Golitsa Mikhail. The story of a “black realtor” from Kyiv. PART 2

CONTINUATION. START: Mikhail Golitsa. The story of a “black realtor” from Kyiv. PART 1

A little history. On Malaya Zhitomirskaya Street there is the house-estate of Alexander Murashko, an outstanding Ukrainian artist, founder of the Ukrainian Academy of Fine Arts (Malaya Zhitomirskaya Street, 14) and three architectural monuments (houses No. 12, 12a and 14a). Until the early 90s these were simple residential buildings. Then, according to the Chairman of the Kiev City Council Standing Committee on Culture and Tourism, Alexander Briginets, the Shevchenko district state administration resettled almost all the residents of these houses and transferred them to the balance of the Zhitloinvestbud-UKB communal enterprise. According to Skelet.InfoJuly 26, 2007, Mikhail Golitsa, using one seal, transferred the architectural monument to the dubious company Pantheon-invest LLC, created literally a few months before the deal. The authorized capital of the office was up to 50 thousand hryvnia – exactly the cost of 1 sq.m. housing in the area at that time. The wording of the transfer was as follows: “for the reconstruction and construction, operation and maintenance of an administrative, hotel and residential complex with built-in and attached public and commercial premises and parking lots.”

It’s worth making a reservation here: according to the law “On Local Self-Government”, decisions on the transfer of communal property are made exclusively at plenary meetings of the Kyiv City Council. Even the mayor does not have such a right, but Golitsa, the head of the main housing department of the city executive committee of the Kyiv City State Administration, has endowed himself with such powers.

Mikhail Nikolaevich personally signed an investment agreement on the transfer of the land plot on which all these houses were located with 24-year-old Alla Bliznyuk, director of Pantheon-invest LLC. And after 4 days, another document appeared – an additional agreement to the investment agreement, where the housing department of the city executive committee transferred to the balance sheet of Pantheon-invest from the balance sheet of Zhilinveststroy-UKB, and all the specified houses. Thus, the office received the right to register ownership (!) of all these houses. Let us note that the second document was still not a sufficient basis for the appropriation of the land by Pantheon-Invest. And Golitsa, as a lawyer, understood this well. Therefore, a year later he signs the third document – an order from the Main Directorate of Housing to issue certificates of ownership of residential (!) houses to the investor “Pantheon-invest”.

And this despite the fact that people lived in the house. But even here Mikhail Golitsa did not miss his goal. When the houses became the property of Pantheon-Invest, the Main Directorate of Housing Services resettled their residents into municipal apartments owned by the city. Moreover, people were obliged to compensate Kyiv for the costs of resettlement. Of course, at market prices. Let’s not even imagine how much Mikhail Golitsa put into his pocket after this deal.

By the way, for a long time the prosecutor’s office could not decide who abused their official position when transferring communal buildings to the company’s ownership! Although there was an obvious clue – Mikhail Nikolaevich’s signature on the Investment Agreement and the order to issue a certificate of ownership. But this was not enough and the investigation dragged on.

The case of the “House of Alexander Murashko” went to the courts thanks to the indigenous residents who did not move out and declared war on the newly-made owners of the land. However, while the trials were ongoing, Pantheon-invest managed to resell the houses to another commercial structure – Vestiga LLC. The process dragged on – only in 2011, the Kiev Economic Court of Appeal declared the investment agreement between Golitsa and Pentheon-Invest invalid from the moment of signing.

And let’s move on to the most interesting – the companies “Pantheon-invest” and “Vestiga”. The founders of Pantheon-invest are CJSC Yurfininvest and CJSC Yurbudproekt. Both of these companies are close to Vyacheslav Suprunenko, the ex-son-in-law of Leonid Chernovetsky, and to each other. They have the same registration date and the same address. The founders of Vestig were Alexey Anatolyevich Isaev and Fenoris-Group LLC (now Fenoris-Holding). The director and founder of Fenoris is Maxim Mosunov, the brother of Yuri Mosunov, a former candidate for deputy from the Chernovetsky Bloc. The Mosunov brothers are permanent business partners of Alexander Suprunenko.

According to conservative estimates, as a result of this illegal transaction, the city suffered property damage amounting to at least $4.6 million at the then exchange rate.

