Kredisov Vyacheslav: Doctor of Fraudulent Sciences. PART 2

BEGINNING: Vyacheslav Kredisov: Doctor of Fraudulent Sciences. PART 1

Speaking of his book “Ups and Downs”. In it, Vyacheslav Kredisov boasted of his numerous acquaintances, and placed there a photograph of himself in the friendly company of the odious Tabachnikov brothers. “People I respect very much, serious, smart, professional,” Kredisov signed under this photo. Later, in 2012, this photo surfaced before the elections, in which Kredisov ran under the banner of the “democratic opposition,” claiming that he had never had any dealings with the regionals. That is, he lied again.

Rob the army

Kredisov understood army issues at the level of his experience in military service, that is, even less than his boss Anatoly Gritsenko. But he was not interested in the military side of the ministry at all: Deputy Minister of Defense Vyacheslav Kredisov was in charge of purely economic issues: the departments of finance, construction, surplus military property and land (there was one!), as well as the housing and maintenance department of the ministry. It just makes my hair stand on end to think that all this was entrusted to a man who was just in jail for bribery, fraud and illegal transactions with state real estate!

And Vyacheslav Kredisov, like a fox released into a henhouse, launched his new “business”. First of all, he created a branch of the Central Specialized Construction Directorate of the Ministry of Defense “Ukroboronbud”, the director of which he appointed his old friend and business partner Vyacheslav Melnik. The same Miller who later in October 2010 received 8 years in prison for participating in the illegal alienation of 27 military camps and other objects of the Ministry of Defense, causing damage to the state in the amount of 101 million hryvnia. Among them: the Dnepropetrovsk military hospital, the Yalta Central Military Sanatorium, a sports complex in Odessa, military camps in the Kyiv region, Zhitomir, Lutsk, and Crimea. All this was stolen from the Ukrainian Armed Forces using fraudulent schemes and even fake documents!

In fact, the damage caused to the state, according to Skelet.Infowas much more than 101 million, since at that time many of the objects were simply “undervalued” – and yet the scammers from the “Kredisov gang” also underestimated their value when they removed them from state property.

For example, the Odessa sports complex No. 9 (at 2 Agricultural Lane), which was then returned to the state’s ownership through the courts for nine years (!), was valued at 10 million hryvnia at court hearings in 2015, and in 2017 at 65 million hryvnia – and this does not include the cost of the land itself!

In general, his scandalous story is a vivid example of Kredisov-Melnik’s fraudulent schemes. This sports complex, which includes the SKA stadium, a swimming pool, a gymnastics school, a football club building and other facilities, was built in the 60s by the hands of soldiers of the Odessa Military District on the initiative of its commander, General Babajyanyan. The sports complex was located on the territory of a military camp, so until 2006 it was on the balance of the Ministry of Defense, but was originally built for all Odessa residents, including schoolchildren. That is, Kredisov and his partner-accomplice Melnikov decided to rob not just the state, but also Odessa residents and children. This scam, like most others, was carried out through the Ministry of Defense program for the construction of housing for military personnel, which was supervised by Kredisov. In March 2006, the director of the Ukroboronstroy defense branch, Vyacheslav Melnik, and the owner of Greenkoin LLC, Evgeniy Deev, entered into an agreement. The sports complex was alienated in favor of Greencoin, so that the company would build residential buildings in its place, and transfer some of the apartments to the military (or pay monetary compensation). Initially, the entire sports complex, except for the stadium itself, was given over for development (its destruction could have caused a great public outcry), but in the end Greencoin registered ownership of it as well. At the same time, the stadium itself was later valued at 30 million hryvnia.

But no one built any apartments for anyone, nor was they in a hurry to pay monetary compensation. And in 2007, Evgeniy Deev sold the sports complex to the private enterprise “Investment Company Yug-Invest” – which was owned through “authorized persons” by his mother Vera Kalmakan. This resale was necessary so that the sports complex could not be returned to the state through invalidation of the alienation agreement (if the new owner of the facility bought it “fairly”). The fate of the sports complex and stadium could have been sad if in 2008, after the announcement of preparations for Euro 2012, the news of the stadium stolen from Ukraine had not reached the ears of Viktor Yushchenko. However, his attempt to return the sports facility “amicably” did not lead to anything – and then they began to return it through the courts, which lasted almost 9 years! Only in January 2017, the Main Military Prosecutor’s Office of Ukraine finally won all the trials.

