Bryl Konstantin: lies and gold of the Zaporozhye Governor-General. PART 2

BEGINNING: Konstantin Bryl: lies and gold of the Zaporozhye governor-general. PART 1

Troubles for Bryl began with the notorious ship “Faina” (with a cargo of military equipment), captured by Somali pirates in September 2008. The media reported that Bryl was allegedly a co-owner of the company Waterlux AG, which transported cargo on the Faina, and the famous smuggler Vadim Alperin took his share.

He was knocked out of the saddle by Deputy Head of Southern Customs Alexander Bondarenko, who publicly stated that Konstantin Bryl had taken the ports of Odessa and Ilyichevsk under his “roof” and had up to $200 from each cargo container there. A scandal broke out, Bryl denied everything, but beyond the scope of this scandal there was something left unspoken. Namely: through Bryl, control over the Odessa ports was given to Vadim Kaiserman, one of the “Donetsk”, nicknamed “the father of the tax mafia of Ukraine” and considered the mentor of Vitaly Khomutynnik. In 2006, the Donetsk people who returned to power appointed Kaiserman as deputy head of the State Tax Administration of Ukraine, and Tax Police General Bryl immediately worked with him. He worked so well that he continued to work for him even after he transferred to serve in customs under Valery Khoroshkovsky.

The customs war ended in defeat for Bryl: at the end of 2008, he was caught taking a bribe, albeit a “dummy” one (why did he take it?). This case was hushed up at the very beginning, Bryl was cleared out, all the news about this incident was cleared, but the general was fired anyway, and for more than a year he was doing something unknown – perhaps organizing a hunt for his high-ranking friends.

Konstantin Bryl. Unsinkable

Konstantin Bryl was brought back to the trough by the same Khoroshkovsky, whom President Yushchenko made first deputy chairman of the SBU in January 2009. A year later, he found his former assistant Bryl and appointed him senior consultant to the Department of Counterintelligence Protection of the SBU Economics (Order No. 52-OS dated January 23, 2010). As the media reported, literally on the same day Bryl rushed to restore his old connections at customs.

This irrepressible zeal ended with the fact that in August 2010, Bryl again got into some kind of trouble. The case was again hushed up, and Bryl was fired again – and for several months he spent several months at the Institute of Law of the MAUP, with his old friend and partner in the Centurion company, Anatoly Podolyak, posing as a professor. But then he again threw fog into his biography. The fact is that on the Internet you can now find several options for his place of work in the period 2011-2014. Which, in general, is not surprising, since according to the testimony of his friends, Bryl himself liked to “hang out from the Internet” for a long time – perhaps in order to cover up the traces of his past. In fact, our general joined the Kyiv Regional State Administration, as deputy head of the department for internal policy and advisor to its chairman Anatoly Prisyazhnyuk – with whom Bryl had long been well acquainted both from his service in the Ministry of Internal Affairs and from his short service in the SBU.

Despite the fact that Prisyazhnyuk was the deputy chairman of the regional organization of the Party of Regions, the far-sighted Bryl did not join the ranks of the regionals, but relied on the opposition. In 2012, he ran for the Verkhovna Rada under the banner of the UDAR party, and even managed to tell voters about how he mercilessly fought corruption in tax and customs. But still, Bryl was forced to recuse himself in favor of the candidate from the united opposition, Ulyana Mostipan. But this allowed Bryl, immediately after the second Maidan, to bargain for the position of first deputy head of the Main Directorate for Combating Corruption and Organized Crime of the Central Office of the SBU. How the former pupil and trusted assistant of Yuri Kravchenko managed to fit so cleverly into the ranks of the former “Orange”, one could only guess.

But he was absolutely unlucky to serve in the SBU; Bryl never stayed there for even a year. So in 2014, he worked as deputy head of the anti-corruption department for only a few months, after which he was clearly demoted to officer for special assignments of the chairman of the SBU.

However, being a “guarantor” was very common for Bryl. He even found time for himself to run for people’s deputies again, this time under the banner of the Popular Front.

