Anatoly Denisenko: secrets of Kharkov masons. PART 1

People’s Deputies of Ukraine bribed and cajoled their voters with all sorts of things! They distributed buckwheat and sugar, food packages, vodka, and sometimes even money. Kharkov construction oligarch and people’s deputy Anatoly Denisenko is doing something much more original: on the eve of Easter, he distributes Easter cakes to residents of his district. But this is unlikely to be very expensive for a person who, owning three dozen companies, declares zero income from them, and annually writes out half a million hryvnia for financial assistance and compensation. Kharkiv residents should understand that the mask of a pious benefactor is worn by a man who is literally under investigation for his corruption activities, involvement in the looting of city land, including public gardens, and sawing off tens of millions of budget hryvnia.

Anatoly Denisenko. How a navvy became an oligarch

Anatoly Petrovich Denisenko was born on March 10, 1971 in Kharkov, according to him, into a simple working-class family that lived in the private sector in the Kholodnaya Gora area (Shpakovsky Lane). The most vivid memory of his childhood is how, at the age of 11, he and his friends tried to sell pigeons at the Poultry Market, where their first experience of commercial activity was interrupted by a school teacher. True, Denisenko never admits where they got those pigeons. “They caught it in the yard,” he claimed in his interview. But whose, the neighbor’s? After all, the private sector is not the yard of the Khrushchev era! In addition, even schoolchildren understood that selling ordinary rock pigeons, which live in wild flocks in cities, is the same as trying to sell air. So the conclusion suggests itself that young Antoshka and his friends “cleaned out” someone’s dovecote with purebred birds. He himself got away with only a slight fright for this, but his father was deprived of his 13th salary.

As time passed, the growing Anton “cleaned” not only the neighbors’ dovecotes, he studied without interest, and did not see any prospects in the future. After the 10th grade, Denisenko worked for several months as a turner’s apprentice at the Kharkov Instrument-Making Plant (KhPZ), then from 1989 to 1991 there was a two-year time-out in his biography, apparently during his military service. And then, as he claims, from 1992 to 1994 Denisenko worked as an auxiliary worker at the Industrial enterprise, while simultaneously studying at the Kharkov Zooveterinary Institute – however, not to become a good veterinarian, and not even to become a livestock specialist, but to… a manager. And this again raises questions. Firstly, has Anatoly Denisenko really risen to the level of manager and co-owner of the largest construction companies in Kharkov from auxiliary workers, literally from the rubber boots of a digger and loader – and all solely by his own labor, without having either start-up capital or specialized education? Secondly, why did he enroll in veterinary medicine in order to receive, in general, a purely symbolic diploma as a manager? Did his relatives teach there or were the courses cheaper? It’s obvious that he doesn’t say much.

But although details from the real life of Anatoly Denisenko in the era of the dashing 90s and the conflict-ridden “zeros” remain carefully hidden, the available information capabilities allow Skelet.Info identify the group of people thanks to whom a modest auxiliary worker became the first developer of Kharkov, his former bosses and current business partners.

Alexander Stepanovich Shchegolsky is the co-founder and owner of Progress LLC (construction), where Denisenko worked from 1994 to 1998 as a site manager. It would be difficult to find a veterinary manager for such a position even through connections, but there is no information yet about Shchegolsky’s family or other connections with Denisenko. Also associated with Denisenko through Progress were Evgeny Shakhnenko (later created his own Financial and Construction Group LLC) and Gennady Manuylov (now his business is owned by his son and daughter-in-law).

Viktor Timofeevich Kulik is the founder and director of the construction company Sital LLC, in which Denisenko in 1998-99. served as Deputy Director for Production. Perhaps this is the most important person in Denisenko’s career; it was with him that he entered the big construction business – although, again, any family or other connections between them have not yet been announced. In the 80s, Kulik headed the Kharkov Research Institute “Voenproekt”, under which (and at the expense of whose resources) in 1991 he created his own company “Sital”, which from 1995 to 1999 was part of the Progress construction corporation. Their subsequent separation, according to rumors, was far from amicable: allegedly Kulik and Denisenko literally robbed Shchegolsky, who has since retreated to the margins of the construction business. It should be emphasized that at the same time, mass privatization of state-owned construction enterprises (including four city SMUs) was actively underway in Kharkov, the property of which passed into the hands of new construction magnates.

