Andrey Onistrat: the fraudulent path of the “running banker”. PART 2

CONTINUATION. BEGINNING: Andrey Onistrat: the fraudulent path of the “running banker”. PART 1

Having left the walls of Ukrsotsbank, Onistrat immediately began looking for an inexpensive bank. First, he set his sights on Partner Bank, which belonged to former UBOP officer Alexei Savchenko and, according to rumors, was created with the money of the late crime boss Pyshch. Andrey Onistrat even became deputy head of the board of Partner Bank (from January to June 2009), but Savchenko stubbornly refused to lower the price, and then found buyers in Russia (*country sponsor of terrorism). And only in August 2009, Onistrat found a successful option for his investments: he bought a package of additional issue of National Credit Bank, which for a long time was the family bank of Vladimir Matvienko (the first head of the National Bank of Ukraine, the creator and head of Prominvestbank), and during the 2008- 2009 has become problematic. This transaction made Onistrat the owner of 48.3% of National Credit.

However, the issue of additional shares continued. First, this made Onistrat the owner of 53.2% of the shares, then he announced that he had bought out the stakes of other co-owners and owned 92%, then the 2011 issue reduced his share to 67%, and 30% was received by Ascania-Group of brothers Valery and Sergei Gorban. In 2013, the bank acquired a new shareholder: 16% was concentrated in the hands of Igor Bobnev, a Ukrainian entrepreneur of Russian origin who lived in Austria, and, according to Skelet.Info – a famous swindler. It was also reported that Bobnev was associated with the Solntsevskys and Mogilevich. After this transaction, Onistrat’s share was reduced to 36%. Then, on January 1, 2015, the distribution of the bank’s shares changed again (see table), Igor Bobnev already owned almost 21%, but Ascania’s share was reduced by half.

Andrey Onistrat: the fraudulent path of the “running banker”. PART 2

A couple of months passed, and the composition of the shareholders of National Credit changed again (see table). The scandalous Igor Bobnev disappeared from it, but many new faces appeared to whom he sold his stake.

Andrey Onistrat: the fraudulent path of the “running banker”. PART 2

These constant manipulations with shares and the incessant leapfrog of co-owners caused some surprise, since in this case the National Credit Bank acquired a certain specificity. And these fears were soon justified when, in 2015, the Main Investigation Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs announced that criminal and corruption money was laundered through the bank, fictitious financial transactions were carried out, and the bank’s management “stole” and siphoned off depositors’ money.

Bloody Beaver

Long before the name of Andrei Onistrat thundered throughout Ukraine in the context of the scandalous collapse of the National Credit, he “became famous” within the borders of the village of Bobritsa (Kievo-Svyatoshinsky district), where he lives in his own mansion behind a five-meter fence and with impressive armed guards . This guard, which accompanies Onistrat even during his morning runs, has long caused bewilderment among the Beaver residents (and among them there are wealthy people who have settled there), since they do not understand who the “master” is so afraid of?

But after March 6, 2011, the beavers had no time for jokes. On that day Onistrat’s armed guards killed three dogs in the villagewho had the audacity to bark at the “master” who was making his jog. More precisely, according to eyewitnesses, they barked at Onistrat’s own dog, with which he ran his morning triathlon on a leash. And he ordered his guards, riding behind him in a Suzuki jeep, to kill the poor animals. Onistrat’s bloody run through Bobritsa was reminiscent of some kind of cleansing operation, as if punitive forces had entered the village.

The blood of dogs killed on the orders of the “running banker” Andrei Onistrat remained on the asphalt

The point is not only that by doing this, Onistrat and his guards cynically violated two laws at once: one protecting domestic animals from violence (and children from psychological trauma), the other prohibiting organizing “hunts” within populated areas. The fact is that this monstrous emergency raised questions about Onistrat’s mental health. If a “dog owner” (and Onistrat ran with a dog on a leash) hates other dogs and orders them to be killed, this is as abnormal as if the father of a child hates other people’s children. And this man still teaches others about life! Or maybe he also needs a dog at morning marathons for protection? Who, then, is he so afraid of, really?

The statements of Bobritsa residents to the local police, quite expectedly, were simply thrown into the trash. And although employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs came to the scene of the incident, they even drew up a report, and a local police officer went from house to house and collected witness statements, the case was never opened. And the National Credit office called this information “erroneous.”

But the misfortunes of the Bobrint residents did not end there. In 2014, the struggle for land plots in the village intensified (in particular, on Shkolnaya Street), the main stakeholders in which were Andrei Onistrat and his “tame” village head Alexander Korol. The situation was aggravated by the fact that information appeared about the imminent administrative unification of Bobritsa with neighboring Zaborie and Belogorodka into a “united community” with a new government. Therefore, the King and his patrons decided to hurry up, hastily dismantling the plots. They were joined by several other businessmen who settled in Bobritsa, after which the so-called civil initiative “Fairytale village of Bobritsa”. Officially, this is a public organization whose goal is “a European-style village development strategy.” However, the villagers argued that behind the plans to lay the sidewalk and lay out the lawn there was a scam that would make Bobritsa the fiefdom of several families renting out the land to developers.

