Ruslan Tsyplakov: will “Tsypa” have enough money to avoid becoming a roasted rooster?

Ruslan Tsyplakov is a difficult bird in the “feathered family” of businessmen. After all, the seemingly ordinary six Yanukovychs, “Tsypa,” managed to accumulate a multimillion-dollar fortune, escape abroad, and even under the new government continue to milk Ukraine. Therefore, there is no doubt about the presence of Tsypa’s patrons among the current powers that be. So, who from Petro Poroshenko’s team warmed the Donetsk “chick” under their wing? Skelet.Info will look into it…

Ruslan Tsyplakov. Chick in the “Family” nest

Ruslan Petrovich Tsyplakov was born in Donetsk in 1975 into a family of engineers. Graduated from Donetsk National University (master’s degree, specialty “personnel management and labor economics”). In the UK, he completed training in the Human Resources Management and Financial Management programs at the Institute of Professional Financial Managers (IPFM).

Since 1997, Tsyplakov has been the founder of a number of companies in the field of non-ferrous metals trading and has been involved in export-import. In 2003, he became the Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the PJSC CB Pivdenkombank group, and in 2004 took over the management of the holding company Donbassinvestgroup CJSC (after renaming – METAL UNION CJSC).

Before Viktor Yanukovych became president, Ukraine did not know Ruslan Tsyplakov, but 2010 helped the little-noticeable Donetsk citizen soar to the skies, because Tsyplakov is a Donetsk entrepreneur, a friend of the officially deceased Yanukovych Jr., and that says it all.

Ukrainians most often associate the name of Ruslan Tsyplakov with Ukrplastinvest LLC, which he once headed, as well as with the already mentioned Pivdenkombank. And many don’t even suspect what else the Donetsk “chick” was up to.

“I started work in quite interesting times: some characters then managed to earn millions several times a year, go bankrupt, earn money again, lose everything again and again, get back on their feet. At the beginning, our metal trading company was very small; there were dozens, or even hundreds, of them in the country. But one day I managed to sign a contract with a large German company for a fairly large amount of money and take the business to a new level. Then work began on a different level. I fully understood the meaning of the word “responsibility”. This is not just creating a product and expecting profit, these are calculations and guarantees that need to be given and answered for.”– so modestly in 2012 Tsyplakov talked about the beginning of his working career in the dashing 90s.

Already in 2008, Tsyplakov could afford a trump Rolls-Royce (the cost in 2008 was about 700 thousand dollars).

At the same time, the businessman’s security drove a Range Rover with Donetsk license plates:

The businessman claims that he acquired his wealth exclusively through personal labor. However, it has long been known that this could not have happened without the protection of Yanukovych Sr. After all, Tsyplakov owes his wealth to his “family”; the businessman’s enrichment occurred solely because he was a pawn in a big game and helped transfer the assets of Ukrainian enterprises abroad. Naturally, they shared it with him. For example, until 2011, CB Pivdenkombank was in the group of “small” banks, essentially being a “pocket bank” of a group of business partners of Donetsk origin. In less than a year, the bank under the leadership of Tsyplakov, thanks to Yanukovych’s team, reached 9th position in the top “middle peasants” (in total there were 21 banks in the top). During this time, its authorized capital increased to UAH 300 million. Already in 2013, Pivdenkombank became 36th in the top 176 largest banks in Ukraine.

One can only envy the business acumen of Donetsk “Tsypa”, because even while in exile (more on that later), he continues to earn money in and in Ukraine. So, in 2015, a new food chain appeared in Kyiv. The Legion 2015 company opened two discount stores under the Pchelka-Market brand. One of the co-founders is Tsyplakov.

Chicken by the grain…

Under Yanukovych, the previously inconspicuous businessman Tsyplakov regularly found himself at the center of the loudest scandals. Naturally, all the scandals were related to financial scams. All this is because the dirtiest work was transferred to “Tsypa”, which he, by the way, performed in good faith.

