People’s deputies-marauders intend to seize the collective property of four million people. It will be about the property of the FPU, writes Argument.
Among the dozens of high-profile corruption scandals of recent days and months, the brutal story of the theft of hundreds of wagons and trucks of humanitarian aid from Western countries has almost disappeared from the radar. Robbery on a cosmic scale, committed by the leadership of the Zaporozhye Regional State Administration and their unnamed henchmen. But against the backdrop of the scandal, diligently hushed up by the authorities, a new, even more resonant, one is already brewing. It is connected with an attempt by the same authorities to plunder other multibillion-dollar assets – the property of the FPU.
Let’s talk about how these two corruption stories are connected with each other.
… On August 30, 2022, fierce battles were going on at the front. Currently, NABU, SAPO and SBU, less than 70 kilometers from the front, conducted searches (more than 20 in total) in the Zaporozhye Regional State Administration, the mayor’s office, regional-level officials and “friendly” businessmen. According to official press releases, at the height of the war, officials plundered almost all (!) Humanitarian aid that came to the city and region. And they sold it through the ATB and Silpo retail chains.
According to the investigation, over the six months of the war, officials “mastered” 389 railway cars (that’s about 10 echelons), 220 trucks and 22 sea containers with help intended for refugees and the military. Hundreds of millions of US dollars.
The publicity of “the disappearance of humanitarian aid in Ukraine from the government agency of strategic reserves of Poland was significantly facilitated by the publication of the Ukrainian Service of Polish Radio back in April. “Volunteers from Zaporozhye are asking local authorities where the humanitarian aid from Poland is,” PolskieRadio wrote. And NABU “heard“.
International scandal!
September 20 Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine created commission of inquiry – with pathos and loud statements in the media. The party in power publicly promised to name the perpetrators and make it impossible to steal humanitarian aid. But almost 5 months have passed, and in the investigation of the VSK in Zaporozhye, there are no results. The government diligently “hushed up” the scandal, as it “forgot” about loud promises to find and punish those responsible. That is, she lied.
However, it turned out that the “people’s” deputies were busy with something completely different – the second part of the name of the VSK: “… inefficient use of state property“. The commission has become a tool for attempting to raid the property of the Federation of Trade Unions of Ukraine (the property of the FPU), which unites more than 4 million workers. The goal seems to be good: to use the health resorts of the FPU and, in general, all the real estate of the trade unions suitable for living to accommodate IDPs – internally displaced persons. Therefore, it was decided to take away the houses of trade unions, educational and methodological centers, cultural centers, sanatoriums and boarding houses from the trade unions.
At first, the authorities tried to do this through the courts.
(By the way, it was through the courts that the gang of Yanukovych tried to “rip apart” all the property of the FPU. And it partially succeeded – then the trade unions lost control over 70 of their establishments. Of these, only 1 (one) was sold at half price to new owners, and the rest are abandoned , already destroyed and plundered (and earlier thousands of people worked there and millions of taxes were paid to the state every year).
When it became obvious that the courts would win the trade unions, and even the European Court of Human Rights took the side of the FPU, they decided to act more simply – to take and take away all the property, voting for it in the session hall of the parliament. That is why the VSK was created under a fictitious pretext to “investigate” the theft of “humanitarian aid” in Zaporozhye. In order to formulate claims against the Federation of Trade Unions of Ukraine within the framework of the VSK. On the basis of which later push through the “alienation” of the property of the FPU.
Meanwhile, the statistics of trade union accommodation of IDPs testify to the following: during the wartime, trade union facilities became centers of refuge for more than 150,000 refugees from the war zones, holding and providing food to about 6,000 people daily.
“Thanks to our international partners and our own funds, more than 120 million hryvnias have been financed. (3 million euros) assistance to temporarily displaced persons. Business entities of the Federation of Trade Unions of Ukraine for the needs of such persons open the doors of 14 sanatoriums, 8 tourist establishments, as well as dormitories of educational and methodological centers of trade unions, where an average of 6,000 people stay daily. So far, trade union facilities hosting internally displaced persons have not received state support.”, the letter of the Federation of Trade Unions of Ukraine to President Zelensky says.
