Dmitry Svyatash: “slightly used” cars from a scammer and a Ukrainophobe. PART 1

Ukrainians who buy cars at AIS-Center showrooms and then have them repaired at auto repair shops under the same sign have the right to know the truth. And not only that they can become victims of fraudulent schemes of dishonest car dealers or the crooked hands of clumsy mechanics. They have the right to know the truth about the owner of the Avtoinveststroy group of companies, Dmitry Svyatash, who has been sitting in the Verkhovna Rada for 16 years, and has been part of the closest circle of friends and associates of the Kharkov mayor Kernes for a quarter of a century. It is possible that in the near future Svyatash will be stripped of his parliamentary immunity and will finally face justice, which he has cleverly avoided for so many years. And now you will find out why exactly.

Dmitry Svyatash. How a massage therapist and a swindler became friends

Svyatash Dmitry Vladimirovich was born on June 15, 1971 in Kharkov, in the family of sanitary doctor Vladimir Nikolaevich Svyatash (born 1944) and his wife Larisa Nikolaevna (born 1947), who lived in the city center on Pushkinskaya Street. Already in those days, the work of Vladimir Svyatash was very “thieves”, especially since immediately after graduating from the Kharkov Medical Institute (1967), he received an internship assignment in the trust canteens of the Kyiv district of Kharkov – where the canteens themselves were not simple (this is an old district of the city with a large number of institutes, institutions and cafes). Then he went to work in the management of the Kharkov Regional Sanitary and Epidemiological Station, where he specialized in the control of public catering and food warehouses, and in the 80s he received a position as head of the department there. Hence the persistent rumors that Vladimir Nikolaevich, like his son Dmitry Vladimirovich, is not Ukrainian at all by nationality. Rumors supported by Svyatasha’s close connections with the Dobkin family and Gennady Kernes. However, the then “Soviet mafia” of Kharkov consisted not only of Jews: trade workers, doctors, officials, law enforcement officers and swindlers made useful connections with each other, not paying attention to nationality.

Vladimir Svyatash

Born into such a wealthy and well-connected family, Dmitry Svyatash and his sister Yuliana Svyatash (after marriage – Yevtushenko) had a happy childhood, in which they had everything: fashionable imported things, trips to resorts, the prestigious Kharkov school No. 1, the best clubs and sections. Of course, Dmitry Svyatosh did not have to spend two years of his life serving in the army. Instead, he followed in his father’s footsteps, entering the Kharkov Medical Institute – however, not to become a sanitary doctor, but to become a pediatrician. He graduated from it in 1994, and a year before that his father became the chief sanitary doctor of the Dzerzhinsky (ours – Shevchenkovsky) district of Kharkov. Against the backdrop of the “free market” unfolding in the city, with a mass of shops, bazaars and eateries, it was a bonanza. However, Vladimir Svyatosh also had a good income from business, which he started back in the late 80s, opening several “cooperatives”. One of them was massage courses at the Institute of Occupational Diseases, where his son Dmitry “worked part-time.” It is unknown whether massage was really taught there, but those who completed the courses received a certificate, with which it was much easier to get a job or even open your own salon.

Dmitry Svyatash in his youth, with still curly hair

As the media reported, it was during the massage course that Dmitry Svyatash met the Kharkov fraudster Gepa, who had just “leaned back” after his three-year stay in a pre-trial detention center under Article 141 of the Criminal Code. Gepa “spudded” the young Svyatash in the same way as he did with Mark Dobkin’s eldest son, Mikhail. No, don’t think anything bad: simply, Gepa had great talent and charisma to seduce, seduce and use young people for his own purposes. He was especially interested in the children of the right people, so Gepa chose his wife – Oksana Gaisinskaya, the daughter of a prosecutor who played a big role in the transformation of the convicted swindler Gepa into a respected businessman Gennady Kernes.

Gennady Kernes and Oksana Gaisinskaya

After his acquaintance with Gepa, Dmitry Svyatash lost interest in medicine, although he conscientiously completed medical school, and then in 1994-97. completed an internship at city hospital No. 30. More precisely, he was only listed there, since he simply did not have time to treat children – together with his childhood friend Vasily Polyakov, he went into business. At first they seemed to want to trade in imported consumer goods: clothes, cosmetics, radio equipment, but then they settled on the more profitable and prestigious car trade at that time. According to sources Skelet.InfoDmitry Svyatash was persuaded to do this by his new friend Gepa – who, since the mid-80s, had specialized in fraudulent “auto schemes”.