So, in February 2013, in an alliance with the president’s son, Tsyplakov received almost 2.5 billion hryvnia from Ukrtarnsgaz. Businessmen were helped to get rich by successful tenders won by Donetsk-controlled companies Turbolinks, Ukrturboremont, Turbotrade, Trade Group Style LLC and Prominvestavtomatika from Ukrtarnsgaz.

The bulk of the money was laundered through Trade Group Style LLC. It is noteworthy that when registering the company, its founder indicated a telephone number that belonged to the Donetsk branch of Pivdenkombank. After this scheme surfaced in the media, Tsyplakov and his accomplices began to buy publications from journalists, and for any money.

It is also known that in January 2013, Tsyplakov and his “family” attempted to “squeeze” PJSC Naftogazvidobuvannya, which was then owned by Verkhovna Rada deputies Nestor Shufrich and Nikolai Rudkovsky. By the way, Shufrich’s shares previously belonged to Petro Poroshenko. However, after the scandal with Viktor Medvedchuk and the Surkis brothers, Poroshenko was thrown out of this business with a kick in the ass.

But let’s return to Tsyplakov. And so, on the eve of the raider takeover, unknown persons kidnapped the nominal co-owner of the company – its director Oleg Seminsky. In the end, the businessman was never found. It is assumed that he was killed by Tsyplakov’s people on the orders of the “family”.

Literally immediately after the incident, Verkhovna Rada deputy from Batkivshchyna, Alexander Briginets, said that Shufrych, directly at a meeting in the Cabinet of Ministers, accused Energy Minister Eduard Stavitsky of illegally suspending the license of Naftogazvidobuvannya and extorting a 30% share of the enterprise for renewing the license.

Immediately after these events, the company that provided security for the enterprise suddenly changed. And Tsyplakov’s people from the security agency Skat-PKB LLC came to Naftogazvidobuvannya. Yakov Proskurnia was immediately appointed head of the board. His wife at that time was a member of the board of METAL-UNION.

As soon as the enterprise came under the control of Tsyplakov, the District Administrative Court of Kyiv lifted the ban on gas production, suspending the order of the State Service of Geology and Subsoil dated November 22, 2012 No. 565. and gave the Donetsk businessman a free hand.

But Tsyplakov’s happiness did not last long, at first he clashed with the co-owner of the enterprise, Rudkovsky, and when he tried to squeeze him out of the business, it completely failed, a bigger fish intervened – 25% of the assets went to Rinat Akhmetov.

It is worth mentioning another high-profile scandal involving “Tsypa”. It is known that Tsyplakov was convicted of beating an associate of Pastor Sunday Adelaja. This happened in 2007. Two unknown men broke into his office in the Kievsky district of Donetsk and beat fellow pastor Innocent Ezuma until he lost consciousness. Three days later, unknown persons attacked the Nigerian for the second time. Right in the hospital they beat him with steel bars, it even came to the point of shooting him with a machine gun. The poor man was saved by the Titan security service. By the way, despite two facts of attack on a Nigerian, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the prosecutor’s office refused to initiate a criminal case.

In turn, Ezuma claimed that he was attacked by his former partner Igor Derevlev and his accomplice Ruslan Tsyplakov. The cause of the infighting was the company FSO Nigerian Limited, co-founded by a Donetsk resident and a Nigerian citizen.

After the company began to generate good income, Derevlev decided to bring Tsyplakov into the share. “Tsypa,” in turn, demanded that he be appointed director and Euzuma removed. Since physical pressure did not produce results, Tsyplakov decided to fight for the shares through the court, but the case did not work out.

By the way, in his free time from financial scams, Tsyplakov often participated in races in the Ferrari Team Ukraine, whose honorary president was V. Yanukovych Jr. Both comrades were co-owners of the team. In addition, since 2010, Tsyplakov was a co-founder of the “Federation of Motorcycle Sports in the Donetsk Region,” and since December 2011, he and Viktor Yanukovych were members of the Presidium of the Federation of Motorists of Ukraine.

