Alexander Lishchenko: from the life of Kyiv “authorities”. PART 1

In recent years, our media have written so often and in detail about corrupt officials, corrupt “cops” and lawless radicals that Ukrainians have already forgotten about the existence of those who are much worse than all of them combined. Meanwhile, the criminal “authorities” of the 90s and their scumbag henchmen are not a thing of the past, and not all of them rest on the granite alleys of cemeteries. Like, for example, Kiev businessman and deputy chairman of the Boxing Federation Alexander Lishchenko, known in certain circles under the nickname Licha.

He is clear proof that there are no former “authorities”. Even having retrained as entrepreneurs and deputies, these people continue to control enterprises, markets, banks, local authorities, retaining their wolfish nature and still not getting rid of their old gangster habits. If anyone had any doubts about Licha’s criminal past (you never know, maybe they talked about a “respected person”), then they were finally dispelled after back in 2012-2013. Deputy of the Kyiv City Council Alexander Lishchenko has repeatedly demonstrated his full essence in a number of conflict situations captured by journalists. So, December 20, 2012 Lishchenko, during an altercation with the UDAR deputy Yaroslav Ginka, grabbed him “by the collar” and tried to take him out of the meeting room of the Kiev City Council into the corridor in order to “explain him in terms of concepts.” The then secretary of the Kyiv City Council, Galina Gerega, even interrupted the meeting because of this incident.

And on July 11, 2013, during a heated “debate” in the Kiev City Council (when Yatsenyuk’s glasses were broken), Lishchenko pushed like that MP from Batkivshchyna Liliya Grinevich that she hit her head against the wall and lost consciousness. At the same time, Lishchenko threatened her faction comrades Alexandra Kuzhel and Leonid Yemets, promising that they “would not live to see the evening.” Kuzhel immediately trumpeted these threats in the media, and a loud scandal arose. The very next day, Lishchenko, who surrendered, himself complained to the press that it was Kuzhel who attacked him first, tore his shirt and threatened him with “public reprisal.” However, no one believed the man who behaved at the meetings of the City Council like a gopnik at a “showdown”, insulting his opponents with market obscenities of the 90s.

Lishchenko Alexander Vasilievich was born on April 30, 1969 in Kyiv. Having no thirst for knowledge, after the eighth grade he entered the Kiev vocational school No. 2 (now a higher commercial school), where they trained as cooks, confectioners and salesmen. Such vocational schools were considered female, and there were ten “women” for every “boy” (and their women’s dormitories gathered sexually anxious young people from all over the city). In general, Sasha Lishchenko had much more fun there than at school! By the way, this is Lishchenko’s only actual education, since he received diplomas in marketing and economics in 2010 and 2012, according to Skelet.Infoare purchased.

After graduating from vocational school, Lishchenko was not “shared” into the army – he hid the reason for this. But, considering that it was extremely difficult to pay off the military commissar at that time, and that a guy from a simple family simply had nothing, we can confidently say that Alexander Lishchenko was declared unfit for service for health reasons completely legally. It’s just under what article that remains unknown. There are still rumors among his acquaintances that Lichi has “seven-be”, that is, mental problems. Well, looking at his behavior, these rumors can be believed.

The first place of work of the future “authority” was the Kiev shoe factory “named after the 10th anniversary of Komsomol” (July 1987 – October 1988). Then Alexander Lishchenko simply kicked the bucket for several months: his biography records that from December 1988 to April 1989 he studied at driver training courses at the Republican Training Center. But such courses were not then considered either study or work – tens of thousands of young men completed them without leaving a technical school or a factory machine. 19-year-old Lishchenko, who did not join the army and quit his job at a shoe factory, actually did not officially work anywhere for six months. At that time, this was similar to an article about parasitism (it was canceled only in April 1991). Another mystery of Lychee’s past…

Further, in Lishchenko’s biography, the “positions” rapidly changed one after another: driver of ATP No. 23070 (1989-1990), handyman of the Elektron sports club (1990-1991), welder-straightening operator of the Kinteko MP (1991-1992), baker of the store No. 1152 (1992-1995). But Lishchenko was only listed as a baker, since he “straightened” other people’s faces, since already in 1991 he was a member of the organized crime group of Valery Pryshchik. Together with Lishchenko, his childhood friend and classmate Sergei Onoprienko joined the gang. Speaking of their nicknames: Lishchenko was called “Lich” back in school, so he goes around with this “drive” all his life, but when and why his friend Onoprienko was nicknamed “Saloed” is unknown.

