Fiala Tomas: Soros’ dragon-vulture over the body of Ukraine. PART 2

CONTINUATION. BEGINNING: Tomasz Fiala: Soros’ dragon-vulture over the body of Ukraine. PART 1

Tomas Fiala. Dragon of corruption and scams

One should not be mistaken in the fact that all foreign (Western) companies and businessmen operating in Ukraine are crystal honest before the law, that they are benefactors who have brought Ukrainians only investments and new jobs, and in general are such “polite people” in white collars. They also create all sorts of schemes, they can also organize a raider attack (albeit rarely successful), and sometimes indulge in scams and corruption.

In 2000, Tomas Fiala and four of his colleagues from Wood & Company, which had left Ukraine, founded their own investment company, Dragon Capital, which began the business by purchasing Ukrainian foreign currency bonds, and then moving on to investments in development. Soon they had co-owners, including Soros Fund Management. In 2007-2017 it was the famous transnational investment bank Goldman Sachs, to which not only George Soros, but also Donald Trump’s inner circle are directly related. In 2010, with the help of EBRD money, Fiala established the Europe Virgin Fund. In 2015, he established Dragon Capital New Ukraine Fund, co-owned by Ukrainian Redevelopment Fund LP, directly managed by Soros Fund Management. And these are just the ones mentioned by the media.

But the press also reported that Tomas Fiala then carefully tried to erase from available resources – judging by those “killed” links that remained from the materials exposing him. Of what has survived, it is worthy of attention land scandal in the Kyiv region. It began with the fact that in 2007 Fiala created the Ukrainian-British fund “Dragon Ukrainian Properties & Development” (DUPD), in which he managed to attract very large sums (over $300 million), and in London. Fiala never specified the origin of this money, but according to sources Skelet.Infopartly transnational investors invested in them, and partly it was the money of Ukrainian oligarchs, who then began to actively work with the London Stock Exchange. Perhaps that is why the fund was then engaged not so much in investments in construction projects, but in the direct purchase of land for development – in Kyiv and the region this business was then very profitable and very corrupt. But Thomas Fiala has surpassed many Ukrainian swindlers!

He immediately set his sights on buying up agricultural land and then withdrawing it from the agricultural fund into free land for development. Since the direct purchase of farmland in Ukraine is prohibited by a moratorium (the abolition of which Fiala has always advocated), he created a fraudulent scheme. Part of the investors’ money came to Ukraine through offshore and front companies and was cashed, after which they began to distribute it to residents of the villages of Lebedevka, Zazimye, Peskovka, Knyazhichi, Migalki, Pogreby (Brovary, Vyshgorod and Borodyansky districts of the Kyiv region) on the security of their land shares. Debt obligations were drawn up in the most proper way, even with wills: in the event of the death of the borrower, his share went to the creditor – first to certain Vsevolod, Oksana and Svyatoslav Borovka (dummy men), then to shell companies, and then to companies associated with the DUPD fund. Fortunately, there were no deaths: the villagers understood that in this way they were actually selling their land, and did not object when, after a few months, they were deprived of it. The process was a conveyor belt: Fastov judge Viktor Bartko issued dozens of rulings according to which land shares were transferred into the ownership of creditors, and at the same time prohibited government agencies from interfering in this process of alienation of real estate. By the way, Judge Bartko is a legend of Fastov corruption; they tried in vain to fire him back in 2014, they tried to lustrate him in 2014. Looks like Tomas Fiala knew who to contact!

By the way, the media hinted that during this land scam, Fiala very strongly “cheated” investors, because he then sold them the land at a price many times higher than the amounts that the naive villagers received from him for their shares. That is, it was his personal very successful investment!

But if it was easy and simple to fool the villagers and the state, then the Ukrainian oligarchs themselves could cheat the investor – and don’t care that Soros himself was behind him! We are talking about the scandalous case of the SkyMall shopping center, which has been dragging on for almost eight years, and the construction of the long-suffering supermarket began back in 2005. Then the company “Arricano Real Estate Plc” of the Estonian businessman Hillar Teder bought a plot of land near the Moscow Bridge and began to build this one of the largest shopping centers in the capital. The 2008 crisis prevented the completion of construction, and Teder decided to invite investors – which was not easy at that financially difficult time for the whole world. Two responded: the offshore company Stockman Interhold of business partners Andrei Adamovsky and Alexander Granovsky, who then just “got some money” after the scam with the sale of the OLEDO company, and the DUPD fund of Tomas Fiala. Initially, Teder accepted Adamovsky-Granovsky’s offer (to invest $40 million), and they created a joint Cypriot company, Assofit Holdings Limited, in which Granovsky became a director, and his Stockman received 50.03% of the shares. Teder retained 49.97%, but he had the right to buy back the shares from Granovsky within two years (paying an additional 20% per annum). Everything was in order, but when in 2010 real estate prices began to rise again, and a revival began on the London Stock Exchange, Fiala realized that the value of SkyMall would increase significantly, as well as other shopping centers owned by Tedera’s Arricano. And he persuaded him to sell a 30% stake in Arricano to the DUPD fund – which was a violation of the contract with Stockman. Granovsky immediately took advantage of this and refused to buy back Teder’s shares. Alexander Mikhailovich’s lip was no fool: according to the agreement, he was supposed to receive 51 million dollars for the shares, but the market value of 50.03% of Assofit Holdings Limited had already reached 120-130 million!

