How did Konstantin Gaevsky build his “medical suckers” and why were the criminal cases closed against him?
Back in 2019, the Prosecutor General’s Office bravely reported that a large-scale scheme of theft of money on the supply of medical equipment was uncovered, the main person involved in which was Konstantin Stanislavovich Gaevsky, who is the only supplier of Toshiba medical equipment to Ukraine, writes Anticorrosive.
The essence of the scheme reduced to the fact that “during the implementation of interventional angiographic systems, Inmed Ukraine LLC unreasonably overestimated the margin for this product, which caused damage to the state in the amount of more than 6 million hryvnias.” And so on – the prosecutor’s office threatened with punishment, a criminal case was opened. But the realists cynically predicted that as soon as the noise in the press subsided, the case would be closed – they knew perfectly well who Konstantin Gaevsky was and his ability to work with all authorities.
In addition, the now fugitive MP Derkach openly stated that “Gaevsky is under the reliable“ roof ”of one of the operational units of the SBU and closely cooperates with the so-called“ looking ”curators in the medical field. One of these is Dombrovsky Alexander Rudolfovich, who is the curator in the medical field from the SBU and lobbies Gaevsky’s interests.”
Derkach, of course, is an FSB agent, but only this fact does not negate the fact that no one has refuted his words. Besides, who, if not an FSB agent, should know what was going on in the SBU, which this same FSB tightly controlled (and still controls) for many years? So don’t dismiss Derkach’s words just on the grounds that he is an enemy and a traitor.
His statement that “Gaevsky K.S. created a number of firms abroad, in Slovakia, for which he received the exclusive right to sell Toshiba equipment and continued to supply it to Ukraine through his Ukrainian companies. The sale of medical equipment was carried out through tender procedures, at clearly inflated prices. However, instead of new Toshiba devices, Gaevsky K.S. supplied Ukrainian hospitals with obsolete, used, and often unusable spare parts.”
Derkach’s words are also true that “Gaevsky’s companies appear in numerous criminal proceedings included in the Unified Register of Pre-trial Investigations in different regions of Ukraine related to the sale of medical equipment through tender procedures of the Ministry of Health and regional health departments.”
Those who said that the case would fall apart looked like they were staring into the water – the noise barely subsided a little, and Ukraine plunged into an exciting show called elections, the case against Gaevsky was quietly closed. And he quite peacefully continued to work with the new government in the same field – the supply of used equipment to hospitals in Ukraine under the guise of new.
Now the mini-empire of Konstantin Gaevsky looks like this:
All of these firms are associated with the medical field, and all are under sanctions. And this is only what is officially issued on Gaevsky. In addition to these enterprises, there are a number of firms registered as nominees.
All this does not prevent Mr. Gaevsky from cutting the budget of Ukraine in the same way as he sawed it under Poroshenko and Yanukovych, during whose period his activities flourished. It was thanks to close friendship and partnership with Raisa Bogatyreva that Konstantin Gaevsky laid the foundation of his near-medical empire, which neither Poroshenko, nor even Zelensky could move. If during the first one there were at least attempts to do something with the supply of frank medical second-hand under the guise of a new one, then during the second Gaevsky was completely forgotten.
But in this case, we are interested in the formation period of Konstantin Gaevsky, who very successfully saddled the topic of supplying equipment to the medical field and managed to crush the supply market from the Japanese company Toshiba. The fact is that the editors have at their disposal a huge (without exaggeration) array of documents that tells about Gaevsky’s companies and gaskets involved in various supply chains.
These documents would be much more useful for the investigation, if it were conducted. But as soon as these documents are leaked to us, we will carefully hint that Gaevsky’s roof, which Derkach, in particular, mentioned, “does not flow”, but, on the contrary, has been working better lately. Therefore, the “draining” of these documents into our hands is the last desperate attempt by the few remaining decent law enforcement officers to somehow influence the situation.
