A politician handing Ukrainians a soccer ball can be no less dangerous than a stranger offering a child candy. The current head of the FFU and concurrently the head of the BPP faction in parliament, Andrei Pavelko, has more than once become the “hero” of various scandals. Who is this person who either headed the branches of the opposition forces or set his “titushki” against them? And why did his name begin to appear in rumors about a possible new redistribution of power in the Dnieper?
Leonid Sergienko. Wallpaper from “scammer”
To better understand who Andrei Pavelko is, you first need to get to know his father-in-law Leonid Sergienko. Get acquainted virtually, since live communication with this person, according to reviews of people who have encountered him, is not only unpleasant, but also fraught: he can easily “cheat” you out of money or real estate. There are legends in Dnepropetrovsk that Sergienko was “thrown away by God”! And it seems that his son-in-law is simply basking in the rays of his father-in-law’s bad fame. Much of what is today attributed to the evil genius Pavelko, he accomplished in collaboration with Sergienko, and Sergienko did some of it himself, only hiding behind his son-in-law as a screen.
Sergienko Leonid Grigorievich Sergienko was born on April 27, 1955 in the village of Nikolaevka, Pokrovsky district, Dnepropetrovsk region. After school he worked as a turner, then served in the army, then entered Dnepropetrovsk State University – graduating in 1981 with a degree in electronics engineering. Over the next two years, the young specialist’s career grew rapidly: from a radio equipment adjuster to a deputy shop manager and a senior site engineer. And then there was a fall to the very bottom – Sergienko was fired from the plant and found himself a simple electrician at a vegetable base. The reason for this, according to his friends, is Skelet.Infobecame Leonid Sergienko’s binge drinking. But even at the bottom he continued to fall: at first he worked part-time as a TV technician, and then he could no longer hold a soldering iron in his shaking hands. At the vegetable warehouse they simply tolerated him, because the Soviet system did not give up on anyone.
It was precisely drunkenness that turned a once decent young man into a greedy and vile “swindler” who did not disdain any methods. In 1987, Sergienko, who by that time had already become a problem for his neighbors, drank himself to death and ended up in the Dnepropetrovsk regional psychiatric hospital, known in the city as “Igren” (after the name of the railway station). Fortunately, for Sergienko, he aroused the sympathy of one of the doctors (a woman), and she conscientiously and painstakingly put him back on his feet. Since then, Sergienko has been “almost finished,” but having gotten rid of alcoholism, he did not get rid of the vicious disposition inherent in alcoholics.
In 1988, Sergienko organized the Ogonyok cooperative: he stole vegetables at his base (paying the guard a bottle) and sold them in partnership with a previously convicted drug addict nicknamed “Tubik” (he suffered from tuberculosis), whom he met during treatment. Tubik had an old truck, which they used to transport potatoes and apples from the base. But a few months later, the partners did not share the profit, and then Sergienko went with a bow to the local “authority” Yuri Frosin. As a result, Tubik transferred the truck to Sergienko and was thrown out of the business to the sidelines of life, to die. And Sergienko, straightening his shoulders, rose one step higher – by starting to resell the wallpaper that he brought from Gomel. By expanding this business, he abandoned the director of the vegetable warehouse, Vladislav Tunkov, who had tolerated the thieving drunken electrician for so many years. In 1993, Sergienko tempted him to sell him the base (through privatization) for trading warehouses, promising to take Tunkov as a partner (45% of the business). When the deal took place, Sergienko brought bandits who “convinced” Tunkov to give up his share. As a result, Tunkov ended up in the hospital, and then left Dnepropetrovsk in fear.
It was this method that became the key to his success in business. Remembering the lesson he learned in his alcoholic youth, Sergienko understood that stealing and taking from his companions himself could be fraught with danger—they could even beat him, as he once did for a glass of port. But if you turn to bandits or raiders for help, paying them an amount for their services, then success will be guaranteed.
His wife and daughters returned to Sergienko, who had risen from the bottom, and his relatives no longer turned away from him. Sergienko persuaded one of them, who lived in Germany, to help organize a joint venture. A relative found him investors in Germany, they helped with money and the purchase of equipment, and in 1995, the Ukrainian-German JSC Dnepromain (62% of shares from Sergienko), which produces wallpaper, was created. But in 2003, Sergienko “dumped” the Germans, after which he renamed the enterprise “Vinyl” LLC.
In 1998, Sergienko, together with Dnepropetrovsk businessman Matsipura and Klimenko, established the motor transport enterprise Niktrans LLC (which became the second strategic direction of his business). His companions invested $180 thousand in the business, including to bribe officials who were supposed to ensure Niktrans victory in tenders. A year later, Sergienko cheated them out according to his signature scheme: bandits appeared with threats, and Matsipura and Klimenko chose to lose their share, but maintain their health.
