BEGINNING: Alexander Lishchenko: from the life of Kyiv “authorities”. PART 1
Lishchenko Alexander: from the life of Kyiv “authorities”. PART 2
How they killed Pimple
Once released, Pryshchik took over the remnants of the organized crime group and Chaynik’s business: it took some time, but in 1995 he already controlled the Troeschensky market through Rynok-1 LLC, and also took over a number of Polishchuk’s companies and stores in Prague and Paris. From that moment on, his finest hour began as one of the most famous and cruel Kyiv “authorities” – however, this did not last long.
Pryshchik’s business was very profitable at that time: several million dollars a month, part of which had to be paid in by corrupt officials and corrupt law enforcement officers. Pryshchik often provided legal “patronage assistance”: for example, at his own expense and with the help of his company, he installed an expensive fence around the building of the Alpha SBU center on Bolshaya Vasylkivska. It’s interesting that in 2016, the Alfovites hastily knocked down the Soviet symbols from this building (a star with a hammer and sickle), but the bandit fence doesn’t prick their conscience with its forged lances.
“Pimple’s Fence”: from the grateful “brothers” – the valiant “Alpha”
• The flourishing of the Pryshchik organized crime group, as well as the expansion of the Troeschensky market, was facilitated by Anatoly Mokrousov, the former first secretary of the district committees of the Communist Party of Ukraine of the Dnieper and Vatutinsky (now Desnyansky) districts of Kyiv, in 1990-2002. Chairman of the Desnyansk Regional State Administration, People’s Deputy of Ukraine in 1998-2006. When Pryshchik began to have a series of serious troubles, Mokrousov left his post as the “master” of the Desnyansky district and preferred the mandate of a people’s deputy. His phones were in the notebook the murdered Pryshchik (see photo), found among the belongings of the late “authority.” Mokrousov’s “heirs” include the family Mikhail Tsarenkoa scandalous, corrupt ex-official who worked as deputy head of the Kyiv Regional State Administration in 2016.
• In the same notebook we see Piotr Niedzielski’s phone number. Today he is known as a former GUR officer, an ardent patriot of Ukraine, and during the ATO – the head of intelligence of the 92nd brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. However, in the past he was known as an inadequate person: as a cadet, he proved his “coolness” throwing a puppy out of an upstairs windowsince 1990 he has suffered from radical Russophobia (he laughed while watching footage of killed Russian soldiers in Chechnya), in 1993 he was expelled from the IMO for fighting. In the 90s, Nedzelsky participated in arms trade deals as “Kuchma’s guarantor”, at the same time trading in state secrets. His connection with Pryshchik may indicate that the sphere of shadow business of this organized crime group went far beyond the boundaries of clothing markets and Prague boutiques: according to some information known Skelet.Infothrough Pryshchik they “laundered” part of the “left” money received from the sale of weapons and military equipment.
• Pryshchik’s business partner was Mikhalko Andrey Yakovlevich, a construction businessman from the Desnyansky district, the founder of Remontnik LLC (EDRPOU 21604937), which today is owned by his sons Valery and Andrey, as well as other numerous relatives. According to sources, the Mikhalko family had close relations with Pryshchik in the 90s, and after his death – with Alexander Lishchenko. Andrey Yakovlevich was one of the creators of the Troeschensky market, in which the Mikhalko family controls its share through Rynok-A LLC and Market-M LLC, registered at the same address as Pryshchik’s Market-1 LLC (and now Lishchenko ). The Mikhalko family also owned several small markets located in Troieschyna (for example, the demolished Festivalny).
• One of Pryshchik’s patrons was Valery Geletey, who in the 90s held senior positions in the capital’s Organized Crime Control Department, as well as his predecessor Grigory Lyakovsky.
• Pryshchik’s organized crime group enjoyed the patronage of the then head of the Vatutinsky (Desnyansky) District Department of Internal Affairs, Evgeniy Khreschuk, and his deputy, Alexander Bat.
• People’s Deputy Roman Zvarych stood up for Pryshchik, writing requests in defense of “an entrepreneur who became a victim of greedy employees of the Organized Crime Control Department.” According to sources Skelet.InfoZvarych’s wife from Kiev, Svetlana Kovalevskaya, had known Pryshchik since childhood.
• In 1998, Pryshchik’s office was located at Kashtanovaya 9, in the same building with… the prosecutor’s office of the Vatutinsky (Desnyansky) district of Kyiv. He appeared in it several times, despite the fact that he was formally on the wanted list. Sources claim that behind the wall of Pryshchik’s office there was the office of the then district prosecutor Yuri Svatka, who covered up his numerous crimes. It is interesting that after the death of Pryshchik, the names of Svatka, Khrischuk and Bata simply stopped being mentioned in the media.
