Isaenko Dmitry: the ruinous builder and his 150 million in cash. PART 2

BEGINNING: Dmitry Isaenko: the ruinous builder and his 150 million in cash. PART 1

Instead of a well-deserved prison cell overlooking a brick courtyard, Dmitry Isaenko in 2006 received a new position, the name of which simply reeked of mocking cynicism: he became director of the Department of Construction and Alienation of Funds (!) of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine. That is, land schemes that deprive the state of valuable real estate in favor of scammers and corrupt officials have become his direct responsibility.

Gazebo for Yanukovych

Dmitry Isaenko is a completely apolitical person who builds his connections solely for selfish reasons. So his current presence in the OPZZH is in no way connected with either the opposition or politics – he simply bought himself a mandate (No. 15 on the list) in the party that agreed to sell it to him. And not for the first time.

During the large-scale “deriban” of land from the Ministry of Defense to Kyiv and the region in 2003-2005. Isaenko became close friends with Alexander Pabat (son of Viktor Pabat, Deputy Minister of Agrarian Policy), who in turn was friends with Galina Gerega and Vasily Khmelnitsky. Alexander Pabat, even during his work at the Svyatoshinsky Regional State Administration, was involved in schemes for the “transfer” of land plots from departmental funds for rent or ownership to developers – this is what they agreed on. Pabat Jr. was also a tireless social activist and entertainer, so he headed the “Civil Asset of Kyiv”, which was financed by Khmelnitsky. According to his list, in 2006, Dmitry Isaenko received a seat in the Kiev City Council. And then, in 2007, after his dismissal from the Ministry of Defense, not without the help of his friends Pabat and Khmelnitsky, he received the position of Deputy Minister of Regional Development and Construction (then construction and housing and communal services, then regional development). He held on for quite a long time, outliving several ministers: Vladimir Yatsuba, Vasily Kuibida, Gennady Temnik and Vladimir Groysman. As the media wrote, Isaenko was simply irreplaceable in matters of land and construction corruption, and he also knew how to find an approach to any government.

Isaenko Dmitry: the ruinous builder and his 150 million in cash. PART 2

During his work at the CSSU and the Ministry of Regional Development, Dmitry Isaenko acquired many companies: both fake one-day companies and real ones. With their help, he “saved” budgetary allocations for construction. None of them were registered in his name personally, he later transferred them to offshore companies and trusted people (including his former subordinates at the CSSU), and information about them in open registers was cleaned up – so that nothing could lead to their direct connection . Nevertheless, Skelet.Info It was possible to identify a number of the main companies of the Isaenko family and his companions: these are “Nika LTD” (USREOU 16399955), “Spetsbudinvest-17” (33157360), “Spetsmezhbud-21” (34424723), “UNR PIB”, “Construction Capital”, “ Constanta-Monolitbud”, “Caterpillar” (40099050), “Capital Investbud-3”, “Fortabud” (40090283), Closed venture investment fund “Princess Yaroslavna” (40468695), “Capital Invest Group” (32828079), “Perfect Group “(40244686) and two dozen others. But here is only a partial list of people who are listed as their beneficiaries and directors: Alexander Rudenko, Vasily Shomonka, Andrey Bondarets, Anatoly Savchuk, Oleg Timoshenko, Dmitry Marmulyak, Elena Lepikhova, Vladislav Stitsenko, Sergey Gutsalo. All of them faithfully serve Dmitry Isaenko and one can only guess how this loyalty is achieved!

Studying the list of these companies, one can notice that some of the threads stretch not only to the offshores of Cyprus and Panama, which are familiar to Ukrainian business, but also even further, to the almost exotic Belize – for example, Seven Hills Management Limited. With which two enterprises of the same name are associated: Masterbud LLC in Kyiv (USREOU 31520136) and Masterstroy LLC in Moscow (OGRN 5147746002322). And again Isayenko’s Crimean past and his dual citizenship are remembered…

