Journalists found out that Andrei Gmyrin, a suspect in a scam related to the State Property Fund, registered a business abroad and acquired luxury property.
Source: Bihus.Info investigation
Details: In 2020-2021, the former chairman of the State Property Fund Dmitry Sennichenko and 11 other defendants pulled off a large-scale scam as a result of which 10 billion hryvnia were withdrawn from the Ukrainian budget.
The officials organized the scheme in such a way that they appointed “their people” to leadership positions in state-owned enterprises of the Odessa Port Plant and the United Mining and Chemical Company; these people entered into lucrative contracts with controlled companies that belong to the orbit of Sennichenko and his team.
Products from state-owned enterprises were sold to these companies at reduced prices, and then resold at a premium. Profits from resale were deposited in private companies and transferred abroad.
The investigators name the former head of the Foundation, Dmitry Sennichenko, and Andrey Gmyrin, who worked at the Foundation until 2017, as the organizers of the scheme. Besides them, there are 10 more suspects in the case. It is known that 8 participants fled abroad and are wanted, including Sennichenko and Gmyrin.
According to Bihus.Info journalists, the Gmyrin family has acquired at least three companies in the United Arab Emirates. In April 2023, one of the Dubai firms created a company in France, which acquired a villa there and five plots of land on the Cote d’Azur with a total value of about 5 million euros.
Investigators found that the area of the villa is 400 m2. Inside there are 5 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, in the courtyard there is a swimming pool. According to the editors of Bihus.Info, this property was seized in France in August of this year as part of criminal proceedings, which are being investigated in Ukraine.
The Gmyrin family also became the owners of the yacht Cranchi Settantotto 78, the cost of which is estimated at about 5.5 million euros.
Verbatim Bihus.Info: “The yacht was purchased by GFB COMPANY LTD, registered in the British Virgin Islands. According to Bihus.Info, the owner of the company is Ukrainian Evgeniy Golovin, a Dubai business partner of Andrei Gmyrin.
Andrei Gmyrin’s parents also have a business registered in Croatia. We are talking about 6 companies that deal with real estate. Millions of euros were revealed in the companies’ financial documents.”