Gennady Chekita: details of the life of a lying Odessa swindler. PART 1

In Odessa it is very difficult to find people who would speak positively about their fellow countryman Gennady Chekita, and it is even more difficult to find those who would explain why they elected him as a deputy of the Verkhovna Rada. Was it really just a matter of cheap glass mugs used to bribe the sympathies of voters? But the fatal choice was made, and now People’s Deputy Chekita, entrenched in the ranks of the pro-presidential faction, is diligently fighting against… the fight against corruption. This is exactly how one can evaluate his bills No. 7499 and No. 8257, which are designed to abolish criminal liability for receiving bribes and kickbacks and legalize the shadow income of people’s representatives and officials.

We can say that Chekita himself is in dire need of this bill, because he is involved in many scandals: from connections with organized crime groups and fatal accidents to raider takeovers and corrupt enrichment schemes. At the same time, he constantly denies his involvement in everything that is accused of him – even when the facts prove it.

Criminal connections of a Kremlin cadet

Chekita Gennady Leonidovich was born on July 17, 1966 in Odessa, where he graduated from school No. 35 in 1983. After which he entered the prestigious Moscow Higher Combined Arms Command School (named after the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR, the Order of Lenin and the October Revolution), whose cadets have been called “Kremlin” for a hundred years. The school has always been one of the five most elite military universities in the USSR and Russia (*country sponsor of terrorism), respectively, the competition was huge and not everyone was accepted – for this you had to be an excellent student not only in combat, but also in political training.

An interesting nuance: in Chekita’s biography it is stated that at this school he at the same time received two civilian specialties as an engineer and an assistant-translator. However, this school never trained military linguists; its graduates received only civilian specialties as an engineer and a personnel management specialist. This raises the question, where then did Gennady Chekita study foreign languages? And also questions about why he hides where exactly he served in the Soviet army from 1987 to 1990 (after college), and why he left its ranks? By the way, in 1989, a certain Lieutenant G.L. Chekita left his mark at the Minsk Higher Military-Political School (where, by the way, there is a department of foreign languages) as a cadet platoon commander. If it is he, and not his namesake, then why did he hide this fact and falsify his biography?

It is no coincidence that there are rumors around Gennady Chekita that he is an agent of either the GRU, or the FSB, or maybe both of them, recruited back in the late 80s, and maybe even the Ministry of Internal Affairs too. What is also interesting is that similar rumors circulated about several other famous Odessa personalities: Gennady Trukhanov and the late Alexander Angert, who was called the main criminal “overseer” of Odessa (in general, there are about a dozen different “overseers” in Odessa).

And so in 1990, Gennady Chekita left the army (or was sent on a special mission?) and returned to his native Odessa – where he immediately received the position of deputy general director of the territorial-intersectoral association of the Zhovtnevoy District Council of the city of Odessa. This is where his official “work” biography begins. But it, of course, does not indicate why and to whom 24-year-old Lieutenant Chekita so successfully integrated into civilian life and over the next twenty-odd years he held leadership positions in various commercial enterprises – mainly belonging to the structures of the Pankom joint venture “(EDRPOU 14362066). Apparently, Chekita does not want to “fire” his long-time friend, ally and companion Alexey Alekseevich Kozachenko, another very famous person in Odessa.

Alexey Kozachenko

However, many Odessa residents know that Chekita and Kozachenko are inseparable, like Siamese twins. It’s not so much about their friendship and partnership, but how it started. According to Odessa sources Skelet.Infosince the late 80s, Alexey Kozachenko was directly connected with the organized crime group of Sergei Nikolaevich Ershov, known by his nickname Katsap. Moreover, they claim that Kozachenko was almost a “foreman” for Katsap, but specialized in the shadow business, in particular in non-ferrous metals. At the same time, from 1990 to 1994, Kozachenko was the general director of that same territorial-intersectoral association of the Zhovtnevo district council, and he immediately invited Gennady Chekita to be his deputy – with whom he “stirred up” shadow and criminal metal schemes. In 1994, these schemes began to be gradually legalized – and this is how the Pankom joint venture appeared, founded by Kozachenko and Chekita (and several other people from the Katsap organized crime group), and headed by friends-companions who took off their “lads’” sports jackets and put on the crimson jackets of businessmen .

And quite in time, because in the second half of the 90s a big criminal war broke out in Odessa, which began with the murder of Victor Kulivar (Karabas). During this war, the Katsap organized crime group opposed the Angert organized crime group and was defeated, Katsap himself was wounded and even left Odessa for some time. But then he returned, recognized Angert’s victory, quit his previous criminal affairs and retrained as a “respected businessman” Sergei Ershov, who holds a significant share of the shadow economy of Odessa. This was once confirmed in an interview by Alexander Presman, another Odessa businessman with a criminal past.

