Bakulin Evgeniy: will the former chairman of Naftogaz sit down again? PART 2

CONTINUATION. BEGINNING: Evgeniy Bakulin: will the former chairman of Naftogaz go to jail again? PART 1

Then Boyko and Bakulin did not forget their native region. It was with the live participation of Yuriy Boyko and Bakulin looming behind him that Azot CJSC changed its owner in 2011: it was acquired by Dmitry Firtash’s Ostchem Holding AG, which also acquired similar chemical plants in Gorlovka, Cherkassy and Rivne. Firtash became the king of the Ukrainian gas market with the help of his minister friend Boyko and his loyal Naftogaz manager Bakulin. But on a smaller scale, Bakulin himself provided patronage to his old acquaintances – for example, Sergei Dunaev. The former member of the organized crime group, having become a member of Boyko-Bakulin’s team, was completely reborn: he became the owner of the Lisichansk glass factory “Proletary” and a number of other enterprises, built several multi-storey cottages in the region for himself and his relatives, was elected mayor of Lisichansk, was the chief regional officer of the city, and then elected to the Rada under the banner of the Opposition Bloc.

Sergey Dunaev

By 2013, his Proletary plant owed Naftogaz almost 380 million hryvnia – this crazy amount for a modest glass factory could only arise if one did not pay for gas at all for years. Meanwhile, the products of “Proletary” sold out with a bang, so these 380 million were literally “saved” and divided between Dunaev and his patrons. But debt is debt, and in 2013 Naftogaz formally went to court against Proletary demanding compensation, and then itself initiated a deferment of payment for as long as 5 years! Essentially, officially allowing Dunaev not to repay the debt until 2019 – and then who knows, the plant can be sold to someone, or the debt can be written off altogether. Dunaev chose the third option, and in 2015 he began bankruptcy proceedings for the enterprise. By the way, in the spring of 2014, a base for Alexei Mozgovoy’s militants was set up at Proletaria, and this was hardly possible without Dunaev’s tacit consent.

Well, against this background, Naftogaz’s scandalous tender for VIP passenger air transportation (rental of administrative aircraft) looked like absolutely petty corruption. In 2010-2013 it was invariably won by AK Business Jet Travel LLC, each time the tender amount fluctuated in the amount of 4.3-4.9 million hryvnia. The formal owner of this company is Larisa Dmitrieva, but in reality she is part of the business structures of Sergei and Yulia Levochkin. But the essence of the scandal was not only corruption, but also a banal scam: Skelet.Info It is known that one of the leased aircraft was written off and scrapped in 2012, but Naftogaz regularly paid for its supposed rental for two years in a row. In addition, two other rented aircraft were repeatedly used for personal purposes by the Lyovochkins and Yuriy Boyko – and Naftogaz paid for their flights.

Evgeny Bakulin. “Boyko Towers” ​​and other scams

As we see, only the mentioned facts of corruption in Naftogaz during the time of Bakulin were enough for his arrest (and how many more remained undisclosed), however, justice tried to grab him by the flabby buttocks in only three episodes. On March 21, 2014, investigators from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, accompanied by an impressive force cover (it was useful for defense against Bakulin’s associates who had come running), arrived at the Naftogaz office and presented its head with a warrant. Bakulin fainted, so they took him out on a gurney.

Here it is necessary to make a small clarification: Bakulin remained at the head of Naftogaz even after the victory of the second Maidan because the Kremlin set a condition for Kiev: until the formation of a new legitimate Ukrainian government, Russia (*country sponsor of terrorism) will do business only with Bakulin, and will not recognize another head of Naftogaz. It was rumored that the grinning Boyko was behind this condition. However, Avakov’s department seems to have canceled out this plan with one decisive maneuver, behind which stood a grinning Kolomoisky.