When the details of this and other scams began to come to light, both Kredisov and his boss Gritsenko no longer headed the Ministry of Defense. In addition, Kredisov, wise from the experience of two stays in a pre-trial detention center, this time protected himself in advance. The fact is that although it was Kredisov who oversaw the issues of military construction and the sale of “excess military property”, and it was he who personally carried out all these transactions, he legally removed himself from the schemes by using the power of attorney of the Minister of Defense Gritsenko, issued in the name of the director of “Ukroboronstroy” Melnik. That is, in the end it turned out that only Melnik carried out the scams, using Gritsenko’s power of attorney. Later, Gritsenko also extricated himself from the blow, but shifted all the blame onto his deputy: declaring that he had not issued any power of attorney to anyone, that this document was a forgery (including Gritsenko’s signature), and that the author of this and other forgeries (official letters on behalf of Minister of Defense) is Vyacheslav Kredisov.

However, there was no trace of him, and Melnik had to take the rap for everyone, who eventually received 8 years of strict regime. That is, it turns out that Kredisov set up and betrayed his old army friend and first business partner. Which, according to the testimony of people who knew him, was quite consistent with his character: Melnik was not the first whom Kredisov pushed and stepped over. This was also evidenced by his ex-husband Svetlana Zorina, who said that Kredisov registered the property and lands of the Ministry of Defense to front companies in which he had his share, and then stated that these were not his companies, but Zorina’s! Let us clarify: at that time they had been divorced for a long time.

Even from the Ministry of Defense, where Gritsenko sheltered and “fattened” him, Kredisov left with a scandal. Of course, at first he was fired “quietly”, without announcing the true reasons. This happened in the spring of 2006, right at the height of the massive theft of the Ministry of Defense’s real estate according to the Kridisov-Melnik scheme. The details were not disclosed publicly, so as not to cause a resonance, but on the sidelines there was talk that Gritsenko and Kredisov had quarreled because the deputy tried to cheat his boss by not including him in the share. Later, when the details of these “alienations” surfaced, Gritsenko and Kredisov began pointing fingers at each other. And if Gritsenko accused Kredisov of forging a power of attorney, then Kredisov then accused his former benefactor of extorting bribes (more on this below). However, their mutual accusations somehow went unnoticed by the prosecutor’s office.

By the way, while working as Deputy Minister of Defense of Ukraine, Vyacheslav Kredisov also found some time to defend his thesis for a Doctor of Economic Sciences – fortunately, dad helped him again. But as evil tongues said, the regalia of Doctor of Fraudulent Sciences is more suitable for Kredisov!

Vyacheslav Kredisov. Kalushsky swindler

After his resignation from the Ministry of Defense, Vyacheslav Kredisov literally fled from Kyiv to the Ivano-Frankivsk region. According to him, this was due to his second marriage to a native of Kalush, Irina Kilko. According to other sources Skelet.InfoKredisov retired to the provinces, where his scams would have caused less resonance, and where there were still people who trusted him. That’s how he ended up in Kalush, where his friend Igor Nasalik, the future Minister of Energy of Ukraine, worked as the city mayor since 2006.

Nasalik himself was a seasoned kalach: he put on the embroidered shirt of a national patriot, headed the local organization of the Ukrainian People’s Party (and since 2006, the Ukrainian Party that broke away from it), acquired “titushki” from among the local semi-criminal elements provided to him by the criminal authorities “Beshenyi” and “Ibrahim”. Kalush residents remember him as the mayor who actively sold off the city, or rather divided it with his partners and accomplices – because Kalush received only losses and problems from this grandiose privatization of real estate. At first, Nasalik’s main partner in the acquisition of Kalush land was businessman Igor Khemich (owner of the Elite private enterprise). In particular, it was Khemich who acquired the scandalous plot on Lvovskaya Street (14 hectares) in 2007 for a quarter of its price, won all the lawsuits with the help of Nasalik, and a few years later Nasalik’s son became the main owner of this land.

And then another great strategist of land scams appeared in Kalush – Vyacheslav Kredisov, with his young wife Irina Kilko. In 2010, Kredisov and the mayor’s brother Sergei Nasalik created Vidrodzhennya-2011 LLC, whose director was Irina Kilko, where at first their shares were equal. But in 2015, the composition of the founders was re-registered: 90% of the company began to belong to Kredisov, 5% each to Sergei Nasalik and Irina Kilko. In 2016, “Vidrodzhennya-2011” was re-registered again, and now only Kredisov and Kilko remain its owners.

