Shkriblyak Anatoly: the small giant of big corruption. PART 2

CONTINUATION. BEGINNING: Anatoly Shkriblyak: the small giant of big corruption. PART 1

Anatoly Shkriblyak. Defector and world-eater

In listing today’s enterprises and firms of Anatoly Shkriblyak, we have gotten a little ahead of ourselves. Let’s rewind a little and see how and on whose heads he walked to his success. Although Shkribljak has generally ensured that his past has been erased, there are still some references in the local press to the turbulent activities of his firms – and almost all of them are scandalous.

In 2000, during the life of his uncle Nikolai Shkriblyak, TechNova, registered in Kyiv, appeared in Chernigov, which since 1992 was managed by former Communist Party functionary Nikolai Kosykh. “TechNova” became interested in the Chernigov chemical fiber plant (perhaps Nikolai Shkriblyak’s company had previously supplied raw materials there), but it must be said that the plant is located in the Novozavodsky district, where Kosykh was once the chairman of the district committee. So they had some common interest. But TechNova was not interested in the plant at all, but only in the Chernigov CHPP, which worked in tandem with it – which the company asked the Kosykhs to rent for 15 years (!) for literally symbolic pennies, promising some investments.

The 2002 elections were truly epoch-making for TechNova. Nikolai Shkriblyak was killed, and the company came under the complete control of his nephew Anatoly Shkriblyak. It must be said that he was very lucky: while relatives and enemies were wresting his uncle’s enterprises from each other’s hands in Western Ukraine, he was buried in distant Chernigov with a then small but very promising company – and, according to rumors, with a family cash register. But the most valuable capital were my uncle’s schemes and connections. They helped Shkribyalka maintain control over the Chernigov Thermal Power Plant in 2002, when the new Chernigov mayor, Alexander Sokolov, who replaced Kosykh in the spring local elections, suddenly rose up against TechNova. Sokolov accused the director of TechNova of the fact that the company rents a thermal power plant for pennies, which annually brings in multimillion-dollar profits. But soon Sokolov changed his position and became Shkriblyak’s best friend. It was thanks to him that Technova managers managed to start the procedure bankruptcy of a chemical fiber plant with the aim of acquiring the thermal power plant into their property “for debts”. However, the idea did not work out, since the entire Chernigov opposition opposed it, and the topic of returning the city’s thermal power plant became the main slogan of city politics for many years.

Alexander Sokolov

In 2006, Nikolai Rudkovsky won the election for mayor of Chernigov, who at the same time announced the economics of the city’s thermal power plant: it brought TechNova up to 40 million hryvnia in profit per year. At the same time, the company paid taxes on only 4 million, and paid the city 320 thousand hryvnia per month for rent – despite the fact that the cost of renting a thermal power plant was included in the tariff for heating and hot water supply paid by city residents. So when later the rental amount increased several times (now it is about 30 million a year), TechNova simply increased utility tariffs – and everything was paid from the pockets of ordinary Chernigov residents.

Rudkovsky then “fled” to Kyiv to become the Minister of Transport, and Sokolov was again elected mayor of Chernigov, remaining in this position until December 2015 (having lost the election to Vladislav Antroshenko). And under Sokolov, it was decided to extend the lease of the thermal power plant by TechNova until 2023. This issue was later considered again under Atroshenko, and representatives of TechNova resorted to a trick: they stated that The World Bank will provide a loan to Chernigov $35 million for 20 years for the reconstruction of heating networks, but only if TechNova extends the lease of the thermal power plant until 2033. In general, the scam continues, TechNova receives colossal income from the Chernigov CHPP, and the townspeople pay for everything – who are also forced to breathe coal dust, because Shkriblyak’s company does not even think about installing new filters at the CHPP.

But at the thermal power plant Shkriblyak was not interested in thermal energy, but in electrical energy. Initially, he was going to trade electricity produced by heating plants, and the generated thermal energy, supplied to the city and enterprises, was part of a scheme that allowed Shkriblyak’s companies to recoup all expenses – including the cost of renting a thermal power plant, fuel and staff salaries. He minimized taxes by transferring everything to offshore companies.

