Gennady Ilyin: Organized crime group of the Kyiv UMVD under the “roof” of Bankova

What could the former “brigadier” of a famous capital organized crime group and former employees of the Kyiv UBOP have in common? Not at all what you think! After all, not only did he not bear any responsibility for his criminal past, but he also created a successful joint business with those who were supposed to catch him and put him in jail in the wild 90s. But what is even more amazing is that one of the assistants of the famous bandit Solokha was once the head of security for the future president of Ukraine, and then, having become a deputy of the Kiev City Council of the “Solidarity” faction, he even headed the committee on legality and the fight against corruption! It seems that the cynicism of the current government simply knows no bounds…

Gennady Ilyin. “Brothers” and “cops”

The beginning of his life was unremarkable. Ilyin Gennady Vladimirovich was born on June 19, 1964 in Kyiv, where he studied at schools #82 and #46, graduated from the technical school of communications (now the Kiev College of Communications), then served in the army in 1983-85. But then, after demobilization, Gennady Ilyin got a job as a commodity expert at Ukoopsoyuz. At the time of the shortage of a number of goods, this was a very “privileged” job, and it also allowed him to earn good money. However, Skeleton.Info There is information that Ilyin was simply listed there, having “earnings” of a completely different nature.

The period of his life in 1985-89 is shrouded in the darkness of secrets, unknown even to the investigators of the criminal investigation department. Only fragmentary information from his old acquaintances revealed that Ilyin had already joined one of the groups of “athletes” at that time. Ilyin himself had been involved in boxing and wrestling since his youth, which he considered not only sports, but also a means of affirmation in life, but he did not achieve great success in competitions – but he proved himself well in “showdowns”. Ilyin was then often seen in the companies of businesslike young people of “wrestler’s appearance”, who looked into clothing markets and second-hand shops, clearly not with the intention of buying new sneakers. Once he was even allegedly seen standing next to the “thimbleriggers” for whom he provided security.

But in 1990, his life changed. Formally, according to his official biography, Gennady Ilyin became deputy director of the Blik cooperative. In reality, this position was the result of Ilyin joining the organized criminal group of Boris Savlokhov, known by the nickname “Solokha”, and his promotion to “foreman” – which was often taken on to work in “protected” or seized from entrepreneurs shops and workshops. Sometimes purely for show, and sometimes receiving a solid official salary there.

Boris Savlokhov, like his brothers Teimuraz and Ruslan, was involved in freestyle wrestling all his life, and even received the title of Honored Trainer first of the USSR, and then of Ukraine and the Russian Federation (*country sponsor of terrorism). Already in the late 80s, he formed an organized criminal group, the backbone of which was made up of athletes, primarily wrestlers and boxers: from unknown rankers to such famous champions as Elbrus Tedeev – who, of course, went not to “showdowns”, but to championships, and in his free time appeared in Savlokhov’s retinue. As a rule, the “fighters” of such groups had the appropriate appearance and dimensions, which made them stand out against the background of the “brigades”, which gathered all sorts of “gopota”, who were fanatics of kickboxing and Thai boxing. And Savlokhov, being the leader of the Kyiv criminal alliance “Golden Seven” (which also included the criminal authorities Avdyshev, Tkach, Kisel, Moscow, Pryshch and Fashist), combining racketeering with business, sports and social activities, was not just a public figure, but also regularly received gratitude and awards from the authorities, including President Kuchma. In many ways, this allowed him to get away with it until October 1999, when he was arrested and then convicted (and died in prison in May 2004).

Boris Savlokhov “Solokha”

Gennady Ilyin survived the years 1993-95, when Kyiv organized crime groups lost more than half of their members in “showdowns” and arrests, without any particular problems. At that time, he was already listed as the deputy director of the Imperial JSC, and his occupation was still secretly under wraps, although the organized crime groups were now under the police’s thumb. But no one ever published any incriminating criminal materials on Gennady Ilyin – however, as well as on other members of criminal groups of the 90s who closely cooperated with the authorities. Moreover, this cooperation was very mutually beneficial, and often later turned into a business partnership. Of course, the details of Gennady Ilyin’s relationship with Kyiv “operatives” and investigators at that time are unknown. However, on the Internet you can find references to the following “big people” associated with Savlokhov’s organized crime group and personally with Ilyin back in the 90s:

