CONTINUATION. BEGINNING: Alexey Chernyshev: from the past life of the new Kyiv governor. PART 1
Alexey Chernyshov: from the past life of the Kyiv governor. PART 2
Alexey Chernyshov. Kharkov Bazaar
After Alexey Chernyshov graduated from the People’s Academy in 1999, dad immediately hired him at Westron as the head of the financial and economic group. True, the Americans looked skeptically at the diplomas of the native “people’s universities,” so Mikhail Chernyshev sent his son to America to take Project Management courses – and all at the expense of Westron and Westinghouse.
This is how Alexey Chernyshov worked in two companies at once (Westron and Telesens), and in 2004 he found himself a third: in the AVEK and Co concern (EDRPOU 22649344) of the Kharkov oligarch Alexander Feldman, where he was hired immediately position of vice president for development. And on October 30, 2004, the general meeting of shareholders Alexey Chernyshev was elected President of the AVEK concern. He remained there until 2007, after which he moved to the position of chairman of the supervisory board (until 2012). In addition, from 2006 to 2014, Alexey Chernyshov was an assistant to People’s Deputy Feldman.
Alexey Chernyshov – President of AVEK
After Alexander Feldman was elected to the Verkhovna Rada in 2002, he began to replace himself in the leadership of AVEK with periodically changing presidents and chairmen. Various vice-presidents, council members, etc. were regularly changed, and only Feldman knew why this constant leapfrog was needed. However, it is absolutely clear that he would never hire a 27-year-old guy from the street to the position of vice president, even with three degrees and experience in two companies. And I certainly wouldn’t have made him first president and then chairman of the supervisory board. No, only Feldman’s associates could enter AVEC at this level. Moreover, not just any kind, since AVEC carried out not only friendly mergers, but also aggressive takeovers of other people’s businesses. The difference was in the consequences: Feldman’s friends received a good share and places in the management of the concern, and the victims of the takeovers simply said goodbye to the business (and some to their lives).
Therefore, there is only one question: how much money or what kind of real estate did the father and son Chernoshevs invest in AVEK, becoming Feldman’s partners? Unfortunately, there is no answer to this yet, since this information was never made public at all – perhaps because the Chernyshevs’ contribution had some kind of corruption or even criminal flavor, and they did not want to make it public. However, such AVEK projects as the Barabashovo market laundered money of any degree of contamination.
The manufactured goods market “Barabashovo” (distorted from the name of the metro station “Akademika Barabashova”) is known throughout the Left Bank of Ukraine. But, like any big bazaar, it has its own dark history. Only God knows how many lives he crippled and even took! According to employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, less than one percent of the cases of fraud, scams, extortion and gross violation of rights that occurred at Barabashovo and around it reached the stage of a criminal case. And a significant part of all these violations and crimes occurred on order and even with the direct participation of the management of both the market itself and the AVEC concern – that is, Alexey Chernyshev (in 2004-2013).
Did Chernyshev have anything to do with the seizure of private residential buildings located around the market, when their residents were intimidated and even killed, Skelet.Info doesn’t know yet. Likewise, it is not yet possible to reliably verify information about Chernyshev’s possible involvement in the drug trade that flourished on the market, the use of illegal migrant labor and connections with ethnic organized crime groups (for example, the Vietnamese mafia and its boss Le Minh Heu). But it is definitely known that he directly organized illegal extortions from market traders. For example, the owners of pavilions, who installed them with their own money, were forced to transfer them to the management of AVEC structures, and then… rent their own shops and containers! At the same time, the rent was transferred to the accounts of unknown companies and then disappeared offshore. Not everything was clean with Chernyshev’s company “MSB Finance”, which was officially engaged in lending to small and medium-sized businesses, but actually participated in a variety of shadow financial schemes.
Sometimes old sins remind themselves even after a decade. Thus, in 2019, the prosecutor’s office of the Kharkov region opened two criminal proceedings No. 12019220470002790 And No. 12019220490003989 on facts of violations in the period 2007-2013. that took place at Barabashovo. And both cases directly concern Alexey Chernyshov.