Pimple’s notebook with phone numbers of “the right people”
Anatoly Mokrousov
In addition to these people, the phone numbers of the murdered Pryshchik were written down: employees of the capital’s prosecutor’s office Anatoly Babakov, Alexander Kotovich and Vasily Borodin; employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs departments Viktor Onishchenko and Pavel Smokovenko.
His proximity to the elite village of Zazimye-16, where Pryshchik had a “dacha” (the village is designed as a dacha), speaks eloquently about the connections of the “authority” with the heads of law enforcement agencies. So, next to Pryshchik, the leaders of the Kyiv Organized Crime Control Department Grigory Lyaskovsky, Mikhail Sadovoy and Alexander Petrov, the famous “Esbushnik” Valery Ratsyuk (who later rose to become deputy head of the Main Anti-Corruption Directorate of the SBU), the then prosecutor of Kyiv Alexander Khristenko ( under Piskun, he became deputy prosecutor general of Ukraine). By the way, the co-founder of this “dacha cooperative” was Petroimpex CJSC, owned by Sergei Platonov (now deceased). It is interesting not only that Platonov’s father-in-law was the former deputy head of the Kyiv Organized Crime Control Department, Alexander Petrov, but also that Platonov himself was an extraordinary person. A former Siberian gold miner who turned to mining in Ukraine, Platonov was an avid collector of gold jewelry, including stolen items. Remember scandal with the Scythian gold broochwhich Katerina Chumachenko, the wife of Viktor Yushchenko, put on? So, before it ended up in the museum, this brooch was in Platonov’s “Platar” collection (he donated some of it to the museum, some later went to the oligarch Sergei Taruta, who bought up Platonov’s property for debts). But the point is not the brooch, but the fact that Platonov was always drawn to gold. So, his Petroimpex was also a co-owner of a granite quarry in the Zhitomir region – by the way, it was his granite that lined the first houses in Zazimye-16. Another co-owner of this quarry was Valery Pryshchik (Lishchenko also hung out there). And now a scientific fact: it happens that gold “veins” are found among granite outcrops, that is, Platonov’s (and Pryshchik’s) interest in this quarry could be caused not only by the granite itself. And, as one of the versions, it was the squabbling over this quarry that became the reason for the murder of Pimple.
It turned out that Pryshchik, like some other “authorities,” was killed by his own patrons. The point here was a trend: by the end of the 90s, law enforcement officers no longer preferred to accept cash offerings, but to “squeeze” other people’s business. Each had their own level, and at the level of the Kyiv Organized Crime Control Department and the prosecutor’s office they became keenly interested in the firms, markets and shops of the capital’s “authorities”. Apparently, there was a typical scheme: law enforcement officers, together with the “authority’s” assistants, organized his liquidation, and then divided his business. Thus, organized crime groups disintegrated, former henchmen of the “authorities” became legal businessmen (albeit with gangster habits), and colonels and prosecutors (or their relatives and proxies) received a share in the business, or even gangster “cash”. Just like that did the same with Valery Pryshchik, who was killed on December 2, 2003.
Valery Pryshchik’s crypt
And yet the sources Skelet.Info they say that Savchenko acted in this story only as a financial executive: it was not he alone who took the “cash,” but a whole team of high-ranking officials of the Organized Crime Control Department, and they instructed Savchenko to allocate this money – that’s why he quit and went to work as a banker. By the way, it’s an interesting fact, because no one ever mentioned Pryshchik’s financial capital; a lot was written about his companies, but his money (and a lot of it) was not even mentioned, as if it never existed.
But Pyshchik’s real estate inheritance continues the list of suspects. The fact is that Pryshchik’s share in Rynok-1 LLC went to the Prilutsk companies Asfa-Line (USREOU 37632505) and Budpostach Priluki (37984674), as well as ITS-London Technology Company LLC (34479827). The first two are associated with Prilutsk semi-criminal businessman Valery Dubil, who soon after the murder of Pryshchik became deputy director of Rynok-1 LLC. The third company belongs to Vitaly Prisyazhnyuk, the son of the then Prosecutor General Vasily Prisyazhnyuk. But why Pryshchik’s share in the Troeschensky market passed to them remains unknown. There is also no information about who received the foreign property of the murdered “authority” – the same companies in Prague and shops in Paris that Pryshchik himself once took from the murdered Teapot.