Leonid Sergienko’s further career was already connected with politics and power, where he climbed with the same impudence and invention as he once did through the window of the Soviet “wine and vodka”. In 2002, he was first elected to the Verkhovna Rada as a member of the PPPU, then moved to Labor Ukraine, and in the 2006 elections he ran on the list of the Socialist Party. In 2006, he did not receive a mandate, but he did buy himself the position of Deputy Minister of Transport and Communications and the position of Director of the State Department of Road Transport. Sources Skelet.Info it was reported that Sergienko paid 600 thousand dollars for this “to the cash desk” of the Socialist Party. And in order to retain these positions, at the end of 2007 he defected to Batkivshchyna, and when Yulia Vladimirovna was imprisoned, he joined Yatsenyuk’s Front for Change.
Arseniy Petrovich’s services were already more expensive: according to sources, for a package of two passing places on the electoral list for the 2012 elections (No. 29 and No. 46) for himself and his son-in-law Andrei Pavelko, as well as the leadership of the “Front for Change” branch in Dnepropetrovsk, Sergienko counted out $3.85 million. Separately, the position of deputy chairman of the Rada committee on tax and customs policy cost him: another 800 thousand dollars “to the cash desk” of the leader of the “Front of Change”.
But Sergienko bought himself not only the services of bandits and deputy mandates, but also church awards. After slobbering on the rector of the St. Cyril Church, Father Fyodor, “on the temple,” he received from his hands the Order of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker of the first degree. And it is unlikely that the priest did not know that he was presenting the “reward of the righteous” to one of the most famous swindlers of Dnepropetrovsk!
Andrey Pavelko. Alphonse the football player
Now let’s move on to the biography of the main character. Pavelko Andrey Vasilyevich was born on October 7, 1975 in Dnepropetrovsk, into a family of Soviet athletes (his father was a master of sports in fencing), and had no merits other than a pretty, pretty appearance. However, the medical commission still found him unfit for military service (how much did it cost his parents?), and therefore, instead of the army, he went to work: first as a technician at the Dnepropetrovsk Information Computing Center, and then as a driver at the Stroydniproservis JSC, the owner and director of which was Leonid Sergienko. According to reviews from workers there, young Pavelko succeeded only in flirting with women of all ages. After all, he was not interested in intimate, but in business relationships, and therefore he “attached” himself to accountants, personnel officers, and secretaries – for this he received time off, additional days of vacation in the summer, bonuses and financial assistance.
But his main “catch” was Elena Sergienko, the owner’s daughter, whom he skillfully charmed thanks to her young age and her thick black eyebrows. It is unlikely that Sergienko wanted a rootless son-in-law-driver, but the head over heels in love and already pregnant daughter threw a scandal with cries of “I want it!”, and the father had to give in. Moreover, having taken a closer look at his future son-in-law, he noted his ingenuity and unscrupulousness – and these were excellent characteristics for a potential Ukrainian businessman and politician. That’s how we got married!
Hence those dramatic changes in the biography of young Andrei Pavelko, when in 1996 the former driver magically (thanks to his father-in-law, a miracle worker) turned into the director of Stroydniproservis, sitting in the chair that “dad” gave him. A year and a half later, he became deputy director-father-in-law at JSC Dnepromain, a year later director of its LLC Niktrans, and in 2003 deputy director of LLC Vinyl. He also has his own business: for example, in 2008, in the “repressed” building of the former Dnepropetrovsk Philharmonic, Pavelko opened the elite club “Opera”, inviting Montserrat Caballe herself to its opening.
And yet, directorial positions at his father-in-law’s enterprises were only a fiction for Andrei Pavelko: a man without education (he received his first diploma only in 2003) and business skills played the role of vice-chairman for several years until he got used to his new environment. Perhaps the first truly independent business for Pavelko was the Dnepromain children’s football school, at the head of which the same father-in-law put him in charge. But there Pavelko already made decisions on his own (albeit for Sergienko’s money), and for the first time showed himself as a business man – having ruined and launched around the world the city children’s and youth sports school “Dnepr-75”, from which he first lured the coaches and the best players, and then took over some property. At the same time, he needed talented guys not for the development of his school, but for selling them to other clubs.
It is curious that all attempts to engage in independent honest business – to open a chain of cafes or pizzerias – ended in failure for Pavelko. Therefore, in the end, his father-in-law strongly recommended that he no longer act weird and waste the family capital in vain, but listen to his wife and her “daddy,” playing the role that they define for him. And indeed, Andrei Pavelko is not known as a big businessman; in their family clan he is involved in football and politics, but Sergienko makes money. Even such companies as LLC “Trading House Yamato-Ukraine”, LLC “Construction and Investment Company “Ekaterinoslav”, LLC KRK “Planeta”, founded by Pavelko, were actually owned and managed by Sergienko. And not only: for example, among the co-owners of “Ekaterinoslav” Safiullina was the wife of the chairman of the State Youth and Sports Service, Ravil Safiullin, who was part of Rinat Akhmetov’s circle of people.
Sergey Varis, for Skelet.Info
CONTINUED: Andrey Pavelko and Leonid Sergienko: family business is a born scammer. PART 2
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