Dyadechko Sergey: who was behind the Rodovid-Bank scams? PART 2

CONTINUATION. BEGINNING: Sergey Dyadechko: who was behind the Rodovid-Bank scams? PART 1

Behind Tymoshenko’s back: why did Shepelev want to kill Dyadechko?

During 2009, the government of Yulia Tymoshenko spoon-fed Rodovid. The reasons why Yulia Vladimirovna suddenly became inflamed with generosity towards the Donetsk bank still remain unknown. But the main working version bears the name “Alexander Shepelev”: a native of Gorlovka, stepson of the head of the Organized Crime Control Department of the Donetsk region Vladimir Kuznetsov, son-in-law of the Donetsk businessman Mikhail Friedenthal, brother-in-law of the son of Vladimir Rybak (ex-speaker), former co-owner of the European Bank for Rational Financing (EBRF), companion of Pavel Borulko, scandalous organizer of a number of shadowy schemes Shepelev was also suspected of two murders: in 2003, the chairman of the supervisory board of AvtoKrazBank, Sergei Kirichenko, and in 2006, Colonel of the Organized Crime Control Department Roman Erokhin. He was also the main accused in the case of the assassination attempt on Sergei Dyadechko in 2012. What happened?

Alexander Shepelev in the office

In 2006 and 2007, Alexander Shepelev was elected as a people’s deputy on the BYuT lists, and was a member of the committee on finance and banking. This allowed him to use his abilities and capabilities during the crisis of 2008-2009, and he mainly applied them to the Rodovid bank. Why? Perhaps the native of the Donetsk region had something in common with his fellow countrymen. In turn, at the end of 2008, the owners of Rodovid turned to Shepelev as an intermediary in order to, through him, ask Prime Minister Tymoshenko for state support for the bank. And, according to Skelet.Info, they got it.

True, in March 2009, the National Bank introduced a temporary administration in Rodovid, and in July it nationalized the bank, pouring 2.8 billion hryvnia into it and receiving in return 99.9% of the shares. It was quite a profitable deal; in fact, the state bought the troubled bank for one and a half times more than it cost on the eve of the crisis! The ransom was disguised as another refinancing, but in fact this money went to pay off debts to the bank’s clients resulting from the theft of deposits by the board of Dyadechko-Gorbunenko. In those days, Rodovid was in full swing with activity: Dyadechko and Gorbunenko, who were leaving the bank, were busy distributing new loans, including to themselves, and also rewriting some contracts. Thus, the company Ukrgaz-Energo, owned by Dmitry Firtash, made a deposit in Rodovid in the amount of 552 million hryvnia at 9% per annum back in February 2008, and in March 2009 it re-signed the agreement at… 48% per annum! Thus, in just a year, Firtash could “earn” 283 million hryvnia ($35 million) purely from bank interest, but in reality, rip it off from the state. However, this agreement was later terminated by the Supreme Court.

Interestingly, in March of the same year, Sergei Dyadechko became the director of the company Adan Trade Limited, registered in London at 122-126 Tooley street. The companies “Goodlight Capital”, “Gazoil Corporation Limited”, “Impool Limited”, “Keenor Ltd”, “Pallace Limited” and “Rollexa Limited” – owned by Ivan Avramov, Dayana and Irina Ivanyushchenko (wife and daughter) were registered at the same address ). We can say that this became his official entry into the inner circle of Yura Enikievsky’s trusted people. And from that very moment, the Ukrainian companies Ivanyushchenko and Avramov began to open their accounts in the Soyuz bank, which was owned by Dyadechko.

Meanwhile, the head of the new administration of Rodovid became an employee of the Ministry of Finance, Sergei Shcherbina, who had previously worked with Gorbunenko at Kreditprombank and was considered his friend and business partner. Shepelev received the unofficial titles of “decider” and “supervisor” from Yulia Timoshenko in “Rodovid”. Their vigorous activity in 2009 was short-lived, but during this time they turned Rodovid into Tymoshenko’s shadow bank, through which, according to media reports, huge sums were embezzled and spent on her election campaign. Well, besides, Shcherbina and Shepelev did not forget about themselves. As the head of the SBU Investigation Department, Ivan Derevyanko, later stated, “… people’s deputy A. Shepelev is suspected of involvement in the theft of funds from Rodovid Bank in the amount of more than 220 million. He is also a possible accomplice in organizing the theft of National Bank refinancing funds in the amount of 315.3 million hryvnia in March-May 2009.” Sergei Shcherbina, who in 2009 began driving around in a Porsche Cayenne and wearing gold cufflinks, was later accused of causing damage worth 300 million hryvnia and embezzling 45 million – for which he later served three years behind bars.

Sergey Shcherbina

But what caused Shepelev and Dyadechko to quarrel to death? One of the main reasons for their conflict is said to be fraud with loan collateral. As an example, they cite another very dirty story, the defendant of which is the famous Kiev restaurateur (as well as a former member of Tatar’s organized crime group) Andrei Zadorozhny. In 2007, he took out a $5.5 million loan from Rodovid, secured by his restaurant Deja Vu. By the beginning of 2009, Zadorozhny already owed the bank more than 100 million hryvnia. And then the collateral was changed: instead of the Deja Vu restaurant, it became some kind of land plot near Kiev. who paid off their debts, but Gorbunenko became a co-owner of Deja Vu. There were many similar stories before the collapse of Rodovid, when it was ruled by Gorbunenko and Dyadechko, and after, when it was controlled by Shcherbina and Shepelev. For example, in 2009, Zadorozhny thanked Shepelev in the same way with a house on Pecherskie Lipki.