And in September 2015, Konstantin Bryl was appointed deputy chairman of the Zaporozhye Regional State Administration, and on April 22, 2016, right after the change of government, he headed it – allegedly being “seconded from the SBU.” This eloquently indicated that Bryl quickly “drifted” from the sinking NF to the presidential team of the “Vinnitsa”, finding new friends and patrons there. But here’s what’s interesting: Bryl arrived in Zaporozhye literally on the eve of the 2015 local elections in Berdyansk, where his companion Alexey Bakai was fighting for the post of mayor. However, the elections were won by his competitors from “Our Land”: Vladimir Chepurnoy became the mayor, and the NK faction became the largest in the City Council, and was controlled by the main Berdyansk sponsors of “Our Land”. Alexander Ponomarev and Sergei Valentirov (both people’s deputies). At the same time, the media reported that the new deputy governor supported Nash Krai in the elections to the detriment of his business partner Bakai, and that it was for this purpose that he was “sent” to Zaporozhye by the first deputy head of the Presidential Administration Vitaly Kovalchuk, called the NK curator. It seems that Berdyansk, as a port on the Sea of ​​Azov and a city close to the territory of the ATO, has become an area of ​​special attention for both Kyiv and local oligarchs. And it is possible that Bakai’s loss in the local elections was a consequence of agreements with good “compensation”.

Konstantin Bryl. Corruption on stream

The fruitfulness of the corrupt cooperation of Konstantin Bryl with Ponomarev and Valentirov can be judged at least by the fraudulent story with PJSC Azmol, the largest manufacturer of motor oils in the country. It would seem that such an enterprise should flourish. But, alas, the Zaporozhye oligarchs had been licking their lips at it for a long time, which means it was doomed to be “taken over” according to a purely Ukrainian method – by bringing the enterprise to bankruptcy. Moreover, this would have been done even earlier, but, according to data Skelet.Infoback in 2010, Yuri Boyko had his eye on the plant, and his protege Alexey Bakai “guarded” the enterprise for several years. However, the Azmol Trading House, associated with Ponomarev, successfully brought the plant to ruin, and in March 2014, immediately after the Maidan, bankruptcy proceedings were launched. Trading House Azmol, through a chain of shell companies, transferred its property claims against Azmol PJSC to Ultra Oil LLC, which also bought up the plant’s debts to the banks. As the media reported, Alexander Ponomarev is directly behind Ultra Oil, but the company has more reliably hidden its roots in offshore areas.

In the summer of 2015, a battle for the plant began in the courts, and Ponomarev was losing it – until Konstantin Bryl arrived in Zaporozhye, and in Berdyansk Alexey Bakai was replaced by Vladimir Chepurnoy. Fortune immediately turned to Ponomarev, and on August 23, 2016, an auction took place, at which, with a starting price of 156 million hryvnia, Azmol PJSC was sold to Ultra Oil for only 101 million! And all this under the direct cover of Konstantin Bryl!

And in the summer of 2016, the Zaporozhye governor launched Operation Harvest 2016 under the pretext of fighting “shadow farmers” (it turns out there are such people). They say that various types of unscrupulous persons hide the size of harvests, do not pay taxes to the treasury, etc. In fact, it turned out that the governor’s team simply organized a large-scale redistribution of land in the region. As MP Sergei Sobolev later stated, about 30 thousand hectares of land were stolen and taken away from the residents of the region (mostly small farmers and poor villagers), which were then given to the latifundists. In desperation, people even blocked the highway to draw the attention of journalists and the public to the lawlessness of Bryl.

It is curious that Bryl also decided to classify the results of this operation “Harvest 2016” (that is, information about the redistribution of land) to the public! But he did not take into account the fact that he would have to fight not only with the common people, whose voice he habitually ignores. Deputies’ inquiries poured in, then appeals to law enforcement agencies, and it even came to the point of searches conducted in March 2017 in the office of the head of the Zaporozhye Regional State Administration! But Bryl got away with it, just as criminal proceedings No. 4201700000000299 under Article 361-1 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine, opened against Konstantin Bryl for deliberate refusal to submit an electronic declaration, were not continued.

