Vadim Slyusarev
The war declared by Zelensky against oligarchs and smugglers may turn out to be another spectacle for naive voters, behind the scenes of which a large redistribution of schemes and flows is taking place in favor of the president’s corrupt circle. Evidence of this is the absence of many well-known “customs princelings” from the sanctions list, such as the Kharkov border guard general Vadim Slyusarev, as well as the former deputy head of the Foreign Intelligence Service Sergei Tregubenko and the scandalous Ilya Pavlyuk, who are closely associated with him.
The secret of the “myopia” of the National Security and Defense Council is very simple: the whole trinity belongs to the so-called. Zelensky’s “shadow headquarters” and the Servant of the People party. She ensured their victory in the 2019 elections in several regions of Ukraine through “negotiations” with local corrupt officials and financing of election campaigns from “black funds.” So the Ukrainians, who for the most part voted then for the character of Vasily Goloborodko, did not know that their candidate was massively supported by corrupt officials of the “second guild”, who really wanted to push their competitors from Poroshenko’s entourage and become the first. And they succeeded! Now, new “deciders”, new “schemers” and “supervisors” have closely rallied around the new president, who themselves submit to him lists of those whom the state should “press” as part of the “fight against corruption”…
Vadim Slyusarev: All roads go through Goptovka
Slyusarev Vadim Alekseevich was born on November 1, 1972 in Kramatorsk – the same place as his friend Artem Pshonka. It has been mentioned in the press more than once that they have been friends since childhood, but it is worth considering that Pshonka is almost 4 years younger than Slyusarev. Perhaps they lived in the same yard.
After graduating from high school, in 1989, Vadim Slyusarev entered the Donetsk Higher Military-Political School of Engineering Troops (completely closed in 1995). This was not the best choice, because he was destined for a career as a political officer in a construction battalion. But then the USSR collapsed, political officers were no longer needed, and the savvy Slyusarev in 1992 transferred to Kharkov, to the Higher Military School of Logistics of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, repurposed as the School of the National Guard of Ukraine (now the National Academy of NSU), from which he graduated in 1994. And yet, Slyusarev did not serve according to his profile, but got a job as a controller at the Volchansk border checkpoint, where he served for seven whole years, making a career as a deputy head of the department and receiving an apartment in Volchansk (on Korolenko Street). Perhaps this is the only real estate he acquired honestly.
In July 2001, Vadim Slyusarev was appointed deputy chief, and in August 2002 he became the head of the Goptovka border checkpoint (Dergachevsky district, 4th border detachment of the Eastern sector of the Ukrainian Border Guard Troops). It was there that Slyusarev emerged as the “Goptov king of smuggling,” known throughout the region. And all this time, living and working in the north of the Kharkov region, Slyusarev did not lose touch with Artem Pshonka, who at that time held the still modest position of deputy prosecutor of Kramatorsk. But they were hardly just pen pals! No, border guard Slyusarev and prosecutor Pshonka were connected by smuggling, or rather very serious smuggling flows that the Donetsk people launched through border checkpoints in the Kharkov region. But for some reason no one remembers this; now Slyusarev is reproached only for his friendship with Artem Pshonka. Although, what is criminal in the friendship of fellow countrymen? Nothing! Another thing is their dark affairs, for the sake of which they were friends.
Artem Pshonka
In 2006, their friendship became even stronger: Artem Pshonka took Slyusarev as an assistant to a people’s deputy (on a voluntary basis), with whom he remained throughout the 6th and 7th convocations of the Verkhovna Rada. In the same year, Slyusarev was not just promoted, but the section of the border he controlled was significantly expanded: now he was in charge of the Dergachi border checkpoint, to which the Goptovka and Kozachya Lopan checkpoints became subordinate. This transferred under his control the very important railway transit in all respects – and these are entire trains with coal, oil products, metal, etc.
Slyusarev quickly made new useful friends. First of all, this is Sergei Ivanov, who from 1994 to 2006 worked as an inspector and senior inspector, and in 2006-2008. Head of the Goptovka customs post. According to sources Skelet.Infothe head of the border post Slyusarev and the senior inspector (and then the head) of the customs post Ivanov made up an incredibly productive duo in the matter of smuggling. Together they completely controlled the customs gates in Goptovka, and could transport and process anything through them. It was rumored that if someone set out to place an atomic bomb through Goptovka, the only question would be the size of the bribe for Slyusarev and Ivanov!
