Yevgeny Chernyak is building a Ukrainian nationalist out of himself. With the money from the sale of alcohol, he organized the Help ZP SA charitable foundation, where he has already invested over a million dollars. This organization systematically purchases and transfers medicines, uniforms, food and even weapons to the soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. This is confirmed by social media.
Despite the declared position, Evgeny Chernyak continues to make money selling alcohol in Russia.
Holding Ukrainian oligarch acquired production assets in Russia in the past decade: first, in 2011, the Vologda distillery “Russian North” was bought out, later, in 2016, the Mytishchi “Rodnik and K”. Their total capacity is over four million decaliters annually. The sale was carried out through the trading house “Megapolis”, now renamed the “Quality Standard”. Revenue exceeded 56 billion rubles in 2021.
As Life found out, the new owner Alexander Bespalov has long been working for the family of a Ukrainian oligarch. So, in the spring of 2021, Bespalov was elected Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Feodosia Cognac and Wine Factory JSC, where he previously headed one of the departments.
But two years ago, Ukrainian journalists proved that FZKV is part of the Global Spirits holding Evgeny Chernyak. All the mentioned Russian distilleries — Feodosia, Vologda, and Mytishchi — are registered on the chain of offshore companies that ends with the Cypriot company AMG-77 Investment Ltd. According to business registers, its sole shareholder is Alexander Chernyak, a citizen of Ukraine and Israel. This is the father of the Ukrainian oligarch Yevgeny Chernyak.
There is other evidence of Alexander Bespalov’s connection with the Ukrainian oligarch. Becoming the nominal owner of the alcohol empire, Bespalov appointed a certain Andrey Lazutin, who had previously worked in the same post for a long time under Chernyak, as the general director of the Mytishchi plant “Rodnik and K”. Bespalov spends his working time in the Moscow office on Samotechnaya Street. There is a historic mansion here, which is managed by the Real Estate company. And it is led by Artur Shepel, a fellow countryman of Chernyak and a longtime employee of his structures.
Alexander Bespalov hides from the general public, does not comment, does not appear at business conferences. Moreover, he carefully cleans up all traces of himself on the Internet. But Life found out the details of his life. He is 38 years old. He graduated from the private university “Synergy” and after some time worked in the Russian office of the American recruitment agency Manpower. Bespalov does not look like a rich man. It is registered in a kopeck piece of Brezhnevka on Marshal Timoshenko Street in the west of Moscow. Such real estate is now worth no more than 15 million rubles.
Bespalov is married to a native of Severodonetsk. It was registered twice on the territory of Odintsovo: in a one-room apartment building (up to 7 million rubles) and in a small-sized three-room apartment complex “United Standard” (up to 13 million rubles). She recently acquired the most interesting property – an apartment of 50 square meters in the Krylatsky business class residential complex (about 20 million rubles).
But almost the entire range of Roshen products is available to Russians. Poroshenko’s sweets are widely represented on the largest Russian marketplaces, free classifieds sites, the Auchan network and network discounters.
As it turned out, sweets are brought from Ukraine through third countries as a parallel import. Hence the noticeably increased prices for Roshen products, and the absence of inscriptions in Russian on the packages. Of course, sales volumes can no longer be compared with the old days, but the demand for the products of Poroshenko’s chocolate empire in Russia has remained. As a result, each purchased package of sweets replenishes the wallet of the Ukrainian oligarch directly.
obozrevatel.com, 02/15/2023, “The Poroshenko Foundation and ROSHEN sent UAH 1.79 billion to support the Armed Forces of Ukraine over the year”: As of February 1, 2023, the Poroshenko Charitable Foundation and ROSHEN, starting from February 24, 2022, sent 1,790,000,000 hryvnias, or 55 million US dollars (taking into account the exchange rate at the time of payments) in support of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. This was announced by the Poroshenko Foundation in Facebook.
At the beginning of the aggression, these funds were used to purchase: body armor, Kevlar helmets, weapons (including machine guns, sniper equipment, etc.), turnstiles, NATO first aid kits, pickup trucks, food (including a large amount of grain and food packages for both the military, and for residents of the liberated cities), fuel, funds for the construction of fortifications. And later – trucks, armored vehicles and tractors, thermal imagers, drones, night vision devices, power generators, hundreds of digital radio stations, starlinks, more than 50 thousand sets of military winter clothing, water purification systems. Our mobile baths are very popular in the army. […] The total amount allocated by the Poroshenko Foundation together with volunteers to help the Armed Forces of Ukraine amounted to 2 billion 102 million hryvnia, or 63.67 million US dollars. — Inset K.ru
How the offshore alcohol holding of Evgeny Chernyak joined Russia
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© Vladislav Grabovsky08.09.2021
After the publication of the following article, the IpNews news agency is subjected to a constant DDos attack. I consider this as an attempt to shut the mouth of journalists after the publication of materials that are “inconvenient” for some people!