In 2010, the Donetsk people took power in Ukraine, and Shepelev abandoned the BYuT faction to join the Party of Regions. Apparently, he hoped to remain the curator of “Rodovid” under the new government. But his political betrayal was in vain: two groups at once had their own plans for “Rodovid”: Sergei Arbuzov and Yuri Ivanyushchenko. The latter gained the upper hand, placing his own man in the chair of the head of the bank, and the state continued to pour new funding into Rodovid. What about Sergei Dyadechko? And he, leading the Soyuz bank and companies associated with Ivanyushchenko, began to implement schemes to withdraw money from the already state-owned bank Rodovid to his Soyuz – which, in addition, became a large conversion center. By mid-2011, Soyuz’s assets amounted to 3.5 billion hryvnia.

The investigation into the Rodovid case began at the end of 2010, and at the same time all sorts of bad things began to happen to its main witnesses. First, the head of the bank’s legal department, Alexander Ivakhnenko, “slipped in the bathroom” and broke his head so badly that he ended up in intensive care for three months. Then Gennady Piskun, who participated in the collateral substitution schemes, allegedly climbed out the window to fix the air conditioner – and fell out of it, after which he was hastily buried the next morning. Well, in March 2012, Sergei Dyadechko’s car was fired upon. The assassination attempt turned out to be strange: at the moment when fire was opened on the car, for some reason Dyadechko was lying in the back seat (later he claimed that he had a bad back), and the killer did not even think about finishing off the victim – so it all looked like a staged act. However, he immediately left with his family for Nice, from where he hastened to accuse Alexander Shepelev of organizing the assassination attempt. It was from this moment that Dyadechko began to diligently sculpt for himself the image of an honest banker and philanthropist, patron of athletes, he even began to give testimony and interviews about affairs at Rodovid – of course, blaming the Shepelev-Shcherbina team for everything.

Shepelev was very unlucky. After an unsuccessful participation in the parliamentary elections of 2012 (no one took the Jewish defector onto the party lists), Shepelev also fled abroad – and was detained in the summer of 2013 in Hungary. He stated that he was a “victim of the Yanukovych regime” and asked for political asylum, but was still extradited to Ukraine in May 2014. His former comrades in BYuT did not justify him, but, it seems, allowed him to escape. Now he has made his way to Russia (*country sponsor of terrorism), where he was arrested in March 2015, but agreed to cooperate with Russian authorities, testifying against Ukrainian politicians. After this, information appeared in Ukraine that Shepelev allegedly “entered the service of the FSB” and a criminal case was opened against him for treason.

Finally, the Russians also got tired of Shepelev: in November 2017, they accused him of trying to bribe an official and put him in jail. And in February 2018, Alexander Shepelev found himself near Kiev, beaten, with his pockets stuffed with various documents, including the identity card of a “Colonel of the Ministry of State Security of the DPR”, with his photograph, but in the name of a certain Nikolai Borukh. It was incredibly theatrical, simply pathetic, reminiscent of some kind of parody of a spy detective story, like “Masks at a Secret Site.” Shepelev himself assured that he was kidnapped criminal elements commissioned by Sergei Dyadechkowho demanded from him documents on “Rodovid” and incriminating evidence on Yulia Tymoshenko. He also stated that Sergei Dyadechko was robbing his family, taking away their property.

Live in a new way, steal in the old way

The further fate of Alexander Shepelev is unknown: there has been no news about him for several months, perhaps he is being kept as “canned food” in anticipation of the 2019 presidential elections, and one can only hope that nothing will happen to him. But his antagonist is cheerful, cheerful and full of entrepreneurial enthusiasm. Just recently in Zaporozhye, Dyadechko’s company Admin LLC sold 8 apartments to the city council for employees of the prosecutor’s office.

Unexpectedly, Shepelev’s complaints that Dyadechko was taking away real estate from his family were quickly confirmed. Indeed, according to Skelet.Infoin Kyiv at 15a Ivan Franka Street there was a residential building that previously belonged to Teren LLC, which was owned by the son of Alexander Shepelev. It was really “squeezed out”, and now the building is owned by the British laying company “Devolia estate llp”, whose leaders are Yuri Pilkevich and Alexander Protasov – Dyadechko’s people.

At the same time, Alexander Protasov was also the director of the company Intertopresurs (USREOU 36559629), founded in 2009 and engaged in providing loans, purchasing debt obligations and shares. Which immediately suggests that it was created by Dyadechko and Ivanyushchenko for some kind of scam. And indeed: the media reported that it served as a shell company (with a dozen more of the same kind) at Soyuz Bank, being registered at the same address.

Intertopresurs became known thanks to its fraud: back in the days of Yanukovych, the company bought up the debts of Ukrzaliznytsia in the amount of about 115 million hryvnia, after which some interest increased on them, and the amount grew to 240 million. They didn’t have time to claim them under the regime: Maidan broke out, and Intertopresurs, out of harm’s way, assigned the debt to LLC Transport Company Energotrans, which was renamed TLC Intertransconsulting, and itself was liquidated. However, starting in 2016, Sergei Dyadechko became interested in a new “challenge” – through the courts he seeks to cancel the liquidation of enterprises. So, in particular, he challenged the liquidation of his Soyuz bankclosed by the NBU in 2016 after numerous violations. He canceled it so quickly that the members of the liquidation commission never entered the Soyuz office, barricaded by its employees. They wrote that with this Dyadechko saved Ivanyushchenko’s schemes, which continued to work.

And in 2017, according to the proven scheme, at the request of another of his enterprises, Weiss Industry LLC (how many of them does Dyadechko have?), he revived Intertopresurs, which immediately filed a claim with Ukrzaliznytsia for the old debt. And in November 2017, she paid the company 220 million hryvnia!

Sergey Varis, for Skelet.Info

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