The SBU, the police and the prosecutor’s office exposed a large-scale “scheme” in the sand.
In the center of Kharkov on the street. Mironositskaya, 21 were searched in a company associated with Oleg Kiyashko (on the picture) – the son-in-law of the late leader of the organized crime group Knyaz.
As they write with reference to “Reviewer”investigative measures were carried out by the Kharkiv Regional Prosecutor’s Office, the SBU and the National Police in the ZZHBK Etalon company and the Barkhan company.
The plant of reinforced concrete structures “Etalon” is formally owned by Andrey Kazarinov and Sergey Kuvikov, and the company “Barkhan” was previously owned by Vadim Kazartsevknown as a criminal “authority” nicknamed Prince (died in autumn 2020). As noted “NV Kharkov”both legal entities are now controlled by the son-in-law of the late Oleg Kiyashko.
Formerly online edition CRiME wrotethat in the summer of 2020, the SBU announced the exposure of a gang that was engaged in raiding, extortion and premeditated murders on the territory of Kharkiv, Poltava and Dnepropetrovsk regions. Four leaders of the group were detained, among whom was Kazartsev’s “right hand”, the husband of his daughter and the head of a large number of enterprises controlled by the Prince, Oleg Kiyashko. At the same time, Alexander Polyakov remained at large, who is considered the “financial director” of Kazartsev and provides the “economic component” of the raider seizures.
What was the organized crime group of the Prince of Media previously written in detail.. In addition, journalists also noted that after the defeat of the “brigade”, an information campaign began in the media to whitewash the reputation of Oleg Kiyashko, and they tried to present the operation of the SBU as part of a raider takeover.
Recall that Kiyashko and other members of the Prince’s group in 2020 were detained as part of the investigation of criminal proceedings No. 42020000000000352 on cause about extortion of money from the owners of LLC NPF Barkhan (the same one that now appears in the case of illegal sand mining) and the illegal re-registration of part of the company to the people of Kazartsev and Kiyashko. According to the plot of the case, in addition to a share in the authorized capital, the organized criminal group also extorted UAH 5 million, but as a result, only $11 thousand were transferred to the extortionists.
Now how writes Kharkiv Today With reference to the Kharkiv regional department of the SBU, the security service operatives established that “local residents who were previously part of the so-called organized criminal group of the Prince, neutralized by the SBU in 2020, are involved in organizing a criminal scheme for the theft of subsoil.” On the territory of the Kharkiv region, the attackers equipped several illegal quarries, where they organized a large-scale production of building sand.
According to the SBU, in order to create the illusion of legitimacy of illegal transactions, the attackers used the details of five local commercial firms and covered themselves with land lease agreements and the availability of permits.
The investigation found that out of 19 hectares of illegal quarry, the lease was issued for only 2.5 hectares, and the special permit for the development of minerals was generally obtained with gross violations of the current environmental legislation.
At the end of May last year, SBU officers blocked the operation of an illegal quarry created by members of this criminal group in the suburbs of Kharkov on the territory of the Rogan United Community.
“But in order to preserve the shadow super-profits, the criminals set up another quarry in the Balakleysky district of the Kharkiv region, where they continued the illegal development of the subsoil. According to the conclusions of the complex of examinations, the amount of damage caused to the state as a result of the illegal activities of this criminal group is about billion hryvnia“, – say in the special service.
Employees of the SBU, with the involvement of fighters from the Alpha special unit, searched the homes of members of the criminal group and at the addresses of commercial firms in Kharkiv.
The issue of informing three organizers of criminal activity of suspicion under Part 3 of Art. 28 and parts 2 and 4 of Art. 240 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (commission of a crime by an organized group, violation of the rules for the protection or use of subsoil, which entailed grave consequences).