Valery Pryshchik (left), Alexander Lishchenko (center) and Sergei Onoprienko (right) dashing 90s

Onoprienko, Pryshchik and Lishchenko, a few years later

Let us repeat that all this was not only controlled first by the organized crime group Pryshchik, and then by his heirs (including Alexander Lishchenko), these were their main sources of income. Moreover, certain areas, such as fraud with alcohol, were then developed separately by them. But in addition to the semi-criminal shadow business, in addition to raiding and extortion, the Pryshchik-Lishchenko organized crime group committed crimes that did not have a statute of limitations.

One of the loudest gang wars in Kyiv in the early 90s was the “massacre on Lesnoy”, when Pryshchik’s group “scored the arrow” with the “Lesnikovsky” gang, led by a certain Monk. Both bladed weapons and firearms were used in the battle: as the media reported, Saloed, Lichi’s friend and classmate, personally shot one of the “foresters” with a machine gun, and Pryshchik’s henchmen beat another “forester” to death with bats. At the same time, Licha himself allegedly did not participate in this “showdown”, since he was in jail on charges of car theft – but after this war he was immediately released “in peace,” which leads to some thoughts. However, the “moles” in Pyshch’s organized crime group were dealt with cruelly: they said that one of their “foremen”, suspected of working either for the authorities or for another gang, was tied to jeeps and torn to pieces, and in this bloody story, without Licha it didn’t work out. They also told something else: it was by skillfully substituting other “foremen” that Licha managed to rise to the position of Prishchyk’s closest assistant and companion. It’s not for nothing that Lishchenko is still referred to as a “rotten person.”

Another famous murder in which Licha may have been involved occurred in 1997. Then Pryshchik’s bandits staged a robbery against businessman Ryzhkov. This was not just a “attack” by several “brothers” on another businessman; the matter turned out to be quite large-scale. Ryzhkov wrote a statement to the police, gave a lot of testimony, operational work was carried out, as a result of which Pryshchik himself was put on the wanted list! However, soon Ryzhkov, as the main victim and witness in the case, was shot: the murder took place in his native village of Semipolki, near Kiev.

Also, the press at one time reported that in the 90s, at the Troeshchinsky market, a group of “unknown racketeers” (and who would dare to do such a thing there, except Pryshchik’s people?) severely beat several traders, one of whom died from the injuries caused.

From 1997 to 2001, 15 criminal cases were opened against members of the Pryshchik organized crime group, and 24 bandits were behind bars. However, Pryshchik himself continued to be wanted – although he was not really hiding from anyone, he continued to visit the Troeshchinsky market “with checks,” and all law enforcement agencies were well aware of this. How so? Yes, that’s it! In the 90s, the rapid activity of the Pryshchik organized crime group was covered not only by the capital officials whom he “fed”, and not only by the journalists he bought, who published indignant articles about “lawlessness against entrepreneurs”, as “Mirror of the Week” did Yulia Mostova. In fact, Pryshchik and his violent activities were covered up by the Kyiv Organized Crime Control Department and the SBU. They covered it until one day they no longer needed it.

How the Teapot was killed

Most Ukrainian organized crime groups have almost the same biography: they were founded by some “authorities”, after whose murder other “authorities” stood at the head of the groups, but they did not live long, after which their inheritance was divided among themselves by nimble assistants and companions. Skelet.Info I have already told similar stories more than once in my materials about Vasily Petevka, Valery Dubil, Alexander Angert, Maxim Efimov, Alexander Nalekreshvili, and other odious characters in Ukrainian politics and big business.

Today, few people remember that former cycling coach Valery Pryshchik began as a “foreman” in the organized crime group of Vladimir Polishchuk, nicknamed Teapot, a former career military man. Polishchuk himself told about himself that he allegedly served under the command of the famous military general Boris Gromov (who became Moscow governor in 2000). However, it turned out that in reality Polishchuk served in a group of Soviet troops in Czechoslovakia, where he made good money from theft of property and trade in consumer goods, after which he decided to “stir up” his business by transporting goods from Europe to Kyiv. Then Polishchuk founded several clothing markets in Kyiv, one of which, “Patent,” later grew into the Troeshchinsky market.