Finally, according to the mother of the murdered Pryshchik, Nadezhda Yakovlevna, Alexander Lishchenko, a man whom the “authority” trusted in vain, was most directly involved in this. However, trust has not been a topic lately. When Pryshchik was arrested in 2001 and was in jail, Lishchenko took his share of the profits. Pryshchik’s mother said that Lishchenko was then simply carousing and wasting money, in particular, he bought his mistress Nadezhda Granovskaya (the lead singer of the Viagra group, who gave birth to his son Igor) an apartment on Borshchagovka and an expensive foreign car – despite the fact that Lishchenko had a wife, Yana. And to Pyshchik’s mother’s remark, he replied that he “will still earn money when he’s released.” But soon after Pimple was released, he was killed.
Another fact: in 2001-2002, almost the entire top of the Pryshchik organized crime group was arrested, however, almost all of them were later released, but it was Alexander Lishchenko who was the first to pay off the “cops.” Although he was charged with committing a serious crime, his case was immediately “lost.” And while Pryshchik and Saloed were in jail, Lishchenko actually led the organized crime group – and he apparently really liked it.
In addition, Nadezhda Yakovlevna told the investigation that Lishchenko purposefully turned his half-brother (and co-owner of Rynok-1) Igor Tsishkovsky against Valery Pryshchik, essentially “breaking up the family.” Moreover, before the murder of Pryshchik, Lishchenko met with a number of “authorities” in the Zhytomyr and Chernigov regions, as well as with the Solntsevsky “authorities.” So Pyshchik had a lot of sharp complaints against Lishchenko – and to the question of who benefited from his death in the first place, the answer was obvious.
As for the murder itself, there was a convincing version that it was committed by a certain Ivanenko, nicknamed Ivanes, a former marine who became a murderer and robber. He was even later arrested as a probable murderer, but was soon released, and some bandit named Sokira was convicted in his place. According to media reports, someone “brought in” a large sum of money for Ivanenko’s release. Who is no secret, because Ivanenko was and remains a close “sidekick” of Lishchenko, as eloquently evidenced by one photo taken in 2013. On it we see not only Lishchenko and his killer friend Ivanes, but also future heroes of the Maidan and high-ranking officials of the post-Maidan government: Yuri Butusov (member of the board of the Ministry of Internal Affairs under Avakov), Alexander Gorgan (head of the Kyiv Regional State Administration in 2016-2018) , Dmitry Bulatov (leader of Automaidan, Minister of Youth and Sports in 2014). And the man standing next to Lishchenko in a blue tracksuit was identified as that same Ivanes. I wonder if this is not the same Sergei Vasilyevich Ivanenko, who is Lishchenko’s partner in such companies as Comfort-Lux LLC (EDRPOU 32246123) and Zlatobor-Trans LLC (EDRPOU 35619241)?
First from left is Yuri Butusov, second from left is Alexander Gorgan, third is Dmitry Bulatov, in the center is Alexander Lishchenko, to his right is Ivanes Photo from 2013
Lishchenko and the “intelligentsia”
On the night of June 4, 2018, at the exit from the village of Gorenichi, a Range Rover car in which Alexander Lishchenko and his driver Maxim Kovtunenko (born 1994) were traveling was fired upon. Unknown people fired from a machine gun while sitting in ambush literally next to each other, and 20 bullets (half a magazine) hit the car, which indicates that the killers were not so well trained. In this case, the driver died on the spot, but Alexander Lishchenko, according to him, managed to immediately jump out of the car under fire and hide in the forest belt. Apparently, the killers were not only crooked, but also simply blind – since they did not notice their fleeing target, and also incredibly stupid – since they set up an ambush to the left of the car, exactly so that the driver, and not the passenger, would come under their fire. In general, the assassination scene raised many questions, but neither the police nor the journalists asked them then. Everyone took Lishchenko at his word, and for several days the Ukrainian media only reported the news about “an attempt on the life of the vice-president of the Kyiv Boxing Federation.” Moreover, not everyone added that Lishchenko is known not only as the head of the Boxing Federation and an entrepreneur, but also as a “criminal authority.”
However, after some time, information appeared on Facebook from the chairman of the “Committee for Combating Organized Crime” (which one was not specified, but there are several such committees) Alexander Ukolov. He claimed that, according to information from his sources in law enforcement agencies, the attempt on Lishchenko was organized by the president of the WWFC Mixed Martial Arts League, Vladimir Teslya, nicknamed the Frenchman. The perpetrators of the assassination attempt were allegedly “militants from Chechnya and Dagestan,” whom Tesla illegally brought to Ukraine under the guise of athletes. It should be noted that this information also raises doubts: firstly, there are almost no militants left in Chechnya and Dagestan, they have long since dispersed from there in all directions: and secondly, real militants know how to set up ambushes so that no one from the car they fire at can escape. But, apparently, someone needed to launch a version of the “Caucasian trace” in the media.