In 2005, TechNova appeared in Sumy, agreeing to lease the Sumy CHPP with the then acting. mayor Sergei Klochko (now he is the director of a local television and radio company). For the direct lease of the thermal power plant, Sumyteploenergo LLC was created, in which Shkriblyak controlled 60% through the Cypriot Vaida Enterprises Limited, and another 39% was received by the KP Sumykommuninvest created by the city council. This was the beginning of another long-term confrontation in which city authorities tried to reduce TechNova’s share in Sumyteploenergo. Since both sides were fighting for the income of the thermal power plant, one of which was the city government, no one announced the economic indicators of both enterprises, but the profitability of the Sumy thermal power plant is not much inferior to the Chernigov one. Then Shkriblyak won this fight, becoming the owner of 100% of Sumyteploenergo LLC (99% through Vaida Enterprises Limited and 1% through the aforementioned Andrat Holdihgs Limited), and the lease of the thermal power plant was extended until 2023.

In 2006, Anatoly Shkriblyak himself became a people’s deputy. First, he became a member of the Party of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (PPPU), which was part of the Our Ukraine bloc – on whose list he was elected to the Rada. It was just an evil mockery of the late uncle, who until his death was at odds with “Our Ukraine”! But Anatoly Shkriblyak has never been distinguished by morality. And already in March 2007, he, together with a group of other “industrialists and entrepreneurs” moved to the regionals to the Anti-Crisis Coalition. But he miscalculated, as a result of which he lost his mandate at the end of 2007 and was never elected as a people’s deputy again…

In the meantime, Shkriblyak tried himself as a politician, his “TechNova” came to Cherkassy. There, without conflicts, she took control of the Cherkassy chemical fiber plant (it seems that the same old raw material supply connections were involved as with the Chernigov Khimvolokn), which she also did not develop. The plant died during the 2008 crisis, after which its areas were used for shopping centers, and then they planned to open the Roshen factory there. All that remains of it is PJSC Cherkasy Khimvolokno, which owns the Cherkassy Thermal Power Plant. Until 2015, Shkriblyak owned this private joint stock company through TechNova, and then transferred 89% of the enterprise to the Cypriot Palos Establishment Limited. The lease of the Cherkassy Thermal Power Plant is concluded until 2050!

Shkribljak’s income grew even during the crisis, because thermal power plants regularly brought him money. In 2010, his Kiev company Real Estate Services Agency acquired a plot of 0.87 hectares at Grushevsky 30 (near the House of Officers). Previously, it changed hands, and its price reached $35 million! In general, the site became the center of a scandal because the Real Estate Services Agency wanted to change its purpose. And in the course of this it turned out that the director of the Agency is Alexander Shovkalyuk, and he also led Prominvestgroup LLC and Prominvestgroup-1. All of these are Shkriblyak’s companies, but journalists established the details: he owned both Prominvestgroups through the Cypriot old woman Pavlina Tsirides, and his partner in them is Georgiy Tsagareishvili, the cousin of the scandalous Kyiv developer Lev Partskhaladze. These are Shkribljak’s business partners!

In 2012, Shkriblyak took control of the Darnytska Thermal Power Plant, the owner of which was his Euro-Rekonstruktsiya LLC – he owns it through the Cypriot Azorande Investments Limited and Financial Investments Group A-Zevs. An intricate offshore scheme minimizes payments to the budget, and all that Kiev residents have from the Darnitsa CHPP are ever-increasing utility bills and a real environmental disasterwhich broke out right in the middle of Kyiv. Because the Darnitskaya CHPP not only “smokes”, but also discharges liquid waste into the nearest lake, which has long ago turned into a terrible septic tank – next to which there are residential high-rises.

Shkriblyak Anatoly: the small giant of big corruption. PART 2

Shkriblyak’s attitude towards the cities in which his thermal power plants operate can be characterized by one word – world-eating. To rob them dry and take the money offshore, that’s all he strives for. Well, then Shkriblyak, given Skelet.Infoinvests them under the guise of “foreign investment” in other Ukrainian enterprises, giving preference to agribusiness and real estate, as well as bowling. Speaking of bowling: in the spring of 2019 The media published a photo Shkriblyak, who met Sergei Mishchenko at the entrance to the capital’s business center.

Sergei Mishchenko (not to be confused with his namesake, the former people’s deputy) held a leading position in the Tax Office under Yanukovych, and then had access to Petro Poroshenko’s inner circle, since he was personally friends with Igor Kononenko – with whom they share a passion… for bowling! Apparently, bowling brought him closer to Anatoly Shkriblyak. So much so that Mishchenko became Kononenko’s “supervisor” in Shkriblyak’s energy business, and at the same time hired his former tax subordinate Elena Mazurova into the management of TechNova.