Since Polishchuk’s business was “diversified,” including shadow and criminal, and required strong fists to defend his own and seize someone else’s territory, he assembled his own organized crime group. Its core consisted of the same officers who resigned from the army, and Polishchuk literally won his authority in the war with Chechen ethnic groups. Then, at the turn of the 80-90s, the “highlanders” tried to take control of the Kyiv bazaars and stalls, but local “Slavic” organized crime groups opposed them, pushing them out of the city altogether. It seems that a similar war then spread throughout Ukraine, because Chechen groups were never able to gain a foothold in any major city in the country, and their influence and presence is still minimal. Only a little later, by the end of the 90s, through the efforts of the “Rukhov” Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the emissaries of Dudayev’s Ichkeria took control of the Kherson Oil Refinery, and Eduard Gurvits kindly invited them to Odessa (from where they were later driven out by Angert’s people, but not completely).

Expanding his organized crime group, Polishchuk-Chaynik took as his allies the “brigade” of Valery Pryshchik, which consisted of athletes and simply “gopniks” like Lichi. For Pryshchik, who did not yet have much weight and broad opportunities, and was subsisting on the racketeering of stallholders and robberies of wealthy Kiev residents, this offer turned out to be profitable: they were put in control of the growing markets. But Pimple quickly realized that his “brigade” was simply being used as “infantry” during the war for territory. At the beginning of 1992, when that “massacre on Lesnoy” happened (with two corpses and a bunch of crippled people), Pryshchik’s “brigade” was in deep trouble – and he insisted that Teapot “bury” them somewhere. Then Polishchuk sent Pryshchik’s people, including Saloed and Vova Bandit, who were joined by Alexander Lishchenko, who had left his cell, to the Czech Republic. There Polishchuk had something like his own “business representation” of his closest people, his army friends, who opened a number of companies.

However, Pryshchik, Licha, Saloed and Vova Bandit, who arrived in Europe, saw an incredible number of wealthy people, as they say, “went crazy” and committed a number of crimes, including murders. In particular, their victims were certain Arab businessmen, from whose corpses Pyshchik and Licha took 300 thousand dollars. So this is how Licha spent his time, who at that time was listed in Kyiv as a peaceful baker in a grocery store!

Polishchuk’s people tried, it seemed, to make a complaint to these “lawless men”: they say, if you came to sit out, then be quiet! But for this, as sources reported Skelet.InfoPimple’s team (including Licha) just… killed them. Two were shot in the forest, and the third (Davydovsky) was shot in his sleep, from a machine gun – they framed it as an accident (they say he slept in an embrace with a Kalashnikov). Pryshchik not only managed to convince Polishchuk that this was the work of some rival gang, he managed to significantly strengthen his position in the organized crime group. And then Pryshchik decided to eliminate Polishchuk himself.

Returning to Kyiv in the fall of 1992, Pryshchik met with Polishchuk and had a far from friendly conversation with his “boss.” Pyshchik made a complaint to Polishchuk: they say, you didn’t help my family in my absence! As it turned out, the “family”, Pryshchik’s 18-year-old wife Victoria, simply “ratified” the money they received from Teapot, but this became clear later. And then, during the conflict that broke out, Pryshchik, accompanied by Victoria and his faithful bloody henchmen Lichi, Saloed, Vova Bandit and the Mayachkov brothers, went to Polishchuk’s house, calling him into the yard for a conversation. The Beacons then eliminated the guards, and Pimple, Licha and Saloed shot the Teapot.

Grave of Vladimir Polishchuk (Chainik)

Here are the different sources: Skelet.Info give somewhat contradictory information. Journalists once wrote that Pryshchik’s gang was “tied up” by the Organized Crime Control Department, but former Deputy Prosecutor of Kyiv Sergei Vinokurov (from 1998 to 2010 – Deputy Prosecutor General of Ukraine) toldthat Pyshchik himself called him, asking him to arrest him – in a panic, fearing revenge from the “brothers”. His request was respected, Pryshchik’s team was arrested, but… then moved to the SBU pre-trial detention center. Where officers from Directorate “K” became keenly interested in them: the then detective officer Igor Grebennik (died in July 2019) and his boss, Colonel Andrienko. Apparently, they agreed on something with Pryshchik, because soon he and his accomplices were released, and the murder of Polishchuk was “pinned” on Igor Shupik, who was wanted – also a bandit, a former boxer, who killed a man in a fight and ran away straight from the courtroom .

Sergey Varis, for Skelet.Info

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