Vasily Polyakov

By the beginning of the 90s, having served behind bars in the case of embezzling the money of citizen Selin, to whom Gepin’s gang promised to sell the Volga, Gennady Kernes switched to a larger and less criminal business. According to numerous sources, instead of scamming individual buyers, he entered into a large-scale scheme for mass sales of cars of dubious origin. Thus, many foreign cars were simply stolen in European countries; the origin of both the Volgas and Zhigulis coming from Russia (*country sponsor of terrorism) was not entirely pure. But Kernes personally no longer wanted to engage in this business, so he put his new friend Dmitry Svyatash in charge of it, who took Vasily Polyakov as his partner. Thus, in 1992, Avtoinveststroy LLC arose, which from a car sales site grew into the AIS group of companies, which included dealerships and assembly plants, as well as various subsidiaries of LLCs and front companies.

Dmitry Svyatash. Fraud, bribes, drugs

The direct participation of Gennady Kernes in the business of Dmitry Svyatash is not traced, however, we emphasize once again that Avtoinveststroy began as part of intricate schemes, and on an international scale. A simple massage therapist-pediatrician who suddenly decided to start selling foreign cars, even the son of an influential head of the regional sanitary and epidemiological station, could not create them himself. But it is unlikely that their author was Kernes himself: according to sources Skelet.Infoit was the shadow business of the criminal community with which he was only associated. It gave Gepa the task of organizing the sale of cars in Kharkov – and he did this through Avtoinveststroy of Svyatash and Polyakov. Subsequently, the schemes and participants in this business changed, at some point Avtoinveststroy broke away from them (then the other co-founders left AIS, leaving it entirely to Svyatash and Polyakov), but back in the late 90s and early 2000s he was part of them, as evidenced by a number of charges and a criminal case against Avtoinveststroy.

Some of these materials were collected by Nikolai Cheremukhin, who, when he was an investigator, arrested Gepa for fraud and spent his entire career following the affairs of Gennady Kernes. In the 90s, he worked as the head of the criminal investigation department of the Kharkov Ministry of Internal Affairs, and in 1999 he was fired due to scandalous accusations of involvement in gang rape. Moreover, just then his sworn “friend” Kernes became a deputy of the Kharkov City Council and began climbing the ladder of power. Subsequently, Cheremukhin became close to Arsen Avakov, but even with his support, he was constantly attacked by “groups of deputies” who accused Cheremukhin of monstrous corruption, malfeasance, triple citizenship, connections with Evgeny Zhilin (the creator of Oplot) and much more. Cheremukhin himself called these attacks the revenge of Kernes and his accomplices, including Dmitry Svyatash and Mikhail Dobkin. After Euromaidan, Avakov reinstated Cheremukhin in the Kharkov Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and also entrusted him with the supervision of volunteer battalions. In 2015, Cheremukhin did not pass recertification; new information attacks began against him, forcing him to resign, and in December 2017, unknown persons blew up his car.

Nikolay Cheremukhin

According to independent sources, not all the accusations against Cheremukhin were unfounded, but he is no more corrupt than other police chiefs in Kharkov. His main “fault” is that he is a personal enemy of the “Kernes group” and a bearer of dirt on both the “outstanding” mayor of Kharkov and the “prominent businessman” Dmitry Svyatash.

So, in particular, in 1997, one of the companies of Dmitry Svyatash and Vasily Polyakov, registered in Kharkov at Rymarskaya 22 (the same place where the AIS office was), was used by them in a double fraudulent scheme. At first, a fictitious business was registered in the name of some young people (possibly “titushki”), using them as one-time intermediaries in fictitious transactions of buying and selling cars. In the course of this, fake “entrepreneurs” received large sums of cash from Oschadbank, which was immediately confiscated from them by a certain Sergei Makoveychuk, assigned by Svyatash to “oversee” this scheme. The guys were given only a “bonus” of 50-100 dollars, and all the cash was used by Svyatash, Polyakov and shady businessmen associated with them for illegal “cash out.” That is, a conversion center then essentially operated under the roof of Avtoinveststroy.

