Igor Mosiychuk
On September 17, the Verkhovna Rada revoked immunity and gave permission for the arrest of people’s deputy, one of the main radicals of Ukraine, Igor Mosiychuk. With the permission of parliament, Igor Vladimirovich was arrested right in the meeting room of the Verkhovna Rada. The basis for this was evidence published by the Prosecutor General of Ukraine Viktor Shokin. The video presented by Shokin incriminates Mosiychuk of receiving bribes for “resolving issues.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=1&v=R462HKNElR8
Videos incriminating Igor Mosiychuk of bribery
Igor Mosiychuk persistently claims that this evidence is falsified. According to the people’s deputy, the day before he declared Shokin guilty of missing materials in the scandalous case of the murder of Georgy Gongadze.
This is already the third arrest in the biography of the disgraced people’s deputy Mosiychuk. The first time he did not serve his term to the end, the second time too, what will happen to him this time?
Ardent nationalist
Igor Mosiychuk was born in 1972 in the city of Lubny, Poltava region. After graduating from a local school, he served in the Far East in the Soviet army. It was there that his nationalist inclinations first manifested themselves. While in the East, he created a patriotic circle for Ukrainian youth. In 1991, Igor Vladimirovich was arrested for several days for a nationalist tattoo in the form of a Trident, which he got in honor of the Act of Declaration of Independence of Ukraine.
Igor Mosiychuk
In the winter of 1996, Igor Vladimirovich was arrested for a year in Poltava for “past sins”, as being objectionable to the current government. However, after serving six months, he was released at the instigation of influential Ukrainian politicians. After his release from prison, he actively collaborated with significant figures in UNA-UNSO Valery Palchik and Andrey Grin. Immediately after the collapse of UNA-UNSO, Mosiychuk joined the Social-National Party of Ukraine (the future “Svoboda”). Towards the end of 2000, together with the current mayor of the city of Lubny, Vasily Koryak, he was involved in the publication of the newspaper “Quiet Horror,” which sharply criticized the activities of President Leonid Kuchma.
During the parliamentary elections in 2002, Igor Mosiychuk was a trusted man of People’s Deputy Vyacheslav Belous. He actively took part in protests against the policies of the current president. After the SNPU party was reformatted into the VO “Svoboda” in 2004, Igor Mosiychuk left its ranks.
In 2006, Igor Vladimirovich was wanted by the police for robbery. The detention was related to his work as the “right hand” of regional mayor Sergei Ivashchenko. It was as part of this criminal group that Mosiychuk gained excellent experience in “resolving issues” through criminal means. His main task as Ivashchenko’s assistant was to “establish connections” with local businessmen through racketeering. By the way, it was precisely for his close ties with the Party of Regions that Mosiychuk was expelled from his temporary Ukrainian People’s Party. In retaliation for this, his fighters burned several cars of the leadership of this organization.
“Bespredelshchik” from Vasilkov
While living in Vasilkov, Igor Vladimirovich restored and headed the newspaper “Evening Vasilkov”. At the same time, together with his associates, he created the Social-National Assembly. During the local elections in 2010, he became a deputy of the Vasilkovsky City Council, heading its council for regulations and cooperation with law enforcement agencies.
In 2010, after the founding meetings of the Patriot of Ukraine party in Vasylkiv, Mosiychuk’s “fighters” began to actively operate in the city, preparing the “soil” for future elections. Their activities were financed by the then mayor of the city, Sergei Ivashchenko. In the summer of 2010, members of Igor Vladimirovich’s group, led by the leader, attacked participants in the conference of the Vasylkiv branch of “Fatherland”. The media reported that Mosiychuk’s gang was personally covered by the then head of the local police, Kuts.
The future radical rarely thought about the law at all; he simply actively prepared for the elections through pressure, intimidation, attacks and arson. Members of Mosiychuk’s organized crime group, among other things: set fire to Bohdan Korchinsky’s cars; they broke the windows in the house of local deputy Vasilkov Yuri Krakhmalnikov; attacked the Sapsan car shop of Yuri Odinets; They broke a window in the Vasylkiv office of the Front for Change with a dummy hand grenade. It is noteworthy that at the time this grenade was thrown, Sergei Biryukov was in the office.
In the subsequent mayoral elections in Vasilkov, Mosiychuk ensured an unconditional victory for his boss Sergei Ivashchenko. Most of the other candidates for the post were intimidated by his “assistants” and even despite the fact that another candidate won, the presence of Igor Vladimirovich’s organized crime group helped organize a “recount” of votes, making Sergei Ivashchenko mayor.
