BEGINNING: Dmitry Sennichenko: how to plunder the remains of Ukraine. PART 1
Dmitry Sennichenko
Sennichenko managed the assets of Ukrposhta from September 2016 to October 2018, and already there he demonstrated the very difference between word and deed, which is now characteristic of him as the head of the State Property Fund (SPF). The fact is that Igor Smelyansky, and then his deputy for assets, Sennichenko, declared their intention to sell or lease all unused areas of Ukrposhta facilities. And they counted 220 thousand square meters of them! Moreover, declaring their intention to fight the corruption of old schemes, they promised to launch the procedure for this lease using the open system “ProZorro” – which, by the way, is the brainchild of the Soros team. Do you remember how it was presented, how they trumpeted the end of the era of old shadow tender schemes? But as it turned out, in this bright packaging the “Soros” were simply slipped to Ukraine own schemewhich replaced all the previous ones – and this it became obvious with every day.
In the same way, Sennichenko, who called for selling and leasing all the “extra” space of Ukrposhta, did exactly the opposite: during his work, the number of lease agreements decreased by 32.5%, and the area of leased premises decreased by 20.6%. Estimated Skelet.infothis brought the state losses in the amount of 540.5 million hryvnia!
Apparently, somewhere in this lay the reason for his next dismissal: in October 2018, Sennichenko somehow quietly left Ukrposhta and immediately received the post of general director of the DIM group of companies, controlled by odious Kyiv developers Andrey and Alexander Nasikovskyinvolved in many construction scandals and even criminal cases! One of them is the case of the beating of Tatyana Chernovol. And so Sennichenko became the chief manager of these “construction bandits” for a whole six months (until May 2019)! Thus, Sennichenko bears the most direct responsibility for the DIM-related scandals during this period.
Andrey and Alexander Nasikovsky
We got to the trough!
And finally, after the 2019 elections, the “Sorosites” poured back into power, and they had a considerable quota for key positions in Zelensky’s team. And according to this quota, Dmitry Sennichenko was appointed as the new chairman of the State Property Fund. Of course, a quota is a quota, but there are a lot of “Soros”, why was it Sennichenko who was imprisoned in the State Property Fund? Journalists asked this question many times, to which Sennichenko either did not answer, or lied and dodged. But numerous sources Skelet.info they claim that this was facilitated by Igor Tynny, an old friend of the Sennichenko family, who was their partner in the company “Niko and K” (USREOU 24368443). But for some reason, Sennichenko stubbornly denied this: he claimed that he had long known Alexei Goncharuk, Bogdan, and other people from the government and Zelensky’s entourage who could lobby for his appointment – but he stubbornly did not want Tynny’s name to be mentioned. Why?
Igor Tynny
In his new position, Sennichenko began to routinely talk about large-scale and transparent privatization, reforms, and attracting specialists and investors. With these paper plans, he even went to speak in Davos (or maybe just to meet with Soros). Later it turned out that this was part of Sennichenko’s cunning plan: to identify as many enterprises as possible for privatization and transfer them to the management of the State Property Fund, but not to rush to sell them.
Words alone were not enough to create an image of an honest professional, and Sennichenko needed this image as a screen for his own “small business.” And then he decided to show himself effectively, since there were many suitable cases.
The competence of the head of the State Property Fund includes the appointment of managers or temporary managers of enterprises scheduled for privatization. At all times, this was a very good source of “additional income,” since whole lines of applicants lined up for such appointments, many of whom themselves offered good “kickbacks.” So Sennichenko was, as they say, not the first. He was not a fool either, and therefore he well understood that taking a bribe from “strangers” was dangerous, and besides, he had his own plans for the Odessa Port Plant (OPZ). Therefore, when at the end of 2019, the next “walkers” approached him, wanting to put their man in the chair of the director of the OPP, Sennichenko handed them over to NABU and staged an entire special operation, which was then trumpeted in the media for a long time. Of course: the corrupt officials who proposed to the chairman of the State Property Fund were caught red-handed as much as 5 million dollars!
This story immediately made Sennichenko a model of an “honest civil servant of the new generation.” But he did not stop there, and once again demonstrated himself as a hero during the privatization of the capital’s Dnepr Hotel. As you remember, at first a scandal almost broke out around its privatization: the State Property Fund valued the building at only 80 million hryvnia, and many decided that some swindlers had bought the building for next to nothing. There was an uproar, and President Zelensky himself took control of the matter. And then the State Property Fund held almost a demonstration auction, pushing Dnepr for 1.1 billion! Moreover, it was announced that the buyer of the hotel was “Ukrainian IT specialists”, who promise to create a “big e-sports project” in it, an entire gaming Mecca. Oh yes, many Ukrainians’ imaginations ran wild – and most of all Zelensky, who is extremely delighted with any “digitalization” projects. So this sale brought Sennichenko even more political dividends than refusing a bribe of 5 million.