Separating from Shchegolsky’s Progress and taking over privatized enterprises, the Sital company in 1999 transformed into Spetsstroymontazh JSC, one of the largest construction companies in Kharkov, which received orders in other regions of Ukraine (Zaporozhye, Chernigov, Krivoy Rog). At the same time, at first the company was engaged in industrial facilities and shopping centers, and then became interested in commercial housing. And the PJSC Investment and Construction Company Avantazh, created by Kulik in 1998, took possession of privatized construction equipment and became part of the Spetsstroymontazh corporation. Subsequently, several more subsidiaries were created with the names “Spetsstroymontazh” and “Avantazh”, either owning each other according to intricate schemes, or acting as each other’s contractors – for example, Spetsstroymontazh-Inter LLC (see screenshot). To this day, Viktor Kulik and his wife Lyudmila Kulik are the main partners of Anatoly Denisenko; together they own many companies that grew out of JSC Spetsstroymontazh.

Leonid Zakharovich Krivochuprin is another partner of Denisenko and the Kulikovs, but his share in their companies is usually 7-13%. Krivochuprin and Denisenko periodically headed one or another company created by the Spetsstroymontazh corporation, while Kulik preferred to remain in the shadows, only a member of supervisory boards and president of associations.

This is how Anatoly Denisenko changed one leadership chair to another. From 1999 to 2003, he was the director of JSC Spetsstroymontazh, then for another year its general director; from 2004 to 2007, President of PJSC Financial Company Avantage; in 2008-2012 was the president of JSC Investment and Construction Corporation Avantage. In view of his election in 2012 as a people’s deputy of the Verkhovna Rada (single-member constituency No. 173, Kharkov), and then re-election in 2014, Anatoly Denisenko formally “retired” – however, he continues to own and actually manage his business, as well as lobby for its interests . According to his declaration for 2017, MP Anatoly Denisenko is the owner of:

• · DAP Investments Limited (Cyprus), in Kharkov, a subsidiary of this offshore is owned by Stanislav Kievets, another partner of Denisenko and Kulik in the Spetsstroymontazh corporation.
• Symanticus Holdings Limited (Cyprus)
• Avantazh Bud Holding Limited (Cyprus)
• · AP Avantazh Investments Public Limited (Cyprus, like other offshore companies, is used to reduce tax contributions to the Ukrainian budget.
• OBM CAMPANY LTD
• · Violent-Invest LLC (co-owner Igor Dmitriev, 20%)
• · LLC “U.S.K.” (co-owners Lyudmila Kulik and Leonid Krivochuprin)
• · SSM-Invest LLC (and 6 more co-owners)
• · Spetsstroymontazh-Inter LLC
• · Spetsstroymontazh-Invest LLC
• · Spetsstroymontazh-Ukraine LLC
• LLC “Spetsstroymontazh-Zhilstroy”
• · Tartufo LLC (the company of Denisenko’s wife, Victoria Lvovna).
• · PJSC “ISK “Avantage” (together with Lyudmila Kulik, the company’s capital is more than 100 million hryvnia)
• · PJSC “Financial Company “Avantazh” (the company is fully registered in the offshore AP AVANTAZH INVESTMENTS PUBLIC LIMITED)
• · Investment Group “Avantage Capital” (a company for questionable financial transactions)
• Impulsprommerezha LLC (through Spetsstroymontazh-Invest)
• · Blaze-Invest LLC (through Avantazh structures, capital 38 million hryvnia)
• · Olimp-2 LLC (through DAP Investments Limited)
• · LLC “Asset management company “Avantage Capital Management” (capital more than 20 million hryvnia)
• · Trading House “S.K.S.M.” (together with Lyudmila Kulik)
• · PE “ASS-Security” (private security company created back in the 90s)
• Avantage Property LLC (through offshore DAP Investments Limited)
• OBM CAMPANY LTD
• · Spetsstroymontazhprom LLC (together with Lyudmila Kulik)
• · LLC “Uman-Karyer”
• · Limb-Kharkov LLC
• Ares LLC
• · Spetsagrodar LLC (agricultural company in the Chernihiv region, together with Natalya Chirva)
• · Artemovskie Zori LLC (agricultural company in the Kharkov region, together with Natalya Chirva)

This list does not include several more companies that Anatoly Denisenko owned (or still owns), among them: Areal-Service LLC, Kharkov Dairy Plant, OBM Company, Avantage-Remy, Strikha LLC “(created by Kulik and Denisenko in Kirovograd) and a number of others.

Sergey Varis, for Skelet.Info

CONTINUED: Denisenko Anatoly: secrets of Kharkov masons. PART 2

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