The property of the FPU will be plundered
Let’s look at the deputies who were instructed by the leadership of the servants to justify the need to deprive the Federation of Trade Unions of Ukraine of its property – that is, the actual robbery of the FPU. (* The full list of deputies-members of the VSK is published below).
- Sergei Kozyr, “servant of the people”, the nominal chairman of the Commission (de jure) was born in Donetsk, his entire working biography is connected with this region, namely with the mining industry and Akhmetov’s DTEK. Since September 2019, he has been Deputy Chairman of the Kherson Regional State Administration for regional development, infrastructure and ecology. In January 2020, the head of the Road Service in the Kherson region Nikolay Savchenko openly accused the then Deputy Chairman of the Regional State Administration S. Kozyr in the deliberate overestimation of the cost of asphalt in estimates by half.
In February 2020 local media reportedthat Eduard Naumenko, allegedly the godfather of S. Kozyr, headed the tender committee of the Department of Construction and Infrastructure of the Kherson Regional State Administration. March 2020 became knownthat contracts for the repair of roads in the region without a tender were given to the company Local Roads of Kherson Region, which is headed by Eduard Naumenko. According to journalists, Kozyr and Naumenko are part of the informal group “Miners”, which, under the “roof” of the Regional State Administration, seems to manage the largest cash flows in the region.
Allegations of corruption did not affect Kozyr’s career in any way, and since December 2020 he has already temporarily acted as chairman of the regional state administration, and since March 2021 he has become chairman of the regional state administration. And a few months later – a people’s deputy from the “Servant of the People” in the by-elections in the Verkhovna Rada. Just against the backdrop of a scandal with an overestimation by a third of the cost of building roads across Ukraine as part of the Big Construction project. In parliament, S. Kozyr is known for the fact that at the end of 2022 voted for the scandalous urban “reform” (#5655), which implemented in the interests of developers and leveled the influence of citizens on the restoration of Ukraine.
There was no public discussion of the project. NGOs, the media and the Association of Cities of Ukraine called on people’s deputies to finalize the project. A few hours after the scandalous vote petition with a demand for a veto by the president received more than 25,000 votes. NAPC reportedthat the submitted anti-corruption remarks were not fully taken into account. S. Kozyr did not distinguish himself by any of his own legislative initiatives in parliament – he is only a submissive executor of the “party line”, that is, a “parliamentary slave”. A person who, due to the war, was deprived of his apartments in the occupied Donetsk region, does not have his own permanent place of residence and no sources of income other than a deputy’s salary, that is, he is completely dependent on his employer. - Ruslan Gorbenko, “servant of the people”, businessman from the Luhansk region, millionaire, in the past – the founder and head of the companies “Intershina UA” and “Intergum-2010”. In 2010 was elected deputy Luhansk City Council number 16 on the list of the Party of Regions as a member of the party. Website “Our money”reported that in 2015, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine bought tires for speaker Groysman on his armored Mercedes from Intershina UA, co-founded by Gorbenko’s parents
At the time, he was the director himself. It is worth noting that the tires were purchased at twice their market value. A year later the company sold to Ukrposhta tires, the cost of which was 20% higher than the market price. The politician is a defendant in several investigations where his companies are suspected of corrupt activities. The reason for this was the fact that some state-owned enterprises purchased tires at an inflated price. - Maxim Tkachenko, “servant of the people”, deputy chairman of the “Servant of the People” faction and adviser to the secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine on the reintegration and restoration of Donbass. Luganchanin, better known as a producer and organizer of the tour of the Kvartal 95 studio. Known as an emotional person who swears in parliament and makes loud statements. In November 2019 Tkachenko made a scandalous statementin which he suggested that among the authorities of the terrorists of the “L / DNR” there may be “professional people, people with common sense, honest and decent people who want peace, want the return of territories.”
