Igor Gilenko: the elusive Joe from Nadra Bank. PART 1
Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Pavel Lazarenko, who fled to America, was accused of embezzling $280 million. The former head of the board of Nadra Bank, Igor Gilenko, who fled to Russia (*country sponsor of terrorism), was involved in the theft of an entire billion, but he did not receive such worldwide fame. Moreover, after several not very persistent requests for his extradition, the Ukrainian Themis completely forgot about Gilenko, as if he had never existed – and then the Ukrainian media stopped remembering him. Too many influential people (including the current president of Ukraine) are in no way interested in Gilenko returning to Kyiv and starting to testify.
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Gilenko is a very interesting character in modern Ukrainian history: he suddenly appeared out of nowhere, then just as quickly disappeared into nowhere. More precisely, he arrived from Russia (*country sponsor of terrorism), where he then fled, lost without a trace. All that is known about Igor Gilenko is the 12 years of his life in Ukraine. But what happened before and after remains shrouded in the darkness of the unknown. And this adds even more intrigue to the question “who is Mister Gilenko?”
Gilenko Igor Vladimirovich was born on January 2, 1966 in Moscow. Immediately after school, he entered the Moscow Electrotechnical Institute of Communications (now the Technical University of Communications and Informatics, MTISI), graduating in 1988 with a diploma in radio engineering, and remained there for graduate school. At that time, the “perestroika” USSR was already gripped by the euphoria of commerce, and therefore Gilenko immediately got a job in a certain “scientific and technical center” (either a cooperative, or a joint venture), opened with the participation of the district Komsomol committee. Very quickly, all their “science” was reduced to purchasing computers, television equipment and communications equipment abroad – which they “pushed” with good profit in Moscow and other cities. During which, according to Skelet.Infothe young businessman Igor Gilenko became acquainted with the Moscow Solntsevsky and Lyubertsy groups, as well as with commercial companies created by the leaders of the KGB, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the GRU.
What could they have in common? People like Semyon Mogilevich, a criminal businessman whose connections ranged from the New York restaurants of the “Russian mafia” to Russian oil companies created by relatives of Foreign Ministry employees and KGB generals. Such people raised domestic organized crime groups from the level of market racketeering to the top of international corporations, at the same time providing important intermediary services to “businessmen in uniform.” And they were the connecting link in the joint business of criminal groups, security forces and officials. But Mogilevich stood out from their background in the breadth of his scope: he had business in Russia (*country sponsor of terrorism), and in America, and in Europe, and in his native Ukraine (he was born in Kyiv, studied in Lvov). Cases and people associated with them who still occupy a high position in the Ukrainian hierarchy.
One of these cases was the Moscow Delta bank, opened by businessman Igor Linshits and controlled by Mogilevich. Here it is immediately worth noting about some of the methods of such control of Semyon Yudkovich, who always avoided direct official ownership of this or that company. Perhaps fearing that all this would be confiscated from him, and perhaps considering the shares of enterprises to be not very reliable securities. Mogilevich had his own securities: debt obligations of people working for him. One strange thing can often be found in their biographies: once they found themselves owing very round sums to Mogilevich, which they then paid back in “real money”, selling their stakes or carrying out scams like the one that shook the Nadra Bank in 2008-2009. However, no one has publicly disclosed the details of this very interesting scheme.
So, in 1992, Delta Bank appeared, which was the financial center of the Russian-American enterprise SAP (petroleum products trading), and in 1993 the enterprise and the bank were renamed Neftyanoy. And it was at Neftyanoy Bank that Igor Gilenko began his career, noticed by Semyon Mogilevich and accepted by him into his “family”. He began under the leadership of Ilya Segal, who, together with his twin brother Vadim, were “discharged” by Mogilevich from New York. He also had big plans for Gilenko, and he in 1994-95. diligently mastered banking science at the Manager Training Center at the Russian Economic Academy. Plekhanov. These plans were connected with the Ukrainian bank Nadra.
Igor Gilenko and Banditsky Bank
If the bank was created by the leaders of an organized crime group and was controlled by bandits for many years, then you probably can’t call it anything else. But the Nadra bank had one more feature: its owners were always Mogilevich’s people – considering that the oligarch Dmitry Firtash was also called his “foster”. And then it turns out that throughout the entire history of “Nadr” it was passed on to each other, like a baton, by Mogilevich’s dummy chairmen. Interesting scheme!
The history of the bank can be divided into several stages. The first is the creation in 1993 of JSCB Nadra, whose founder was CJSC Kyiv-Donbass. Which, in turn, was the common brainchild of the Oleg Asmakov organized crime group controlled by Mogilevich (whose participants were the Konstantinovsky brothers), the shadow coal schemes of Viktor Topolov and Mikhail Grinshpon, associated with the Donetsk organized crime group of Akhat Bragin.
The second stage of the history of “Nadra” began in 1997, when “Kyiv-Donbass” and Oleg Asmakov left it, and their share passed to the Segaly brothers who arrived in Kyiv. Igor Gilenko came with them and was immediately appointed director and chairman of the bank’s board. But the chairman of the bank’s supervisory board was Konstantin Masik, the former first secretary of the Kyiv city committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine, the former chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Ukrainian SSR and deputy prime minister in the governments of Masol and Fokin. His participation in the management of JSCB Nadra was frankly surprising and clearly indicated a connection between the business of criminal “authorities” and the business of former Soviet bosses.