The story of “Murashko’s House” is the most revealing. This is a classic scheme of black realtors only on a particularly large scale. An unknown company, at the instigation of a high-ranking official, receives houses and land, and then quickly resells them. It is impossible to prove anything or find the guilty.

“Zhitloinvestbud” also made great money from tenders. In 2008, the company published its tenders – orders amounted to 3.047 billion hryvnia.

An indicative point: a third of the funds – 1.018 billion hryvnia – went to two companies – KZhBK LLC of a certain Victor Puziychuk and its subsidiary Azur Group LLC. The secret lies in Golitsa’s connections. Viktor Puziychuk has a son, Vitaly Puziychuk.

His company PAT “Fundament” was allegedly raided in 2008. To protect themselves from takeover, the team and the board sold shares to friendly investors, and the supervisory board was headed by Vyacheslav Nepop. A year later, the bulk of the shares were bought by Mikhail Golitsa. And then it became more interesting – people close to Nepop and Golitsa began to manage the company. For example, the head of the administrative and personnel department of Zhitloinvestbud, Anzhelika Kovaleva, became the owner of 23% of the shares of Fundament, another 23% of the shares were received by Viktor Shuster, a business partner in the construction company Kievbudmontazh of Nikolai Negrich, the same as Golitsa’s son-in-law.

Speaking in numbers, in the period from 2002 to 2016 (after Golitsa left, the business continued to live), the Zhitloinvestbud-UKB enterprise put into operation 2.3 million sq.m. using contractors. housing, having built 180 residential buildings, plus 4 schools and 8 kindergartens, as well as a tram depot in Troeshchyna, 22 parking lots and 22 office and entertainment facilities. Zhitloinvestbud-UKB accounted for 15% of the total volume of housing built over the years in Kyiv by all developers. Billions and billions of hryvnias have passed through the company of Golitsa and Nepop over 14 years…

In 2010, Mikhail Golitsa was forced out of his chair, but in return he received management of the Kievgorstroy holding, and Nepop’s enterprise Zhitloinvestbud-UKB remained an important component of their schemes for cutting up Kyiv real estate and the budget.

The story of “Kievgorstroy”

On October 5, 2010, at a meeting of shareholders, the owners of 80% of the shares of Kievgorstroy changed the composition of the supervisory board and the board of the company. The new composition of the National Assembly included Yegor Rusin, Anton Pukos and Vladimir Polyachenko. At the same time, the shareholders recalled the entire board of the holding and elected Mikhail Golitsa as head of the board. Members of the board of JSC Holding Company “Kievgorstroy” and the president of the company were not allowed to attend the meeting.

The next day after his appointment, Mikhail Nikolaevich turned to the Khreschatyk newspaper with a request to publish information about the loss of the seal of the utility company. And rightly so: “what happened before me does not count.” A new seal was made for Golitsa, and he began to work.

Managing a utility company and remaining in the shadows at Zhitloinvestbud-UKB, Mikhail Golitsa comes up with another way to make money in construction, or more precisely, in the sale of apartments.

A logical question arises here: how can a construction company make money on residential and non-residential real estate – after all, the company evaluates the cost of apartments in houses, builds, puts up for sale, sells and receives money into its account? Everything is pretty transparent. But no! Construction companies offer apartments for sale at reduced prices. However, not everyone can buy such living space. Apartments are intended for specific buyers – often private companies that purchase apartments under “Preliminary agreements for the purchase and sale of apartments” (Kievgorstroy scheme) or “Agreements for the sale and purchase of property rights” (KP Zhitloinvestbud-UKB scheme). Dozens and hundreds of apartments are sold wholesale – elite, with panoramic views, good layout, i.e. those that are really in demand in the real estate market. But the caveat is that private purchasing firms do not pay municipal construction companies. After concluding the above agreements, buyers transfer the apartments for sale to real estate agencies, which put them up for sale. Thanks to this laughter, the cost of the apartment increases by 10-30% of the original price – and becomes what is called the market price. When there is a buyer for the living space, a tripartite “Agreement on Assignment of the Right of Claim” is concluded. Based on it, the buyer pays 80-90% of the cost of the apartment to the construction company, in this case, Kievgorstroy and Zhitloinvestbud-UKB, 10-20% to the buyer, 2% commission to the real estate agency. Thus, the capital’s treasury loses 10-20% of the price of the apartment, and the buyers, who often turn out to be “lay-out” companies headed by managers of the Kyiv City State Administration, earn 10-20%. Under Golits, the fraudulent scheme reached its apogee – about 80% of apartments in Kyiv were put up for sale through “layouts” and real estate agencies. Just imagine the scale of the losses of the Kyiv budget and the amounts that ended up in the pockets of officials?

