Mikhail Golitsa. The story of a “black realtor” from Kyiv. PART 1

“They were spoiled by the housing problem”… Woland’s famous words perfectly convey the atmosphere that reigns in Ukraine today. Land acquisition is thriving, and the sale of “airy” apartments is growing every year. But Mikhail Golitsa, a well-known black realtor in the capital, can argue with Woland, because the notorious “housing issue” has enriched him.

Skelet.Info tells the story of how Ukrainians can be fooled under the old government and get comfortable under the new one. Our hero, Mikhail Golitsa, is a man who left many Kiev residents homeless.

From mechanics to bureaucrats

Golitsa Mikhail Nikolaevich is from the Chernigov region from the village of Pliski, born on December 29, 1951. His parents Nikolai Andreevich and Anna Aleksandrovna worked all their lives in their native village and did not travel beyond its borders. But their son Misha was attracted by large and promising cities.

After graduating from Pliskovskaya secondary school, the young graduate worked as part of a seismic brigade in the Kyiv geophysical expedition, as well as as an electrician in Chernigov mechanized column No. 2.

In 1970, Golitsa went to repay his debt to his homeland and spent 2 years in military service in the Armed Forces of the USSR. After finishing his service, he never returned to his native village; the young demobilizer was seduced by the capital. By the way, in Pliski our hero is remembered vaguely; he is completely different from those people from the village who, having reached the heights, remember their small homeland. So, having arrived in Kyiv, Mikhail Nikolaevich immediately got a job as a mechanic at the Kiev Aviation Plant.

After working for 3 years in an unpromising position, he decided to get a second education, choosing for this the Faculty of Law of the Kyiv State University named after T.G. Shevchenko. In 1982, Mikhail Nikolaevich received the long-awaited law degree, which will allow him in the future to easily disavow fraudulent schemes.

Agree, this story is very similar to the life of the average Soviet citizen, if not for a happy coincidence. At that time, the KSCA practiced inviting law school graduates to work. So Golitsa ended up at Khreshchatyk, 36. At the Kyiv City State Administration he worked as an assistant, senior assistant, head of department, head of the secretariat of the Kyiv City Executive Committee in the team of Vladimir Bondarenko under the leadership of the then representative of the President of Ukraine in Kyiv Ivan Saliya. When Leonid Kosakovsky came to Saliya’s place, 90 employees were released from office, including Golitsa, but this did not upset him much.

Confidant of the Surkis brothers

The Ukrainian football summer of 1993 turned out to be hot. The media were actively discussing the change in the format of the national championship and the situation with Dynamo, where the club leadership had changed.

Viktor Bezverkhey (former Komsomol organizer of the Arsenal plant) was removed from the post of president of the FC, and the club announced huge debts and imminent bankruptcy. And there was one more piece of news that few people paid attention to: in July 1993, Mikhail Nikolaevich Golitsa became the business manager of the Dynamo-Kyiv Football Club joint-stock company.

Victor Bezverkhy

Strictly speaking, this is a small event for the history of football, but it was this appointment that played a key role in the life of one person – Golitsa himself. Or rather, his close dealings with the Surkis brothers (Grigory Surkis became the president of the club) and his quick entry into mafia life.

So, how did the situation develop and what was included in the range of Mikhail Golitsa’s responsibilities?

Let’s start with the fact that FC Dynamo-Kyiv in the early 90s looked completely different from how we, modern Ukrainians, know it today. In those years, Dynamo-Kyiv acted as a screen for the financial schemes of Surkis’s Dynamo-Atlantic joint venture. By the way, the president of the Dynamo-Kyiv club and co-founder of the joint venture Efim (Jeff) Ostrovsky was shot in New York by people (presumably Vyacheslav Konstantinovsky) of the famous crime boss Alik Magadan (Oleg Asmakov) by order of the second co-founder, Grigory Surkis.

Oleg Asmakov, aka Alik Magadan

Loans were taken out from commercial banks through Dynamo. FC has become attached to JSB “Ukraine”. At that time, the first deputy head of the bank was Viktor Yushchenko, the future President of Ukraine. It was through him that all such financial transactions took place. Yushchenko was then distinguished by a kind soul, because he gave loans for huge amounts almost on his word of honor. For example, in July 1992, Viktor Andreevich gave the club 500 thousand dollars for the supposed purchase of medical equipment. The funds were immediately transferred to the Dynamo-Atlantic account in the Berlin branch of DeutscheBank. In August of the same year, Dynamo again received $1.2 million. The goal is to purchase much-needed equipment for the football industry to make mosaic parquet. Of the amount received, 1 million is transferred to the same Dynamo-Atlantic account.

In 1993, Dynamo, represented by manager Mikhail Golitsa, asked to extend the loan period. Club President Grigory Surkis undertakes to fulfill all financial obligations to Bank Ukraina under the loan agreement in full. But after some time, not a trace remained of his good intentions. Surkis says that he will only repay interest on the loan amount – 198 thousand dollars. Manager Golitsa by that time signed an agreement between the chairman of the liquidation commission of Dynamo-Kyiv and the chairman of the board of JSC JSPB Ukraine, which fixed a debt of $1.4 million. Immediately, two structures declared their readiness to assume the financial obligations of the borrower: FC Dynamo-Kyiv (interest payment) and JV Parquet (borrower’s debtor) – the full amount of the loan, by re-registering the loan agreement.