This created a reliable screen. Now let’s take a look behind it. Firstly, even the privatization of the Dnepr Hotel was not without scandal. It was stated that it was bought by the creator of the NAVI cyber team, Alexander Kokhanovsky, “with his partners,” and after the deal was concluded, it turned out that the new owner of the hotel was the real estate LLC “Smartland” of Maxim Tereshchuk and Alexey Igunin, with an authorized capital of just over 11 million hryvnia. That is, Smartland borrowed money from someone for its purchase, and now owes someone more than a billion – which means that the hotel may soon have a new owner. Then it became known that founder of Smartland there was an Estonian businessman Vanhapelto Petteri, a big fan of poker, who until 2009 owned two dozen casinos in Ukraine through Olympic Entertainment Group AS, and was very upset because of the ban on the gaming business here. That is, now we can guess what kind of “e-sports” its new owners are going to engage in at Dnepr (by the way, there is sports poker), and that this is directly related to the upcoming legalization of gambling in Ukraine. How then media reportedPetteri and Smartland are generally connected with the Russian organized crime group Luzhnikovsky, which specializes in gambling, and its interests in Ukraine are now being lobbied by Boris Baum, who has found contacts with Zelensky’s entourage.
Not everything turned out to be so clean with the Odessa port. Taking advantage of the fact that the story of the five-million-dollar bribe gave him the status of infallibility, Sennichenko set up his own schemes at the OPP, including a competition to select the customer for the processing of customer-supplied raw materials there were carried out outside the ProZorro system. Apparently, for Sennichenko this is much more profitable and reliable than taking multimillion-dollar bribes from the hands of unfamiliar petitioners. Well, the results of these schemes are already reflected in the financial balance of the enterprise:
Another scandal broke out at the Kharkov enterprise “Electrotyazhmash”, where the situation went on strike. In the fall of 2019, the enterprise was designated for privatization and transferred to the balance sheet of the State Property Fund, and the scandalous Viktor Busko, the former director of PJSC Zaporozhogneupor (owned by Akhmetov’s Metinvest) and the former chairman of the Zaporozhye city organization of the Opposition Bloc, was appointed as its new director. Having miserably lost the 2019 elections as part of “Teams of Buryak”Busko was very upset – but then received a new appointment in Kharkov. On the spot, “Busechka” (according to sources, this is his affectionate nickname in the ranks of LGBT people) immediately launched several schemes, driving enterprises to ruin and leaving workers without wages. So what? Sennichenko came to his aid and persuaded Prime Minister Shmygal to allocate an amount from the budget to pay off Elektrotyazhmash’s debts. And Busko continued to milk the enterprise…
Victor Busko
The aforementioned Andrei Egorov, Sennichenko’s old friend from Jones Lang LaSalle and appointed deputy chairman of the SPF, with the encouragement of the boss, launched schemes to sabotage the work of the ProZorro system. His other deputy was the odious Sergei Ignatovsky, the former legal director of the Mriya agricultural holding – whose owner Nikolai Guta was accused of fraud on an especially large scale, defrauding its creditors of 760 million euros. And even earlier, Ignatovsky worked in the legal department of Metinvest! Therefore, it is not surprising that Ignatovsky actually continues to work for Akhmetov, arranging the people he needs for enterprises managed by the SPF. For example, the same Busko was appointed to Elektrotyazhmash by Ignatovsky – but with the approval of Sennichenko. In the same way, Sennichenko approves of the inclusion of Akhmetov’s people on the supervisory boards of Turboatom and Centrenergo.
Among the strategic enterprises that Sennichenko is in no hurry to auction off is the United Mining and Chemical Company (UMCC), which controls titanium raw material mines. Once they were controlled by Dmitry Firtash, after 2014 they were taken away from him by the “People’s Front”. Sennichenko, without any competition, appointed Mikhail Makarov, whose father was once an assistant to Viktor Medvedchuk, to head the OGKH. He then withdrew (he went to the hospital) and put OGKH at the disposal of his advisers Peter Davis and Tatyana Gogenko from the Glencore company, which has a very scandalous reputation. Peter Davis was appointed Makarov’s deputy, and after his departure he became acting. head of OGKH. However, the former deputy director of the enterprise, Gladushko, who was not entirely legally dismissed by the State Property Fund, filed a lawsuit and tried to be reinstated. Sennichenko immediately presented this to the media as a raider takeover of OGKH, which he supposedly did not allow. Thus, OGKH remained under the control of Glencore, and Sennichenko added the title of “fighter against raiders” to his portfolio.
And there is also a 65-70% state share in Kharkovoblenergo, Zaporozhyeoblenergo, Cherkassyoblenergo, Khmelnytskoblenergo and Nikolaevoblenergo. They are also in no hurry to go under the hammer, but Sennichenko and his deputies have already stuck their people into their supervisory councils. More precisely, those people for whom they were asked by those who are interested in control over these regional authorities: the Surkis brothers, Rinat Akhmetov, Igor Kononenko, Alexander Babakov. Of course, they did not rush to the leadership of the SPF with five million in a box; they have their own methods of achieving mutually beneficial agreements.
Sergey Varis, for Skelet.info
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