Sergey Pashinsky. Thief, raider, fraudster and people’s deputy

On December 18, it became known that MP Sergei Pashinsky became a defendant in another criminal investigation. According to the National Anti-Corruption Bureau, Pashinsky, together with his “girlfriend” Tatyana Chernovol, colleagues in the Popular Front faction Pavel Dzyublik and Vadim Krivenko, as well as the current Minister of Justice Pavel Petrenko, are accused of “attempted crime” and “wrongful taking of enterprise property committed while using his official position.” This is not the first time that all these “figures” have come under increased attention from law enforcement agencies and the press. However, the most interesting character among them is Sergei Pashinsky, who in the media at different times was called the “gray eminence” of Yulia Tymoshenko, the “comrade-in-arms” of Alexander Turchinov and the “friend” of Andrei Portnov (more about him in the article Andrey Portnov: raider history). Until now, he has managed to evade the “heavy hand” of justice; will he succeed this time?

“Half-official, half-businessman”

Sergei Pashinsky was born in October 1966 in the Rivne region. He received his higher education at the Kiev Pedagogical Institute named after Gorky (NPU named after M.P. Drahomanov). His official biography states that after graduating from university, he worked for about 9 years “in various commercial structures,” however, according to sources, among other things, he was also a “malicious” reseller-merchant with criminal connections. During the collapse of the USSR, Pashinsky worked at the Ukraina Bank, where he was engaged in a kind of fraud, issuing loans to his own companies, as well as to companies that had a rather dubious reputation and were often associated with crime.

Sergei Pashinsky has an amazing ability – he knows how to infiltrate the management of any company and ruin it (after first stealing most of the assets that are “badly located”). In 1999, he was appointed deputy chairman of Sberbank of Ukraine (according to media reports, this appointment was initiated by Viktor Medvedchuk and Igor Bakai). So, in less than a year of Pashinsky’s work at this bank, “about 4 million US dollars, which were intended to pay compensation to Ukrainians over 80 years of age, suddenly disappeared from it. The prosecutor’s office accused Pashinsky of these thefts and arrested him in 2002. He did not stay in prison for long – as he himself says, “powerful” patrons helped (they say that Igor Bakai personally “resolved the issue” of his release). Let us remind you that we wrote about Igor Bakai’s connections with other criminal schemes in the materials: Igor Nikonov. “Shadow mayor” of Kyiv, Levochkin’s man, who resigned, and Vitali Klitschko. The dark past of “looking to tomorrow.”

Sergey Pashinsky

While working at Sberbank, Pashinsky had another unpleasant episode, which characterizes him as an “unscrupulous” person. Being a lover of a good drink and carousing, Sergei Pashinsky often got drunk at work (in the office of the bank’s board). On one of these evenings, while relaxing with girls of the oldest profession (according to media reports, there was a whole orgy there), he headed to the central vault of the bank and demanded that the guards give him money (obviously to continue the “banquet” or simply to impress his “girlfriends” ). There was no time to punish him for this episode, because he was arrested because of the theft case, which was described above.

He first ran for election to the Verkhovna Rada in 2002 as part of the “Against All” bloc, although shortly before the start of voting, his candidacy was withdrawn. The waves of the “Orange Revolution” brought him to the position of personal adviser to the Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko (he remained in office for almost six months from February to August 2005). Having curried favor with Yulia Vladimirovna and her patrons, in August 2005 he was appointed general director of the state-owned company Ukrrezerv. After his arrival to this position, the company was accused of “shadow fraud” by everyone, from ordinary people’s deputies to the Prosecutor General’s Office and the President. That is why he was unable to steal for a long time in this position; he was forced to resign as head of Ukrrezerv.

Sergei Pashinsky first became a people’s deputy as part of the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc (BYuT) in May 2006. From that time to the present day, he has been a permanent people’s deputy of Ukraine, only the names of the political parties of which he acted have changed: V-VI convocations – BYuT, VII convocation – “Batkivshchyna”, VIII convocation – “People’s Front”. In the Rada, Pashinsky dealt with issues of the fuel and energy complex, nuclear policy and nuclear safety, as well as strategic issues on the development of fuel energy.

While being a deputy, Pashinsky met the then journalist Tatyana Chornovol. Evil tongues say that he not only “met”, but Tatyana became his passion. Tatyana Chornovol was registered in psychiatric hospitals. But at the same time, her facial expressions are very consistent with Pashinsky’s facial expressions. Maybe they found each other?