• Valery Geteleysince 1996 the head of the Minsk district department for combating organized crime in Kyiv, today – the head of the State Security Service of Ukraine.
• Vitaly Yaremasince 1994 deputy, since 1997 head of the criminal investigation department of the Kyiv Ministry of Internal Affairs, in 2014-2015 Prosecutor General of Ukraine.
• Alexey Savchenkoin the 90s he was the head of the department of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Kyiv, in 2011 he was the chairman of the board of Avant-Bank, since October 2014 he has been a people’s deputy of the BPP faction, and since October 2016 he has been the chairman of the Mykolaiv Regional State Administration.
• Anatoly Danilenkoin the 90s he worked as an operative in the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Kyiv, then as a department head in the Tax Administration. In 2014 he was appointed deputy to the Prosecutor General of Ukraine Vitaliy Yarema, now an entrepreneur.
• Konstantin Morguncurrently the head of the Department of Information Technology, Documentation and Logistics of the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine
• Alexey Rudenkosince 1994 an operative of the criminal investigation department of the Kyiv Ministry of Internal Affairs, since March 2014 – Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, since 2016 – Deputy Head of the National Police of Ukraine.
• Yevgeny Malinko, since 2014 the first deputy head of the Main Directorate for Combating Organized Crime, in 2015 he headed the Criminal Intelligence Department of the National Police of Ukraine.

These people are united not only by their dark past in the wild 90s, and not only by their participation in corruption scandals of the present, connected either with their left-wing income (due to their unwillingness to expose their companies), or with not entirely legal construction. The characters from this list (far from complete) are also called the “police mafia” of Kyiv, which has great connections and influence in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Prosecutor General’s Office, and even on Bankova. And not only because Valeriy Heletey was responsible for the safety of the presidential body. The fact is that long before Heletey, Petro Poroshenko was guarded by… Gennady Ilyin! But let’s not get ahead of ourselves.

Just business?

From 1997 to 2004, there is an absolute “black hole” in the biography of Gennady Ilyin: no mention at all of his occupation. Having lost his position as deputy director of Imperial JSC, he became a ghost; it would not have been surprising if he had been somewhere outside of Ukraine. However, it was during these years that his business relations with the above-mentioned individuals were established. For example, when in 2004 Gennady Ilyin suddenly re-materialized as an entrepreneur, officially engaging in legal (almost) business for the first time, his name was mentioned among the co-owners of Ferro LLC, to which the mayor Alexander Omelchenko issued a permit for the demolition and construction of the Hay Market in Kyiv.

Having looked into the available information about this company (the media have written more than once about the scandals around the Sennoy Market), you can find out that it existed, at least, since 2001. And then its owners included the former “brigadier” of the arrested Solokha Gennady Ilyin and the head of the department of the Tax Administration of Kyiv Anatoly Danilenko. Interesting information! Which can be supplemented with unconfirmed rumors that this company, like a number of others, the owners of which at that time became Ilyin and his “familiar cops”, were created with money from the cash register of the disintegrated Savlokhov organized crime group. And there was a lot of money there, considering that when other leaders of the “Golden Seven” were killed or arrested, their money and criminal business were absorbed by Solokha. And it was not for nothing that they said that “werewolves in uniform” helped Solokha deal with competitors. However, later he was also “closed”, but he allegedly died of a heart attack in the shower of the penitentiary right when Gennady Ilyin decided to officially take up entrepreneurship. Coincidence? It should be noted that when Valery Pryshchik “Pryshch”, another authority from the “Golden Seven”, was killed in 2003, the “UBOP” bank “Avant” was created with his money, co-owned by Geletey, Yarema and Savchenko.

Let’s add about the Ferro company: its co-owners were also important people from the city council, Vladimir Deinega and Igor Dzvonik (experienced occupiers of premises for shops in the center of Kyiv), and in 2002, the daughter-in-law of the Kyiv mayor, Elena Omelchenko, joined them. Not a bad company! But the business was not limited to Ferro alone. Skeleton.Info There is information that the companies “Business Invest Group”, “Prestige Invest Group”, LLC “Classic”, ChP “Liga A”, LLC “Patriot”, LLC “SK Solteko” were registered in joint ownership of the Ilyin and Danilenko families. Among their owners is the current prosecutor of the Kyiv prosecutor’s office No. 7 Nikita Ilyin (son), as well as Natalia Danilenko (wife) and Vyacheslav Danilenko (son). It seems that they have been friends with their families for a long time! And they are good friends, building up Kyiv: for example, LLC “Classic” owns a shopping center on Lviv Square, which was illegally built instead of reconstructing the fountain.

By the way, guess who helped the young lawyer Nikita Ilyin get his job? That’s right, Yarema and Danilenko! And such necessary things for a good life as three apartments in Kyiv with an area of ​​110, 168 and 258 square meters, a 2014 Toyota Camry, a Crownline 275CCR boat, a Bentley Continental GT for his beloved wife Olesya, and another 2 million in cash for a “rainy day” were, of course, given to him by his loving father. After all, Nikita Gennadievich couldn’t buy all this with his declared salary of 79 thousand hryvnia per year!

