Svyatash Dmitry: “slightly used” cars from a scammer and a Ukrainophobe. PART 2

CONTINUATION. BEGINNING: Dmitry Svyatash: “slightly used” cars from a scammer and a Ukrainophobe. PART 1

In 2002, Dmitry Svyatash was elected to the Verkhovna Rada (after which he never left until today), and in May of the same year he became a participant in the “conspiracy” to elect Vladimir Lytvyn as speaker, exchanging his vote for support from the presidential team. After this, Dmitry Svyatash, with the support of Mikhail Dobkin, who also became people’s deputy, started, no more, no less, a whole “legal reform”, the result of which was the dismissal of the judges involved in the “Konur-PK” case. All this was hidden behind statements about “European law” and demands for the state to “guarantee the protection of foreign investments.”

The dossier collected by Cheremukhin also contained information from his source, who spoke about drug trafficking schemes carried out with the help of taxi company employees controlled by Dmitry Svyatash. Perhaps they were talking about the Kharkov taxi “AIST”, as well as the city taxi fleet No. 1 that he later bought. By the way, it does not have a very good reputation among Kharkov residents. Rudeness of drivers, scam of passengers out of money, disgusting dispatch service. Skelet.Info There is also such a case: due to the fault of a taxi driver, he got into an accident, and his passenger was in the hospital, but all his attempts to receive compensation ran into some kind of circular conspiracy. After which the victim was explained that “AIST” belongs to Dmitry Svyatash himself – a deputy, a major Kharkov businessman, a friend of Kernes and Dobkin, and was advised to “calm down.” Otherwise, the taxi driver was ready to testify that the accident was caused by… the passenger who allegedly distracted him.

The close friendship of Dmitry Svyatash and Gennady Kernes is eloquently illustrated by the following fact: when in 2008 the SBU conducted a search in the Kharkov City Council on suspicion of embezzlement of budget funds, Svyatash quickly rushed to the aid of Gepa and Dopa. And the first thing he did was throw himself at the SBU vehicle into which the seized documents were being loaded – after which he called journalists and declared that he “ran over an opposition MP.”

To whom he owes, he forgives everyone!

AIST employees later appeared in another scandalous, very high-profile, although not criminal, story. On the morning of March 22, 2009, several dozen AIST taxis lined up in front of the gates of the Kharkov private enterprise Temp 2005, blocking the exit. By lunchtime, their owner Dmitry Svyatash arrived there in his expensive SUV without license plates (!), and immediately came into conflict with the police officers. After the scandal, the blockade of the Temp 2005 enterprise was lifted – and as it later turned out, this was an attempt by Dmitry Svyatash to recapture (seize, steal) the 300 cars located on its territory, previously arrested and confiscated from the AIS corporation for numerous debts on bank loans . The amount reached 250 million dollars!

How were they formed? After Dmitry Svyatash began to regularly receive the mandate of a people’s deputy in 2002, and since 2005, as part of the Kharkov team, he joined the Party of Regions. After power in Kharkov was concentrated in the hands of his “sidekicks” Kernes and Dobkin, he widely deployed his business. Registered mainly to his mother Larisa Nikolaevna (41 enterprises), to his first wife Nina Svyatash-Anikeeva, former vice-Miss Ukraine 1991 (6 enterprises), sister Yuliana (2 enterprises) and father (5 enterprises). Among them:

• Kremenchug Automobile Assembly Plant LLC
• LLC “Global Autogroup”
• LLC “Fav-Ukraine”
• Financial company “Eurocapital”
• 28 regional AIS centers established as separate LLCs
• LLC “Auto-Business-City”
• Neon-City-Group LLC
• LLC “ND Ukraine”
• Automotive company “Ukravtotorg”
• Intertechstandard LLC
• LLC “Ukrbusiness Ltd”
• Legalplace LLC
• Pharmacy chain “SEB-Pharm”
• Agrofirm “Rassvet”
• Krai LLC
• Private enterprise “Account-S”
• LLC “Tetra Plus Ltd”
• LLC “Center for Strategic Investments”

