Ivan Vinnik: the life of a Kherson swindler. PART 2

CONTINUATION. BEGINNING: Ivan Vinnik: the life of a Kherson swindler. PART 1

Vinnik was in no hurry to repay his debts, instead coming up with clever combinations. Thus, he persuaded Vitmark and Erlan to repay the debt with goods (aerated concrete), but at the same time actually stole it from his own plant – to the detriment of other shareholders, to the detriment of the plant itself and its employees. Then Ivan Vinnik wanted to settle accounts with “Chumak” in the same way, but he “threw” him a second time: the aerated concrete that had already been transferred to “Chumak” (rewritten illegally), which was stored in the warehouse of the plant, suddenly… disappeared. It turned out to be a double theft – first the aerated concrete was stolen from the plant, and then it was stolen from Chumak, and all this happened in one warehouse. Vinnik argued that “third parties” were to blame for this; he even rejected all of Chumak’s claims in the Kherson courts, but the corporation later managed, through the Kiev Court of Appeal, to recognize Vinnik’s debt. True, it was no longer a million and a half dollars for the tomato paste that was never delivered to Chumak, but only a debt for stolen aerated concrete – the amount was already smaller. That is, here too Ivan Yulievich cheated Chumak, who suffered many times from him!

In 2012, Vinnik was sued in vain by his former partner Zykin – he was never able to get his 7 million back. Wage arrears at the enterprise reached 13 million hryvnia, debt to the tax office reached 90 million hryvnia! The company owes another million for electricity.

Ivan Vinnik: the life of a Kherson swindler. PART 2

However, in 2013, by decision of the Kakhovsky District Court, Vinnik was released from criminal liability for tax evasion and VAT fraud (thanks to his wife’s uncle). But it turned out to be much more difficult to deceive Alfa Bank, since it enjoyed the rights of a shareholder. Nevertheless, Vinnik tried. So, as is known Skelet.Infothe assets of the enterprise were transferred to Beton Tavrii LLC, and equipment and even office furniture to Kakhovka-Market LLC, control over which was exercised by another of Vinnik’s partners, Muscovite Dmitry Vasiliev (born 1968), who settled in Kakhovka. Previously, Vasiliev was prosecuted in Russia (*country sponsor of terrorism) for fraud, and then he was also involved in a case of extortion.

Dmitry Vasiliev

In 2013, Alfa Bank exercised its right and convened a board of shareholders, which removed Vinnik from the post of general director, appointed Nikolai Shiyan in his place, and reassigned the enterprise to the specially created Energy Product LLC. This gave rise to a long confrontation already at the physical level: Vinnik’s people defended the plant for six months, not allowing Shiyan into it, and in March 2014 they tried to recapture it. About fifty members of the Novokakhovsk “patriotic club” of Dmitry Vasiliev, who turned out to be the same lover of historical reconstruction as his fellow countryman Igor Girkin, took part in the attack. Despite the fact that in 2011-2012 this club organized car rallies “St. George’s Ribbon” and generally gravitated towards Soviet themes; immediately after the second Maidan, it changed into a club of Ukrainian patriots – which Ivan Vinnik suddenly became. He began to declare that his aerated concrete plant was “seized by Russian raiders” who are “deliberately destroying the Ukrainian economy” – emphasizing that the owner of Alfa Bank is the Russian oligarch Mikhail Fridman (of Lvov origin, by the way).

At that moment, when Vasiliev’s people tried to return the plant to Vinnik by force, the Novokakhovsky city court made a rather unexpected decision to recover 335,430,000 hryvnia from Vinnik and his companion Tkachuk in favor of Alfa Bank: this amount included loans taken and withdrawn assets , and stolen equipment. But Vinnik prepared in advance for such a denouement: he fictitiously divorced his wife back in 2009 and transferred almost all of his real estate, as well as cars and boats, to her (he drives an undeclared Audi SUV, allegedly taken by proxy). In the period 2011-2014, he transferred his business assets to foreign companies. As a result, another court decided to collect the debt… from Vinnik’s deputy salary! And although the people’s representatives receive a lot (compared to other Ukrainians), it is not difficult to calculate that by deducting 20% ​​of his salary towards the debt, Ivan Vinnik at this rate will pay off his debt in about a thousand years – that is, never! Which is exactly what he was counting on.