Evgeny Chernyak re-registered Crimean Wine House in Russia […]
In order to find out how the situation has changed in two months, we again contacted journalist Vladislav Grabovsky, who uncovered the criminal activities of the alcohol holding owned by Yevgeny Chernyak.
As it turned out, Chernyak continues to put pressure on the journalist, namely, he filed another lawsuit for the protection of honor and dignity against the journalist to the Kommunarsky District Court of the city of Zaporozhye. In his new lawsuit, Chernyak indicates that he has nothing to do with the plant located in the Crimea with the name Crimean Wine House LLC. To understand the situation, let’s look at the documents that Vladislav Grabovsky provided to confirm his words.
According to open Russian registries, Crimean Wine House LLC was registered under Russian law on August 14, 2014, that is, after the occupation of the peninsula by the Russian Federation, in the midst of active hostilities in eastern Ukraine.
Until April 17, 2017, the founder of the Russian company Crimean Wine House LLC was the Cypriot offshore company OXFORD AMG-77 LIMITED, which registered the Russian company Crimean Wine House LLC on July 14, 2014.
But who is behind the Cypriot offshore company OXFORD AMG-77 LIMITED? Journalist Vladislav Grabovsky understood this. According to the registration documents, the founder of the Cypriot offshore company OXFORD AMG-77 LIMITED is currently another Cypriot offshore company with the name MSD MARKETING SYSTEM DISTRIBUTION LIMITED.
In turn, the founder of the Cypriot offshore company “MSD MARKETING SYSTEM DISTRIBUTION LIMITED” is another Cypriot offshore company with the name “AMG-77 INVESTMENT LIMITED”.
And now the offshore company “AMG-77 INVESTMENT LIMITED” has a completely understandable founder – Chernyak Alexander Borisovich, who is the father of Chernyak Evgeny Alexandrovich.
It is worth noting that the Cypriot offshore company MSD MARKETING SYSTEM DISTRIBUTION LIMITED was registered on September 01, 2016, at the time of registration of the Russian company Crimean Wine House LLC, namely in 2014, the founder of the Cypriot offshore company OXFORD AMG-77 LIMITED was directly an offshore company AMG-77 INVESTMENT LIMITED. And who was the ultimate beneficiary at that moment will tell us the following document.
As you can see from the document, since 07/31/2007 the ultimate beneficiary of the offshore company “AMG-77 INVESTMENT LIMITED” was personally Evgeny Chernyak, who was registered at the address – Ukraine, Zaporozhye, Gavrilova street, house 16, […]. The document also states that the changes in the beneficiary occurred on December 10, 2015. The next document tells us that since December 10, 2015 Chernyak Alexander Borisovich has become the ultimate beneficiary of the AMG-77 INVESTMENT LIMITED offshore company.
Also, from the document we see that Chernyak Alexander Borisovich, when registering, used his Israeli passport with a residence permit in the city of Tel Aviv, down Agnon Shai street, house 38, […]. What tells us that Evgeny Chernyak’s father, Oleksandr Chernyak, has dual citizenship, which is prohibited by Ukrainian law. It is possible that Yevgeny Chernyak deliberately covered himself with Oleksandr Chernyak, who will be able to hide in Israel if the Ukrainian law enforcement agencies, during the investigation of criminal case No. We assume that Yevgeny Chernyak is not the first time trying to hide behind relatives.
Thus, the irrefutable facts are that Yevgeny Chernyak owned the Crimean Wine House plant, which is located on the territory of the temporarily occupied Crimean peninsula, in the midst of hostilities in eastern Ukraine, right in front of the Ilovaisk boiler, Yevgeny Chernyak draws up the Crimean Wine House plant. house” under Russian law and begins to pay taxes to the budget of the occupier, which then go, among other things, to the annexation of the territories of Ukraine. According to open registries, from 2014 to the end of 2020, Crimean Wine House LLC paid more than 17 million rubles to the budget of the occupiers in the form of value added tax on acquired valuables, more than 20 million rubles in the form of income tax, and others were also paid taxes, such as income tax and others that are not displayed in this report.