Konstantin Gaevsky. Formation
The first bricks in the foundation of Gaevsky’s success in the supply of medical equipment were laid by a certain Kuzma Nyamyasenko (now deceased) at the beginning of the 2000s. This is a native of the medical circles of the USSR, he had huge connections in this area. It was he who established connections with one of Gaevsky’s first firms, PrJSC UMT, which Gaevsky subsequently re-registered as Andrey Rehak, a Slovak citizen.
After Gaevsky left for Austria in 2012, it was Nyamyasenko who became the Head of the Toshiba Representative Office in Ukraine.
Tenders and cooperation with Donetsk
After Yanukovych came to power, Gaevsky took Igor Kataev as sales manager, who was personally acquainted with representatives of the “Donetsk”, among whom are the Fistal family clan, the then chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Health Protection Tatyana Bakhteyeva and Minister Raisa Bogatyryova.
It was then that there was a jump in the volume of deliveries of Gaevsky’s structures for budgetary medical institutions in Ukraine. Moreover, as you know, most of the money then went to the Donetsk region, and it was Kataev who ensured the winning of tenders for medical equipment.
Subsequently, instead of the UMT company, its actual clone was created – UMT + LLC under the leadership of a certain Vyacheslav Prikhodko, who is a pure “pound”.
In fact, the company was led by Dmitry Stepanovich Lavrenty:
He was Gaevsky’s right hand in Ukraine until about 2016-2017, when the fact that Lavrenty was doing his business behind Gaevsky’s back came out. According to people who know him, this is a very cunning and mean-spirited person who has swindled many people for money. Now he cooperates with General Electric, also working in the field of medicine.
Toshiba
One of the main topics of Konstantin Gaevsky was the Japanese company Toshiba. Gaevsky managed to head its representative office in Ukraine.
The representative office issues authorization letters to all dealers, coordinates the training of engineers abroad, monitors selling prices for medical equipment, etc. It is located at the address of the apartment owned by the mother-in-law of Konstantin Gaevsky.
Being the head of the representative office and the owner of Ukrmedtekhnika (UMT), Gaevsky closed all the pricing of all Toshiba medical equipment in Ukraine. All certification of medical equipment passed through the Representative Office and the only distributor in Ukraine – “Ukrmedtekhnika” Gaevsky.
It was impossible to import Toshiba equipment into Ukraine “in a white manner” except through UMT. In fact, all other sellers were UMT dealers, who, if they could import equipment, only after receiving registration certificates from UMT.
The matter was not limited to Ukraine – in the photo is the husband of Gaevsky’s sister, Joseph Cavanaugh, head of the Toshiba representative office in Georgia:
Cooperation with Toshiba made it possible to master another type of business – diagnostics. For this, a network of medical centers “MDC-Expert” was created, which Gaevsky now owns through the Slovak LLC “DSM Holding”:
The essence of the business is that Gaevsky could bring used medical trailers from the EU countries, which housed diagnostic equipment. These trailers were installed near district or city hospitals, and patients were sent there for examination by the doctors of these hospitals. In conditions when the hospital still has Soviet equipment, and even more often – none at all, there was no end to the clients. Having connections with Toshiba, all this equipment was bought much cheaper than officially new. The trailer paid off in two or three years.
Thus, in a few years, a whole network of medical centers “MDC Expert” was promoted, and then “Tomo-clinic”, which subsequently sat down on budget money:
At first, MDC was owned by Gaevsky himself, then the company was re-registered to the Austrian Celanor GmbH, which is Gaevsky’s family business in Austria and registered to Inessa Gaevsky.
Now Konstantin Gaevsky has the citizenship of Slovakia and a residence permit in Austria. In Slovakia, as already mentioned, his key partner is Andrej Rehak, to whom several of Gajewski’s firms are registered.
In Ukraine, the last mention of Konstantin Gaevsky and his medical business dates back to January of this year. We are talking about the transfer by its representatives of two cars and a certain amount of equipment for the needs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. No mention of any trouble with the law could be found.
PS This is only a small part of the array of documents that came into our possession. There are also the names of Gaevsky’s firms, registered as front men, and accounting documents confirming everything Derkach said about him and the media wrote.