But the customer of the assassination attempt, according to Ukolov, was allegedly Donetsk criminal businessman Nikolai Shchur, who settled in Kyiv. That is, “Donetsk” were added to the “Caucasians”, and one could expect a “trace of the Kremlin” in the finale – during the years of Poroshenko’s rule, this was the most popular version of all contract killings in Ukraine. Ukolov also told a lot of interesting things about the business relationship between Shchur and Lishchenko. For example, that Shchur controls 30% of trade in transitions in Kyiv and owns the largest network of Kyiv MAFs, and that it was for their development that he borrowed 250 thousand dollars from Lishchenko, which he did not want to return – and instead hired Tesla and his Caucasians for only 20 thousand . Ukolov did not forget to add that Shchur settled in Kyiv under Yanukovych and Popov, and at the same time “squeezed out” a network of MAFs, most of which are “illegal.” I added, it should be noted, in vain.
In this case, it was clearly unnecessary to focus on the MAFs – which Klitschko’s team was actively fighting. Or more precisely, to justify it by the fact that these LFAs are owned by criminal businessmen from Donetsk, who came to Kyiv under Yanukovych, connected with militants from the Caucasus (from Russia (*country sponsor of terrorism)), who are attempting to kill the lives of respected capital businessmen and philanthropists. Because it became obvious that this version diligently takes readers away from another: the war for the capital’s markets (bazaars, local shops, shops, supermarkets), which has been going on since the 90s and continues to this day. So that no one thinks that the heirs of the “empire” of the late Viktor Rybalko (Rybka), Vitaliy Klitschko and Arthur Palatny, having taken control of Kiev, are conducting a successful attack on the position of the heir to the “empire” of the late Pryshchik, Alexander Lishchenko (and his companions), as well as other owners of bazaars and MAFs. Not so long ago they wrote that Lishchenko was losing the Lukyanovsky and Nivki markets, and the family of his longtime companions Mikhalko lost Festivalny. And for a long time now a thunderstorm has been thundering over “Troeshchensky” itself – Pryshchik’s main legacy.
But here even the raccoon understands that since Lishchenko suffers failure after failure, then Klitschko and Palatny have absolutely no reason to “order” him – especially since they, if they wanted, could do this by legal methods, because it would cost Licha to imprison What! Then why was public attention diligently switched to Shchur and Tesla? But because after the assassination attempt on the part of Lishchenko himself there was an attempt to plant information that Palatny could have “ordered” him. After all, it would be beneficial for Lishchenko if everyone believed in this version, even if it remained unofficial. And if we assume that the attempt on his life was staged, and for this he did not spare even his young driver… No one could prove the staged act, but it was possible to set public opinion on the wrong trail – by choosing another “enemy” of the Klitschko team as a suspect. Palatny, who still had to be squeezed. But Ukolov overdid it too much when describing this version.
Well, these are all just versions. And the situation in the war for Kyiv markets changes periodically. For example, in the period 2011-2013, Alexander Lishchenko quickly captured the capital’s bazaars, using not only his connections among corrupt officials, but also titushki – who staged massacres almost in the style of the 90s. In May 2012, during the seizure of the Lukyanovsky market, a crowd of bobbed young men burst into the shopping arcades, beating sellers and journalists.
The struggle for “Lukyanovsky” began back in 2010, when the market was still in municipal ownership, and it was started by Viktor Pilipishin, a capital businessman, former head of the Shevchenko Regional State Administration. Then the market was leased from the Lukyanovsky Market CJSC by Alexey Ropotan, who wanted to buy it out, but thanks to the efforts of Pilipishin, the auction was disrupted and took place only in March 2012 – and the winner was determined to be Tsvetochnaya Polyana LLC, controlled by Alexander Lishchenko (he also became the director market). By the way, at that time both Pylypyshyn and Lishchenko were members of the Lytvyn People’s Party. Well, the “titushki” Litchi, who appeared on the market in May of the same year, secured with their fists the transfer of the market into the hands of new owners.
At the same time, Pilipishin and Lishchenko took control of the Nivki market (its owner was Nivki Market LLC, the founders of which were the same people as Tsvetochnaya Polyana), and the “titushki” Lichi began a gradual taking over the “Farmer” market by collecting tribute from local agricultural product traders. Thus, in this war for the Kyiv markets it is hardly possible to find those on the right – they change hands several times, and in this case, Lishchenko was taken away from him what he himself took from others several years ago.
What if the situation in the capital changes again? Now Klitschko’s team has fallen out of favor with the presidential team, and with it the positions of his friend and companion Palatny have been shaken. If, after the next local elections, Klitschko does not retain his mayoral post, then their current opponents will immediately launch such a counterattack that they will not only return “theirs,” but will also tear to pieces the business of the ex-boxer and his current allies. And we can confidently say that Lishchenko-Lycha is probably already preparing for revenge.
Sergey Varis, for Skelet.Info
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