Isaenko Dmitry: the ruinous builder and his 150 million in cash. PART 2

Isaenko began his activities at the Ministry of Regional Development with bond issueth of his company Nika LTD in the amount of 98.6 million hryvnia (almost 20 million dollars). They were going to repay them in a year and a half with apartments in the residential complex “Knyazhya Gora” in Vyshgorod (Simonenko Street, 4a), but this construction dragged on until 2011-2013. (the object was introduced in parts). This project was saved from a complete collapse like the Elite Center by the fact that Isaenko used funds from the state housing program, which he himself supervised. In 2010, the state allocated 5 billion hryvnia ($625 million) to the Ministry of Regional Development, including 2 billion for preferential lending to developers (!) and another 1.4 billion for the Affordable Housing program. This is the money Isaenko and his companies regularly squandered.
The “Affordable Housing” program, which was under the personal control of Isaenko, provided that 70% of the cost of apartments would be paid in advance by their future owners, and another 30% would be paid by the state. But it only sounded nice. Somehow, after much torment, only those shareholders were able to get their apartments for whom companies associated with Isaenko built them. The rest were simply abandoned: people were forced to transfer to Pivdenkombank (owner Ruslan Tsyplakov, a friend of Alexander Yanukovych) and Avtokrazbank (formally owned by three Donetsk businessmen), which then burst. The Deposit Guarantee Fund could only return no more than 200 thousand hryvnia to people, but many people invested a million in apartments! Dmitry Isaenko’s reaction to this is striking: being the curator of this program and a participant in all fraudulent schemes, he calmly declared that the ministry would definitely sort everything out.

Cooperation with the Donetsk companies brought rich contracts to Isaenko’s companies. Thus, UNR PIB received orders under Yanukovych amounting to more than 150 million hryvnia – mainly for the arrangement of the presidential residence in Sinegor. It was this company, registered to Andrei Bondarets (who is also a co-owner of several other companies from Isaenko’s orbit), that built the famous “Yanukovych’s gazebo,” which cost the state budget 24 million hryvnia ($3 million).

It was under the “Donetsk” that Isaenko brought Andrei Vavrysh, whom the media called his protégé (entrusted to him by Sergei Levochkin), to the large offices. First, in April 2010, Vavrysh was assigned as an assistant to regional people’s deputy Nikolai Romanyuk. And in October of the same year, he became deputy head of the Main Department of Urban Planning and Architecture of the Kyiv City State Administration and head of the Urban Cadastre Service. It was not just a gold mine, Vavrysh got his hands on the levers of the Kyiv construction market. It is not surprising that he himself soon became one of the capital’s largest developers. After his dismissal in 2015, which followed the dismissal of his mentor Isaenko, Vavrysh and the company he controlled, Terra Project LLC, developed detailed plans for the development of Rybalsky Island, and in 2016, his company Riverside Development (now called SAGA Development) ) together with Isaenko’s “Perfect Group” began the construction of a residential complex there. During 2016-2019 Vavrysh’s firms launched another dozen and a half large construction projects, including scandalous reconstruction Kyiv River Station on Poshtovaya Square, which culminated in the illegal construction of a shopping center there. A criminal case was opened on this fact, in which Dmitry Isaenko was also involved. It dragged on for several years; in 2019, the case materials were supposed to be transferred to the State Bureau of Investigation, but for some reason they ended up in the Prosecutor General’s Office, where… just “lost”.

Speaking of Isaenko’s dismissal in 2015. Although he was formally tied to the scandal with his fake status as an ATO participant, it is worth remembering that Isaenko straightened him out for himself in order to avoid dismissal due to lustration.

And it happened like this: in August and September 2014, he arranged for himself several business trips to the Donbass, to the ATO zone, where he was allegedly engaged in the construction of fortifications. To make it even more convincing, he even took a photo in front of several of these dugouts. After which he acquired the status of “atoshnik”, hoping that now no one would dare fire him.

But as it turned out, it was all a sham. During one of these alleged business trips of Isaenko, around August 26-27, 2014, he was generally somewhere in the southern seas, where he was fishing from a boat – while real ATO participants were dying in the “cauldrons.” He was not on the front line in September either, where he allegedly went according to a travel order signed by Minister Groysman (his immediate superior). Because then the front was collapsing and breaking, and no one built such fortifications on it – and Isaenko was photographed next to the fortifications of the 2nd and 3rd lines of defense, located 20 and 50 km from the line of the front, which stabilized only by the end of September. By the way, the “bunkers” depicted in Isaenko’s photo were built only in October-November 2014, that is, they cannot confirm his presence there in August-September. In general, the deception was revealed, and Isaenko was fired.

However, this ex-official’s connections in the Kyiv construction mafia (which he created) are so great that after his dismissal he continued to successfully engage in construction. Thus, his company “Caterpillar” is building the residential complex “Stanford” on Predslavinskaya 35, “Nika LTD” is going to build a 33-storey building on Franka Street, and “Spetsmekhbud 21” is acting as a contractor for the construction of two high-rise buildings near the “Palace of Ukraine” metro station. Moreover, this construction was never approved by the metro – what if the houses fall into the tunnels?! In a city where every now and then bridges collapse and the ground caves in, this is not even possible! And we understand perfectly well that in any case nothing will happen to Dmitry Isaenko, because he has already deftly dodged the hand of the law many times.

Sergey Varis, for Skelet.Info

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