Denisenko Anatoly: secrets of Kharkov masons. PART 2

BEGINNING: Anatoly Denisenko: secrets of Kharkov masons. PART 1

It’s surprising that, being the owner of so many companies, MP Anatoly Denisenko declares rather modest income. For 2017, he received 264,192 hryvnia as a deputy salary, and in addition to it, he additionally wrote out 252,825 hryvnia from the state budget for compensation for the performance of deputy powers (payment of assistants, offices, etc.), 38 thousand hryvnia for travel expenses, as well as 191 080 hryvnia compensation for renting a hotel room. In total, Denisenko sucked more than 700 thousand hryvnia from the budget! Against this background, his own income looks somehow “poor”: he received 650 thousand hryvnia from the sale of real estate, 79 thousand hryvnia in income from renting out premises, 10 thousand hryvnia from the sale of securities – and only 766 hryvnia in interest dividends! Is his business really not making any profit at all? Or does it all simply go offshore through cunning schemes, bypassing Ukrainian taxation? It seems that Anatoly Denisenko only likes to take from the Ukrainian budget – but does not want to give anything there.

Meanwhile, this official dollar millionaire (Denisenko declared 1.25 million dollars and 23.46 million hryvnia in cash) is known in the Rada as one of the collectors of Swiss watches. According to the declaration alone, he has 9 of them, and before there were more: for example, Denisenko sold his favorite “Girard Perregaux Laureato” ($11.3 thousand), in which journalists photographed him within the walls of the Verkhovna Rada.

Anatoly Denisenko. How land was stolen in Kharkov

By 2006, several leading construction corporations had established themselves in Kharkov. Firstly, the oldest of them is Trest Zhilstroy-1 JSC and its permanent owner Alexander Kharchenko, which perfectly adapts to any change of power. Secondly, TPG “Target” of the Protasov brothers, who were engaged in creating networks of their shopping centers and pharmacies, and constantly featured in corruption scandals. Thirdly, JSC Macrocap Development Ukraine (MKDU), managed by Dmitry Kutov – not so long ago who ended his career as a real estate developer in a prison cell. Well, the fourth was the Spetsstroymontazh corporation and its blood brother Avantage, led by Viktor Kulik, Anatoly Denisenko and Leonid Krivochuprin. All of them made good progress in the construction of residential buildings and shopping centers during the mayorship of Mikhail Pilipchuk (1998-2002) and Vladimir Shumilkin (2002-2006) in Kharkov, as well as during the governorship of Yevgeny Kushnarev (2000-2004). However, then the old party and executive committee team was replaced by a new one: the duo of Dopa and Gepa, the newly elected mayor Mikhail Dobkin and the secretary of the city council Gennady Kernes. And the first thing they did was to begin redistributing the construction market.

In general, Mayor Dobkin’s first steps could be called the fulfillment of his candidacy promises: in the elections, he received many votes from indignant Kharkov residents, dissatisfied with the construction of the city with tall tower houses right in their yards. In addition, there were complaints about stores stuck on everywhere. The City Council canceled a number of contracts for the allocation of land plots and generally revised and tightened the rules for allocating land for construction. At first, this caused a real revolt of developers: Kulik and Denisenko were the loudest in calling for the fight against oppression, and the Protasy brothers were the most active, trying to arrange early re-election of the mayor – their people came to grips with Gepa’s “titushki”, staging battles on construction sites. MKDU Kutovoy also joined the rebellion, but Trest Zhilstroy-1 JSC did not agree to the conflict, its owner Kharchenko went to the father of the new mayor to negotiate – and very soon turned into the new construction favorite of the Dobkin-Kernes team. After thinking a little, Kulik and Denisenko ran to make peace with them. As a result, MKDU and Target remained in disgrace and were gradually destroyed, but Zhilstroy-1 and Spetsstroymontazh began to receive new building plots from the hands of Dobkin and Kernes. And not just polling stations: as the media reported, it was Kernes who helped Denisenko first become a deputy of the City Council (2010), and in 2012 win the elections to the Verkhovna Rada.