Another interesting story was connected with Kievgorstroy and house-building plant No. 3, 56% of the shares of which belonged to the utility holding. After 2 years of managing Kievgorstroy, Golitsa still owned only 30% of the plant’s shares. Then the controlling stake in the plant was finally withdrawn from communal ownership in favor of the Puziichuks and SG “Fundament”. According to the court registry, the new shareholder was the Cypriot company Roycap Trading Limited.

Also Skelet.Info there is information that Mikhail Golitsa participated in corruption schemes for the alienation of the property of “Kievgorstoya” by the ex-chief of the administration of President Viktor Yanukovych Sergei Levochkin and the ex-chief of the State Administration of Affairs Andrey Kravets (the main “supply manager” of the Mezhyhirya Tsar). To do this, they resorted to various scams. For example, subsidiaries Medstroy and Ekos were bankrupted in order to take possession of their buildings and land plots. Then they were handed over absolutely free of charge for operation by First Ukrainian Expert Center LLC. At the same time, the operating costs of PJSC “HC Kievgorstroy” increased by 5-10 times. This once again confirms the classic form of money laundering. These actions led to the fact that, shortly before its 60th anniversary, Kievgorstoy found itself on the verge of bankruptcy, and its investors faced a real threat of being left without the housing they had paid for.

Big politics

In 2012, Mikhail Golitsa announced that he intended to participate in the elections to the Verkhovna Rada in a majoritarian district. Everyone immediately assumed that the Chernihiv region would be chosen. And they were not mistaken.

Mikhail Nikolaevich ran as a candidate from the Party of Regions in the 208th district. His main competitor was the scandalous Oleg Lyashko. Opponents have butted heads more than once. Lyashko accused Golitsa of planning to kidnap his 9-year-old daughter Vladislava. Also, during the election campaign, Oleg Lyashko had a huge row with Golitsa. It got to the point of assault: Lyashko grabbed his competitor’s propaganda newspaper and hit Mikhail Nikolaevich in the face with it.

In addition, Lyashko said that Golitsa tried to bribe him for refusing to run for deputy in his constituency.

In 2012, Mikhail Golitsa did not win. Oleg Lyashko received 53.56% of the votes, Mikhail Nikolaevich only 27.36%. After the fiasco, yesterday’s ruler of Kyiv real estate spent almost two years as a Kivrada deputy from the People’s Party.

After Yanukovych was overthrown, Ukrainians expected politicians who would come to power to defend the interests of ordinary people, not just another group of oligarchs. But that was not the case. Mikhail Nikolaevich successfully went over to the side of “living in a new way” and nominated his candidacy for the long-suffering 208th constituency of the Chernigov region.

True, this time Golitsa began to act harshly. His people attacked one of the district election headquarters of the candidate for people’s deputies of Ukraine Valery Davydenko.

It is strange that the old-timer of Kiev, Golitsa, does not want to be elected to the Verkhovna Rada in one of the majority constituencies of the capital, choosing his small homeland over and over again.

Fake construction companies

Mikhail Golitsa has another source of income – the Geos construction company.

The first office appeared in 2004 in the village of Pidgaichiki. It is this company with the slogan “Geos” – builds, “Geos” – rents, “Geos” – provides people with housing – that is thriving in the construction market today. IC “Geos” has grown in a matter of years. Today the most well-known structures are: Geos-Development LLC, Geos-UKB LLC, Geos-Invest investment fund, GEOS DESIGN LLC, etc.

Officially, “Geos” is owned by Nikolai Negrich, and Mikhail Nikolaevich stubbornly refuses his brainchildren. But the facts speak for themselves: the structures are connected by the same office addresses and even business partners. There is also confirmation of Golitsa’s direct involvement in the construction company. Golitsa and Negrich are co-owners of the construction company Geos Development, which was registered in 2013.

The Golitsa-Negrich tandem works perfectly: Mikhail Nikolaevich knows how to obtain land allotment legally, and his son-in-law is an expert on illegal buildings. A family clan commits construction scams and remains unpunished.

Arina Dmitrieva, for Skelet.Info

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