Does Sergei Pashinsky have an affair with brawler Tatyana Chernovol?

Unlucky Raider

In 2007, Sergei Pashinsky tried to seize the Kharkov Turboatom plant by raider. According to media reports, Pashinsky’s actions were related to lobbying the interests of Konstantin Grigorishin, a Russian oligarch with business in Ukraine. The main defendants in that case were those close to the Communist Party, Vladimir Petrenko, a member of the State Commission for Securities and the Stock Market, secretary of the Interdepartmental Commission of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine on combating illegal takeovers and takeovers of enterprises (headed by Deputy Prime Minister Mykola Azarov), and Valentina Semenyuk, member of the Socialist Party and head of the State Property Fund. They both went personally to the site when a conflict situation arose. And they supported Viktor Subbotn, whom they tried to remove from the post of General Director of Turboatom.

His second raid attempt was related to Ukrtatneft. Sergei Pashinsky, together with 50 “young people of strong physique,” ​​tried to seize the Kremenchug Oil Refinery. They failed for one simple reason: on that day, the plant was guarded by several detachments of internal troops, and the Minister of the Fuel and Energy Complex, Yuri Prodan, was at the plant itself that day.

FUCK from Pashinsky
July 16, 2016 in BP

In 2010, the owners of the Zhytomyrski Lasoschi confectionery factory, famous throughout Ukraine, changed. There would be nothing strange about this if it had not turned out that the previous owners of the factory did not want to leave the business at all, they were simply forced. In particular, according to Yuriy Leshchinsky, the owner of the company Delta Capital, which previously owned Zhytomyrski Lasoschi, the factory was wrested from them by the then people’s deputies from the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc, Sergey Pashinsky and Andrey Portnov. In November 2010, during a shareholders meeting, control of the factory was transferred to one of its main former managers, Igor Boyko. This happened, in fact, due to the fact that armed guards did not allow some of the factory owners to attend the meeting where its fate was being decided. The main arguments for which the security did not let them in was the statement that they were “guarding the reception room of Deputy Pashinsky” and knew nothing about the shareholders’ meeting. Pashinsky’s involvement in the “squeeze” of the Zhytomyrski Lasoschi factory is also indicated by his connection with another organizer of the “redistribution of property rights” Alexey Temnenko. In 2005-2006, he worked together with this man at Ukrrezerv, where, as we remember, he carried out many shady frauds.

Removal of the “mysterious” rifle from Maidan

During the active phase of Euromaidan, Sergei Pashinsky became involved in a very strange episode. With his assistance, a sniper rifle was removed from the Maidan, which was in the trunk of a car close to the Minister of Internal Affairs Arsen Avakov (Read more about him in the article Arsen Avakov: the criminal past of the Minister of Internal Affairs) person – Yuri Sabolta. More details in the story: “The mystery of Sergei Pashinsky’s sniper rifle goes back to Arsen Avakov”

In fact, this video proves the involvement of Pashinsky and Avakov in the shooting on the Maidan, because the employee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, whom Pashinsky “saved” and who took evidence from the Maidan, is directly connected with Avakov. It should be noted that during the revolution, the “Avakov-Turchinov-Pashinsky” combination worked with a bang, they created chaos, imitated vigorous activity, and, of course, received dividends after it. Turchynov became the first acting president of Ukraine in Ukraine, and subsequently the head of the National Security and Defense Council, Avakov became the Minister of Internal Affairs, and Pashinsky was appointed acting head of the Presidential Administration, it was rumored that he should have become deputy prime minister, however, due to there was no internal conflict:

Journalists found the mansion of Sergei Pashinsky worth $20 million:

Sergei Pashinsky is a fairly significant figure in Ukrainian politics, and the fact that they are now trying to “merge” him may mean the beginning of a new redistribution of power in political circles. It is still unclear how the matter with the new charges will end, because Sergei Vladimirovich is a master of getting out of things “unscathed.” And while the National Anti-Corruption Bureau is “digging” under him, the media attribute to him an affair with Tatyana Chernovol and say that he is lobbying for the interests of his son, promoting his appointment to senior positions in state-owned companies – he continues to calmly implement his “political” and “bureaucratic » fraud.

Dmitry Samofalov, for SKELET-info