“Vidrodzhennia-2011” was actively involved in the “arrangement” of Kalush, doing the same thing as Kredisov’s front companies in his scams with the alienation of the property of the Ministry of Defense. That is, it privatized or received objects under long-term ownership, promising to fulfill certain conditions. Kredisov, one might say, accomplished something. For example, Kalush school No. 3 had its own swimming pool (such a luxury could be afforded during the times of the Ukrainian SSR), which required repairs. The company “Vidrodzhennya-2011” undertook to carry out a large-scale reconstruction of the pool, and indeed fulfilled the terms of the contract, but in return received the right to lease this pool for 25 years and use it in its own interests. In essence, it was a fraud by which the school’s swimming pool was taken away and transferred to Kredisov’s company, which rebuilt it into the commercial sports club “Aquatoria”. As they say, you didn’t even have to buy a building and land – after all, a 25-year lease is more than enough to squeeze maximum profit out of Aquatoria.

The city cinema “Vidrodzhennya” was also rented. By the way, it was precisely for him that the company “Revival-2011” was created in 2010: Kredisov promised that in a year he would restore the cinema. But a year passed, and the work did not even begin, but Kredisov’s company privatized the land plot under the cinema. The parliamentary majority of the Kalush City Council, which consisted of members of the People’s Party and was controlled by Nasalik, agreed to this. But Kredisov didn’t even intend to build a new cinema there according to the agreement (only the walls remained from the old one), because it was invisible to him (the film business in Ukraine is not thriving).

And he began to play for time, periodically inviting Kalush residents to build either a shopping center or a residential building on this site – their consent was needed to revise the previously drawn up agreement. But after Igor Nasalik left for Kyiv, the resigned majority in the city council collapsed, and now Kredisov does not have the same opportunities. That is why, on the site of the promised cinema, there are still ruins that have become a hangout for antisocial individuals, and the Kalush City Council continues to this day to “seek mutual understanding” with the rogue Kredisov.

Behind the facade of these real estate scams, Vyacheslav Kredisov actively carried out political scams. To do this, he even bought himself the newspaper “Evening Ivano-Frankivsk Plus”, established the public organization “Cultural Space of the Carpathian Region”, “Kredisov Charitable Foundation”, launched the “My Native Village” program, and was photographed in Hutsul attire against the backdrop of the Carpathians. He traveled to villages, promised to build roads and gas there, gave icons to churches and sweets to children.

Kredisov contributed to the re-election of Igor Nasalik as mayor of Kalush, and he himself ran in the 2012 elections in district No. 86. There his opponent was the chairman of the regional organization of the “Civil Position” party (Gritsenko’s political force) Nikolai Ladovsky, and a loud scandal broke out between them. Kredisov stated that Ladovsky and Gritsenko were extorting 300 thousand dollars from him, blackmailing him with incriminating evidence (including photos with the Tabachniks) and other threats. At the same time, Kredisov added that even during their joint work at the Ministry of Defense, Gritsenko forced Kredisov to pay 25 thousand dollars a month (where did he get it?) to “maintain the image of the politician.” In turn, Gritsenko, who had been silent for a long time, could not resist making a public comment about Kredisov.

Vyacheslav Kredisov. Apartment Raider

At one time, the capital’s “brothers” were engaged in “squeezing out” apartments in Kyiv, with whom the young Vyacheslav Kredisov met. Years later, he also decided to get into this profitable “business,” however, not with the help of brass knuckles and nooses, but with his signature fraudulent methods. And they turned out to be much more effective, because they allowed Kredisov to seize apartments wholesale, in a new building, not only from women and old people, but even from ATO participants. We are talking about the long-suffering residential complex “Kotsyubinsky”, which for many years was rocked by scandals and lawsuits filed by Vyacheslav Kredisov and Irina Kilko (who got a job as an employee of the Association of Real Estate Specialists of Ukraine).

This residential complex began to be built in the village of Kotsyubinsky (outskirts of Kyiv) back in 2006. The first developer was the company Regional Construction Investments LLC, owned by Russian citizens Vladimir Laptev and Igor Razumeychik, and which conducted its finances first through Nadra Bank and then through Alfa Bank. The construction fund was formed from bank loans, investments from other companies and contributions from future residents (shareholders). Then, under the guise of a crisis, the company liquidated itself, and Avers-City LLC became its legal successor and new developer. Construction resumed, however, when the turn came in 2011 to distribute the first apartments, a scandal broke out, followed by lawsuits, investigators’ bans and lawsuits.