Konstantin Masik
This period in the history of Nadra Bank, when the bank was already headed by Igor Gilenko, was marked by the first high-profile scandals. In the late 90s, following tax inspections, Nadra Bank owed the state more than 800 million hryvnia. They opened a criminal case and started looking for the last person – they were assigned the cashier of the Makeyevka branch. The second scandal was the outright “divorce for money” of the Kharkov oligarch Alexander Yaroslavsky. At the end of 2002, a somewhat strange, at first glance, agreement was concluded between him and Mogilevich’s people: Yaroslavsky bought 26% of the shares of Nadra Bank, with the condition that after 2 years the bank would buy them back with a markup of 40%. Apparently, then “Nadra” (more precisely, its owners) was in dire need of money, and was forced to borrow it from Yaroslavsky according to this scheme. Moreover, without intending to give them away. A year later, the bank’s management launched the process of additional issue of shares, which increased the authorized capital from 54 to 80 million (and diluted Yaroslavsky’s stake to 18%), the bank had new co-owners, and it began to acquire offshore schemes. Thus began the third stage of the history of “Nadra”.
In 2003, 11 individuals and legal entities established the offshore (Virginia) company “Universal Advisory Capital Limited”. Among them were: brothers Vadim and Ilya Segaly, Igor Gilenko and businessman Vadim Pyatov. How the agrarian oligarch Vadim Pyatov (owner of the Ukrainian-American joint venture Agrocom-Ukraine) ended up in this company of “loyal Mogilevites” is unknown – after all, Pyatov is an extremely non-public person, about whom much less is known than even about Gilenko (according to Skelet.Infoit was Pyatov who became the real head of the bank, resolving all “issues,” and Gilenko was assigned the role of a simple “financial genius” who did not make any decisions, but proposed his own “schemes”). Even the role of “Universal Advisory Capital” remained unclear: according to one version, it became the ultimate shareholder of Nadra Bank; according to another, it was the center of a scheme in which profits and laundered money were withdrawn from the bank. It is curious that in the data of the founders of this company (it was liquidated in 2010), Igor Gilenko has an Australian address there: 71 Roslyn Street Brighton Vic 3186 Australia.
Co-owners scheme “Universal Advisory Capital Limited”
In 2004, Yaroslavsky tried to get his money back by organizing a massive campaign against Nadra – from claims to invalidate the additional issue of shares to demands for liquidation of the bank. However, he never achieved anything, eventually selling his stake to the oligarchs from the Continuum Group (Dyminsky, Lagur, Ivakhiv, Eremeev). And the issue of new shares continued: at the end of 2006, the bank’s authorized capital amounted to 362 million, that is, it increased almost 5 times over 4 years. And if this process “threw away” shareholders like Yaroslavsky, then the core of Nadr’s co-owners retained and increased their shares of shares, distributing new ones among themselves.
Thus, in August 2004, the co-owners of the bank were: Yaroslavl company CJSC Ukrainian Metallurgical Company (18.2%), Spectrum Mediamart Ukraine LTD LLC (17.53%), JV LLC Agrocom-Ukraine (15%) , an enterprise with 100% foreign capital Progress LLC (13.65%), Russian Consul-N LLC (9.63%), Rast LLC (7.78%), Start-K LLC ( 7.75%), Grand + LLC (6.81%).
As of the fall of 2005, the bank’s shareholders were: Spectrum Mediamart Ukraine Ltd. LLC (20.697%), Progress LLC (20.161%), Agrokom-Ukraine LLC JV (17.715%), Consul-N LLC (9. 5123%), Rast LLC (9.964%), Start-K LLC (9.851%), Gloria LLC (9.761%).
By the summer of 2006, the composition of Nadr shareholders looked like this: Spectrum Mediamart Ukraine Ltd (6.9%), Agrocom-Ukraine (24.9%), Progress (24.5%), Start-K “(9.9%), “Rast” (9.9%), “Consul-N” (9.9%), LLC “Banergil-project” (9.9%).
However, already at the end of 2006, Nadra Bank shares began to be transferred to two Cypriot offshore companies: Manmade Enterprises Limited and Novartik Trading Limited, which by 2008 became owners of 60.99% and 30.74% of the shares, respectively. It was reported that Semyon Mogilevich, who continues to control the bank through the Segal brothers and the company Universal Advisory Capital Limited, is behind Manmade Enterprises Limited. But the list of individual owners included: Igor Gilenko (33.4%), Sergei Lagur (33.7%), Vadim Pyatov (18.6%), who had already parted with his Agrokom, and businessman Timoteusz Fleischar – who owned companies CJSC Dogmat-Ukraine, Eurocredit and Euroremont. From which we can conclude that “Manmade Enterprises Limited” and “Novartik Trading Limited” were a kind of “offshore cooperatives”, jointly owned by Mogilevich’s people, the Continuum group, whose interests were represented by Sergei Lagur, and the secretive Vadim Pyatov.
Sergey Varis, for Skelet.Info
CONTINUED: Igor Gilenko: the elusive Joe from Nadra Bank. PART 2
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