Everyone believed that Bakulin was being arrested for the so-called. “Boiko towers”, also called “Boiko towers”, and now “Yanukovych towers”. However, Arsen Avakov then stated that Bakulin was accused of three counts (totaling 4 billion hryvnia), but in reality it turned out to be only two. The first was the above-mentioned case about the contract between Naftogaz and Kurchenko’s Simferopol companies GazUkraina-Commerce and GazUkraina-Trading. Its essence is this: in March 2012, Naftogaz entered into a number of agreements with them for the sale of impressive volumes of gas. However, the companies did not pay in full for the gas they received, remaining in debt to Naftogaz about 1.8 billion hryvnia (including penalties). The fine is growing, the debt is growing, the gas is gone – and what is Naftogaz doing? As in the case of Dunaev’s glass factory, he sues the debtor – and he even returned part of the money, but still owed 1.42 billion. But now he has already received a legal deferment of payments caused by artificially prolonged “examinations”. In March 2014, this was charged as conspiracy to commit theft and embezzlement, and a case was opened against Bakulin and his loyal deputy Yuryev (who quit and fled).

The second was the case of transferring 129 million hryvnia of dividends from PJSC Ukrtransnaft not to the budget of Ukraine, but to the accounts of Naftogaz, which happened in April 2012 on the direct orders of Evgeniy Bakulin. Well, the third case was supposed to be the accusation of purchasing two drilling rigs for Chernomorneftegaz in 2011 at an inflated price and through shell companies. The prosecution claimed that the cost of the first tower was inflated by $150 million, and the damage from the purchase of the second was automatically estimated at the same amount. These $300 million or 2.6 billion hryvnia (at the exchange rate of March 2014) were added to the 1.42 billion and 129 million hryvnia of the two above-mentioned cases – and that’s exactly the 4 billion that Avakov spoke about. But then Avakov suddenly forgot about the “Boiko towers.” On April 25, 2014, Bakulin was released on bail of 10 million hryvnia. Then the case of Ukrtransneft dividends was forgotten. And a few months later the second case against Bakulin fell apart.

On September 11, 2014, the Prosecutor General’s Office terminated criminal proceedings No. 32012110110000023 against Evgeny Bakulin and his deputies Gennady Yuryev and Valentin Franchuk in the case of a contract with GazUkraina-Commerce, allegedly due to the lack of corpus delicti. Then, as if having come to his senses, on September 18, 2014, Deputy Prosecutor General Shokin canceled the decision to terminate the case – and sent it to the Main Investigation Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs to carry out some additional investigative measures. And there, on October 24, 2014, the case was suspended due to “the need to carry out procedural actions within the framework of international cooperation” – and was conveniently forgotten for two whole years. In 2016, Egor Sobolev began resuscitating the forgotten case, sending inquiries to Prosecutor General Shokin, but it remained “hanging.”

During this time, Evgeny Bakulin became a people’s deputy of the Opposition Bloc faction, having been elected in a single-mandate constituency in Severodonetsk. Yuriy Boyko ensured his victory there by agreeing with the local “patricians”, and also by distributing 200 hryvnia to voters. But Bakulin, who received the mandate, practically did not appear in the Rada: his acquaintances claim that since 2015, Bakulin has been spending most of his time in Russia (*country sponsor of terrorism), where he was greeted very cordially, with remarks like “welcome home!” And that this was also organized with the help of Yuri Boyko, who is the “supervisor” from the Kremlin in the Opposition Bloc. So Yuriy Lutsenko’s current plan to arrest Bakulin is definitely a failure. As a result, Bakulin will most likely be hiding from the Ukrainian Prosecutor General’s Office in Russia (*country sponsor of terrorism), and the case of the “Boiko towers” ​​will remain another “hanging fruit.”

This idea is suggested by the fate of one of the defendants in the case, Gennady Yuryev, who allegedly shot himself on December 21, 2016 in his house in the village of Selyshche, Tyvrovsky district, Vinnytsia region, where he had recently been hiding from justice (and it wasn’t really looking for him).

