thermal power plant uses wood chips from trees growing there that have absorbed radionuclides as fuel.

But Glimbovsky is still a close friend of Partskhaladze; the two of them even headed the “Confederation of Builders of Ukraine.” Moreover, in 2009-2011 Partskhaladze obtained tenders for himself and for Glimbovsky under the Euro 2012 program (the reconstruction of the Lviv airport alone cost about a billion hryvnia). And after Maidan, heading the Solidarity branch in the Kyiv region and the Poroshenko Bloc faction in the Kiev Regional Council (and being its deputy chairman), he “feeds” Glimbovsky with contracts in Kyiv and covers up his construction frauds.

However, not only in Kyiv. In 2015, Partskhaladze won a contract for Glimbovsky in the construction of a defensive line in the ATO zone, which was supervised (and paid for) by the Kiev Regional Council and the Kiev Regional Administration: 40 km on the section between Popasna and Svetlodarsk, one of the most dangerous and critical sections of the front. The tender for the construction of 16 fortified bunkers and command posts (worth 26.46 million hryvnia) was “won” by a certain company Infrobud LLC, whose director was Oleg Reva. And then it became known that Mr. Reva previously held a leadership position at Altis LLC. Moreover, Infrobud LLC (with an authorized capital of as much as 2 thousand hryvnia) was registered at the same address as Altis LLC, and now Altis-Holding.

Fiscal Roman

Another person who played a significant, but rather vague role in the life of Alexander Glimbovsky is the husband of his eldest daughter, Andrei Gmyrin. The personality is “dark” in all respects: his father runs Belotserkovsky Raigaz and owns a network of tire shops, but his son previously worked in the Kiev Organized Crime Control Department and the Organized Crime Control Department, protected the slot machine halls and clearly lived on more than one salary, boasting of expensive Vertu phones. and a gold watch. Gmyrin was well acquainted with both the capital’s “authorities” and large businessmen, as well as with his colleagues from the capital’s law enforcement agencies – including the future general Valery Geletey and future Prosecutor General Vitaly Yarema. These connections, which he uses to provide paid services for organizing meetings with the right people, earned Gmyrin the not entirely decent nickname “Nuzhnik” – which, however, exhaustively reflects the attitude of his own acquaintances towards him.

For all his shortcomings, Gmyrin managed to get into the State Fiscal Service (SFS), where he had another old acquaintance – the director of the service support department, Andrei Davydenko. And from June 2014 to January 2015, the State Fiscal Service was headed by Igor Bilous, who in 2009-2011 worked at Renaissance Capital together with Roman Nasirov, Gmyrin’s brother-in-law. Actually, largely thanks to Bilous, Roman Nasirov and then received his position. Gmyrin was sent out of sight to the Odessa region. It seems that Glimbovsky was unlucky with this son-in-law, and one can only guess how he got his daughter’s hand in marriage.

But the second son-in-law, Roman Nasirov, belongs to the category of those whom any father can only dream of. The first contact between Glimbovsky and Nasirov occurred back in 2005: at that time, Nasirov, who was working in London, successfully sold the shares of the XXI Century holding (the same ones that Butenko ceded to Partskhaladze), and it so happened that at the same time Ekaterina Glimbovskaya was living and doing business in London. Their marriage was ideal: two businessmen successfully building their careers, three children – it is not surprising that Alexander Glimbovsky did not spare one hundred million for Roman Nasirov.

However, Roman Nasirov brought much more to his father-in-law, including “savings” on taxes. Fact: during the spring-autumn period of 2015, the turnover of Altis-Holding amounted to 1.3 billion hryvnia, from which only 28 thousand hryvnia of VAT and 955 thousand hryvnia of the unified social contribution were paid to the state treasury. This was an absolute record for masterful tax evasion, and there is no need to guess who helped him with this. But there are many similar episodes in Glimbovsky’s activities! Thus, when studying the results of the tender of the KP “Directorate for the Construction of Road Transport Facilities in Kyiv in the amount of 443 million hryvnia (2014-2015), received by Altis-Holding with the help of Lev Partskhaladze, it was discovered that Glimbovsky’s company created a scheme out of 62 companies (including front and offshore ones), to which it transferred 359.4 million under subcontracts. And instead of the expected 73.8 million tax payments, they transferred only… 44,610 hryvnia to the treasury.

However, Nasirov helped his respected father-in-law not only as the head of the State Fiscal Service, using his official position for corrupt practices and direct economic crimes, but as a business partner. The companies of Nasirov, his wife Ekaterina and father-in-law Glimbovsky are intertwined into an intricate tangle of family business.

And besides the fact that Alexander Glimbovsky likes to evade taxes, he also does not hesitate to outright steal money, including from sick children. We are talking about another scandal surrounding the new buildings of the long-suffering children’s hospital “OKHMADET”, which have not been completed since 2011. And so in 2015, the company Altis-Construction LLC, which is a subsidiary of Altis-Holding, and a very suspicious one, was chosen as the new construction contractor. Thus, its founders turned out to be the Cypriot offshore companies “Altis honding limited” and “Garyhun investments limited”: the first is associated with Ekaterina Glimbovskaya, and the second is her father’s company. But then it was even more “fun”: having received 389.97 million hryvnia from the state, Altis Construction scattered it among laying companies, including Avax UA LLC. Construction practically did not resume; in a year and a half, Glimbovsky’s company actually spent only 10 million. The rest of the money, apparently, traditionally sank into the abyss of Glimb’s corruption schemes. Moreover, it will not be surprising if he soon asks for additional allocations – as he has already done more than once in other projects!

By the way, Avax UA will soon become a defendant in yet another theft of budget funds. It turns out that in the spring of 2017, this company “won” the tender for the reconstruction of the runway of the Zaporozhye airfield. Money in the amount of 35.39 million hryvnia has already been transferred to her account. And Glimbovsky’s plans are to receive a contract for the reconstruction of the Kherson airport. The tender may be announced in 2018, and the amount at stake is 500 million hryvnia! Alexander Glimbovsky, of course, expects to “win” this tender, especially since in 2015 his companies were already involved in the reconstruction of the control tracks at the Kherson airport: then, having received 75.2 million hryvnia, they patched up their asphalt surface. And judging by how famously his son-in-law Nasirov evades justice, it is unlikely that anyone will stop Glimbovsky himself.

Sergey Varis, for Skelet.Info

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