In March 2021, Tkachenko actively advocated the decision of the deputies of the Servant of the People faction, who initiated a full audit of the Lugansk military-civilian administration. (The leadership of the LPGA, when it was headed by Sergey Fil (2017-2019), actually plundered state investments and humanitarian aid aimed at the reconstruction of the region).
But apart from loud statements, Maxim Tkachenko did nothing to bring the perpetrators to justice. Probably, the pathos of the Luhansk citizen went down the drain when he found out that another people’s deputy from the Luhansk region, Serhiy Shakhov, Tkachenko’s colleague in parliament from the Trust group, is famous for Serhiy Fil for the “bread” position of devices. The same Sergei Shakhov, who delegated his people’s deputy Sergei Velichny as Tkachenko’s partner to the VSK (more on him below). - Sergey Demchenko, “servant of the people”, a native of Dnepropetrovsk region. In 2013-2014, he was an assistant to the Minister of Justice Elena Lukash. In the 5th-6th convocations of the Verkhovna Rada, Sergei Demchenko worked as an assistant to the people’s deputy from the Party of Regions, Grigory Ilyashov. In 2015, he was a member of the Ukrop party, a pocket project of the famous businessman Gennady Korban.
In 2019, he was elected to the Verkhovna Rada from the Servant of the People party. In March 2020 Demchenko introduced a bill on the prohibition of rallies near court buildings. In September 2020 I took part in an international conference organized to “whiten” the reputation of the scandalous head of the Kyiv District Administrative Court, Pavel Vovk, who was sanctioned by the United States in December last year and subsequently the people’s deputies put an end to the liquidation of the OASK. - Artem Kultenko, “servant of the people”. Businessman, millionaire. According to the journalists of the Chestno Movement, his business associated with the market of MAFs in Kyive. In 2020, he became one of the initiators of the draft law from the Servant of the People, which actually officially allows indirect vote buying during the coronavirus pandemic.
He also voted for the urban planning reform (#5655), which was implemented in the interests of large developers and leveled the influence of citizens on the restoration of Ukraine. An eloquent detail: in 2016 A. Kultenko entered to the Kyiv Theological Seminary of the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate. Ex-People’s Deputy Taras Chernovol accused A. Kultenko in pro-Russian moods and in possible involvement in the agents of the FSB. - Vladlen Neklyudov, “servant of the people”, to the deputy – the prosecutor in the Dnepropetrovsk region. Chairman of the Subcommittee on the Activities of the Prosecutor’s Office of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Law Enforcement. He has been working in the prosecutor’s office since 1998. In 2015, he applied for the position of head of the prosecutor’s office No. 2 of the city of Krivoy Rog, but received low test scores – According to the test results, he took only 14th place out of 16 candidates. He had an insufficient indicator on “general abilities”.
Krivorozhan received relative popularity not as a prosecutor or people’s deputy, but as an author and performer of his own songs in the “chanson” style. The singing prosecutor creates songs in three languages, maintains a personal channel on YouTube, where he uploads his videos, and even performs at corporate parties and colleagues’ parties. As a prosecutor, he is unknown. However, he is famous for his performance for Viktor Pshonka, the former Prosecutor General during the presidency of Viktor Yanukovych. In reviews on social networks, Neklyudov is offered to seriously engage in show business, leaving the post of people’s deputy. - Galina Tretyakova, “servant of the people”, actually heads the VSK and directs it; head of the Committee on social policy and protection of the rights of veterans. More than once she was criticized for views and statements that are strikingly incompatible with the direction of social policy entrusted to her. Yes, June 2020 Tretyakova saidthat in families in need of financial assistance, children of “very poor quality” are born. And she praised the practice of sterilizing women without higher education, which was used in Singapore in the 20th century. After the scandal refused resign as chairman of the committee.
The flamboyant lady said that she was “misunderstood.” But in the summer of 2021, the people’s deputy, through lawyer Victoria Zazhigaeva, filed applications for the registration of the trademarks “Poor-Quality Children” and “Quality Children”, which can be used in the areas of education, marketing, and the Internet. At present, Tretyakova’s applications have been published in the Ukrpatent Bulletin and are being registered.