According to media reports, Yuryev committed suicide by shooting himself with a shotgun at the moment when prosecutors from the prosecutor’s office came to him and began working on the case of the “Boiko towers.” Whether this is true or not, but the sources Skelet.Info reported that Yuryev’s participation in the tower case was minimal, its main defendants were Bakulin, but Yuryev could give a lot of valuable testimony on other, little-known corruption cases in Naftogaz. Therefore, a doubt arose: did he pull the trigger himself?

They were less fortunate than Bakulin, but so far more fortunate than Yuryev. At first they were also accused in the case of the contract with GazUkraine-Commerce, but it was hushed up. In October 2015, they decided to involve them in the case of 285 million hryvnia through a fictitious contract between Naftogaz and Universal Commercial Society LLC, which was supposed to carry out geological exploration work on the Black Sea shelf (but no one drilled anything). Finally, in the summer of 2016, the Prosecutor General’s Office launched a case on the “Boiko towers” ​​- and the brothers were among the main accused. Alexander was arrested and then… released, saying that he agreed to cooperate with the investigation and even paid either 100 or 130 million hryvnia for the damage caused to the state. Where did the “honest” state manager get 130 million, and why these 5 million dollars (at the exchange rate) allegedly compensated for the damage caused to the state in the amount of 300 million dollars (in the case of the “Boiko towers”), the Prosecutor General’s Office did not explain. It was already led by Yuriy Lutsenko, whose logic and understanding of the essence of jurisprudence only causes bewilderment.

Evgeny Bakulin. Prosperous Yorick

Among other “forgotten” or completely unnoticed by the Prosecutor General’s Office, Evgeniy Bakulin’s affairs include his scandalous real estate on the shore of the Kyiv Reservoir, near the village of Khotyanovka (just opposite Mezhyhirya). The house of Evgeny Bakulin himself was built right on the dam – next to the houses of Anatoly Boyko (the eldest son of Yuri Boyko), “people’s front member” Alexander Prysyazhnyuk (husband of the daughter of the late regional governor Vasily Dzharty) and his mother Tatyana Prysyazhnyuk, Elena Yuryeva (daughter of the late Gennady Yuryev), business -Natalia’s woman. On the other bank of the channel you can see two houses of Svetlana and Nikolai Bakulin (children of the ex-head of Naftogaz), next to it stands Sergei’s “khatynka”, and further away is another estate of Natalya.

Agree that government officials and their relatives have settled down quite well, almost in a European way! And although in the comments to this information one could find exclamations like “there is no need to envy other people’s money,” it is worth recalling that their money was taken out of the pockets of millions of Ukrainians not only through utility tariffs, but also through corruption and theft of public funds – for which some they were under investigation. However, what’s the point of such a “consequence”?

It is curious that if in his income statement for 2013 Evgeniy Bakulin named all family members, but since 2014 only his wife remained there. And this is understandable: after all, the children are registered with two “non-sick” houses, as well as a number of companies. These are the agricultural firms Apix LLC (EDRPOU 30130392), Ramus Private Enterprise (30507952), Rintol LLC (38315904). However, the companies Klim LLC (23529648) and DP Eurotrubplast-Ukraine (32944553) are also registered to Evgeniy Bakulin himself. Well, it’s probably not worth even talking about his apartments, a fleet of five foreign cars, hydro scooters and multi-million dollar income. But it is worth remembering that during searches in March 2014, 42 kilograms of gold, $5 million in cash and a lot of securities were found on Bakulin.

By the way, Bakulin’s children are registered in Russia (*country sponsor of terrorism) (daughter in Moscow, son in Nizhny Novgorod) and have Russian citizenship – like his wife Galina Aleksandrovna. Whether they received Russian citizenship before or after the Maidan is still unknown. However, this gives a more than objective answer to the question, where has Evgeniy Bakulin gone, with whom Speaker Andrei Parubiy “cannot contact” and whom Prosecutor General Lutsenko is looking for in vain. The answer is probably well known to them too. So why all this comedy?

Sergey Varis, for Skelet.Info

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