Two scams

Back in the 90s, Russian-Ukrainian businessman Igor Bobnev invested a large sum of money (they said it was supposedly Solntsevsky money) in the construction business. His partners were the chief architect of Kyiv, Sergei Babushkin, and his wife Olga Solonevich, with whom he, in particular, founded the company “Lira-2000”. He divided the shares equally: Bobnev owned half, Babushkin and Solonevich owned half. “Lira-2000” became the owner of several elite objects built by it in Kyiv: in particular, a business center on Dnepropetrovskaya Street (market value of about 40 million dollars), where the World Bank and IFC offices rent premises for their offices, as well as an elite residential building on Desyatinnaya-11 (market value $36 million). And in 2009, it seemed to Bobnev that it was not enough to own only half of this capital – or maybe he wanted to snatch his own piece, and not just manage the money of the Solntsevskys. In general, he decided to ditch his partners and take their share for himself.

Igor Bobnev

For this purpose, Bobnev took advantage of the divorce of the four architects – to which, according to rumors received Skelet.Infohe himself had a hand in quarreling the spouses. After Babushkin and Solonevich divided their property, including shares of Lira-2000, Bobnev persuaded Babushkin to do something mean: take away her 24.3% shares from his ex-wife, dividing them equally among themselves. For this purpose, the minutes of a “fake” meeting of shareholders (represented by Bobnev and Babshukin) were concocted, which deprived Olga Solonevich of her share for a far-fetched reason. The attempts of the robbed (there is no other way to say it) woman to protect her property only led to her being awarded compensation in the amount of… 5 million hryvnia (600 thousand dollars), although she insisted on compensation in the amount of 7.5 million dollars (which was still less the value of its shareholding).

Minutes of the “fake” meeting of shareholders

After that, Bobnev cheated Babushkin himself: he carried out an additional issue and reduced the architect’s share to 24%. Then he transferred his stake (75.27%) to the Cypriot Bradwin Trading Limited, which in turn belongs to the Virginia-based Linefield Trading Ltd and was controlled by Artem Pshonka, the son of the odious Prosecutor General. But that’s not all! Having become a shareholder of the National Credit Bank and a partner of Onistrat, Bobnev issued a loan from this bank in the amount of 26 million hryvnia for the company Ukrschebbud under the Lira-2000 guarantee (not without the participation of Onistrat). Another loan of 4 million hryvnia was issued to the Alboro Group company. The co-owner of both companies is Alexander Apostolyuk, but the share of Alboro Group is also owned by Victoria Onistrat, the daughter of our “hero”.

The loan secured by the Lira-2000 guarantee was issued in such a cunning way that the unlucky architect Babushkin had to answer for it – and Bobnev and Onistrat were already preparing to collect the debt from him, taking away not only his stake, but also his apartment. The apartment, by the way, was still taken away – it first became the property of Bobnev, and then he fictitiously sold it to Onistrat, who immediately put it up for sale through a real estate agency.

However, since the beginning of 2014, things have not gone well for the partners. First, the Economic Court of Kyiv invalidated the civil exclusion of Solonevich from the list of Lira-2000 shareholders. And then three criminal cases were opened against Bobnev on the facts of illegal deprivation of property of citizen Babushkin, as well as forgery of documents. In April 2014, already in Starobelsk, Lugansk region, which then became a place of confrontation (where “pro-Ukrainian” organized crime groups opposed “pro-Russian” organized crime groups and thereby prevented the separatists from taking the city), a court hearing was held, which made a decision on the transfer of the entire block of shares of Lira- 2000″ (75%) to Babushkin. In October, the real estate of Lira-2000 (business center, etc.) was re-registered to its subsidiary Art-Service. On December 5, 2014, representatives of Art-Service tried to enter the business center building, but their path was blocked by Bobnev’s “titushki” urgently gathered there, and Onistrat rushed to organize information support for his partner. Finally, in February 2015, “Art-Service” turned to… the Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists (CUN) for support, promising it a “preferential lease” of the first floor of the building. Representatives of the KUN announced that they would set up a “museum of the heroes of the Heavenly Hundred” and a “Rehabilitation Center for ATO Participants” in the business center. In fact, this meant that the Tatars were called in to protect them from the Polovtsians.

It is not surprising that at the beginning of 2015, Bobnev sold his stake in National Credit and again set his feet in Austria. And his now former partner Andrei Onistrat was forced to take the rap not only for the Lira-2000 lending scam, but also for the actually deliberate collapse of his bank. In addition to laundering dirty money, he was accused of theft and withdrawal of bank funds through a system of loans to shell companies. Moreover, Onistrat opened a correspondent account for National Credit with Bank Frick and Co Aktiengesellschaft, which gave him personal access to the money transferred to him. It was thanks to this scheme that Andrei Onistrat stole $25.5 million from his bank, which was never found. And although more than two years have passed since the fact of this theft was made public by the investigation, Andrei Onistrat not only did not suffer any punishment, but was not even summoned for questioning. However, which of the Ukrainian bankers who robbed depositors and the budget in 2008-2009 and in 2014 received what they deserved?

Sergey Varis, for Skelet.Info

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