Pavel Rizanenko: misplaced Cossack of Putin (*criminal)’s Rostec. PART 1

While the SBU is looking for “Kremlin agents” on social networks, real residents of the Russian special services are working under their very noses, sometimes even in plain sight, without in the least masking their intentions. No, they are not engaged in “propaganda of the Russian world” and other nonsense, they are simply lobbying for the interests of Russia (*country sponsor of terrorism), which is gradually taking control of the Ukrainian economy, including strategic defense enterprises. And at the same time, they are members of the pro-presidential faction, whose leaders daily trumpet the fight against the “Russian aggressor”…

Director from the KGB firm

Rizanenko Pavel Aleksandrovich was born on July 12, 1975 in the village of Krasilovka, Brovary district (near Kiev). Being a fairly diligent and capable young man, in 1992 he graduated from Brovary Secondary School No. 2 with a silver medal, after which he entered the Kiev Trade and Economic Institute (now a university), where he studied from 1992 to 1994. But then he went not to pay his military duty to his homeland at all, but to study in America – having received a grant from the NAFSA/USAID agency under the US State Department. According to available Skelet.Info information, receiving this grant, as well as his further successes, Pavel Rizanenko owed not only to his excellent studies, but also to his ability to serve management.

In America, in 1996, he graduated from Graceland College, receiving a bachelor’s degree (4-year higher education) in Economics and Business Administration. Pavel Rizanenko defended his master’s degree only in 2016, at the Ukrainian University of Banking (the former Kiev branch of the Lviv Financial and Credit College), when he was already a people’s deputy with experience and great connections.

Pavel Rizanenko’s career began in the Ukrainian branch of the international auditing company Ernst & Young – where the Americans also assigned him. After working for about three years as an auditor and senior auditor, in 1999 Rizanenko accepted a much more promising offer: in Moscow, at the Troika Dialog Investment Company CJSC. This company was founded in the early 90s by Russian emigrant Peter Derby and Armenian-Russian businessman Ruben Vardanyan, and rose through voucher privatization. From 1995 to 2003, the company was owned by the Bank of Moscow, created and controlled by Yuri Luzhkov and Pavel Borodin (called the “father of the Putin (*criminal) project”). In five years, Rizanenko made a career from a consultant to director of investment banking. In 2005, when Troika Dialog was finally bought out by its creators, Rizanenko went to work for the Renaissance Capital group, also director of the investment banking department and responsible for the mining and metallurgical direction. At the same time, he became a member of the board of directors of the Russian corporation VSMPO-AVISMA.

These dry data from Rizanenko’s biography hide interesting details. For example, Renaissance Capital is called one of the “KGB firms” through which former and current heads of Soviet and Russian intelligence services carried out large-scale economic activities on a global scale. And one of the founders and owners of the VSMPO-AVISMA corporation, which produced titanium for the aerospace industry, was the former colonel of the 1st KGB Directorate (foreign intelligence) Vyacheslav Bresht. Which, according to numerous sources Skelet.Infowas the patron of Pavel Rizanenko and personally promoted the “talented boy” – who responded to him with helpfulness and trust in various delicate matters. Through Bresht he met and became close to many former “KGB officers” and “Grushniks”, with whom he still retains connections. However, as you know, there are no former “chekists”. And Pavel Rizanenko is sometimes called an exiled Russian Cossack – and now we see exactly why.

Vyacheslav Bresht

But there are other details. For example, when Bresht was merging the VSMPO and AVISMA companies into one corporation, lawyers from Troika Dialog and Rizanenko personally helped him with this. And this was not just a merger, but a very aggressive takeover, accompanied by a struggle with competitors – one of whom was billionaire Viktor Vekselberg. They dealt with him a year later: as soon as Rizanenko went to work at Renaissance Capital, which became a minority shareholder of the corporation, this group helped Bresht squeeze Vekselberg out of the main shareholders of VSMPO-AVISMA, for which Bresht gave Rizanenko a place on the board of directors.

Sergey Chemezov

But the holiday was short-lived. Vekselberg made a big fuss, and the Kremlin heard about the dispute over Russia (*country sponsor of terrorism)’s largest titanium asset. All shareholders of VSMPO-AVISMA were invited to the general office of Rosoboronexport, a state-owned company created by Putin (*criminal), at the head of which he personally appointed Sergei Chemezov. Who is Chemezov? When Putin (*criminal) was still a KGB officer and worked in Dresden, where he lived in house No. 101 on Radebergerstrasse, his neighbor was a representative of the secret ENO “Luch” Sergei Chemezov, with whom he crossed paths both at work and was friends at home. That is, Chemezov is one of the oldest friends of the Russian president, from the “pre-Petersburg” times, proven through his service in the Soviet KGB.