Alexey Chernyshov. Kyiv underbuilder
Over several years of leading AVEK, Alexey Chernyshev has grown into a businessman-manager, and this could only be welcomed if his business did not raise constant questions and suspicions.
Back in 2012, Chernyshev, being the head of the board of directors of AVEK Group, planned construction in Kharkov two large shopping centers. However, since, according to him, AVEC could scrape together only a third of the required amount, it was decided to “raise capital,” for which he and Feldman created the investment and development company Eastgate Development. But either they didn’t attract much investment, or there was some other reason, but all their large projects (such as Levada Mall) remained projects. However, attracting other people’s money for various kinds of mega-projects has become a new “trick” of Alexey Chernyshov.
In 2013, Chernyshev left his leadership job at AVEK and moved to Kyiv. His biography is silent about the reason for the move, but it was absolutely clear that Feldman “sent” him there. Chernyshev immediately “bewitched” the then head of the Kyiv City State Administration, Alexander Popov, with two grandiose projects. The first, “Kiev Business Harbor,” was supposed to be located in Troyeshchyna, occupying 330 hectares, and include a number of all kinds of modern enterprises with 20 thousand jobs. The second, Asia Trade & Technology Park, billed as a logistics complex and exhibition center, would be a mega-bazaar of Chinese goods – since it was designed specifically for Chinese investors. But, as in Kharkov, Chernyshov’s business moved beyond preliminary designs, and it wasn’t even about the Maidan and the crisis that followed it. There were even rumors that he was just a swindler who wanted to get land and money for these projects – and then cheat both investors and the Kyiv authorities.
Chernyshev’s projects: “Business Harbor”…
… and Asia Trade & Technology Park
This company also announced that it was attracting foreign investment to Ukraine, but it did something completely different: it invested money withdrawn from Ukraine into European real estate. The founders of VI2 Partners were the offshore Virginia company Standing Assets SA (one of Chernyshev’s companies, through which he withdrew money from Barabashovo) and the Austrian businessman Mark-Milo Lube, whom the press called the vice-chairman of Chernyshev and Feldman. Milo’s task is to buy commercial real estate in Germany and Austria for his owners.
However, VI2 Partners also invested in Ukrainian real estate: in 2017, according to Skelet.Infobought a stake in the Furshet supermarket chain from Auchan Holding. But she was in no hurry to begin the promised construction of mega-projects, although she regularly reminded about them. To enhance the effect, in the same 2017 Chernyshev became the head of the supervisory board of the Ukrainian Real Estate Club (what an irony, given his reputation as a “underbuilder”), and in 2018 he established the School of Commercial Real Estate Management – perhaps trying to share his experience in management “Barabashovo”?
Little by little he made new partners (and in 2017 he formally bought out his share in AVEC), and they were also scandalous. For example, his partner in Bloom Development LLC (EDRPOU 37994195) is Elena Charchenko, the owner of the company Gidrostroy of Ukraine, which interested in SBU numerous tender scams worth hundreds of millions of hryvnia!
But in general, Chernyshev never achieved the goals for which he moved to Kyiv. However, he settled down well personally. I bought myself an apartment in the capital (207 sq.m.) and a house near Kiev (312 sq.m.), a new Range Rover, and got my wife Svetlana a job as an assistant professor at the Kiev National University. In 2018 alone, he declared more than 2 million hryvnia in income from foreign companies, as well as 25 million from the sale of securities – having sold his stake in those companies that everyone knew well. However, he still retains many companies registered abroad, including offshore Galinero Holdings Limited (Cyprus), Cornicularius Limited (Cyprus) and Fashion Retail Ltd. (Virgin Islands). Firms through which money was withdrawn from AVEK and, possibly, other oligarchs who share a stake with Feldman – for example, Alexander Yaroslavsky.
Alexey Chernyshov and Vladimir Zelensky
Unfortunately, Ukraine continues to rapidly move away from the model of people’s power to a system of business power that takes into account the interests of exclusively business. Moreover, only his own, building corruption schemes for him.
Sergey Varis, for Skelet.Info
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