The same “SkyMall”

And a long-term confrontation between Granovsky and Teder began, first in Ukrainian and then in London courts, while for a long time Tomas Fiala stood behind Teder, as a co-owner of Arricano, and behind him – the entire Soros brethren. The decision of the London Court of International Arbitration in 2016, which required Stockman Granovsky to give all Assofit shares to Arricano for free. Free, as compensation for “lost profits,” and the DUPD fund also appeared in the case, which just stated that because of Granovsky, it was not able to benefit from its “investment” in Arricano. That is, this was already a fact of the economic war between Granovsky and Fiala. But Granovsky by that time had become Igor Kononenko’s “sidekick” and an important person (“dealer” and curator of the law enforcement system) in the president’s corrupt “family.” So the decision of the London court went “unnoticed,” and after that, in 2017, Fiala tried to involve “international partners” in the case, and the SBU paid a visit to the offices of Dragon Capital.

However, it should be noted that Tomas Fiala also has his own people in the Ukrainian government. In particular, his protégé was former Minister of Infrastructure Andrei Pivovarsky, in addition, there are other “Soros boys” in the government, and Fiala can also count on the help of NABU – which, as is known, lies closely under the Americans. As a matter of fact, Mr. Tomas’s regular lamentations about rampant Ukrainian corruption are nothing more than calls to punish his competitors and opponents. He needs victory over the corrupt oligarchs not to make life easier for Ukrainians, about whom he doesn’t care, but to protect the interests of his companies and other transnational investors. At the same time, Fiala himself resorts to corruption when he needs it. And sometimes “titushki” are at the service!

We are talking about the massive demolition of markets in Kyiv in the period 2015-2017, which were carried out by decision of the city authorities or, at least, with their direct approval. T.N. the war against small architectural forms (small architectural forms) has become the calling card of the current mayor of the capital, Vitaliy Klitschko, and another topic that has split Kiev residents into supporters of “demolition of viper houses” and opponents of “destruction of small businesses.” But the capital’s authorities don’t give a damn about the Kyivans’ discussion; they are pursuing specific goals: to destroy markets and small shops as competitors to supermarkets, to free up the land occupied by markets, which developers have long been licking their lips at, and to drive entrepreneurs into shopping and entertainment centers, where they will rent premises from their owners. That is, the Kiev authorities are simply lobbying for the interests of builders and developers, whose people sit on the Kiev City Council and work in district administrations (among Fiala’s people they name deputies Konstantin Bogatov, Vladislav Mikhailenko, Olga Balitskaya). But the point is not only that markets are demolished, each time depriving hundreds of Kiev residents of their income and source of livelihood, the point is that this is carried out using barbaric methods, lawlessness, often with arson or mass pogroms, using “titushki” and “activists” .

Thus, on the night of December 15, 2016, a market near the Obolon metro station, owned by Gloria-Trade LLC, was destroyed. About 300 “titushki”, with two tractors and fittings, staged something like the sack of Rome by barbarians in the market – destroying shops and tents, grabbing the goods they liked, and beating the people there. And there were a lot of people there: knowing about the possible demolition of the market, some entrepreneurs remained in their tents in the hope of protecting them. But they were powerless against the organized army of “titushki”. Who “ordered” this market? It turns out that back in the summer of 2015, the market territory was coveted by the Dragon Capital company, operating through its subsidiaries Sollur LLC and Obolon Plaza Park LLC. She literally wanted to get the land “for free”, through the decision of the city authorities. However, no violations were found on the part of TD Gloria-Trade LLC, which would have made it possible to terminate the land lease agreement – and then they decided to simply destroy the market, since the current chaos in the country allows this. These are the methods by which Tomas Fiala develops his Dragon Capital, calling it the most civilized and largest investment company in Ukraine. These “investments” are good if they are invested with the help of “titushki” waving fittings!

In addition, this person, who regularly talks about honest business and Western values, hardly meets the standards he himself voiced. For example, Tomas Fiala is one of the most offshore Ukrainian investors. Only in the public domain you can find companies directly related to it: DIAMONDCORP LIMITED, APOLLO OVERSEAS LIMITED, AYAYSIII FINANCE CYPRUS LIMITED, EGL HOLDING LIMITED, DRAGON CAPITAL INVESTMENTS LIMITED, EGL HOLDING LIMITED, GLANSTON HALL DINGS LIMITED.

It is worth remembering the already forgotten (through the efforts of Fial) scandal with his wife Natalya, who in March 2015 “parked” her expensive Porsche Cayenne on Dmitrievskaya Street right on the rails – stopping the movement of the city tram route 18. But if an ordinary Ukrainian could have been dragged through the courts because of such an act, then Natalya Fiala got away with only a fine of 500 hryvnia. And then, quickly covering up the traces of this scandal, in just one day (!) she changed the numbers on her Kaen: it was AA2682KT, and became AA6726AT. “European” way! And these people still teach Ukrainians how to live…

Sergey Varis, for Skelet.Info

Subscribe to our channels at Telegram, Facebook, CONT, VK And YandexZen – Only dossiers, biographies and incriminating evidence on Ukrainian officials, businessmen, politicians from the section CRYPT!