In 2014, when Yanukovych’s flight was already a matter of time, facts of Tsyplakov’s participation in the events on the Maidan began to emerge. Information appeared on one of the Ukrainian information sites that this Ruslan Tsyplakov was involved in distributing weapons to “titushki”. According to the source, the mass executions of Ukrainian activists were supposed to begin on February 21, but there were “small” casualties – the “gun” did not fire in the end. In turn, the GPU even listed Tsyplakov as a defendant in the case of shooting Maidan protesters… only things are still there… Makhnitsky (information on him: Oleg Makhnitsky: is there a limit to the shamelessness of the former “Maidan prosecutor”), Shokin, Lutsenko…. No one could, or rather did not want, to pluck “Tsypa”.

But at the beginning of this year, the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine became more active around the figure of the Donetsk businessman. The investigation into the case of the withdrawal of billions of hryvnia from Pivdenkombank, behind which Ruslan Tsyplakov stood, began to gain momentum. Thus, in January, the Pechersky District Court of Kyiv, at the request of the GPU, authorized the seizure of documents from a number of Ukrainian banks. The whole fuss was started with the goal of identifying those responsible for driving financial institutions to bankruptcy. Among these persons appears Tsyplakov. The Prosecutor General’s Office is confident that “Tsypa” is guilty of theft of funds from the accounts of PJSC CB Pivdenkombank during 2011-2014. And by the way, not much, not little, was lost – more than 3.3 billion hryvnia. Tsyplakov used a fairly simple scheme – shell companies and offshore companies. Thus, PJSC CB Pivdenkombank provided fabulous loans to fly-by-night companies. The bulk of them were issued on the eve of Yanukovych’s flight. By the way, an interesting fact is that at the same time the NBU issued a stabilization loan to Pivdenkombank in the amount of 180 million hryvnia, and these funds were immediately wasted by shell companies and companies with a dubious reputation. Among them are such Donetsk companies as Splav Finance and Spektr-Energo-Don. In addition, at the end of March 2014, the Novigator N company received a loan in the amount of UAH 163 million, the borrower’s guarantor was Yuzhkombank, which allegedly kept the deposits of the company’s owner, a resident of the Donetsk hostel, Vladislav Tkachenko. All 163 million UAH. As a result, they were withdrawn through Yanukovych’s family bank, Radical Bank. You can count at least a dozen similar examples. The same scheme was used everywhere.

We will not hide the fact that Tsyplakov robbed not a single Ukrainian bank. For example, in 2014, the National Bank of Ukraine decided to finally liquidate Avtokrazbank (AKB Bank). The bank was classified as insolvent. Have you already guessed who controlled the bank? Naturally Tsyplakov.

Ruslan Tsyplakov. Fried chicken

Naturally, when in 2014 there was a smell of something fried, so as not to singe the feathers, “Tsypa” fled from Ukraine. This happened after information appeared in the media about his alleged detention by law enforcement officers on suspicion of participation in the execution of Maidan protesters. At first, Tsyplakov denied the fact of his arrest, and later disappeared from the view of the media. However, according to data Skelet.Info (probability – 90%), Tsyplakov was arrested, but was able to pay off and leave Ukraine. According to the SBU, Tsyplakov is hiding in Russia (*country sponsor of terrorism). U Skelet.Info There is also other information. But more on that a little later.

Tsyplakov was also caught stealing hundreds of millions of hryvnia from Ukrtransgaz. The theft of funds was carried out by structures close to the Donetsk businessman. By the way, the GPU has been investigating this case for more than two years, although, as usual, to no avail. “As a result of the influence of senior state officials and their entourage, during 2010-2014, the heads of the DC PJSC Ukrtransgaz NJSC Naftogaz of Ukraine together with the heads of Prominvestavtomatika LLC, Turbotrade LLC, Turbolinks LLC, Yunas LLC Group”, LLC “Trade Group Style”, LLC “Aqua Modern”, LLC “Style-Torg”, LLC “Europrom 2012”, LLC “Irtek”, LLC “Ispirit LTD” theft of public funds was committed by organizing the purchase of goods and works and services of the indicated controlled enterprises of the DC PJSC “Ukrtransgaz” NJSC “Naftogaz of Ukraine” at significantly inflated prices,” the GPU notes.