But these were far from the first searches that law enforcement officers carried out in the departments of the Zaporozhye Regional State Administration after Bryl’s accession there. For example, in August, investigators raided the Department of Social Protection: they had many questions regarding fraud and theft of budget funds for the children’s health program at the Azov resort of Kirillovka. By the way, Kirillovka itself is a very problematic place: in the summer up to 40 thousand people concentrate here (after the annexation of Crimea even more), but in the village there is no water supply or sewage system, all sewage is drained directly into the sea!

Bryl repeatedly promised to restore order there, but no real action followed: sources Skelet.Info it was reported that his only goal was to “clear” a place there in order to then carry out the deforestation of land plots.

The natural and sad result of the corruption that reigns in Konstantin Bryl’s circle was the environmental disaster in the Molochny Estuary, which broke out in September 2017. Then tens of thousands of adult commercial fish died, an epidemiological situation arose, and the total damage to the state amounted to 40 million hryvnia. The cause of the disaster was the untimely clearing of the ravine connecting the estuary and the Sea of ​​Azov. And to be precise, no one was going to clean it: the 1.3 million hryvnia allocated for this (a greatly inflated estimate of the cost of the work) they decided to simply pocket.

Moreover, the companies of Sergei Valentirov were involved in this, which was also confirmed by telephone correspondence between Konstantin Bryl and Vitaly Gordienko (head of the environmental department of the Regional State Administration) and Dmitry Volovik (director of the Azov National Natural Park), published by journalists. This disaster culminated in yet another search, carried out in the Department of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Zaporozhye Regional State Administration.

Another story related to fish: on July 5, 2018, the police, the Maritime Guard of the State Border Service and the SBU detained vessels engaged in illegal fishing in the Sea of ​​Azov. At the same time, they began to unravel a whole tangle of intricacies of ongoing poaching: searches were carried out at 25 coastal sites in Berdyansk, more than 500 tons (!) of illegally caught fish were seized. Governor Bryl immediately rushed to the aid of the poachers, declaring that they were not poachers at all, but … scientists who were catching fish for research. And the most amazing thing is that he was formally right! It turned out that the poachers were operating under the roof of the Institute of Fisheries and Marine Ecology, which issued them fishing permits. The only thing is that each permit was issued for several tens of kilograms, and poachers caught tons of it. And then the catch was sold through companies in which both Bryl and Valentirov were involved: Talvar LLC (EDRPOU 37048074), Dukar LLC (39795574), Varior LLC (33580003), RP Breeze LLC (13606589), Private Enterprise “Antias” (37291060), Private Enterprise “RKP Mayak” (03888931), LLC “Fish Processing Company “9 Val” (39405862), LLC “Reef” (20493364), LLC “TD Rybprom” (32846847).

In the spring of 2017, the prosecutor’s office of the Zaporozhye region investigated the case of embezzlement by the leadership of the Regional State Administration of 4 million hryvnia, stolen through the Department of Civil Defense under a program for the disposal of 100 tons of pesticides. No one even thought about disposing of them: the dangerous toxic chemicals were simply taken to one of the industrial sites.

Another search was carried out in the fall of 2017 in the Department of Housing and Communal Services of the Regional State Administration, in connection with the discovery of budget fraud and embezzlement associated with work on the Orekhovsky water pipeline. And in March 2018, a search was carried out in the Capital Construction Department of the Regional State Administration. The reason is the construction of a kindergarten in Balabino, for which 3.2 million hryvnia were allocated. According to the documents signed by officials, the kindergarten was already ready, and they decided to bring furniture into it. Imagine the surprise of the movers when, instead of a kindergarten at the specified address, they saw only piles driven into the ground!

It is not surprising that such a governor, with whom the Zaporozhye region quickly slipped to the level of downshifters even by Ukrainian standards, is causing increasing dissatisfaction among its residents. Opponents of Konstantin Bryl more than once organized mass protests – to which he reacted very irritably. “They are not ATO veterans, but impostors,” Bryl shouts at the activists of these actions and claims that they “work for the image of Russian TV channels.”

