Sergei Firemark: “privatizer”, “supervisor” and “servant of the people”. PART 1

After the announcement of early parliamentary elections, some odious representatives of the old government are trying to find a place for themselves in the new one. They are already clinging to the rails of the political train “Servant of the People”, looking for and buying a place for themselves in its carriages. Among others, Sergei Firemark, a scandalous corrupt official from the Popular Front, in the past known as “Yatsenyuk’s wallet”, and now has become “Avakov’s wallet,” intends to settle there.

According to information Skelet.Infothe so-called Arsen Avakov’s group, which includes NF people’s deputies Anton Gerashchenko, Alexander Kirsh, Evgeniy Deydey and Sergei Faermark.

Krivoy Rog residents of Odessa

Known for many years as a resident of Odessa, Sergei Alexandrovich Firemark was born on March 14, 1962 in Krivoy Rog. There he graduated from high school No. 73, and then entered the Krivoy Rog Mining Institute (now part of the Krivoy Rog National University), where he studied from 1979 to 1984 with a degree in civil engineering. And then for three years he worked as a foreman for installing steel pipes in SU-125 of the Krivorozhstalkonstruktsiya trust.

Judging by his biography, he never served in the army, but it was very difficult to “switch off” from it at that time. Apparently, his parents were very frightened by the prospect that their son would be part of a construction battalion in Afghanistan, and they tried to prevent this. It is interesting that in November 2013, Sergei Faermark, being a people’s deputy from Batkivshchyna, introduced to the Rada bill No. 3533which would significantly soften the punishment for evading military duty. Instead of criminal liability, Firemark proposed limiting the punishment of conscripts hiding from the military registration and enlistment office to a fine of 5100-6800 hryvnia (one and a half of the then average monthly salary). This bill was a real gift for Putin (*criminal) and Girkin, because just four months later the famous events began in Crimea and then in Donbass. And if Firemark’s bill had been adopted, the mobilization could well have failed. Fortunately for Ukraine, they did not have time to consider the bill, and a year later Firemark withdrew it out of harm’s way. Vague suspicions arise here: it is known that the operation to annex Crimea was prepared in advance, so was Firemark’s bill part of Putin (*criminal)’s plan?

However, this was not the only dubious initiative from the people’s deputy of Firemark. In January 2014, he appealed to the Cabinet of Ministers with a demand to include in the budget the costs of paying pensions to 32 thousand former citizens of Ukraine who emigrated to Israel. However, there Firemark at least referred to interstate agreements between Ukraine and Israel. But why is the People’s Deputy of Ukraine so worried about the pension provision of Israelis? The answer is obvious: Sergei Firemark is a born Jew. His nationality opened the doors to Chabad for him, and there he became close to influential people who helped him make a career as a businessman and people’s deputy. First of all, this Vladimir Nemirovskywith whom Firemark was familiar from his studies at the institute.

From 1984 to 1996, Sergey Aleksandrovich Firemark first worked in his specialty in construction departments, and then in the sintering shop of the Krivoy Rog Mining and Processing Plant, reaching the position of head of the department for the overhaul of household equipment. And then suddenly, on the basis of this workshop, Krivbasrudremont OJSC arose, whose chief marketer in 1996 was Firemark. And a year later, he already became deputy director for economics of the Kirov Mining Administration, which is part of the Central Mining and Processing Plant. This rapid career leap of Firemark coincided with three events: he became an active member of the Jewish community, the privatization of mining enterprises began in Krivoy Rog, and Vladimir Nemirovsky was appointed chairman of the supervisory board of OJSC Krivoy Rog Central Ore Repair Plant.

Vladimir Nemirovsky

However, there were also rumors about his quick resignation: allegedly Nemirovsky wanted to continue the “cleansing” of Odessa with the hands of “ultras” and radicals, in order to deal with his competitors and opponents on this wave, primarily the Angret-Trukhanov clan. This was necessary both for taking full power in the city, since local elections were approaching, and for the subsequent redistribution of business and flows in Odessa. But this threatened a new wave of unrest, fraught with the emergence of another front, and Nemirovsky was replaced by Igor Palitsa, Kolomoisky’s trusted man. Under which the “fight against separatists” in Odessa was entrusted to the SBU (Semochko, Gritsak), and the “patriots” began to seize enterprises for Privat (Odessa Oil Refinery and others).

With all this, Nemirovsky for many years remained one of the leaders of the Krivoy Rog Jewish community and the head of the local fund of Jewish businessmen (at the local Chabad branch), replenishing it with Odessa money – with which synagogues and a Jewish school were built in Krivoy Rog. Well, perhaps it’s worth noting that the same “Chabad” connects Nemirovsky and Firemark with Kolomoisky – which means that the chain can be extended further to Vladimir Zelensky.