Or here’s an interesting fact: in 2007, when Vitaly Yarema headed the Kiev Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and signed all important business decisions, an old mansion on Bekhterevsky Lane 12b, from where the Special Police Department was evicted, was removed from the balance sheet of the department and then given for privatization to the firms of Ilyin and Danilenko. Later, the building was put up for sale by them “at a negotiated price.” The media also wrote that Gennady Ilyin, Ilona Yarema (daughter) and Vyacheslav Danilenko jointly own a group of premises on Pobedy Avenue 21-A.

An interesting story about the house at 10 Perova Boulevard. Yarema himself was seeking a place for it, for a project to build housing for Kyiv police officers. The house was built by the company “Avantar” of Anvar Dzhaksibergenov, who was a partner of Gennady Ilyin in OOO “Vivantek”. For the service, the company took 80% of the apartments in this house and the underground parking – places on which were then sold by the future prosecutor Nikita Ilyin. And in 2014, Yarema helped the company “Orest” win in court, the founders of which are Nikita and Evgeny Ilyin (they own the company through the offshore companies “Roteg Investments Limited” (Cyprus), “Elvan Holdings Limited” and “Bayrock Finance Limited” (Belize). And through them we smoothly come to the most interesting part!

Gennady Ilyin. Guardian of the Body

In the summer of 2015, he headed the SBU for the second time Valentin Nalyvaichenkowho was now not only engaged in Holodomor exhibitions (as in the Yushchenko era), but also at least created the appearance of fighting corruption, got into big trouble. And the whole point is that, following the trail of the ex-minister Eduard StavitskyNalyvaichenko came across the aforementioned offshore company Bayrock Finance Limited, founded by father and son Ilyin. It turned out that in 2015 its beneficiary was Leonid Kryuchkovhe is also the deputy director of Ukrinmash (a subsidiary of Ukroboronprom), and money from the BRSM-Nafta scams was transferred to its accounts. Anatoliy Danilenko, whom Nalyvaichenko decided to call for questioning, turned out to be connected with the latter. But before he could do so, he was immediately fired by President Poroshenko, and 248 votes were immediately collected in the Verkhovna Rada to approve this decision.

Many were surprised: is Anatoliy Danilenko really so dear to Petro Poroshenko, what connects them? And the connection was Gennady Ilyin, who once personally worked for Petro Oleksiyovych. This happened after the Maidan-2004, to which Gennady Ilyin, like many Kyiv and Lviv “authorities” and “brigadiers”, brought his people to keep order and support Viktor Yushchenko – whose headquarters they guarded during the election campaign. And allegedly during this, Ilyin became close to Petro Poroshenko, who shadowed the “people’s president” – and in early 2005 accepted the offer to head his security. However, Skeleton.Info knows other versions of this story. For example, that Poroshenko hired security from Ilyin’s people only in the fall of 2005, after his resignation. But the most interesting version is that Gennady Ilyin knew the father of the future president Alexey Poroshenko well since the 90s, and allegedly he entrusted Ilyin with the protection of his son several years before the first Maidan – which explains such a gap in his biography. Which of these versions is true remains unknown, because Ilyin traditionally avoids journalists, and no one has ever asked Petro Alexeyevich this question.

Gennady Ilyin: the spitting image of a bodyguard!

And it was precisely Ilyin’s close and long-standing connection with Poroshenko that explained not only the miraculous rescue of Anatoliy Danilenko from interrogation at the SBU, but also the enormous influence of the Kyiv “UBOP mafia” in the structures of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Many appointments (of the same Savchenko, Rudenko or Morgun) were explained by the fact that their candidacies were lobbied for by Gennady Ilyin before his former “body”. Of course, Petro Alekseevich made concessions for a reason. Fearing the excessive powers of the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Arsen Avakovthe last security minister of the “People’s Front”, with whom Poroshenko has rather strained relations, he is trying to place in the Ministry of Internal Affairs people who, if they cannot be relied upon, at least can be trusted. And such people are recommended to him by his former bodyguard from the criminal world of Kyiv, who has numerous connections among former corrupt “cops”.

About the closeness of Ilyin and Poroshenko This is also indicated by the fact that in the elections to the Kyiv City Council on May 25, 2014, he was number 8 on the UDAR list, but Igor Kononenkoa well-known friend and “gray cardinal” of the current president, received only 11th place there. True, Kononenko then jumped to the Verkhovna Rada, but Ilyin preferred to remain in the Kyiv City Council (having formed the “Solidarity” faction with some of the “UDAR” members), where he actually became deputy chairman of the commission on compliance with the law, law and order, and the fight against corruption. What a bitter irony!

Sergey Varis, for Skelet.info

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