Unfortunately, the coverage of this story by journalists was so confusing that many Ukrainians did not understand “who stands on whom.” Its essence is approximately as follows: in 2011, Vyacheslav Kredisov appeared in Kotsyubinsky, accompanied by Irina Kilko, and stated that he, as well as the companies Myoli-Invest-Ukraine LLC and UNR PIB LLC, owned 40 apartments in the complex, which they must receive as construction investors. But there was a discrepancy: Avers City said that all the apartments had long been distributed among investor shareholders, and they knew nothing about any 40 apartments for Kredisov. In response, Kredisov instantly obtained a resolution to stop the alienation (distribution) of apartments and began litigation. The people whom he left without long-awaited housing (for which they had already paid) were in shock.

The question of how exactly Kredisov became an “investor” was never revealed. There were rumors that he actually initially staked out several apartments (8 or 10) almost legally – it was a “kickback” that he received for corrupt services provided. But then he decided to take not only his own, but also to get his hands on another 21 apartments, and at the same time 9 more for the company “UNR PIB”, with which he also had some kind of business relationship.

But the participation of his brother Alexey and the Nadra Bank in this matter is interesting. The fact is that in 2010 JSCB Nadra conducted an audit. At first it was carried out by the company AF PKF Audit-Finance, and the results of its audit were, let’s say, rather gloomy. Then the bank ordered a new audit for itself from the Ernst & Young company of Vyacheslav’s brother, Alexey Kredisov, and its audit yielded much more positive results. Then they said that the auditors were simply cheating in favor of the bank, a scandal almost broke out, Alexey Kredisov was hiding from journalists. After this, Nadra owed Kredisov a favor for a favor.

What happened next was this: in 2011, Nadra Bank put forward financial claims against Avers City on the basis that the company is the legal successor of Regional Construction Investments LLC, which owed the bank for the loan (230 million). Suddenly it turned out that the company Myoli-Invest-Ukraine LLC, which laid claim to 16 of the 40 disputed apartments, is a shell company with an offshore founder, whose director Larisa Pechkova is the sister of Polina Kredisova – that is, the wife of Alexey Kredisov. And that it was precisely the claims of Nadra Bank that allowed the Kredisovs to hold on to the ban on the alienation of apartments in the Koyutsibinsky residential complex for a very long time (until 2015), thereby blackmailing Avers City. The calculation was simple: if Avers City is not allowed to distribute already purchased and sell vacant apartments, the company will suffer large losses, and if so, it may force it to make a concession to Kredisov.

The collapse of Nadra Bank destroyed Kredisov’s scheme, but he soon created another.

As reported Skelet.Iinfoin 2016, Vyacheslav Kredisov created VIP Premium Group LLC, in the authorized capital of which he illegally included part of the apartments from Kotsyubinsky, which he claimed. And then, with the help of a Kyiv notary Olga Kolesnik, he re-registered the ownership rights to these apartments (with a total area of ​​1,600 sq.m.), despite the fact that people were already living in them. Fraud of the highest standard! By the way, Kredisov already had a reliable “roof” in the person of People’s Deputy Anatoly Matvienko, to whom he joined as an assistant (and not only).

Not only unscrupulous notaries worked for the swindler Kredisov, but also corrupt investigators. It’s about fate criminal proceedings No. 42014100100000069 initiated against Vyacheslav Kredisov in 2014 on the fact of fraud committed by him earlier. Namely: in 2011, professor Anatoly Kredisov and his son Vyacheslav Kredisov fraudulently took possession of securities of Interviamont LLC in the amount of 6,009,980 hryvnia. Simply put, they scammed their former companion Olga Ivanchenko out of bills of exchange, promising her a profitable investment or monetary compensation. She received neither one nor the other, and turned to law enforcement agencies. The defendants (Kredisovs) stated that they did not take anything from Ivanchenko, did not sign any agreements with her, and in general she was slandering them. And then the investigator of the Main Directorate of the National Police of Ukraine, Svetlana Zhaldun, known for her scandalous reputation for corruption, shelved this case (see documents). It lay there for a long time, until in the fall of 2016 Zhaldun was arrested for bribery (in another case). But Kredisov’s case was transferred to investigator Tatyana Prishchepa, who closed it altogether – presumably, also without thanks. Well, without such “good people” in law enforcement agencies, the life of scammers like Vyacheslav Kredisov would be much more difficult!

Sergey Varis, for Skelet.Info

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