When Svyatash’s automobile schemes began to work to their full potential, and “AIS” became one of the largest Ukrainian car dealers and “car manufacturers” (screwdriver assembly), he even thought about fighting small competitors – and, as a people’s deputy and “domestic manufacturer,” he became one of the initiators increasing duties and fees on imported cars. For those cars that were imported to Ukraine, bypassing his AIS, and bypassing the business of other “Ukrainian automakers” – Petro Poroshenko (Bogdan) and Tariel Vasadze (UkrAvto). And it wasn’t just a matter of competition: AIS car dealerships and auto repair shops had a very bad reputation, their former clients told many shocking stories about how they were sold supposedly new cars with defective parts and replaced components, how Svyatash’s “car service” did not repair, and they broke cars. They were unanimous in their conclusion – don’t even think about buying and repairing a car at AIS! So experienced Ukrainians preferred to buy a car in Europe, in a real branded car dealership, and not in AIS LLC – which was called a distributor of defective and illiquid goods, bought at a discount in European warehouses by intermediary firms, and resold at exorbitant prices in Ukraine through AIS showrooms “

However, due to the absence of real competitors, crushed by Svyatash, Poroshenko and Vasadze, AIS developed – especially in the wake of the initiatives of the Verkhovna Rada and the government, in the period 2005-2008. which created the preconditions for mass consumer lending, primarily for car purchases.

Car sales during this period increased sharply, the auto business took off (as did construction), and loans were willingly given for it – which Avtoinveststroy obtained. In addition, Svyatash also cheated, declaring that he allegedly agreed with the Citroen company to build a branded car plant in Ukraine (the Citroen management did not know about anything like that).

Not having his own bank, Svyatash borrowed from others, including the banks of Kharkov oligarchs: UkrSibBank of Alexander Yaroslavsky (over $100 million) and Megabank of Viktor Subbotin. Alfa Bank and VTB Bank, which are Ukrainian branches of Russian banks, also lent to him. Among other creditors of “AIS” were “Omega Bank” of the scandalous Nikolai Lagun, “Aval”, “Credit Europe Bank”. Then no one even noticed that the total amount of loans issued exceeded the total capital of Dmitry Svyatash and his partner Vasily Polyakov, and this capital itself largely consisted of previously taken loans. The next Ukrainian “millionaires on credit”!

What Dmitry Svyatosh spent this money on and where it went in general remains unknown. After all, his “assembly shops”, as well as “car showrooms”, are just tin hangars. However, the journalists managed to find out something. It turned out that along with a loan for “business development,” Svyatash received an overdraft service from UkrSibBank, which he used to pay for his exciting tours around Europe: he dined in expensive restaurants, lived in luxury hotels, and bought things in elite boutiques. So I spent over a million dollars! So how he used the $250 million in credit is anyone’s guess!

Dmitry Svyatash stopped servicing his debts immediately after the 2008 crisis. On the one hand, this was, as it were, an objective reason, since car sales and income of AIS fell sharply. However, this did not exempt Svyatash from paying a debt of a quarter of a billion dollars. Moreover, many loans (for example, for his Kremenchug automobile assembly plant) were issued under the personal guarantees of Svyatash. Guarantees, which he later challenged through the courts, which declared them invalid. At the same time, Dmitry Svyatash used pressure on obstinate judges who did not want to carry out his orders. In particular, judge of the High Specialized Court of Ukraine Galina Mostovaya officially announced pressure and threats from Dmitry Svyatashwho demanded that she make a decision in the case of UkrSibBank’s claims, which she outlined in her statement to the police:

Having thus freed himself from personal financial responsibility, Svyatash carried out several frauds, taking away the property of his companies from being arrested for debts. This did not always work out, as we see in the example of 300 cars that Megabank seized and confiscated from Auto-Alliance LLC (a former division of AIS), sending them for storage to the parking lot of the Temp 2005 enterprise. But basically Svyatash managed to avoid paying most of the debts, mainly to UkrSibBank. He did this by bribing judges, by bankrupting borrowing firms (he opened new ones instead), by withdrawing pledged property, and even by subsequently transferring the withdrawn property to pay debts to another creditor!

Svyatash handled his debt to Alfa Bank in an original way: he agreed with him on some cunning “debt restructuring”, through which he also withdrew the pledged property, and also received new loans (!) and a deferment on payments until 2023. This behind-the-scenes agreement with an essentially Russian bank operating in Ukraine raised many questions and assumptions.

