Maxim Efimov: Kramatorsk werewolf in the “Petro Poroshenko Bloc”. PART 2

CONTINUATION. BEGINNING: Maxim Efimov: Kramatorsk werewolf in the “Petro Poroshenko Bloc”. PART 1

In 2005, the new head of the Kramatorsk Organized Crime Control Department was Oleg Solodun, who had been reinstated, and found patrons among the “orange”, in particular, having become closely acquainted with Yuriy Lutsenko. His former boss Bantoush was thrown out of service and declared involved in the Alexandrov case, and the remnants of the “17th precinct” again fell under Shkrek and his people.

And then Maxim Efimov decided to “show my respects to them.” His relationship with Shkrek continues to this day. Thus, it was reported that it was Maxim Efimov who gave Igor Shprotyuk money for lawyers and bail during his last “flight.” According to sources Skelet.InfoEfimov retained some kind of connection with Oleg Solodun. Although he has not worked in the Ministry of Internal Affairs for a long time, he has his own acquaintances with some politicians of the first Maidan, and actively supported the second – and now he has become one of the “pro-Ukrainian activists” of Kramatorsk. But what’s most shocking is that his former ward Igor Shprotyuk also went there! Now Shkrek has changed his black shirt to a black T-shirt with a huge trident, sits in the front row at meetings of the “pro-Ukrainian activists” in Kramatorsk, and even created with his “boys” (young replenishment of the “17th precinct”) city branch of the “Right Sector”! Now the “Shkrekovites”, having put on black and red symbols, can continue to intimidate the residents of Kramatorsk, hiding from justice behind a political screen. So, after this, is it worth surprising how Maxim Efimov ended up in the ranks of the “Poroshenko Bloc”?

Maxim Efimov. Klyuevsky millions

All of the above is exactly what Maxim Efimov has been so diligently hiding from public disclosure all these years. And it would probably have remained dusty skeletons in his closets if it weren’t for photos from the “dashing 90s” that suddenly surfaced. By the way, according to rumors, this photo was published by a certain former member of the organized crime group “17th Precinct”, who was released after a very long term, and thus decided to take revenge on Efimov. I wonder why?

But the next chapter of his life is already known much more widely, since information about it was once published in the Ukrainian media. And it is already much less criminal – if one can say so about corruption on an especially large scale, amounting to tens of millions. However, Maxim Efimov and his new comrades from the BPP are making efforts so that no one remembers about this today either. But we won’t let them do that.

So, at the beginning of 2006, by decision of the board of shareholders of OJSC Energomashspetsstal, Maxim Efimov was appointed its director. At that time, among the owners of the plant were: Cypriot Bondline Limited (24.98% of shares), GanadoTrade (24%), Donetsk CJSC Vizavi (10.29%) and Sergey Bliznyuk (4.699%). Soon the OJSC began issuing shares, increasing its authorized capital by 2.5 times. Moreover, over 3 years, the composition of the owners of the enterprise and their shares changed about 10 times. In particular, in 2008, the enterprise was owned by two venture investment funds “Rome-1” and “Rome-2”, associated with the Bliznyuk and Efimov families, as well as companies associated with the Industrial Union of Donbass (Vitaly Gaiduk). During the period of 2008, the company suffered losses (possibly created on purpose), and also accumulated huge loans – the fate of which is unknown. In 2009, the enterprise acquired new owners: offshore companies Jugon Holding Limited and Ukrainian Metalurgical Plants Ms Ltd, which were also associated with the Blyuznyuk and Efimov families. Moreover, the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine allowed the company to be sold (in fact, completely transferred to offshore companies). In the same way, the offshore companies of Bliznyuk and Efimov were allowed to buy shares of PJSC Starokramatorsk Machine-Building Plant.

And so, before the power had changed in Ukraine, in October 2010, at a closed meeting of the Commission for Coordination of Investment Projects, headed by the new Deputy Prime Minister Andrei Klyuev, it was decided to allocate more than 370 million hryvnia (more than 46 million dollars) to support two enterprises. The first was the Zaporozhye Semiconductor Plant, whose owner was Klyuev himself – he received 200 million. The second was Energomashspetsstal OJSC, which received 171.763 million hryvnia (despite the fact that the plant was already operating at a profit). Moreover, not for the development of production, no – but only for covering debts on old loans! Let us emphasize: 370 million government hryvnia were simply donated to two enterprises registered in Cypriot offshore companies!