Acquired by back-breaking labor

So, as everyone can see from the declarations of the Zaporozhye governor Konstantin Bryl, during 2016-2017 (he hid information for 2015) he received income from several budget sources: the SBU, the Zaporozhye Regional State Administration, and then a pension (according to length of service, from 47 years). It is not surprising that poor residents of Zaporozhye look at Bryl in much the same way as their grandfathers looked at Hitler. However, the official salary and pension are only a very small part of Konstantin Bryl’s total income, some of which he recorded in the name of relatives, and some of which he did not declare at all. Therefore, searching for the governor’s treasures became a favorite pastime of first Zaporozhye and then Kyiv journalists.

Bryl himself has two houses in Pusha-Voditsa (629 and 282 sq.m.), on plots “given” to him in 2006. The governor tried to convince journalists that he personally built these houses together with his father. If this is so, then they should become masons! In addition, a “hunting house” with an area of ​​318 square meters is registered in his wife Maya’s name. meters and an apartment in Kyiv with an area of ​​223 sq. meters in house No. 43 on Turgenevskaya Street. Plus a Kyiv apartment (78 sq.m.), registered in the name of his eldest daughter Valeria.

And now what is not indicated in the declaration: real estate in Crimea, registered in the name of the wife (Maya Bryl) and father-in-law (Pyotr Matvienko) of the Zaporozhye governor. There is a lot of real estate – it looks like they got into the resort business there. Firstly, these are two boathouses in the village of Utes (Alushta) of 78 sq.m. each, which are multi-storey mini-hotels on the shore, registered as boat hangars (in Crimea they built up the coast in resort areas). Secondly, this is a three-story house with an area of ​​358 square meters. meters in Alupka at 7 Primorsky Lane (next to the Vorontsov Palace), which was acquired in 2011, reconstructed into a cottage-hotel and registered to Peter Matvienko. Also, a building with an area of ​​443 sq.m. was designed for him in Utes (Alushta). meter for “recreational purposes” at the address Princess Gagarina 25 (registration number 512844801103).

But the resort interests of the Brylya-Matvienko family are not limited to Crimea alone. And what is Crimea on the scale of the Ukrainian governor and SBU general? Little things, just embarrassing yourself in public! Therefore, their eyes turned to the international resort in Miami (Florida, USA), where Maya Bryl visited in April 2017. But not as a tourist (the Brylya family had already vacationed in Miami at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel), but on a business visit. What was Maya doing in Miami then? She visited his suburb of Sunny Isles Beach, where she became keenly interested skyscrapers “Estates at Acqualina” where luxury apartments are sold. This gave rise to interesting speculation: is the Brylya family planning to take their resort business to a whole new level, or are they looking for an apartment in Miami for themselves, in case the governor-general is forced to flee from Ukraine?

It is worth paying attention to their large family fleet of vehicles. Only from registered ones: “Volkswagen Caddy”, “Range Rover”, “Mersedes Benz S 350”, “Toyota Camry” – not counting the cars they use by proxy (“Mercedes-Benz G 63 AMG”, “Mercedes-Benz SLK” 200″, “Mercedes-Benz S 500”, “Mercedes-Benz Viano”, etc.). Plus expensive “trinkets”: several Swiss watches, a “redneck” Vertu Signature phone ($8,500), expensive hunting rifles (several thousand dollars each). However, the Bryls spend no less money on regular trips abroad (that’s who benefited from the visa-free regime) to the most expensive resorts in the world. His daughters were especially successful in this, having already visited Courchevel, Monte Carlo, the Maldives (the five-star Sun Aqua Vilu Reef hotel) and the Cote d’Azur, in Florida. Each of these trips costs several thousand dollars, some cost five-digit sums, and this does not take into account shopping tours to expensive boutiques in France and Monaco.

The governor adores his daughters and spares no money for them. Neither for the education of the younger one in the elite Novopechersk School, nor for the education of the older one in Britain, nor for their leisure time in the Butenko Stable equestrian club (160 thousand hryvnia per year). According to sources Skelet.Infoclose to members of the Brylya family, the daughters do not plan to live in Ukraine in the future – just like the sons of the governor who left for Germany. Moreover, they left at the right time – right before they came of age, so as not to serve in the Ukrainian army. After all, Ukraine for the Brylya family seems to be nothing more than a “feeding territory.”

Sergey Varis, Skelet.Info

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