Thanks to all these manipulations and scams, Dmitry Svyatosh’s official debt to creditors by the spring of 2018 had shrunk to just a few million hryvnia. However, at the beginning of 2018, the Pechersk court of the capital banned him from leaving Ukraine before paying off this debt, and also made a decision to collect the debt from Svyatash’s personal property. For the greedy Svyatash, this was a real blow, especially the ban on leaving the country. After all, he loves to regularly travel around the world in the company of his second wife Anzhelika Poghosyan.

Anzhelika Poghosyan

Svyatash strained his contacts, and his lawyers contacted the judge of the Dzerzhinsky District Court of Kharkov, Anna Podus. After their lively correspondence, which later was posted on the Internet by hackersthe court decided in favor of Dmitry Svyatash. However, his joy was overshadowed by the fact that he was already under the close attention of “Internet partisans” and journalists, who immediately published new documents.

But still, Dmitry Svyatash got off very lightly, and not only for debts to commercial banks. The fact is that back in 2012, AIS companies owed more than 680 million hryvnia in tax payments (85 million dollars at the then exchange rate), of which 594 million were in Kharkov. Of course, while Kharkov was ruled by the duo of Dobkin and Kernes, while Svyatash was a member of the deputy faction of the ruling Party of Regions, while the right people were bought from him, he could “put off” paying taxes. Then he transferred this debt to Avtoservis-T LLC and bankrupted it so as not to pay money. What happened to this debt after 2014 remained unknown, but no information was received in the media that Dmitry Svyatash repaid the debt to the state.

Svyatash Dmitry: “slightly used” cars from a scammer and a Ukrainophobe. PART 2

Dmitry Svyatash: Killer, brawler, hater of Galicians

Recently, Dmitry Svyatash got himself into not just a new scandal, but a real “wet mess”: the double murder of residents of Pervomaisk, Kharkov region, Vladimir Klimov and Vitaly Syzrantsev. Their bodies were found back in May 2012 in the Belgorod region (RF), in the Oskol River, where they were dumped after the murder. Since the Russian police did not “dug up” anything in this case, the case remained uninvestigated to the end. Meanwhile, the Ukrainian side remained silent regarding the death of two of its fellow citizens. And there was a reason for this. As it turned out, those killed were the founders of Grand Alliance Plus LLC, Delexpo Group IP and RD Service LLC – fictitious companies that participated in the schemes of the AIS corporation. Together with them, the third founder was a certain Anton Limonov, who at that time disappeared somewhere.

The exact purpose of this scheme remained unknown even to these fictitious “entrepreneurs”. However, then an interesting document fell into the hands of journalists: an agreement on the sale of the RD Service company by Syzrantsev directly to Dmitry Svyatash. Curious in that Svyatash bought this company for only 51 thousand hryvnia (the amount of the authorized capital), but it turned out that at the time of this transaction there were 60 million hryvnia in the accounts of RD Service! The scam was obvious!

And now, a year and a half after signing this strange contract, Syzrantsev, as well as the owner of another similar company, Klimov, were found dead. It is clear why in Ukraine they chose to “not notice” this murder – apparently, Svyatash “brought” a lot of money where it was needed so that this case would be left for investigation by Russian law enforcement officers. Like, they found it in Russia (*country sponsor of terrorism), let them mess around! Isn’t that why the murder of Syzrantsev and Klimov was committed there? Time passed, everyone had already forgotten about this case, but in March 2015, a video message from the third participant in the scheme, the previously hidden Anton Limonov, appeared on the Internet. Who stated that, together with Syzrantsev and Klimov, they were hired by Dmitry Svyatash to organize financial fraud. After this, Svyatash allegedly sent all three to Russia (*country sponsor of terrorism), where the killers were already waiting for them, but Limonov was unable to pass border control and remained in Ukraine. And having learned about the fate of Syzrantsev and Klimov, he began to go into hiding.

This story continued: in the spring of 2018 there was an assassination attempt already on Anton Limonov himself. After he decided to testify in the case of Syzrantsev and Klimov at the prosecutor’s office (he did not explain why Limonov did not do this back in 2015), certain men met him, gained his trust, got him drunk, and then threw him out from the fourth floor balcony – having previously asked him questions whether he remembered certain agreements with Svyatash. Fortunately, Limonov survived, although he was badly injured.