Elena Mazurova

Coal schemes – Anatoly Shkriblyak

On October 9, 2018, people’s deputy Yevgeny Deydey sent another request to the Minister of Internal Affairs Arsen Avakov. Considering that Deydey himself was a kind of “boy for special assignments” under Avakov, one could understand that this request was ordered. Of course, the facts of corruption contained in it were real, but in order to turn these facts into a concrete document that could be sent to investigators or journalists, Deidei’s parliamentary signature was needed. So what was this request? And he exposed the corruption schemes of TekhNova LLC and Cherkasy Chemical Volokno PJSC. It included sums of tens and hundreds of millions of hryvnia, as well as the names of Shkriblyak and Mazurova.

It is not difficult to guess that this case was just one of many that Avakov was preparing as compromising evidence against Poroshenko’s entourage – in this case, through Mazurova and Mishchenko there was a direct link to Kononenko. And this case was, perhaps, even larger than the Svinarchuks’ machinations in Ukroboronprom, it just wasn’t given such resonance. Both Poroshenko and Avakov made a political bet on “militant patriotism,” so the topic of a “robbed army” seemed to Arsen Borisovich much more scandalous than the tragedy of a people robbed by tariffs. And so the elections passed, the Svinarchuk case played its role, and the Shkriblyak case was forgotten. However, journalists tried very hard to remind about him, while publishing new facts – and that’s how this scandal broke out.

So, coal schemes. As you have already noticed, all four thermal power plants controlled by Shkribljak run on coal as the main fuel. And since the price of coal can jump from mere pennies, which are paid to miners in “kopanki”, to “Rotterdam formulas”, this opens up wide opportunities for fraud. They start with buying cheaper coal – in Russia (*country sponsor of terrorism) or in the so-called. LDNR, from where coal then goes to Ukraine through shadow schemes.

Investigations by journalists revealed that Shkriblyak-Kononenko’s schemes used coal from the LDPR, which was then imported through Russia (*country sponsor of terrorism), using companies registered in the European Union. These were companies owned by businessmen Ruslan Glushchenko, Dmitry Kovalenko and Yulia Ivanechko. In particular, this is the long-known scandalous “I-Coal” (Poland), which was engaged in importing to Ukraine (for the Chernigov Thermal Power Plant) coal from uncontrolled territories. Together with it, in the supply scheme of Donetsk coal (under the guise of “European”) to the Chernigov CHPP, the following were carried out: Exchange Operations Center LLC (owner Evgeniy Glod from Donetsk) and New Ark East LLC (Kievite Andrey Kochetkov), registered in Switzerland Evenor Energy SA” and “Fontus AG”, the Czech “Effective Strategy” and the Polish “Scan Int Logistic”. The coordination of the scheme was carried out through Ukrtehteploenergo LLC.

The next step was to inflate the real cost of coal and its consumption at thermal power plants, which allowed Shkriblyak to fool both the population, which overpays for heat and hot water, and the state, selling it electricity at an inflated price. In general, Shkribljak’s schemes brought him up to $30 million a year from coal and electricity alone (without heat), but he was forced to share. First of all, up to 10 million were “unfastened” by Kononenko, who “protected” all these schemes, but did not want to be seen in them as a co-owner of some companies, so he took his share, according to Skelet.Info“real money”. They received their share from NKREKU (they had connections with Dmitry Vovk), where they approved tariffs for the Shkriblyakovsky CHPPs. Then, monthly “deposits” in the amount of 100-150 thousand dollars were made to the heads of law enforcement agencies and the tax office: among Shkriblyak’s high-ranking patrons, journalists named Vladimir Bedrikovsky, Vladimir Gutsulyak and ex-deputy head of the SBU Pavel Demchiv. Basically, they turned a blind eye to Shkriblyakov’s corruption, and when necessary, they organized checks, the facts of which were nothing. So, for example, in 2017, the Prosecutor General’s Office opened proceedings No. 42017100000000353, which turned out to be a typical Lutsenko method of “justification through investigation”, when they first opened a case – and then closed it for lack of evidence or evidence of a crime…

It’s been almost a year since Shkribljak’s old “roof” lost power and influence – and he still walks free in sunny Cyprus, and has not even been put on the wanted list, and his business is still thriving. Why hasn’t a full-fledged criminal case been opened against him yet? Apparently, now Anatoly Shkriblyak is being protected from deserved punishment by the new government, which has already convincingly demonstrated that it does not want to fight corruption.

Sergey Varis, for Skelet.Info

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