G. Tretyakova during the war pushed through in the Rada bills narrowing the labor and social rights of Ukrainians. A vivid example is bill 5371 (which has already become law No. 2434-IX), which introduces the segregation of Ukrainian workers into two categories. Those who work in a team of more than 250 people or in state-owned enterprises remain protected by the norms of the current Labor Code (CLLA). And for those who work at an enterprise of up to 250 employees (and there were 93% of such enterprises before the war), labor relations are determined in an individual agreement with the employer and the Labor Code is not regulated.
Another document is Bill 3663 (already Law No. 2620-IX) on the merger of the Pension Fund with the Social Insurance Fund. Which will destroy the system of sick leave, maternity leave, recourse and other social benefits to Ukrainians, destroying the social insurance system built according to the European model and with the help of specialists from relevant international institutions. It is noteworthy that last year the State Duma of Russia adopted a similar bill.
Interestingly, both documents entered into force on January 1, 2023. She is a consistent advocate for the introduction of a mandatory funded pension system. Why is the lady so lobbying for the most endowment insurance, and even seemingly accidentally synchronizes its “reform” with Russian legislation? Perhaps we will find the answer to this question in her long-standing ties with Russian “insurers”. So, in 2006, G. Tretyakova launched her own insurance project called “Reliable Life”.
But a few months later she sold it to the Russian insurance group RESO (Russian-European Insurance Company), which thus was able to enter the Ukrainian market. The amount she received was not disclosed. After the sale, Reliable Life was renamed into CJSC PROSTO-Insurance. Life and Retirement”, while Tretyakova remained its CEO, assuring Russian investors that the company would be able to capture up to 15% of the Ukrainian insurance market./
Interestingly, the largest shareholder of PRO100 Delta LLC, founded in 2008, in which Tretyakova officially owned until 2019 (then rewriting it to a trustee), is the Russian oligarch Sergey Sarkisov, the founder of the RESO group and a member of the board of the Russian Union . auto insurers.
By 2009, PROSTO-Insurance was doing well, but in the wake of the crisis, the figures fell significantly.
And Tretyakova, without waiting for the closure of the company (which happened in 2012), hastened to leave it. But the links remain. - Pavel Frolov, “servant of the people”, a native of Krivoy Rog, a member of the Budget Committee. Prior to election – 20 years of work in third-rate positions in state institutions. He carefully hides the details of his political biography, which is closely associated with the now banned Socialist Party of Ukraine (SPU) – a structure formed by the special services of the Russian Federation (FSB and GRU) for the installation of their agents in the Verkhovna Rada and the executive structures of the Ukrainian authorities.
Yes, Russian speaking Pavel Frolov was a full-time (on a salary) assistant-consultant to such odious people’s deputies from the SPU as a teacher of the history of the CPSU Leonid Mordovets and an FSB agent, and now a citizen of the Russian Federation, Nikolai Rudkovsky. The confidence of senior socialist comrades in Pavel Frolov was such that he later became deputy head of the secretariat of the SPU parliamentary faction – that is, a full-time employee of the Verkhovna Rada apparatus.
By the way, there, in the Administration of the Administration of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, today works and his wife Frolova Tatyana Leonidovna. “Family contract”. P. Frolov’s stay at the VSK is not accidental: Pavel Valerievich at one time was also a consultant in the secretariat of the Special Control Commission on Privatization. And this experience can come in handy if it comes to the “deriban” of trade union property. - Alexander Yurchenko, the owner of two dubious diplomas of higher education, entered the Rada as an unemployed person, from the party “servant of the people”, now – the deputy group “Restoration of Ukraine”. In September 2020, Yurchenko was expelled from the Servant of the People faction. Chairman of the subcommittee on household waste management. In the summer of 2020, NABU launched an investigation into an organized group whose members receive bribes for using the powers of people’s deputies.