Gennady Chekita: details of the life of a lying Odessa swindler. PART 1

It was rumored that Kozachenko and Chekita remained associated with Sergei Ershov for quite a long time, and that he was not only their “roof”, but also had his share (through third parties) in their business – and perhaps still does. In addition, sources in Odessa claim that there is an entire Ershov family clan, to which Tatyana Nikolaevna Ershova allegedly belongs – the permanent manager of the city council (since 1994), who, by the way, started in the Zhovtnevy district! All this explains how Chekita and Kozachenko found their niche in Odessa business and maintained it all this time.

But although Ershov “submitted” to Angert, their “nukers” squabbled among themselves for a long time. So, in 2004, amid the noise of the first Maidan, “our Ukrainian” Kozachenko publicly called Trukhanov’s sports school a “forge of bandits” and him as their educator (in his sports sections, Trukhanov actually trained militants and “titushki” for Angert). In response, Trukhanov, who at that time was not yet thinking about becoming mayor, but had a reputation as “Angert’s right fist,” sued Kozachenko for “slander.” Kozachenko did not appear at any of the 6 scheduled court hearings, and in 2006 he gently apologized to Trukhanov’s Thai Boxing Federation. According to informed persons, this incident was handled at the level of Angert and Ershov!

Killer Companions

The friendship of Kozachenko and Ershov in Odessa was once again remembered in the same 2004, after a loud and resonant emergency on an all-Ukrainian scale. It’s no joke: a Ukrainian people’s deputy shot a man on the street! This deputy was precisely Aleksey Kozachenko – elected to the Rada in 2002 under the flags of the pro-Kuchma bloc “For EdU”, then defected to “Democracy”, then to the “Center”, and immediately after this emergency hid in the ranks of the opposition “Our Ukraine” “

Alexey Kozachenko

This happened on July 23, 2014, at 23.45, near Kozachenko’s house. According to its main versionhe and his wife and children were going to go to the village to visit his mother-in-law (at midnight?), Kozachenko went out into the street first, and there he was just attacked by two drunken young men waving a pistol. During the struggle, Kozachenko allegedly took away the pistol and wounded one of the attackers, previously convicted 25-year-old Alexey Zherebko, who later died.

According to the victim’s mother and human rights activists who supported her, her son and his friend walked past the car in which Kozachenko was sitting, asked him for a light – and were “sent” in response. A skirmish began, Kozachenko remembered his dashing youth and got out of the car to give the impudents a hard time, but it turned out that they knocked him on the head. Then Kozachenko locked himself in the car, took out a TT pistol and began shooting through the glass at the offenders. Kozachenko’s security guards responded to the noise and either beat the wounded Zherebko to death, or finished him off with a second shot, and then dragged the body about a hundred meters in the direction of the park (but then the police arrived).

Later it became known that Kozachenko changed his testimony several times. He initially told police that he used his own gun in self-defense.taking it out of his purse after the attackers knocked him to the ground. But when he woke up and remembered that illegal possession of a pistol is also a crime, and even more so after it turned out that this pistol was “hot” and was wanted, Kozachenko agreed with the police and rewrote the protocol – and the ill-fated TT had already become the weapon of insane attackers . Moreover, Kozachenko publicly voiced his second version at a specially assembled press conference, and also called it political reprisal against an honest deputy!

But the Odessa newspaper “Evening City” in issue No. 7 for 2004 reported that this TT was given to Kozakov by his friend Sergei Ershov! Later, information appeared that Alexey Kozachenko is generally a big fan of weapons and keeps a whole registered arsenal at home (9 pistols and carbines) plus a certain number of illegal guns.

The case of Kozachenko, nicknamed “the second Lozinsky,” lasted more than seven years! When, back in 2006, it became clear that the case was stuck, and its materials were being stolen and replaced, public activists staged numerous pickets, and the mother of the murdered man addressed a letter to Viktor Yushchenko – both as the president and as the leader of Our Ukraine, the head of the Odessa organization of which Kozachenko was. But all this was in vain: attempts to achieve justice were made until 2011, and then the Kozachenko case was somehow forgotten. However, murder has no statute of limitations, and this case can be revived today. Which, however, is also very doubtful, given that Kozachenko’s friend and companion Gennady Chekita is today a member of the pro-presidential faction “Petro Poroshenko Bloc”.

But the grave sin of murder also lies on the soul of Genady Chekita! This happened on November 5, 2013 in Odessa, on the Nikolaevskaya road in the area of ​​the Odessacabel plant: a Bentley car rushing at top speed hit 23-year-old Evgeniy Burdeyny, who was running across the roadway, and killed him. As can be seen from the video, both sides of the accident were at fault, but the driver of the car was more at fault – after all, if he had not been flying in the oncoming lane, avoiding a traffic jam, the guy would have remained unharmed.

