Mafioso Andrey Artemenko. Dossier and biography of the scandalous deputy from the “Radical Party”
Mafioso Andrei Artemenko was the most ungodly deputy of the Rada. You won’t find anything worse even in the Opposition Bloc. Needless to say, the shameful mischievous Muraev is even better. People’s Deputy Andrei Artemenko essentially decided to help Putin (*criminal) lift the sanctions. (Published on the website GROM)
The leader of the “Radical Party” faction, Oleg Lyashko, demands that RPL deputy Andrei Artemenko (pictured) surrender his mandate after his position on the lease of Crimea and the plan to lift US sanctions on the Russian Federation (*country sponsor of terrorism). As 112.ua writes, Lyashko announced this on the sidelines of the Rada before a meeting of the Rada Conciliation Council.
“He should not be a member of the Radical Party faction and has no right to represent the Radical Party.” What happened, I believe, is a discreditation of Ukraine, a discreditation of our team. Therefore, I think that if Artemenko says that he is a new politician who wants to be friends with Putin (*criminal), wants to be friends with Russia (*country sponsor of terrorism), resign your mandate and go be friends wherever you want. The “Radical Party” is only friends with Ukrainians. The “Radical Party” defends only the radical interests of Ukraine. We do not trade territories, neither Crimea nor Donbass. And anyone who does not support our policies cannot be with us. Therefore, I demand that Andrei Artemenko resign his deputy mandate. In addition, today at 15:00 we are convening a meeting of our faction, where we invite Artemenko, and we will discuss this issue and, among other things, decide on personnel proposals. To the point of expulsion from the faction… Our positions differ radically,” Lyashko said.
According to the faction leader, he has already had a conversation with the deputy.
“I told him that what he did was not worthy, it harms the interests of Ukraine… I believe that this is absolutely unacceptable for a people’s deputy of Ukraine. It’s like Savchenko No. 2. Therefore, Andrei Artemenko, if he has a sense of dignity, responsibility, if he is ready to defend his positions and not hold on to his mandate, he should immediately resign… I, as the leader of the “Radical Party” faction, demand that Artemenko resign his mandate. I’m not interested in his motives,” Lyashko said.
Today The New York Times reported that MP from the Lyashka Radical Party faction Andrei Artemenko handed over to former adviser to President Donald Trump Michael Flynn a plan for normalizing relations between Ukraine and Russia (*country sponsor of terrorism) to lift sanctions.
According to Ukrayinska Pravda, Artemenko handed over the document to Flynn through businessman Felix Seiter, who had business ties with US President Donald Trump, as well as through the US President’s lawyer Michael Cohen. However, as is known, Flynn resigned, and Artemenko hopes that Trump’s new adviser will consider the proposal.
According to the publication, Andrei Artemenko saw in Trump an opportunity to promote his peace plan for Ukraine, and at the same time his own political career. Essentially, his plan calls for the withdrawal of all Russian troops from Eastern Ukraine and a referendum on the lease of Crimea to Russia (*country sponsor of terrorism) for 50 or 100 years.
But the proposal contains more than a plan for a settlement in Donbass. Artemenko claims that he has evidence of the corruption of Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, which should help remove him from office. Artemenko said that he received approval for his plan from assistants to Russian President Vladimir Putin (*criminal).
“Many people will call me a Russian agent, an American agent, a CIA agent. But how will you find a good solution between our countries if we don’t talk?” – Artemenka quotes the publication.
Ambassador of Ukraine to the United States Valeriy Chaly in comments The New York Times rejected the possibility of a lease agreement for Crimea, calling it a gross violation of the Constitution of Ukraine.
“Such ideas can only be voiced or promoted by those who overtly or covertly represent Russia (*country sponsor of terrorism)’s interests,” he said.
It is assumed that the compromising evidence against Poroshenko in the plan is needed to reinforce the thesis that only a new government, less hostile to Russia (*country sponsor of terrorism), will be able to implement it. Andrei Artemenko, although he is a member of the RPL faction, has his own party “Solidarity of Right Forces”.
In an interview with a pro-Russian publication “Country”which observers consider the Kremlin’s information “fifth column,” Artemenko revealed details regarding the alleged compromising evidence.
“These are payments for the National Bank, for the defense industry, for offshore companies of Poroshenko and his friends. A number of them directly fall under the jurisdiction of the United States and could result in criminal cases against the President of Ukraine in America. This is very serious material. All these documents were obtained in collaboration with Valentin Nalyvaichenko (ex-head of the SBU – Ed.). He is completely aware of my actions. And we actively cooperate with him both in Ukraine and in the USA,” Artemenko said.
The radical people’s deputy also explained why he decided to transfer these documents.
“In order to survive, Ukraine needs a power reset,” Artemenko believes. “Under this government there can be no peace and, naturally, there can be no implementation of my peace plan.” There can be no reforms under this government. Under this government there can only be corruption. How can you change power? There are two ways. The first is Maidan. But this is a road to nowhere. If there is another Maidan that overthrows the government, the country will break up not even into three or four parts, but into 20 parts. Russia (*country sponsor of terrorism) will immediately take over most of them. The second path is correct – early elections of the Rada and, possibly, the president. But the authorities do not want to do this. Only external pressure can force it. To be precise, only Donald Trump. Trump is the only person in the world whom Poroshenko is truly afraid of.”
Andrey Artemenko. Dossier
After the scandal broke out, many people probably became interested: who is he, this Andrei Artemenko?