As a result of the special operation, Alexander Yurchenko, an unofficial assistant, was exposed on a bribe; he took the first tranche of funds in the amount of $13,000 out of the planned amount of $200,000, which were to be used to bribe people’s deputies – members of the Energy Committee. According to the NABU, evidence was also collected to notify Yurchenko himself of suspicion of committing crimes under Art. 368 of the Criminal Code and part 4 of Art. 27, part 4 of Art. 369 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. On September 15, Prosecutor General Venediktova publicly refused to declare suspicion to the deputy. On the same day, NABU published covert video between People’s Deputy Yurchenko, mediator and detective. In addition to money, the video recorded Yurchenko’s demand to get a 3% stake in the future plant, which, according to the law enforcement legend, should have been built in Ukraine.
The case is being considered by the VACS. On July 8, 2021, Yurchenko got into an accident in Lviv: in a Mustang car, he was reversing from a paid parking lot in the city center, hitting a parked car. Yurchenko beat the driver of the injured car, after which he tried to escape from the scene of the accident, but he was detained by patrol police.
They suspected that Yurchenko was intoxicated. Yurchenko’s medical examination confirmed that that he used drugsAnd. The national police opened two criminal proceedings against Yurchenko after the accident – but the results of these investigations are unknown. - Sergei Velmozhny, a native of the Lugansk region, a member of the Committee on Transport and Infrastructure and the deputy group “Trust”. In the past, he was an assistant-consultant to the People’s Deputy Sergei Shakhov, his confidant and personal lawyer. According to the media, bribed voters. In particular, in May-June 2019, volunteers of the Luhansk Regional Charitable Foundation “Lugansk Oblast is Our Land” provided residents of the city of Rubizhne, Luhansk Oblast, with sacks of sugar with a volume of 5 kilograms with campaigning for the self-nominated candidate and candidate from the Our Land party S. Velmozhny. The nobleman in the slang of people’s deputies BP is the “horse of Shakhov.”
- Yuri Pavlenko, a member of the “Platform for Life and Peace” parliamentary group, and before that – a member of the pro-Russian faction of the Opposition Platform for Life. Better known as the son of the attendant Yushchenko, who, having thanked his father, brought him into big politics. In fact, Yury Pavlenko, an activist of an undercover organization created with the assistance of FSB RF The Christian Democratic Party of Ukraine (KhGPU) was “installed” in Viktor Yushchenko’s inner circle.
Who, having become president, naively promoted the “young and promising” Yuri Pavlenko through the ranks of power – up to the Minister for Family Affairs, Youth and Sports. With the coming to power of another Russian intelligence formation – the Party of Regions, Yu. Pavlenko became a deputy of the Rada and from this structure, in which he pursued a pro-Russian policy.
Interestingly, it was precisely for the management of the country’s assets of the Party of Regions that the gangster “wing” of this structure attempted to take away their property from the Trade Unions of Ukraine in a rude way – up to threats of physical reprisals against the leaders of the FPU. Today, “repainted” as a “platform for life and peace,” Pavlenko is involved by the authorities in a dirty business, which at one time was not possible for his pro-Russian masters to pull off.
In August 2020, he became one of the initiators representation to the Constitutional Court on the compliance of a number of provisions of anti-corruption legislation with the Constitution. On October 28, the CCU published a scandalous decision, according to which liability is canceled for false declaration and the electronic declaration itself. Due to the decision of the CCU all false declaration cases must be closed. He was a defendant in the anti-corruption investigation. Pavlenko card voted in the Verkhovna Rada when he was in Zhytomyr. In general, Yu. Pavlenko known for, which was the “owner of the cards” of the factions of the Party of Regions, later – its clone “Opposition Bloc”, even later – the Opposition Platform for Life. That is, he ensured the falsification of personal voting within the walls of the Rada – in violation of the Constitution.
FPU property. Summing up:
- people’s deputies Sergei Kozyr, Ruslan Gorbenko, Sergei Demchenko, Pavel Frolov, Alexander Yurchenko, Sergei Velmozhny, Yuriy Pavlenko – evidently accused of corruption (7 out of 11 members of the VSK);
- People’s deputies Sergei Demchenko, Artem Kultenko, Pavel Frolov, Sergei Velmozhny, Yuri Pavlenko – worked for Russian structures or are still cooperating with them. But they were/involved in anti-Ukrainian activities (5 out of 11 MPs).