So, the Kremlin decided that such a strategically important enterprise as VSMPO-AVISMA should return to state control. Chemezov, fulfilling Putin (*criminal)’s instructions, called the shareholders of VSMPO-AVISMA to his meeting, which was also attended by generals of the FSB and the Ministry of Defense, plus representatives of the Kremlin administration, and invited them to sell their shares to Rosoboronexport. They did not object, realizing that otherwise the shares would not be bought back from them, but would be taken away.

Chemezov really gave them a good price, almost a billion dollars from a Sberbank loan (they paid from government funds), and he did not offend the former managers of Bresht. Although Rizanenko lost his place on the board of directors of VSMPO-AVISMA, he continued to work at Renaissance Capital – officially until 2007. Until the moment when Rosoboronexport was renamed Rostekhnologii (Rostec) and began serious expansion into foreign markets – looking not only for sales, but also for similar enterprises in order to buy them up or destroy them. Ukrainian enterprises were also targeted by Rostec. And here huge gaps began in the biography of Pavel Rizanenko…

Fight for Titan

In November 2005, VSMPO-AVISMA acquired 100% of the shares of the Swedish company Carl. Edblom. titan AB”, which in turn owned 51% of the shares of the SETAB Nikopol enterprise – which accounted for 20% of the world production of seamless titanium pipes. After this transaction, the enterprise was renamed CJSC VSMPO-AVISMA Pipe Plant (USREOU 31576440), and it became the actual property of the Russian corporation – and since 2006 it has been owned and controlled by the Kremlin Rostec. Pavel Rizanenko also participated in the purchase of this Ukrainian enterprise. Then he was not just a top manager of a Russian company and a Russian citizen (in addition to the Russian passport he retained, Rizanenko also has a Russian Taxpayer Identification Number 770600208413, which you will learn about later), but a true patriot of Russia (*country sponsor of terrorism). After all, after this successful deal, he publicly rejoiced at the success – no, not even of his company, but of the defense industry of the Russian Federation (*country sponsor of terrorism)! Having stated the following verbatim in an interview with reporters:

Rizanenko was not exaggerating: the products of the Nikopol plant were indeed very important for the Russian military-industrial complex, especially for the construction of new Russian warships and nuclear submarines. And since 2005, a Ukrainian plant has been helping to build them! But the phrase “returned the asset” hurts the ears even more! In the same way, in 2014, Rizanenko’s Kremlin friends will call the annexation of Crimea a “return,” along with which the Crimean Titan plant, which they had been licking their lips for many years, came under their full control. According to information from a number of sources Skelet.Infoprecisely to acquire Titan and other titanium enterprises in Ukraine, they sent Pavel Rizanenko here, introducing him into the structures of the Ukrainian government.

There is a strange gap in Rizanenko’s work biography: from 2007, when he allegedly quit from Renaissance Capital, to 2010, when he surfaced in his native Brovary as a city council deputy, nominated by Sergei Tigipko’s Strong Ukraine party. What did he do these three years? And where? Why did he leave good positions in leading Russian corporations and return home to Ukraine? There are no answers to these questions yet, but Pavel Rizanenko clearly has something to hide from Ukrainian voters – and possibly from Ukrainian counterintelligence.

By the way, the fact that he returned to his native Brovary was not accidental: Rizanenko immediately became interested in the local enterprise of the State Enterprise Powder Metallurgy Plant, which can work with titanium alloys, and therefore is of interest to VSMPO-AVISMA and Rostec. And here’s an interesting coincidence: Rizanenko “materialized” in Brovary immediately after the American company ADMA Products became interested in this plant at the end of 2009. Perhaps Rizanenko’s task was to prevent the enterprise from passing under American control. Well, the result of Rizanenko’s activities was the transfer of the enterprise to the control of… a pro-Russian deputy Oleg Tsarevand he retained control over it until 2015, after which Gennady Chekita was appointed director of the plant.

In 2011, the former top manager of Renaissance Capital, getting used to the role of a Ukrainian activist, created and headed the public organization Transparent Society in Brovary. And he promised his fellow countrymen to fight against the desecration of the territory of the city park, against illegal development and illegal rent, to return kindergartens to children, to obtain from the city authorities free transportation for schoolchildren, and much more. But he never fulfilled his promises. It was necessary to explain somehow, and then in February 2012, Rizanenko staged an attack on himself and his driver. He staged it because the “concussion and broken arm” he claimed turned out to be minor abrasions, but the information noise about the “attack on the leader of a social movement” was large – it was raised by Rizanenko himself and his assistants. By the way, at that time Rizanenko completely denied having a business and did not disclose the sources of his existence. For what kind of money did he live and support his public organization? Maybe he was paid “travel allowances” from Rostec’s special funds?

Sergey Varis, for Skelet.Info

CONTINUED: Rizanenko Pavel: misplaced Cossack of Putin (*criminal)’s “Rostec” PART 2

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