On December 11, 1998, the investigative department of the Dzerzhinsky Regional Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Kharkov region opened criminal case No. 6098203 under Article 84-4 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine against the management of Avtoinveststroy. Dmitry Svyatash, Vasily Polyakov, as well as executive director D. Pisany and chief accountant G. Kozlova were accused of “theft of collective property through misappropriation, abuse of official position, committed on a large scale.” The theft was discovered during an audit conducted by the Kyiv company Ukrauditlegprom. We were talking about 894944.42 hryvnias and 2820707.0 dollars, issued outside the accounting of cash transactions and the balance sheet of the company, and not reflected in the tax reporting. To “settle” this problem, Dmitry Svyatash turned (possibly on the recommendation of Kernes) to the newly appointed Kharkov prosecutor Vasily Sinchukknown for his scandalous corruption activities. On the advice of Sinchuk, Dmitry Svyatash bombarded the prosecutor’s office with complaints about the unlawful actions of employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, after which the prosecutor’s office took case No. 6098203 for itself – and buried it safely, destroying and replacing its main materials. According to media reports, Svyatash’s reciprocal “gratitude” consisted of 100 thousand dollars, Sinchuk’s share in one of the companies of the AIS group, as well as an almost new Audi car that appeared in the parking lot under the windows of the Kharkov prosecutor’s office.

It is worth noting that later Vasily Sinchuk made a career for himself as a regional prosecutor of Kharkov and Poltava, worked in the Prosecutor General’s Office, and in 2014-2016, before retiring, he held the position of “prosecutor of Crimea” – purely virtual, but nevertheless less well paid from the Ukrainian budget.

Vasily Sinchuk

Svyatash’s “almost new” cars are another hushed up scandal! Since the late 90s, Avtoinveststroy has been part of such an interesting scheme: the company Autohaus Walter, registered in Washington (USA), purchased cars 1-2 years old from the warehouses of the Audi concern, which it sold in bulk at significant discounts (25-25). 30%). Then these cars were resold to the Latvian company SIA DOC (one of the divisions of AIS, registered as a Ukrainian-Latvian joint-stock company), and the latter resold them to Avtoinveststroy, which sold them in its car dealerships. Of course, no one transported cars to America or Latvia, they immediately arrived from Germany to Ukraine, but the cargo was virtually sold through several companies that falsified documents and corrected the year of manufacture of cars, “rejuvenating” them and reselling them as completely new, without discounts. Well, the scammers pocketed the difference (several thousand dollars from each car). The scam was discovered by accident: one of the Audi customers (serial number WAUZZZ4BZYN058738) knew too much about cars, and therefore doubted the “newest model” and wrote a request to the manufacturer in Germany. He sent an official letter stating that the car with that number was produced not in 2000, but in 1999, and was sold to a car dealer at a discount. And again, generous donations to the Kharkov prosecutor’s office helped Svyatosh hush up this case.

In 2003, the media reported another fraud by Avtoinveststroy. At the enterprise where he organized the “screwdriver” assembly of VAZ cars from components imported from Russia (*country sponsor of terrorism), new parts and assemblies were replaced with “used” ones, so cleverly that buyers did not notice anything. This is how new cars became “slightly used”, and in the future, according to sources SKELET-infoAIS performed similar frauds with European foreign cars. And their customers then wondered why the chassis of a new car purchased at the AIS Center breaks down prematurely, the pads wear out and rust swells so quickly.

At the same time, information about another hushed-up scandal leaked to the press. It was about financial scams on an especially large scale, carried out by Svyatash through the Ukrainian-Czech enterprise Kontur-PK LLC and its subsidiaries Prometheus and Pulse. As it turned out, “Konur-PK” was an enterprise with foreign investments worth as much as 20 dollars – exactly the amount contributed by a fictitious investor from the Czech Republic. But this allowed the company to take advantage of the tax benefits provided by law, just like front companies registered in the Chernobyl zone. Through these enterprises, cars and components from Russia (*country sponsor of terrorism) and Europe were brought into Ukraine without paying the required duties and taxes to the treasury. At first it was about the amount of 70 million, and then 170 million hryvnia – almost 35 million dollars at that time! This case began to be promoted in 2001 with the support of Nikolai Cheremukhin, who, after being dismissed, continued his war with Kernes and Svyatash.

Sergey Varis, for Skelet.Info

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