Odessa residents immediately recognized the Bentley by its license plate VN 0017 OR. It was then that Gennady Chekita was driving around the city, not really following the traffic rules: he drove as fast as he liked, parked where he wanted, drove into oncoming traffic, cut off – in general, he behaved like a crazy gentleman. Well, I got there. However, in the very first minute of the accident, the Bentley driver hastily left the scene of the tragedy, and another decoy got behind the wheel in his place. High-ranking traffic police officers arrived at the scene of the accident, the necessary protocols were concocted (according to the ORD website, this cost Chekita a million dollars) and soon the official version from the Ministry of Internal Affairs appeared, which read as follows: the car was driven by an employee of the elite Oscar car dealership, who owned the Bentley. has been identified for sale. Two days later, this employee was released on bail of 91 thousand hryvnia.

The same Bentley

Journalists began their own investigation and found out that this car is registered to the mother of Gennady Chekita – who, due to her age (77 years old at the time of the accident), of course, does not drive it. He himself has a power of attorney to use this car. But Gennady Chekita answered the journalists’ questions briefly and sharply: the car never belonged to me personally, I have nothing to do with the accident! The case was closed “tightly”, and soon both Odessa and the whole of Ukraine had no time for it, since the second Maidan began.

Political jumper and international mafia

Gennady Chekita’s path to the “Petro Poroshenko Bloc” was long and winding, and in politics for a long time he followed in the footsteps of his companion Alexey Kozachenko: where he goes, so goes Chekita. Although, in principle, Chekita’s deputyship in the Zhovtnevo District Council (1994-1998) and the Odessa Regional Council (2002-2006) could not be called political stages – there he positioned himself as a “business executive”, but he received a mandate to make it easier to do business. Chekita became closely involved in political intrigues while being a deputy of the Odessa City Council (2006-2009). Then his business partner Kozachenko (people’s deputy, member of the political council of “Our Ukraine”) created the “Our Ukraine” faction in the city council, where he gathered his business partners, managers and long-time acquaintances from the 90s: Andrey Golubov, Vladimir Kompaniets, Vera Markova, Dmitry Tantsyura, Sergei Mastyuga and others. The faction was headed by Tantsyura, Chekita became his right hand, but the main mouthpiece of the faction was Anatoly Balinov, director and co-owner of the Grad shopping mall.

Anatoly Balinov

Balinov himself is also that “flyer”: at first he was a supporter of Eduard Gurvits, but then he quarreled with him and moved to Kozachenko’s group – who also then quarreled with the mayor of Odessa. It was difficult to say which of them initiated the conflict, because Hurwitz had a habit of breaking with his former sponsors and starting wars with them. So, in particular, in the 90s, he broke with Karabas, and then with Angert, calling other Odessa organized crime groups (including Katsap) to help him, and then relying on the Chechens and Kyiv organized crime groups (this is how Presman and Ubiria).

It is interesting that in 2014 Balinov headed the “Trust in Deeds” faction in the Odessa City Council, which became the support of Gennady Trukhanov. As part of this faction, which consisted mainly of former members of the Party of Regions, one could also see Dmitry Tantsyura, Kozachenko’s trusted man. So, no matter how members of different organized crime groups quarrel with each other, after becoming members of different parties, they can always agree on business!

And here’s another interesting fact: Balinov’s business partner in Grad is Tatyana Shpaltakova, who owns 51% of the shares. And Shpaltakova is known for the fact that she is also a partner of Gennady Chekita and Alexey Kozachenko in a number of enterprises: Odesgrazhdanproekt, Leg-Trans LLC, Stroygidravlika OJSC, Pankom-Met JV, etc.

The fact that Kozachenko and Chekita turned the Our Ukraine faction into an anti-Gurvitsev camp, as well as loud accusations of murder against Kozachenko, did not escape the attention of the honorary leader of the party, Viktor Yushchenko. When the Odessa Opera House opened after reconstruction in September 2007, Kozachenko bought himself a seat in the front row near the aisle – in anticipation of the president’s visit. Eyewitnesses said that Yushchenko, going up on stage and shaking hands, demonstratively “did not notice” Kozachenko, who was “licking” him with a dog’s gaze and nervously twitching his sweaty palm. But Yushchenko did not want to dirty his hand with the person at the center of such scandals. Kozachenko then remained in the ranks of Our Ukraine only because of his close ties with Nikolai Katerenchuk and Roman Bessmertny. By the way, today Kozachenko is financing the election campaign of Bessmertny (he himself admitted this), who is also running for president.

Sergey Varis, for Skelet.Info

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