In 2011, after Viktor Yanukovych came to power, Igor Mosiychuk, along with other activists of the Social National Assembly and activists of the Patriot of Ukraine organization, were arrested for organizing a terrorist attack. In addition to Mosiychuk, Vitaliy Zatelepa, Sergei Bevz, Vladimir Shpara and Alexey Chernega were also arrested. It was with these arrests that the infamous “Vasilkovsky terrorists” case began.
Vasylkiv terrorists
The case caused significant resonance. Protests against political repression against nationalists began throughout Ukraine. Mosiychuk served almost 3 years in prison. During this time, he managed to participate in absentia in local elections, fighting for the post of mayor of Vasilkov. After the events on Maidan, Igor Mosiychuk contacted Oleg Lyashko’s assistants, convinced that he was a political prisoner and, probably, convinced. A year later, the Court of Appeal, under pressure from the “patrons” Yuriy Boyko and Anatoly Prisyazhnyuk (close to the Firtash-Levochkin group), dropped all charges of terrorism against him, closing the criminal proceedings due to the absence of corpus delicti.
Mosiychuk owes his successful return to the political ring to Oleg Lyashko, the leader of the Radical Party. It was according to the list of radicals that Igor Vladimirovich first entered the Kyiv City Council (in May 2014), and then the Verkhovna Rada (in October 2014).
Igor Mosiychuk in the Verkhovna Rada
It should be noted that after the start of the armed conflict in Donbass, Mosiychuk was the deputy commander of the Azov battalion for public relations. However, another deputy commander of the Azov battalion for work with personnel, Oleg Odnorozhenko, stated that neither the “notorious warrior” Oleg Lyashko nor Igor Mosiychuk had ever taken part in hostilities. According to Odnorozhenko, they came only to conduct a PR campaign against the backdrop of events in the ATO zone. One of the fighters of the Azov battalion spoke about the scandalous incident with Mosiychuk: “The unit is developing a plan for an intelligence operation. And this fat guy happily writes on Facebook: We are going on reconnaissance!” Our guys were almost caught. After all, all coordinates can be calculated using a mobile phone. This is a complete mess!
“Fighters” Igor Mosiychuk and Oleg Lyashko
By the way, he was expelled from the battalion by the deputy chairman of the DneproGa Boris Filatov (the owner of the battalion), the reason was false information disseminated by Mosiychuk on social networks, which resulted in casualties in the Azov and Shakhtersk battalions.
While in Mariupol, Igor Mosiychuk also tried to join the main corruption and smuggling schemes in the Mariupol port, but he failed, and he was forced to content himself with stealing several cars that are the property of the port.
Brawler and provocateur
Almost a year has passed since Igor Mosiychuk was elected as a people’s deputy. During this time, he truly became a “public” person, getting involved, or more precisely, getting involved in several scandals.
On July 21, Igor Mosiychuk, together with Andrei Lozov, beat the notorious showman and blogger Andrei Durnev. The video shows that the victim was kicked, punched and beaten with a cane. Later it became known that in this way Igor Vladimirovich and his associates took revenge on Durnev for provocations during the events on the Maidan.
Mosiychuk’s people beat DurnevA
On September 19, a video appeared on the Internet, which shows how Igor Mosiychuk, together with a man in a balaclava and with a machine gun, brought traffic police officers of Berdyansk, Zaporozhye region, to their knees.
Mosiychuk brings traffic policemen to their knees
On September 13, a video appeared that clearly shows Igor Mosiychuk screaming and swearing at a hospital employee, demanding that the woman explain why people with weapons were allowed into the intensive care unit. He further threatened, despite her statements, that she would now call the police.
Mosiychuk yells at a health worker
Later, the people’s deputy commented on this episode, explaining that the woman is a deputy of the Kremenets district council of the Lugansk region. According to him, she allowed machine gunners to stay in the room of Aidar fighter Andrei Stepankov. Moreover, Mosiychuk claimed that she kicked the fighter’s lawyer out of the room and allowed him to be transported to court unconscious.
Mosiychuk’s next “feat” is an appeal to Ramzan Kadyrov:
Mosiychuk shot a portrait of Kadyrov
This video was recorded by a people’s deputy immediately after the head of the Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov ordered to open a criminal case against him and several other people’s deputies of Ukraine, as well as to bring him to the Russian Federation (*country sponsor of terrorism) due to public support for the militants who were guilty of the events in Grozny.
Igor Mosiychuk behind bars
Igor Vladimirovich’s biography contains a huge number of facts that incriminate him of nationalism, provocations and illegal activities. For quite a long time he has been called a disgraced people’s deputy, however, the grounds for his arrest have appeared only now, when local elections are approaching in Ukraine. Almost every day materials appear on the Internet that discredit certain politicians; the only question that arises is: “Who did Igor Mosiychuk cross this time?”
Dmitry Samofalov, for SKELET-info