Konstantin Klimashenko
A noble cause, it would seem, is the book publishing business. At least that was the case once upon a time, a long time ago. But now the “source of knowledge” has become far from its inherent culture. In the modern book market there are devastations of enterprises, raider attacks, scams and passions that would be the envy of the “godfather” himself, reports ANTIKOR.
Particular attention should be paid here to Mr. Konstantin Genrikhovich Klimashenko, who is known not only as a “book man”, introducing himself as the owner of a chain of 6 Book Supermarket stores, but also as a candidate for people’s deputies in the capital’s district No. 213 in the 2014 elections. In his numerous scams, this comrade surpassed Ostap Bender himself. Squeeze out a business, frame your partners, forge documents – you don’t know how? But Klimashenko is truly an expert in these matters.
Konstantin Genrikhovich was not born into the richest family. Perhaps the lack of funds in his youth gave rise to deceit, complexes and enormous greed for money in his soul, which Klimashenko never learned to earn in an honest way.
Klimashenko’s activity in the book business began with a book stand in the Dovzhenko cinema. I bought books in Moscow and sold them in Ukraine, in a word, I was engaged in speculation. Over time, together with his friend Rostislav Kornienko, he founded Orpheus Book House LLC. Later he opened a chain of “Book Supermarkets”. It is not known for certain what methods Klimashenko used to build the business, but no matter what his hands did, the enterprise would inevitably collapse and a lot of problems arose with debt to banks, suppliers and publishing houses.
A striking example of this is the well-known story of the redistribution of the assets of the Syaivo bookstore. In Soviet times, Syaivo was one of the centers of literary life in the capital. After the collapse of the Union and the creation of the independent Ukrainian National Union of Writers, Syaivo set sail for free. In 1994, the labor collective created the Syaivo Bookstore LLC. Later I received a premises for rent measuring 367 sq.m. in the center of the capital. In the heady 90s, building a business was not easy. So “Syaivo”, in the early 2000s, finding itself in a difficult financial situation, was forced to seek support and “received help”, to its great misfortune, from the company “Orpheus-1”, co-founded by Konstantin Klimashenko and Rostislav Kornienko. Thus, 50% of the authorized capital of Bookstore Syaivo LLC ended up in the hands of ill-fated businessmen.
In 2003, Chernovetsky’s “young team” drew attention to the Syaivo store (Read more about him in the article Leonid Chernovetsky: how “Lenya Cosmos” robbed Kyiv and moved to Georgia) represented by Vyacheslav Suprunenko (Read more about him in the article by Vyacheslav Suprunenko. The eminence grise of Chernovetsky’s “young team” returns). He managed to take possession of 50% of the capital shares of Syaivo. Do you know how this happened? Courtesy of the Orpheus-1 company! Suprunenko received the share of Bookstore Syaivo LLC from Rostislav Kornienko. Suprunenko intended to introduce his relative, Mr. Naumenko, as a co-owner, and through his friend Denis Komarnitsky, he offered the store director Marina Dolgoy a bribe of 50 thousand dollars so that she would convene a meeting of shareholders, but was refused. Since then, long legal proceedings have begun, which will not allow the Syaivo workforce to sleep peacefully for another year.
At this moment, Klimashenko begins to play the role of “public defender Syaivo,” and Kornienko, allegedly conspiring with Suprunenko, acts as a “raider.” A kind of virtuoso performance for the audience. After significant losses in court, the store director, Marina Dolgaya, died suddenly. Store employees suggest that the death was due to stress, but there are rumors that it is quite possible that they helped her die. By a strange coincidence, the position of director of Syaivo was given to the wife of Konstantin Genrikhovich, Alla Lazutkina, after Dolgaya’s death.
The history of the relationship between Klimashenko and Alla Lazutkina quite clearly characterizes our hero. Alla Lazutkina occupied a fairly good position financially and Konstantin Genrikhovich, without reproach of conscience, “fell in love” with a trusting woman, despite the age difference. But Lazutkina really had feelings for Klimashenko, she treated him very well and even affectionately called him “menopause.”
After Lazutkina lost her assets, she turned out to be completely unnecessary to him and abandoned like used material. Moreover, thanks to her husband, Lazutkina lost her apartment and is now forced to live in the country. And the place of the elderly woman at this stage of Klimashenko’s life was taken by a young cohabitant, who had also already managed to go into “turnover” and for whom he had already managed to register a couple of his new enterprises.