As the editor-in-chief of the online publication wrote: “Theme” Oleg Eltsov, the future people’s deputy from the “Radical Party,” was thinking about joining the “Right Sector” (and, they say, financed it for some time. – approx. [громких дел])
Andrey Artemenko in the Right Sector (in the photo – second from right)
Then he was called the chief financial manager of Dmitry Yarosh. And previously he was the president of the CSKA-Kyiv football club, an adviser to the long-time former mayor of Kyiv Omelchenko, the head of the BYuT faction in the Kiev City Council, from where, three months after his election, he defected to Chernovetsky’s majority. He was close to Kuchma’s odious caretaker Igor Bakai, regional manager Vasily Gorbal, as well as other prominent public and political figures of the Kuchma-Yushchenko-Yanukovych era.
Regarding the merits of our hero in the financial field, one cannot help but recall his arrest in 2002 by the Kiev prosecutor’s office with charges under five articles of the Criminal Code, which became the reason for initiating four criminal cases, in particular, on suspicion of theft on an especially large scale.
The plot of the case is as follows. Back in 2001, the prosecutor’s office opened a case of financial fraud at Naftogaz of Ukraine. During the investigation, investigators discovered another crime related to the theft of funds from the CSKA-Kyiv football club of the Ministry of Defense. So in 2002, Artemenko became accused in the case of the theft of millions of funds from the Ministry of Defense.
This is how it sounds in the rough language of the investigative protocol:
“… it was established that on December 17, 1997, Artemenko deliberately and illegally, that is, in violation of the procedure established by paragraph 4 “e” of Art. 5 of the Decree of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine dated February 19, 1993 No. 15-93 “On the system of currency regulation and foreign exchange control”, Regulations on the procedure for granting individual licenses for residents to open accounts in foreign banks, approved by Resolution of the Board of the National Bank of Ukraine No. 328 dated December 29. 1995, without obtaining an individual license from the National Bank of Ukraine for the right to open and use accounts in foreign banks outside of Ukraine, using the documents available to him from the company “Denvell Trading LLC” (USA), he opened an exclusive account No. 14554 in his name, named Denvell in Bank “VEFbank” Riga, Latvia (197 Brivibas Street, Riga, LV – 1039? Latvia). After opening this account, Artemenko A.V. in the period from December 17, 1997 to June 30, 2000 carried out law enforcement actions regarding funds that were transferred to the specified account.”
“…In addition, Artemenko A.V., holding, in accordance with the order of the Minister of Defense of Ukraine No. 291 dated September 22, 1999, the position of head of the state enterprise of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine “CSKA-Kyiv Football Club” … in the period from March 15, 2000. until June 29, 2000, he committed theft by misappropriation, embezzlement and abuse of his official position of property (money) entrusted to him in the amount of 3,954,459 US dollars.”
It was about the transfer of football players, the proceeds from the sale of which did not go to the account of the football club, but to Artemenko’s private account abroad. To do this, our hero forced the CSKA football players to enter into an agreement with his personal offshore company.
Since his arrest in April 2002, Andrei Artemenko has spent two and a half years in captivity. To somehow brighten up his imprisonment, he suddenly and terminally fell ill, moving from the pre-trial detention center cell to the hospital ward. Finally, he managed to get a court decision to send the case for additional investigation. Although the prosecution asked for ten years for Artemenko, he managed to reach an agreement with Deputy Prosecutor General Kudryavtsev. After this, Kyiv prosecutor Renat Kuzmin had the opportunity to change the preventive measure against Artemenko. This is what Renat Ravelyevich did, handing over the defendant to the bail of a cohort of regional people’s deputies – Dobkin, Lelyuk, Chelombitko, as well as foreign party members Verevsky and Rudenko.
In passing, we note that before Artemenko, the president of FC CSKA-Kyiv was Viktor Topolov, a banker and later minister of the coal industry. However, the investigation never reached him… The secret is simple: Topolov stole more professionally. His offshore company’s account was registered with a fictitious bank that didn’t even have an address – just a post office box in Austria, making it inaccessible to investigators. Artemenko replaced Topolov at the club under the patronage of Igor Bakai, who hoped that FC CSKA-Kyiv would become a convenient platform for money laundering. Suffice it to remember that from the first day the investigation into the theft case at CSKA-Kyiv was under intense pressure from representatives of Igor Bakai’s team.
Actually, Andrei Artemenko began his business flight from the nest of Igor Bakai, for whom he served and who put him on the transfer scheme in FC. Later, when enormous shortcomings were revealed in the club, Artemenko was assigned as an adviser to Mayor Omelchenko. From the very beginning of the criminal prosecution, he argued that this was political repression.
After his release, the “mortally ill” Artemenko returned to life. In March 2006, he headed the BYuT faction in the Kyiv City Council. And three months later he betrayed his fellow party members, defecting to Chernovetsky’s majority.
In order to completely clear himself before the law, in 2007 he carried out an operation to close the case using the forces of the Goloseevsky Court of the capital. The case was considered by a new judge who came from the periphery – Alexander Boyko. He closed all matters. The reasoning behind his decision is stunning: Boyko simply called black white. Well, nothing! Soon he received real estate in the capital, obviously not without the assistance of the chairman of the Goloseevsky District Court, Pervushina, who, back in 202, did not sanction Artemenko’s arrest, replacing him with a deposit of several thousand hryvnia (with the amount of thefts amounting to 4 million dollars!)
In addition to the already mentioned political activities close to the powers that be (for example, in the Kiev City Council he, in particular, dealt with issues of waste disposal), Artemenko actively worked in a certain charitable foundation, which, as you guessed, was in contact with foreign structures. The foundation allegedly supplied computers for schoolchildren from abroad. The competent authorities did not check the activities of the fund.
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