Vinnik’s undeclared jeep

Let us repeat that in addition to this, Vinnik still owes 35.57 million hryvnia to Privatbank. But this debt hung on his Global Concentrate, which at the beginning of 2016 was re-registered as BALESTRA LIMITED registered in London. And at the end of 2016, when the nationalization of Privatbank took place, this British company suddenly liquidated itself – after which no one reminded Vinnik about the debt to Privat. And this is not surprising, because People’s Deputy Ivan Vinnik is a member of the presidential faction “Solidarity” and is part of the government that actually wrote off this debt for him.

Ivan Vinnik. Refuge for the Scoundrel

Hiding behind the mask of a great Ukrainian patriot seemed to Vinnik such a good idea that he became seriously carried away by it. And in a fit of enthusiasm, he even uttered a lot of pseudo-patriotic nonsense into the microphone – for example, that “the Russian language is a dialect of Ukrainian.” However, the more shocking nonsense such “patriots” spout, the more “national-Svidomo” they seem to their fans – this is a kind of Golokhvastov syndrome. “Reasonable, it’s scary!”

Vinnik tried to get into the Verkhovna Rada back in 2012, when the ground was burning under his feet, and he desperately needed a deputy mandate. At that time, Vinnik received all kinds of support from UDAR, in particular from the party’s representative in the Central Election Commission, Valery Karpuntsov. When Vinnik lost the elections in the 184th majoritarian district to the regional, Karpuntsov tried for a long time to get them recognized as rigged and illegal. And then, in 2-13, Karpuntsov provided Vinnik with his deputy and legal services in the confrontation with Alfa Bank. According to sources Skelet.Infonot for thanks, but for a generous fee for himself and a contribution to the UDAR party treasury.

During the 2014 parliamentary elections, Ivan Vinnik “put pressure on buckwheat” by generously distributing food packages to the residents of Kakhovka. At the same time, workers at his former aerated concrete plant adopted a collective appeal to a number of political parties, in which they listed Vinnik’s “exploits” and urged them not to help him hide from the law behind a deputy mandate.

But the power of buckwheat won, and no one paid attention to the appeal of the labor collective: the doors of the Solidarity faction opened before Vinnik, and the head of the parliamentary committee on national defense and security, Sergei Pashinsky, appointed him secretary of this committee. And the first thing these two “studied” was that Sergei Kurchenko staged a scam with seized oil products. Not only were 80 thousand tons of confiscated fuel sold through the company “Ukrtransnefteprodukt” under shadowy schemes, but also under the guise of Kurchenko’s gasoline, smuggled fuel of dubious quality was imported and sold into Ukraine. It was reported that Tatyana Chornovol later joined the new scams of Pashinsky and Vinnik – providing them with support in the media.

Tatiana Chornovol, Sergei Pashinsky, Ivan Vinnik

It was also reported that as the secretary of the National Security Committee, Ivan Vinnik found himself a good, stable income by sending parliamentary requests to higher authorities: the Prosecutor General’s Office, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Ministry of Defense, the Security Service, the State Penitentiary Service, etc. For them he supposedly takes from 10 to 25 thousand dollarsdepending on the task at hand: stand up for someone under investigation, organize a “mask show” for someone’s business, or lobby for a profitable contract.

“Khatynka” Vinnik in Vita-Pochtovaya

These leftover incomes are quite enough to support the “khatynka” built near Kiev in Vita-Pochtovaya with an area of ​​500 square meters, erected back in 2012, when Ivan Vinnik was just planning to move to the capital. However, officially People’s Deputy Vinnik is a “beskhatchenkom” and receives a subsidy from the budget for hotel accommodation. He registered the house in Vita-Pochtovaya in the name of his mother-in-law – or rather, former mother-in-law Vera Zhmailo. In which, despite the formal divorce that took place long ago, he continues to live with his wife and daughter, and mock the narrow-minded Ukrainian justice at family dinners.

Sergey Varis, for Skelet.Info

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