In turn, the bank waived penalties and, moreover, the collection of interest. It should be noted that the co-founders of the Parquet joint venture were FC Dynamo-Kyiv, the Kiev City State Commodity and Raw Materials Company, the innovative company Progress, and VikomInternationalCorp.

Subsequently, the club never returned the million-dollar loan to the bank, but for some reason it didn’t really demand it. And after the bankruptcy of JSC “Ukraine” in 2001, they did not remember this at all.

At the club, Mikhail Nikolaevich quickly became a confidant of the Surkis brothers. For their dedicated service in the late 90s, they pushed Golitsa into the retinue of the all-powerful mayor of Kyiv, Alexander Omelchenko, who was already beginning to actively build up the capital.

In 1996, Omelchenko appointed Surkisov’s protégé as director of the Housing Department of the Kyiv City State Administration. In 1998, there was a promotion to Deputy Chairman of the Kyiv City State Administration – Head of the Main Directorate of Housing.

Thus, Mikhail Golitsa concentrated on himself the functions of a customer and investor in the construction and reconstruction of housing in the capital. He received unlimited access to funds raised for construction, concluding investment agreements, selling apartments, resettling citizens from construction sites and reconstruction buildings, and most importantly, issuing certificates of ownership of apartments, garages, dachas, non-residential premises, etc.

And Golitsa began to build. The KSCA had 100 plots of land and grandiose plans for their development. It is worth admitting that the administration at that time did not have the money for such a large-scale construction. Then Mikhail Golitsa gave 4 plots of land in the center of the capital to the young TMM office of Nikolai Tolmachev!

Nikolay Tolmachev

Within a short time, TMM put into operation a building with underground parking, security and finished apartments. Almost no one built like this before Tolmachev. He acted not only as a general contractor, but also as a customer and investor.

The tandem worked perfectly: TMM built residential complexes and gave the mayor’s office 50-60% of what was built, and Golitsa covered the rear and resolved issues related to paperwork. By 2000, Tolmachev had developed well – his TMM built almost 40,000 sq. m of housing. Mikhail Nikolaevich chose a promising company as one of the contractors for the reconstruction of the elite Bessarabia quarter in the center of Kyiv. Tolmachev built the Mandarin Plaza shopping and office complex there for businessman Vagif Aliyev.

Scams of the century “Zhitloinvestbud-UKB”

At the end of 2001, by decision of the City Council, the company “Zhitloinvestbud-UKB” was created for the construction of residential buildings, social and cultural facilities and engineering and transport infrastructure for budget funds. Of course, the decision to create the structure was made by the then chief curator of construction and housing in Kyiv, Mikhail Golitsa. “Zhitloinvestbud-UKB” consisted 100% of the authorized capital of the Kyiv City Council. All this happened with the tacit support of Alexander Omelchenko. From the first day of its existence, the company was headed by Vyacheslav Nepop.

Vyacheslav Nepop

By the way, in the future he will become a business partner of Golitsa’s wife Valentina in the Capital Construction Management LLC UKB and the service cooperative Lesnoe Ozero. Mikhail Golitsa’s daughter Olga also works in the same cooperative. This is such a family clan.

What was Zhitloinvestbud-UKB like? The construction company positioned itself as an enterprise that “does everything itself,” i.e. – builds and delivers. In fact, it turned out that Zhitloinvestbud-UKB was an intermediary: the company did not design, build or commission.

Its main purpose is to organize construction. Mikhail Golitsa, according to Skelet.Infoembodied an ideal scheme: the enterprise ordered projects from other companies, hired contractors and subcontractors who carried out the orders. The enrichment scheme worked very simply – Zhitloinvestbud-UKB transferred work to private contractors and subcontractors associated with Nepop and Golitsa, and also inflated the cost of construction and materials. All this was paid for with money from the Kyiv budget, the lion’s share of which went into the pockets of Vyacheslav Nepop and Golitsa himself.

In the life of Mikhail Golitsa, 2006 was a turning point – Leonid Chernovetsky nominated himself for the post of mayor of Kyiv and won.

Mayor Leonid Chernovetsky “became friends” with Mikhail Golitsa

The hand that fed Mikhail Nikolaevich for many years – Alexander Omelchenko tried to challenge the decision in the courts, but lost. Golitsa defected to the camp of the current government and became a reliable support for Leni Kosmos. After winning the elections, the new mayor brought his own party, the Leonid Chernovetsky Bloc, into the Kyiv City Council. Thus, Chernovetsky single-handedly began to resolve issues that were under the jurisdiction of the City Council. First of all, this concerned the distribution of land plots and the privatization of communal property. The mayor “became friends” with Mikhail Golitsa. Thanks to this tandem, another scheme of fraud was born. The company leased capital land to dubious companies, which, in turn, entered into agreements with developers. The latter built high-rise buildings and entire residential complexes, and then sold the apartments. And then there were 2 ways of development – either the houses were not legalized, because the land was not the property of the developers, or at the end of the lease period, the owner of the land laid claim to the houses and everyone who bought the apartments was asked to pay for them again.

According to this scheme, Mikhail Golitsa pulled off a major scam in 2007-08. The story happened with the buildings on Malaya Zhitomirskaya Street, known as the Murashko House and the adjacent architectural monuments, protected by the state.

Arina Dmitrieva, for Skelet.Info

CONTINUED: Golitsa Mikhail. The story of a “black realtor” from Kyiv. PART 2

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