However, according to Skelet.Infothey did not always achieve the desired goal. So, in 2005, Anatoly Denisenko began to try on the bankrupt state-owned company Kharkov Airlines, which was transferred for reorganization a year later. Denisenko decided to participate in the project: he promised to pay off part of the company’s debts in exchange for part of its territory, and after learning about plans to reconstruct the airport at budget expense, he even founded the company “Kharkiv International Airport”. However, he was driven away from the airport by too strong a rival – oligarch Alexander Yaroslavsky, who had his own builders. Then Denisenko began to “spud up” another aviation enterprise: the Kharkov Aircraft Plant, which was in agony trying to establish mass production of new AN aircraft, and also capable of producing cruise missiles. In 2008, Spetsstroymontazh, which provided services to the plant for 3 million hryvnia and did not receive its money on time, filed a lawsuit – and initiated bankruptcy proceedings for the enterprise, apparently wanting to snatch at least a hectare of territory from it. But even here Denisenko expected a complete bummer: this plant, as a strategic object, was not subject to privatization and reorganization.

And Denisenko was not lucky with the plots allocated in 2007-2008: they became the subject of a loud scandal and the initiation of criminal cases on the facts of the literal theft of Kharkov land (we are talking about hundreds of hectares), initiated in 2016 by the newly appointed Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko. True, almost two years later, this case has not progressed beyond loud accusations and arrests of the switchmen. Although Dobkin’s parliamentary immunity was lifted in March 2018, the question of his possible prosecution is still up in the air. Meanwhile, the indictment by the Prosecutor General’s Office refers to quite serious violations with which in 2008 the Kharkov authorities allocated land to their favorite developers – including Zhilstroy-1 and Avantazh, and three pages of the indictment were devoted to the latter (see documents ). And since the submission directly speaks of the “criminal intent” of the head and co-owner of Avantage, Anatoly Denisenko, and even names the corresponding article of the Criminal Code (190-4), he may well be next in line.

Another violation identified by the prosecutor’s office is corruption committed by the Kharkovvodokanal enterprise together with one of the Avantage companies during the construction of the Favorit residential complex (130 Sumskaya Street). It turned out that “Kharkovvodokanal” provided “Avantazh” with various services, provided its workers and equipment – and all this without any contracts, that is, in fact, the utility company for “thank you” (in an envelope in the pocket of the manager) installed water supply to the new house being built “ Avantage.” All this was confirmed during a search conducted on March 13, 2018 in the Kharkovvodokanal enterprise by employees of the SBU and the prosecutor’s office.

But while Prosecutor General Lutsenko is habitually pulling the cat by the tail, Anatoly Denisenko is quickly improving his methods of cooperation with the city authorities of Kharkov. If the fearless elderly Kharchenko and his Zhilstroy-1 continue to directly win all major tenders (worth hundreds of millions), then Denisenko and his companions began to create bypass schemes and front companies. So, according to Skelet.Infoa few months ago, the Kharkov City Council entered into an agreement with SF Promtex LLC for the amount of more than 40 million hryvnia for the reconstruction of the Sarzhin Yar complex (with the installation of a stainless steel cross costing 786 thousand hryvnia). At the same time, the real cost of building materials and contractor services was overestimated by 20-30%. As it turned out, the director of Promtex, Stanislav Brovin, is the trusted manager of Lyudmila Lavrik, a relative of Anatoly Denisenko. And he rents all construction equipment from LLC Rekson and Blaze-Invest, owned by Denisenko.

Even earlier, the Department of Culture of the Kharkov City Council concluded a number of contracts with the Dobrobud company for a multimillion-dollar sum for carrying out repair work in schools, cultural centers and libraries. In fact, Dobrobud monopolized all orders from the Department of Culture, and received some outside the tender process. Journalists managed to find out that “Dobrobud” is directly connected with Vladislav Kutov, an assistant to People’s Deputy Anatoly Denisenko. Also, Vladislav Kutovoy, being the owner of Industrial Building Group LLC, in 2012-2016. “mastered” almost 45 million budget hryvnia for laying a water pipeline for irrigation systems in the village of Komsomolsky, delaying the work and doubling its initial cost.

But in a large-scale project to build a two-level parking lot behind the Kharkov Opera House, for the sake of which trees were cut down in Shevchenko’s gardenDenisenko will participate openly. According to a member of the Kharkov Anti-Corruption Center, Evgeniy Lisichkin, the tender for the construction of a parking lot has already been won by the company Spetsstroymontazh-Ukraine. So he will have plenty of money for new “pasochki” for the newly deceived and robbed Kharkov residents!

Sergey Varis, for Skelet.Info

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