Based on the foregoing, we can conclude that the VSK, in investigating the theft of “humanitarian aid” by echelons and the “deriban” of trade union property, was also “knocked together” from controlled slave deputies. for the expected result.
In addition, there is a conflict of interest: for example, the deputies of the VSK S. Kozyr, R. Gorbenko and M. Tkachenko after the event in the VSK created NGO “VPO Ukraine”which will provide humanitarian assistance to internally displaced persons, will deal with their employment and help looking for housing about which they are hyped in the media and social networks.
That is, this trinity is engaged and directly interested in trade union property. But according to the Law on the VSK, a deputy cannot be a member of the VSK if he has a conflict of interest on the issues of investigation or was a participant in the events considered by the commission (clauses 6.7. Art. 7 of the Law of Ukraine “On Temporary Investigative Commissions and Temporary Special Commissions of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine”).
That is, everything – without exception! – members of this VSK have a corrupt and low moral background. And some are criminal cases. There are also apparently professionally unfit, just random people. To do this, they are easy to manipulate and dictate what and how to vote. That is why this commission did not bother – and there was no such goal! – to identify those responsible for the theft of hundreds of wagons and trucks of humanitarian aid to the West, at least not a word about this in the stingy public enlightenment of the work of the Commission.
If this VSK really had the goal of investigating the large-scale embezzlement of humanitarian aid from the West to Ukraine, then it would be logical to have in its ranks representatives of at least all regions of Ukraine that were most and directly affected by the hostilities. And where most of the humanitarian aid was directed. As well as those regions where the concentration of IDPs is the highest in Ukraine, and where the distribution of humanitarian aid is carried out in large volumes. But no – there are representatives of the Luhansk region (almost completely occupied and where “humanitarian aid is simply not needed”), Dnipropetrovsk region and Kyiv (where local authorities, even without the Office of the President, the Rada and the Cabinet of Ministers, tightly control the distribution of humanitarian aid) are in the VSK.
That is, even when the VSK was formed, its members faced a completely different task. And this is confirmed by the fact that the VSK met 16 times, but the “humanitarians” did not publicly talk about the theft – they only discussed how to take property from trade unions allegedly in need of migrants. Although the migrants have already been living there for so long – in the sanatoriums and dispensaries of the FPU!
And instead of sorting out the high-profile international scandal, it is these deputies, under the de facto leadership of Galina Tretyakova, who, under the guise of war, solve selfish issues that are not even their own – their political bosses and steal the property of the FPU. And thus destroy the rating of Ukraine and President Volodymyr Zelensky in the world.
And while the President of Ukraine blushes in front of Western partners for the stolen goods, and a handful of deputies violently imitates the fight against corruption. . However, according to paragraph 3 of article 3 of the Law of Ukraine “On temporary investigation commissions and temporary special commissions of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine”, the Verkhovna Rada must hear the report of the VSK no later than 6 months from the beginning of its formation – that is, no later than March 20.
We are waiting and watching.
It will be strange if dishonest officials of all levels are guilty of embezzlement of “humanitarian aid” … why trade unions.
* List of VSK members
Parliamentary faction of the Servant of the People party
1. Kozyr Sergey Vyacheslavovich
2. Gorbenko Ruslan Alexandrovich
3. Tkachenko Maxim Nikolaevich
4. Demchenko Sergey Alekseevich
5. Kultenko Artem Valerievich
6. Neklyudov Vladlen Mikhailovich
7. Tretyakova Galina Nikolaevna
8. Frolov Pavel Valerievich
Deputy group “Restoration of Ukraine”
9. Yurchenko Alexander Nikolaevich
Deputy group “Trust”
10. Noble Sergey Anatolyevich
Deputy group “Platform for Life and Peace”
11. Pavlenko Yuri Alekseevich
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Georgy Semenets, translation Skeleton.Info