Further, the “public defender” Konstantin Genrikhovich, together with his would-be lawyers, very successfully portrayed an imitation of protecting the interests of the Syaivo store and the loss of all the courts at the instigation of Klimashenko. Moreover, even when not a single judge, for any money, would take upon himself an absolutely absurd decision. As a result, they ensured the deception of the Syaivo labor collective, and for themselves the aura of humiliated and insulted fighters for justice. To this day they have no complaints against Mr. Suprunenko other than in words. The deal worked.
I was able to find out a number of other interesting facts from the life of our “hero” from his former entourage, who, after many years of working for their “patron”, were kicked out into the street at the beginning of this year with arrears of wages and without severance pay. Konstantin Genrikhovich is not averse to dabbling in narcotic substances, together with his adopted daughter Elena Lazutkina, with whom he is now “doing business.” In April 2009, a criminal case was even opened against Lazutkina in this regard. I purchased the psychotropic drug “amphetamine” for personal use. She was charged under Part 1 of Art. 309 CC of Ukraine. At best, she faced a fine of fifty to one hundred non-taxable minimum incomes of citizens of Ukraine, at worst, imprisonment for up to three years.
But Lazutkina, allegedly, “sincerely repented” of what she had done, voluntarily went to a treatment facility and began a course of treatment for drug addiction. Therefore, guided by the same Article 309. The CC of Ukraine, only by point 4, the Shevchenko court, ruled: to release Lazutkina from criminal liability and close the case.
More details: https://www.reyestr.court.gov.ua/Review/13466559
Elena (Alena) Lazutkina
The friendship between Klimashenko and Lazutkina is a completely different story. Despite what Klimashenko did to the elder Lazutkina, her daughter apparently was not affected by this story at all. Just think – they abandoned their mother! This couple found each other, both in character and in their predisposition to all sorts of scams.
Elena herself, or as she calls herself, Alena Lazutkina, is not a pleasant person. A rude, boorish and unceremonious dork who won’t mince words. By the way, this “lady” already has a criminal record for joint fraud with Klimashenko on credit cards, for which she took the main blame.
In 2009, Lazutkina, together with a counterfeiter who worked as an administrator at the Belini bar at the Opera Hotel, used a special device to read information from six credit cards of foreign citizens. Next, Lazutkina created copies of these cards and used them to pay for books in the stores of the Book Supermarket chain, which was owned by none other than Konstantin Klimashenko. And then you can only fantasize about what they did with the books – they resold them under the counter for cash, or sold them on the market without paying taxes… One thing is obvious, that these payments in the KS book network were clearly not made because of “great love » Lazutkina for reading.
In total, Lazutkina pulled off a scam worth about 50 thousand UAH, causing considerable damage to the banks Raiffeisen Bank Aval and PJSC Prominvestbank.
During the trial, Lazutkina, naturally, did not admit guilt. But, nevertheless, on April 2, 2014, the Podolsky District Court of Kyiv found her guilty and sentenced her to 5 years in prison, suspended for two years, and compensation for damages to the victims.
More details: here (Lazutkina is referred to in the case as “Person 4”).
True, she did not want to take advantage of the humanity of the sentence, and without waiting for the end of the reprieve, she got involved in a new scam, which will be discussed later.
In general, if you go to the state official web portal of the unified registers of court decisions of Ukraine and in the search indicate the names of Lazutkina Elena Sergeevna or Klimashenko Konstantin Genrikhovich, a list of lawsuits against these comrades for collecting debts to banks and more immediately pops up in the database.
Elena Lazutkina has a list no less exciting than Klimashenko. In some cases they appear together.
And this is clearly not the whole track record! The total debt of these swindlers amounts to more than 20 million hryvnia and to date these debts have not been repaid.
What can I say if Klimashenko’s own mother, Nadezhda Ivanovna Klimashenko, wrote a statement against her son in 2010. Nadezhda Ivanovna told law enforcement officials that her son had arbitrarily taken her passport out of the apartment without permission. It can be assumed that he needed the document to carry out further frauds, but naturally, not in his own name. But apparently it didn’t work out!
All Ukrainian publishing houses, enterprises and banks probably know how Klimashenko pays off his debts. To be more precise, in one word – no way! It’s easier to forge a payment document and fall for the “fool”, as was done with one of the Kapranov brothers and their publishing house “Green Dog”. Klimashenko, after asking about payment and debt, said with an “amazed” look that he had already paid for everything a long time ago, did not owe anything to anyone, and at the same time, presented a forged receipt.
Or even swear, as happened in 2009 with one of the founders of the Kyiv publishing house “Fakt” – Innokenty Vyrov. The offended founder could not keep silent about this incident and published his indignation on the Internet.