It will be very difficult for Svyatash to get away from this scandal, especially since he is already covered with incriminating evidence like an old longboat with shells, and this is simply dragging him to the bottom before his eyes. In addition to his numerous corruption and criminal scandals, Svyatash also got involved in political ones. His involvement in the Party of Regions and the Kernes-Dobkin team was not enough for him, and Svyatosh decided to “show off” political humor in the style of Oleg Tsarev, making humiliating and insulting remarks about the Galicians. For which he was immediately “bestowed” with the title of Ukrainophobe.

Svyatash Dmitry: “slightly used” cars from a scammer and a Ukrainophobe. PART 2

Why did the people’s deputy of Ukraine burst into insults against the citizens of his country, even if they were not voters of his party? Apparently, it was a matter of the then noisy Euromaidan, which Svyatash took very painfully, realizing that it was directed not only against the “Donetsk”, but also against the Kharkov gop-company of Kernes. In the spring of 2014, according to Skelet.InfoKernes and Svyatash were going to support Zhilin’s “Oplot” and stage an “anti-Maidan” coup in Kharkov, and only the decisive actions of Kolomoisky and Avakov prevented the city from being declared the capital of “Novorossiya”. In addition, already on the eve of the victory of the second Maidan, its activists literally “pecked” Svyatash who they met, finally spraying him in the face with pepper spray.

Dmitry Svyatash did the same as his friend Kernes – he accepted political defeat in order to remain at the trough at least as a neutral deputy (having been elected again in the fall of 2014, Svyatash is now a member of the Revival faction). Although from time to time “anti-Ukrainian” scandals flare up again around the name of Dmitry Svyatash. So, for example, take his family enterprise LLC Center for Strategic Investments, which is engaged in Crimean real estate and has been operating since 2000. In 2014, it was re-registered in good faith under Russian law! At the same time, 99% of the company is registered to the mother, Larisa Nikolaevna, and 1% to the father, Vladimir Nikolaevich. Apparently because Svyatash Sr. is now not only the head of the Kharkov Regional Health Center, but also a deputy of the regional council, and it is not worth assigning a controlling stake to him in an enterprise in occupied Crimea.

Svyatash Dmitry: “slightly used” cars from a scammer and a Ukrainophobe. PART 2

Or in 2016, the Ministry of Education of Ukraine allocated 600 million hryvnia for the “school bus” program, while recommending giving preference to domestic manufacturers and careful saving of money. In several regions they seem to have listened to these recommendations, purchasing through a tender not the presidential Bogdans, but one and a half hundred cheaper Mriya buses from Autoholding, another company that is part of the AIS group. Glory to Ukraine? Whatever the case! It turned out that the notorious AS-R 4234 “Mriya” is a “slightly tinted” Russian PAZ-4234 bus (a slightly elongated model of the good old “groove”), produced by the Pavlograd Bus Plant, owned by the Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska. These buses were delivered to Ukraine through the AIS structures, then they changed the documentation, screwed a new “label” onto the hood – and that’s it!

And here’s what’s interesting: at the same time, Donetsk launched “production of its own buses” under the “Donbass” brand, which turned out to be the same “grooves”, only the PAZ-3204 model (standard short model). They were “produced” in the same way as the “Mriyas” of the Svyatashes: in the old workshop they changed the badges on the hood. I wonder if some Svyatashi company is involved in the “Donetsk auto production”?

And on the last Independence Day in Kharkov, voters in the 170th district (where Svyatash always runs) were given greeting cards with his portrait against the backdrop of a “castrated” map of Ukraine without Crimea. Vigilant patriots immediately raised a scandal, calling it a “pro-Kremlin provocation,” to which Svyatash was forced to quickly justify himself: they say, I don’t know anything about the postcards, it’s not mine, the enemies planted it, but I love Ukraine more than anyone! And he even ran to the SBU himself with a statement so that others would not get ahead of him.

However, as we have seen from the facts presented, Dmitry Svyatash now needs to fear not political charges, but new criminal cases, now not only for fraud.

Sergey Varis, for Skelet.Info

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