Criminal proceedings were opened back in April 2014. The case file states that the thefts were carried out “by organizing the purchase of goods, works and services from controlled enterprises at significantly inflated prices, which caused losses to the state.” In total, about 650 million UAH were stolen.

The investigation indicates that the suspects include officials of Ukrtransgaz, who acted in the interests of certain contracting companies associated with the name of Tsyplakov. All these companies are registered to dummies, students, low-income people, and homeless people. But, remarkably, the contractors managed to rob Ukraine twice. Already under the new government, they achieved court decisions to recover hundreds of millions of hryvnias from Ukrtransgaz in their favor.

Another scandal unfolded around the name “Tsypy” in 2014 against the backdrop of the “Donbass revolution.” Then Tsyplakov was credited with being related to the famous Donetsk separatist Sergei Tsyplakov, with whom he called himself the deputy “people’s governor of the Donetsk region.”

However, according to information Skelet.Infothere is no connection between the leader of the nationalist organization Russian National Unity (RNE) and Tsypa. Yes, Ruslan Tsyplakov really has a brother, Sergei, but he was never the “deputy people’s governor” of Pavel Gubarev.

Nevertheless, an interesting point remains a blank spot in Tsyplakov’s biography. In 2014, during the “Russian Spring”, Ruslan Tsyplakov sold his Terra Bank. The deal cost several tens of millions of dollars. The buyer was financier Sergei Klimenko. However, on the eve of the transaction, employees of the SBU and the Ministry of Internal Affairs searched two regional branches of Tsyplakov’s other bank, Pivdenkombank. Then several million “black” hryvnia were allegedly seized. The media linked this event with Tsyplakov’s suspicion of financing the “Russian invasion.”

And so, despite all of the above, even today Tsyplakov continues to make money in Ukraine. Although he hastily withdrew from the shareholders of his holding structure, the companies continue to bring money to Tsypa without any hindrance. As they say in business circles, it can’t do without good kickbacks.

Where did the fugitive “Chick” build his nest?

We have already noted that, according to the SBU, Tsyplakov is hiding in Russia (*country sponsor of terrorism), namely in Moscow. However Skelet.Info managed to get other information. So, a Donetsk businessman equipped a family nest in Geneva. In 2014, he moved into the residence with his wife and two sons.

Tsyplakov’s eldest son, Vladislav, is an active user of social networks, although he often tries to hide behind various nicknames.

Judging by the guy’s photographs, he, like his father, is interested in expensive cars and auto racing. Well, of course, he’s not in poverty.

The youngest son of a Donetsk businessman, Alexander, is still a schoolboy. His social media life is less active. However, both sons exposed the runaway daddy.

Namely, in their profiles the guys noted their place of residence – this is Geneva. At the same time, the eldest son Vladislav posted a photo of his car with Swiss license plates. The first photo dates back to 2013.

From this we can conclude that Ruslan Tsyplakov has another “airfield” in the homeland of Mikheil Saakashvili.

“Russian Spring” in the Tsyplakov family

We managed to find out another interesting fact by studying the profile on the social network of Ruslan Tsyplakov’s niece, Yana Tsyplakova (Kolosova by her husband).

It is noteworthy that the girl lives in Donetsk with her husband Vitaly Kolosov.

And judging by the photo, the married couple are active participants in the “Russian Spring”.

By the way, Vita Kolosova makes her living by making jewelry and selling it not on the territory of the “DPR”, but on the territory of Ukraine. At this time, her father, Sergei Tsyplakov, continues to de facto manage his brother’s enterprises in Ukraine.

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Well, that’s actually the whole story of the Donetsk “chicken” – Ruslan Tsyplakov. The most interesting thing about it is the fact that even with a change of power, “Tsypa” manages to remain warmed up by some influential group and continue to suck out the assets of Ukrainian enterprises according to the “family” schemes.

Valeria Romanova, for Skelet.Info

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