In his text, I would even say a cry from the soul, he notes: “they give money in this organization (Orpheus LLC) extremely reluctantly. To get yours, you need to call K.G. Klimashenko, director.”
According to the situation: payment for the books sold had not been received for too long, and Vyrovoy decided to personally come by to collect the money. Further from the author’s words:
“So, on Friday, April 17, 2009, I came to the Orpheus office in Petrovka to receive money for the books sold. Having received a certain amount relatively easily, I discovered that a payment had been made to me for January of the current year. “But it’s April…” I timidly noted. “Call Klimashenko,” was the answer. Klimashenko didn’t pick up the phone, which is understandable. And then a thought came to me, which, as it turned out later, became fatal. I called Konstantin Genrikhovich Klimashenko from his own office number. “But it’s April…” I started an old song. “Maybe we can speed it up somehow…” And then Konstantin Genrikhovich apparently looked at his watch. And, apparently, he realized that it was almost non-working time. And that he is no longer an official, the director of a bookselling organization, a fighter for Ukrainian books, etc., but a simple guy on vacation whom he has been pestering, I apologize, who the hell knows, he demands some kind of money, you know… “What , the fuck, money?! I’ll come to the office now and I’ll turn your fucking head off!” In other words, went to…! And by an absurd accident, Konstantin Genrikhovich Klimashenko took over and uttered this entire tirade into the telephone receiver. And he told me a lot more. Without notes. Without using the word “horseradish”, because there are more precise terms in his vocabulary.”
Klimashenko has a lot of unpunished scams on his account. One of these was done in 2010. A cunning swindler managed to sell the same company to two buyers at the same time. On March 16, 2010, he concludes a deal and sells 61% of the assets to the founder of the AST publishing house, Yakov Helemsky. The agreement with Klimashenko was signed by Helemsky’s confidant, A.V. Alperovich. The sale of the company was carried out for debts to the publishing house for the goods sold.
And already in September of the same year, Klimashenko manages to sell 75% of the assets of the same company under an assignment agreement for 11 million UAH to comrade Oleg Novikov, the founder of the Russian company EKSMO.
The details of this transaction deserve special attention. In 2010, the founders of the “Chitai Misto” chain, one of the shareholders of which was citizen Novikov, entered into an assignment agreement to acquire Klimashenko’s business, namely the “Book Supermarket” chain of stores with all goods and equipment for more than $1 million in cash. By agreement between the parties, 25% of the assets of the newly formed company LOGOS TRANS LLC will be transferred to Klimashenko’s ownership, provided that he fulfills all the agreements in the agreement within 3 years from the date of conclusion of the transaction.
Also, in addition to $1 million for the chain, in accordance with the agreement, funds for sold goods were regularly transferred to him so that he could pay off numerous debts with Ukrainian suppliers, since previously the goods were on the balance sheet of the Book Supermarket chain and were added to inventory balances newly formed enterprise. In total, LOGOS TRANS LLC transferred another $1 million to Klimashenko for the sold goods over two years. But Klimashenko appropriated the money for himself and did not fulfill any agreements. To this day, there are “legends” about the astronomical amounts of Klimashenko’s debts to Ukrainian publishers, and practically no sane publisher ships products to him, since only Lazutkin’s so-called daughter can count on payment for the books that she “produces.”
After the Revolution of Dignity in 2014, the Russian publishing house Eksmo, led by Oleg Novikov, with whom the founders of the Ukrainian network “Read Misto” had previously collaborated, took an anti-Ukrainian position, and the company’s management decided to break all ties with them. In view of this, a rebranding was carried out and the Bukva brand was restored, which had previously been acquired from Polish investors.
Further, in the process of cooperation with Bukva, Klimashenko gained confidence in the owners of the network and in June 2015 received a minority stake in the company.
But, as it turned out later, namely, in August 2015, instead of the promised assets, Klimashenko was left with only debts and all his property was arrested. It is safe to say that entering into a partnership with this person was a huge mistake for the organization. Since later, due to Klimashenko’s activities, the company encountered a lot of problems and losses in 2015, but not without the help of its Russian neighbors.
At the same time, the angry Russians from EKSMO could not simply swallow the reluctance of their former Ukrainian partners to work with them and came up with a scheme to destroy the Letter through the hands of the State Fiscal Service. Since, by a “coincidental” coincidence, Klimashenko’s structure at that moment was connected with Bukva, they decided to enter through him. One of his enterprises was “caught” for attempting to import book products with a double invoice. A criminal case was opened against his company under the article of tax evasion on an especially large scale.