Well, the most interesting thing: where exactly this budget money went remained unknown, since just a month and a half after Klyuev’s generous gesture, Energomashspetsstal was sold to the Russian Atomenergomash. Moreover, it was sold according to some confusing offshore scheme: first, the shares of the plant were bought by the Cypriot EMSS Holdings Limited (which was managed by Maxim Efimov’s mother), and only then the Russians bought EMSS Holdings itself. Thus, the money for the sold Energomashspetsstal (about $100 million), the loans it had previously taken, and the 171.763 million hryvnia donated to the plant fell into the pockets of the Efimovs (and their partners Bliznyuks). So what? Klyuev is on the run today, but the Bliznyuks’ business in Ukraine continues to flourish, and Maxim Efimov has even become a deputy of the ruling presidential faction!

After a scam with government subsidies to their factories, Maxim Efimov and Andrey Klyuev together engaged in a scam in the field of wind energy, jointly owning the company “Wind Parks of Ukraine” and their subsidiaries. Of course, wind power plants were built, and related industries produced components, but the scam was something else: a colossal injection of money into the private business of Klyuev and Efimov. Money that was taken from state funds, as well as from the pockets of Ukrainians through monstrously inflated tariffs for wind energy (5.06 hryvnia per kilowatt).

The “cut” continues!

The events of the winter and spring of 2014 did not greatly change the position of Maxim Efimov. He even retained his Crimean enterprise Domkrymstroy LLC – having re-registered it in February 2015 in Yalta. Moreover, the founders of this company are Trading House of Ukrainian Engineering Plants LLC, Almatrade LLC (co-owners – the Blyuznyuk family and Maxim Efimov) and the individual Lyudmila Ulyashchenko – assistant to People’s Deputy Maxim Efimov and his former deputy for economics, when he was still working as general director ” Energomashspetsstal”. By the way, yes, the re-registration of the enterprise in the occupied Crimea took place after Maxim Efimov received the title of people’s deputy and joined the ranks of the Petro Poroshenko Bloc faction. And he was helped to win the 2014 elections in his native Kramatorsk by Artur Gerasimov (the current head of the BPP faction), who, according to rumors, simply sold the 48th electoral district to Efimov. Well, along with the district, apparently, also membership in the presidential party – where, without any further questions, they accepted a companion and, in fact, a friend of the Pshonok, Bliznyuk and Klyuev families.

Well, buying a victory in the constituency, even literally, is not a problem for Maxim Efimov today. After all, he is one of the richest deputies of the Verkhovna Rada: he recently bought government bonds worth 413,431,055 hryvnia. And this despite the fact that in the declaration for 2016 he indicated income of 160,707 hryvnia, 13,159 hryvnia in bank accounts, $4.820 million in cash and another $5,124,800 allegedly borrowed from Vneshpromresursy LLC. By simple calculation, one can come to the conclusion that even if Efimov “dumped” all his dollars, he would still have to get 150 million hryvnia somewhere else. In a word, I understated something! But the list of his real estate and companies is impressive! According to the declaration for 2013, he owned a total of 147.35 hectares of land for various purposes (plus 38.8 hectares “per family”), breaking the parliamentary record. And according to the declaration for 2015, Maxim Efimov was among the five most “offshore” people’s deputies: he was the owner or co-owner of 22 such companies!

