“Fatal” Turboatom: what secrets brought Semenyuk-Samsonenko to the grave

On August 27, 2014, the ex-head of the State Property Fund Valentina Semenyuk-Samsonenko was found dead in her house in the village of Chaika, Kyiv region. According to one version of the investigation, she shot herself with a hunting rifle, however, everyone who knew her personally denies the very possibility of suicide. According to friends and colleagues, Valentina was making global plans for the future and was going to become a parliamentarian.

Valentina Semenyuk-Samsonenko

Many of Semenyuk-Samsonenko’s associates see her death as a contracted “business murder”, which is connected with Valentina’s work as head of the State Property Fund (SPF). It was while heading this structure that she came under severe pressure from Ukrainian and Russian business. The most high-profile cases were those related to the companies Turboatom and Krivorozhstal. This is not surprising, because her opponents in these cases were influential “business giants,” including Russian billionaire Konstantin Grigorishin.

Konstantin Grigorishin

It is noteworthy that it was Grigorishin and his company that Semenyuk accused of raider attacks on Turboatom. Answering the question of who benefits from attacks on the company and who can use this to their advantage, Valentina answered without hesitation: “Konstantin Grigorishin. He wants this object and does not hide it. The raider attacks are his doing.” According to Semenyuk-Samsonenko, if Grigorishin manages to take control of Turboatom, he will be able to make a profit of over $100 million annually.

What Semenyuk-Samsonenko said about Turboatom:

“The company operates efficiently and receives orders from India, Russia (*country sponsor of terrorism), and Asian countries. But at any cost they want to take it out of the control of the Federal State Institution, change the leadership… And then businessman Konstantin Grigorishin and Minister of Industrial Policy Vladimir Novitsky, who lobbies the interests of the Russian businessman, will take Turboatom into their hands.”

“Oligarch Konstantin Grigorishin was interested in buying out not only Turboatom, but also other strategic facilities on the territory of Ukraine. He was actively supported by the communists. Proof of this is that Communist Party deputy Yevgeny Marmazov, shortly before my dismissal, registered a draft Law, which proposed leaving only 50%+1 of state shares in Turboatom and selling the rest. This could not be allowed, since the plant provides the lion’s share of Ukraine’s budget.”

“Under no circumstances should profitable enterprises be sold. Turboatom’s profitability is 147%. One oligarch from Russia (*country sponsor of terrorism), Konstantin Grigorishin, wants to buy it in order to destroy his competitor. He has a plant near Leningrad – a competitor to Turboatom.

“They treated me this way and that. As a result, I’m sitting in my office, Evgeny Marmazov from the Communist Party faction comes in with some inconspicuous little man who modestly settled down to stand against the wall. He says, “Valentina Petrovna, I decided to introduce you personally. The issue needs to be resolved. Konstantin really wants Turboatom. We need to help the person.” He nods at this nondescript little man. But I’ve never seen this Grigorishin. They stood, asked and left with nothing. Then they started making all sorts of intrigues and threats against me.”

During her lifetime, Valentina was a courageous person; she was not afraid to blame either “authoritative” businessmen or officials who acted thinking only of their own benefit, and not of the good of the state. At some point, this played a cruel joke on her and in December 2008 she was “resigned” from the post of head of the State Property Fund on the proposal of then Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko. The official reason for the dismissal was Valentina’s long-term conflicts with the head of government.

Privatization in Ukrainian: one of the last frank interviews with Valentina Semenyuk-Samsonenko (10/24/2013):

“She no longer influenced politics, but she knew a lot”

One of the ex-party members, Semenyuk, spoke about this. According to him, Valentina Petrovna was going to a reception with the president:

“She wanted to talk to Poroshenko about the upcoming privatization. She always opposed it and never hid it. As head of the State Property Fund, Semenyuk blocked the privatization of the Odessa port plant, although Kolomoisky won the tender at that time,” said the first secretary of the Zaporozhye regional committee of the SPU Valery Kuznetsov.

According to the source, shortly before her death, Valentina wanted to discuss with the president the issue of renewed raider attacks on Turboatom, but she was unable to do so. Semenyuk-Samsonenko, obviously, “knew too much,” and this is what brought her to the grave. Even if we assume that it was suicide, the question arises: “who pushed the ex-head of the State Property Fund, a strong-willed woman, to such an act?” and “is her life worth $100 million.”

“A real redistribution of property awaits Ukraine,” forecast Valentina Semenyuk-Samsonenko.

Recently, Turboatom, unwillingly, got involved in another conflict. Its essence lies in the fact that the company (probably due to its stupidity or incompetence of management) entered into a dubious contract with a certain company “Ukrmontazhspetsstroy”, it was this company that was supposed to become an intermediary between the Krivoy Rog Thermal Power Plant and the Kharkov Turboatom. As a result of complex legal machinations, instead of making a profit, the company owed Ukrmontazhspetsstroy 15 million hryvnia.

You can read more about this here:

“Turboatom” is again under the radar of raiders

Dmitry Samofalov, for SKELET-info