It is worth noting that on April 17, 2017, an offshore company located in the Seychelles with the name “BRAND GROUP CORPORATION LIMITED” became the ultimate beneficiary of the Russian plant “Crimean Wine House”. Journalist Vladislav Grabovsky says that at the moment there is a process of obtaining official information on this offshore company. But Vladislav Grabovsky assumes that the ultimate beneficiary of BRAND GROUP CORPORATION LIMITED is Evgeny Chernyak or people associated with him. Vladislav Grabovsky connects the change of the ultimate beneficiary of the Russian company Crimean Wine House from OXFORD AMG-77 LIMITED to BRAND GROUP CORPORATION LIMITED with possible attempts by Evgeny Chernyak to hide the fact of re-registration of the Crimean Wine House enterprise to Russian law personally by Chernyak and subsequent payment of taxes to the budget of the occupier.
As arguments, the journalist also cites the fact that despite the bureaucratic change of ownership, the plant continued its activities in the same direction, still produces Oreanda brand champagne, Shustov and ShustoFF brandy, although these brands of alcoholic beverages are official brands of the Global Spirits alcohol holding, owned by Evgeny Chernyak. As evidence, Grabovsky shows several bottles, on the labels of which the Crimean Wine House is indicated as a manufacturer:
The journalist focuses on the fact that these products are supplied by the manufacturer directly to the terrorist organization “Donetsk People’s Republic”. As evidence, the journalist shows receipts for the purchased products, according to which the purchase was made in the supermarket chain LLC “First Republican Supermarket”, which operates in the temporarily occupied territory of Donetsk region. The journalist draws attention to the fact that each product has an importer’s label.
According to the label, the importer is a certain LLC “Inter-Torg”, registered in the so-called “DPR”, at the address Makiivka, Gornyatsky district, st. Magistralnaya, 1.
To prove his assertion that the Crimean Wine House directly enters into contracts with the importer LLC Inter-Torg, the journalist says that the supply of alcoholic products was carried out through the international harmonized system for coordinating goods “Harmonized System”. The Crimean Wine House enterprise was forced to use this system, because this operation for the supply of alcoholic products to the “DPR” was considered an export of products. To confirm his words, the journalist provides small excerpts of information from the Harmonized System.
According to these excerpts, we see that Crimean Wine House LLC is indicated as the exporter, and Inter-Torg LLC is indicated as the buyer, Russia is indicated as the country of origin, the supplied goods are alcoholic beverages Russian semi-sweet white OREANDA CHARDONNAY champagne of the PREMIUM LINE series. The export date is 02/04/2019. The unique transaction code specified in the Harmonized System (HS-CODE, which is essentially the number of the customs declaration) is 2204109601.
The journalist also draws our attention to excise stamps, which are excise stamps of the terrorist organization “Donetsk People’s Republic”.
According to the current Russian legislation, excise stamps are glued to alcoholic products exclusively by the manufacturing plant. To obtain excise stamps, the manufacturing plant concludes an official contract for the supply of alcoholic beverages with an importer from the country to which the manufacturing plant plans to supply its products. After that, the manufacturing plant (or the importer) submits this agreement to the state authorities, pays excise tax for stamps (in Russia, the amount of excise duty is partially included in the fee for stamps), after which the manufacturing plant receives foreign excise stamps to apply them to its alcoholic products.
Thus, the “Crimean Wine House” in 2014 belonged to Yevgeny Chernyak, who, in the midst of hostilities in eastern Ukraine, right in front of the Ilovaisk cauldron, re-registered the enterprise under Russian law and began paying taxes to the occupier’s budget. After that, in 2017, the owner of the Crimean Wine House changed to an offshore company in the Seychelles. At the moment, the ultimate beneficiaries of the Seychelles offshore are being specified, but it is obvious that the Crimean Wine House continued to produce alcoholic products of the Shustov, ShustoFF and Oreanda brands, which are the official brands of the Global Spirits alcohol holding. The facts that the Crimean Wine House has a contractual relationship with Inter-Torg LLC, which, in turn, is registered in accordance with the legislation of the DPR terrorist organization, are indisputable. An indisputable fact is the presence of excise stamps “DPR” and labels of the importer LLC “Inter-Torg” on the alcohol products “ShustoFF”, which indicates the payment of taxes in the “DPR”.
Grabovsky points out that this is only part of the information he is willing to share at the moment. The information owned by Grabovsky was fully transferred to the Security Service of Ukraine. He will be ready to make it public if law enforcement officers continue to be inactive regarding possible crimes committed by the Global Spirits alcohol holding.