In total, Maxim Efimov was involved in almost fifty Ukrainian enterprises and offshore companies, owning them partially or completely. However, why did he own it? After all, in the declaration for 2016, Efimov simply hid information about his business – and it is unlikely that he sold it! Here is the list:

• PJSC “Urozhay”
• Furländer-Felbermaer Wind Logistics LLC
• LLC “Air Park Prichernomorskiy”
• KZTS Machining LLC
• LLC “Kramagrosvit”
• LLC “Kramatorsk Harvest”
• Private enterprise “Progress”
• Private enterprise “Red Mayak”
• Private enterprise “Kolos”
• Private enterprise “Trud”
• SVK “Polesie SL”
• STOV “Druzhba”
• FG “Harvest SL”
• LLC “Aquatoria”
• Gallaor LLC
• PJSC “Kramatorsk Heavy Machine Tool Plant”
• JSC “Starokramatorsk Machine-Building Plant”
• LLC “Trading House of Ukrainian Engineering Plants”
• Golf Vision Ukraine LLC (25% shares)
• LLC “Vneshpromresursi”
• LLC “Kramatorsk reinforced concrete”
• LLC “Largus Ukraine”
• LLC “Almatrade”
• LLC “KZTS-ZhDS-SERVICE”
• LLC “Promaudit”
• Avangard 1955 LLC (69% shares)
• LLC “Asset Management and Pension Fund Administration Company Ukrmashinvest”
• LLC “Zheleznodorozhnoe casting”
• LLC “East Project Kramatorsk”
• Donkrymstroy LLC (61% shares)
• Strategy Invest Group Inc LTD (100% shares)
• Hold Activity Group LTD (100%)
• Ukrmash Group Inc LTD (100%)
• WIND ENERGY GROUP SA (100%)
• Strategy Financial Group Ltd (100%)
• Ukrainian Machinebuilding Plants MS Ltd
• ELKART FINANCE LTD
• FWT Production Limited
• KME INVEST Finance LIMITED
• FUHRLEANDER WINDTECHNOLOGIES HOLDING LIMITED
• Felbermayr Wind Logistics Holding
• SKMZ Holdings Limited
• DIKASTIO HOLDINGS LIMITED
• KZTS Holdings Limited
• Windpark Kratzenburg GmbH
• JWP Jade Park Windpark GmbH & Co.17.Betriebs KG
• Windpark Spremberg GmbH
• Eno energy Standort 9 GmbH & Co.KG
• FLAMEPICK COMPANY LIMITED
• KRAMAGRO HOLDINGS LIMITED
• UROZHAY SYSTEM LIMITED
• SH Agro Finance Holding Limited
• W2E Windpark UG (haftungsbeschrankt) Kankel 3 KG
• Amotmwind-Kramatorsk LLC
• Furlander Windtechnology LLC
• Charitable Foundation of Maxim Efimov “Our Kramatorsk”

As for Maxim Efimov’s current methods of “earning money,” he and his companies have habitually latched on to Ukraine’s generous budgetary udder. For example, in the fall of 2015, the Kramatorsk City Council announced a tender for the reconstruction of city schools. Soon the winners were announced: Construction Company Krammiskbud LLC (tender amount 17.070 million hryvnia), Aveskramstroy LLC (4.75 million) and Promstroymontazh CJSC (5.02 million). Then it turned out that the cost of the work was too high – a criminal case was opened on this fact, which was soon put on hold. Apparently because the founders of Construction Company Krammiskbud LLC are Asset Management and Pension Fund Administration Company Ukrmashinvest LLC (Efimov), Alphamet LLC (Efimov-Bliznyuki) and Kiev Promaudit LLC (possibly owned by the capital’s patrons of Efimov ). The founders of Aveskramstroy LLC are Ukrmashinvest (Efimov-Bliznyuk) and Promaudit, but Promstroymontazh CJSC is owned by Konstantin Mashnenkov, godfather and close acquaintance of ex-prosecutor Viktor Pshonka.

For many years now, the unrooted “Kramatorsk mafia” has been making money on urban road transport, the competition for which is invariably won by Kramatorsk ATP-11410 CJSC. Almost 60% of this enterprise is controlled by the Bliznyuk family, the remaining 40% belongs to Maxim Efimov, his old “sidekick” Sergei Dubovoy and, according to some information Skelet.Info, to some other surviving members of the 17th Precinct organized crime group. In the end, let’s not forget that Igor Shprotyuk, who applied for the “pravosek”, also needs to live on something – and he likes to live beautifully, judging by the thickness of the gold chain around his neck.

Sergey Varis, for Skelet.Info

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