But the cunning swindler Klimashenko decided to evade responsibility for his actions, as well as preserve and increase his assets, which he was soon to lose due to failure to fulfill the agreements. To do this, he entered into a conspiracy with the Russians and turned all the arrows to the “Letter”. As a result, in the fall of 2015, the State Fiscal Service raided “Bukva” with an inspection and blocked the company’s activities. And Klimashenko acted as the main informant, the “informer,” in this case.
Also, on the quiet, acting through the hands of the swindler-accomplice Elena Lazutkina, he carried out a raider takeover of the network by forging lease agreements. Thus, he illegally took over six stores of the Ukrainian chain with all the equipment and goods, but at the same time he did not register anything for himself anywhere. In connection with this fraud, criminal cases have been initiated against Klimashenko and Lazutkina for the commission of criminal offenses by A.S. Lazutkina, Klimashenko and other persons, liability for which is provided for in Part 4 of Article 190 (fraud on an especially large scale), Art. 356 (arbitrariness), part 4 of Art. 358 (forgery of documents committed by prior conspiracy by a group of persons) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.
According to the criminal proceedings, a pre-trial investigation is being carried out by the investigative department of the Primorsky police department in Odessa of the State Emergency Administration in the Odessa region, the investigative department of the State Emergency Administration of the Solomensky District of the State Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine in Kyiv and the investigative department of the State Emergency Department of the Podolsk District of the State Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine in Kyiv. It is in these criminal proceedings that until now the police have carried out three searches and seizures of stolen books, equipment and technology in the “squeezed out” Odessa stores of the Bukva chain, which Klimashenko calls “raiding” by law enforcement agencies and writes complaints to all authorities.
Even in this situation, one can conclude how cunning and insidious this person is. Lazutkina and store manager Glyzhina will have to answer before the law for the robbery of stores and all goods, and Klimashenko once again plans to turn the tables and remain unpunished.
Many have heard that Klimashenko, supposedly an active public defender, who during the events on the Maidan in 2014 actively took part in the opposition to the power of Yanukovych and almost stood on the “front line”. At least that’s how he positions himself to others. There is even a photo online on his Facebook page, where he comments that it was allegedly taken during a trip to the ATO zone. But this very photo was taken on Petrovka in Kyiv near the Promsvyaz plant.
His Facebook page is replete with many photographs from the Maidan, where he treated everyone to “Euroborscht”. But few people know that the two-faced entrepreneur even tried to make money from this and filed an intellectual patent for this slogan.
Also, few people know that Klimashenko does not help the ATO, but rather, on the contrary, is looking for profit and pocketing the collected money to help the fighters. After all, this is the most convenient time to steal and profit from someone else’s misfortune. A striking example of confirmation of these words is the incident that occurred in August 2014. The leadership and team of the “Letter” network decided to help the soldiers from the 39th Territorial Defense Battalion. It turned out that at that time the guys were in great need of transport and they needed at least some kind of minibus. The friendly team of the Bukva network collected money for transport for several months and, when the required amount was collected in the search and purchase of a minibus, unfortunate hero Klimashenko volunteered to help. He was given money, according to employees, more than 60 thousand UAH. Klimashenko immediately found transport – a Ford Transit minibus. He happily said that although he was old, he was on the move.
During the transfer of transport to the fighters, an interesting point became clear: there are no documents for the bus yet, but: “They will be soon, I’ll hand them over soon. The main thing is the transport itself, and this formality is a trifle that will soon be sorted out,” Klimashenko said. The grateful guys were glad for that, accepted the minibus, presented it with a “Ponyak for additional help to the ATO” and left. But they couldn’t get to the end of the journey safely, the bus immediately broke down as soon as we left the city. Later it turned out that Klimashenko had this junk in a terrible, dead state. Before handing over the vehicle, I patched it up so that it would start for show and gave it to the guys without remorse. And to this day no one has seen the documents for him. The minibus belongs to Klimashenko, and all his property is under arrest due to debts to creditors.
In the material, I deliberately omitted a lot of other small, but surprisingly dirty tricks of our hero, due to the fact that this would no longer be an article, but a book.
Throughout his hectic activities, Konstantin Klimashenko always presented himself as either the general director, the sole owner, or the only representative of any companies associated with him. But if an inquisitive reader wants to check in open sources (in registers, documents), he will not find the “hero” of our story anywhere as an official or owner of the structures that he represented. This “book nobody” Klimashenko has been poisoning the lives of former and existing partners for many years with the help of his accomplices, carrying out his scams, squeezing out businesses and throwing considerable sums at both entrepreneurs and ordinary people, heroes who defend our country and need in support. Be vigilant and careful.
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