How to steal a rope factory

Sergey Faermark and Vladimir Nemirovsky ended up in Odessa in 2001, during the “squeezing out” of the local rope plant. And a year before that, on December 21, 2000, Sergei Faermark, a certified civil engineer and deputy director, suddenly retrained as a banker – and headed the territorial off-balance branch of the UkrSibBank branch in Krivoy Rog. Not for long, just a few months. But behind this short line in Firemark’s biography lies a whole page in the history of the great Ukrainian “privatization”.

Alexander Yaroslavsky

In the period 1998-2000 Krivoy Rog mining and processing plants began to be taken over by Kharkov oligarch Alexander Yaroslavsky, who inherited UkrSibBank from his father-in-law Alexander Maselsky. The plants became one of his “investments,” so to speak. The fact is that, according to Skelet.Infothis was not an honest privatization, even for pennies, but a fraudulent takeover of enterprises through bankruptcy schemes, followed by taking them into management and buying them out for debts. The components of these schemes were firms through which enterprises went bankrupt, and banks that provided loans to enterprises, with which the enterprises were driven into debt. The simplest, classic scheme: products are sold through a commercial company, which takes all the profits, and the company pays its expenses with the help of bank loans issued against property or shares. More complex schemes involved many companies, including loan guarantors, with subsequent transfer and redemption of debts – so it would be very difficult to find the culprit later.

According to sources Skelet.InfoFiremark and Nemirovsky were directly related to such companies. Not being able to buy up the enterprises of their native Krivoy Rog themselves, they helped others “take over” them. And Firemark’s short banking career at UkrSibBank was part of one of these schemes: Yaroslavsky opened a special branch of his bank in Krivoy Rog, placing Firemark in charge there, and within a few months he carried out schemes in which his and Nemirovsky’s firms participated.

And then the partners carried out another scheme, during which they became co-owners and managers of the Odessa Rope Plant, the oldest enterprise in the city. By the end of the 90s, this plant, transformed into JSC Stalkanat by its workforce, was already enmeshed in debt, and part of its shares belonged to the company SigmaBleyzer, created by Jews Lev and Mikhail Bleyzer, who emigrated to the USA, and Kharkov resident Valery Dema. In the first half of the 90s, the Blazers had the support of Viktor Pinzenyk, and therefore bought up many shares of various enterprises, but did not have the funds for their development. The rope plant had many debts, including to Krivorozhstal, which supplied it with raw materials. It was not clear why the wire was bought at Krivorozhstal, and not at the Odessa Steel Rolling Plant, purchased by Rodin and Bekker, and transformed into JSC Stalmetiz. But Rodin and Becker’s next step was to acquire a rope factory. To do this, their Pivdenny bank issued a loan, which repaid Stalkanat’s debt to Krivorozhstal, and in return Rodin and Becker received a stake in the enterprise (33.6%) from SigmaBleyzer. All that remained was to take over the remaining shares of the plant.

For this purpose, they invited Firemark and Nemirovsky to Odessa, with whom they were familiar from the general metal export schemes in the mid-90s (Odessa was the main sea gate for the export of metal). And suddenly they had no other business left in Krivoy Rog: they immediately moved to Odessa for permanent residence, with their families. It looked like some kind of escape, as if Firemark and Nemirovsky had done a lot of mischief in Krivoy Rog with their schemes around the mining and processing plant. There was definitely a good reason for this, but it is still unknown.

Odessa judge Valentin Prodaevich

Arriving in Odessa, they were immediately placed at the head of Stalkanat OJSC: Sergei Firemark took the chair of the general director, and Vladimir Nemirovsky became the chairman of the board. And then, in collusion with the former director of the plant, Leonid Shemyakin, they began to finish off the enterprise, with the simultaneous purchase of its shares from the workforce of many thousands, and due to regular delays in salaries, people sold them for pennies. In 2002, the company Stalkanat LLC (director – Firemark) appeared, which participated in the scheme of ruining the plant, but the bankruptcy claim for Stalkanat OJSC was filed by the company Tecom Trade LLC, owned by Nemirovsky. The case was handled by the judge of the Economic Court of the Odessa Region, Valentin Prodaevich – one of the legends of Odessa corruption!

They pulled it off cleverly: Nemirovsky, on behalf of Tecom Trade, filed a lawsuit, and Firemark, as the head of Stalkanat, ignored the court hearings, after which Prodaeevich ruled in favor of Tecom Trade. Then this Nemirovsky company disappeared, and the plant was taken over by Stalkanat LLC.

Sergey Varis, for Skelet.Info

CONTINUED: Firemark Sergei: “taker”, “supervisor” and “servant of the people”. PART 2

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