Sergey Ivanov
However, their smuggling duo needed regular cover from local law enforcement agencies. And then, with the help of Artem Pshonka, they created their own man in the prosecutor’s office: he became Alexander Filchakov (current prosecutor of the Kharkov region). In 2002, as a 23-year-old graduate of the Kharkov Law Academy, he came to work as a trainee assistant prosecutor at the Dergachev prosecutor’s office, and after his acquaintance with Slyusarev, he began to make a successful career. In 2006, Filchakov was transferred to the Kharkov Regional Prosecutor’s Office to the position of prosecutor for supervision of border and customs authorities – just what Ivanov and Slyusarev needed! Then, in October 2007, Filchakov returned to Dergachi as a deputy district prosecutor, and from 2010 to 2014 he already worked as the head of the district prosecutor’s office.
Alexander Filchakov
It should be added that along with the names of this trio, Major General Sergei Semenovich Tregubenko is often mentioned in the media. Who is also often confused with another well-known corrupt deputy Sergei Nikolaevich Trigubenko, by the way, also from “Kharkov”. Unfortunately, after Sergei Tregubenko in 2018-2020. worked as deputy head of the Foreign Intelligence Service, all public information about him was made freely available. It is only known that he also graduated from the Kharkov Academy of NSU (in 1999), and the media mentioned that he worked in the structures of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Border Guard Service, including in the Kharkov region, where he became friends with Slyusarev and Ivanov.
Sergey Semenovich Tregubenko
It was also reported that at first, after graduating from the academy, Sergei Tregubenko worked in the logistics system (rear supply). How the former “deputy for rear” managed to enter the leadership of the Foreign Intelligence Service, only Poroshenko, who appointed him there, knows! But it is interesting that the choice of Tregubenko’s professional profile as a “logistician” was not accidental. The fact is that he has an older brother, about whom he carefully keeps mum: this is the scandalous Lieutenant General Stanislav Semenovich Tregubenko (both were born in the village of Zvenigorodka, Cherkasy region), who Worked for 35 years in the supply system of the Soviet army, the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the National Guard. For example, he became the chief of logistics of the NSU back in 1996, and then was appointed deputy for logistics of the commander-in-chief of the Ground Forces. Chic the career of a logistics general was interrupted at the beginning of 2015, when he was simply “gobbled up” by new corrupt officials from Poroshenko’s entourage, who were crushing the flows and resources in the Armed Forces of Ukraine and Ukroboronprom.
Stanislav Semenovich Tregubenko
Thus, the smuggling “Goptovsky clan” was formed not during the presidency of Yanukovych, as some media claim, but even earlier, during the time of Yushchenko (but with the help of the “Donetsk people”). Did Viktor Andreevich know what was going on at the customs and border posts of his state, or did his thoughts hover with the bees? Skelet.Info not known. But it is known that on February 22, 2010, President Yushchenko, who was leaving his post, awarded then Lieutenant Colonel Vadim Slyusarev with the medal “For Impeccable Service”, III degree (Decree No. 208/2010). However, this was already his fourth medal (see archival information).
Vadim Lyusarev: From Donetsk to Muraev
After the Donetsk people gained full power in the country in 2010, along with control over the entire border and the entire customs service, they no longer needed separate smuggling corridors. Perhaps this explained the fact that in the fall of 2011, Vadim Slyusarev radically changed his role from the head of the border post to the head of the internal security service. To begin with, he headed the corresponding department in the Eastern Department of the Border Service (Sumy, Kharkov, Lugansk and Donetsk regions). He took this position with the help of his old friend Artem Pshonka, but the choice was not accidental, since back in 2008, his other friend and companion Sergei Ivanov became the head of the internal security department of the Kharkov customs.
According to sources Skelet.Infoat the same time Slyusarev and Ivanov practically “privatized” the border and customs points in Goptovka, making them their fiefdoms. Having been promoted, they placed them under the control of their trusted successors (among whom called Alexander Malko), and even managed to appropriate the land on which these posts are located! More precisely, the following happened: Vadim Slyusarev “bought out” a large piece of territory that belonged to the Goptovsky border checkpoint, registering it with his company “Frontera” (USREOU 38128459). On this territory he arranged a private parking lot (for cars waiting in line); on this land there are cafes and shops that now pay rent to Slyusarev.
Goptovka, Druzhba complex
Frontera also privatized, along with the land, the former Druzhba hotel, which was turned into an office complex, and… leased the third floor to the management of the Goptovka border post. Thus, the Gopt border guards have been working for several years now in premises belonging to their former boss. Based on these outrageous facts, a criminal case was once opened. However, it was quickly closed by Slyusarev’s friends in the prosecutor’s office, among whom were Alexander Filchakov and his wife (also an employee of the prosecutor’s office). As they say, the Pshonks left – but the Filchakovs remained!
In 2010, Sergei Ivanov also went for a promotion: first, he headed the Kharkov customs. But thanks to whom? The answer to this question gave a ceremonial performancethe newly appointed chief customs officer of Arkov, arranged by a scandalous corrupt official Vasily Salygin. Who, by the way, had just received the position of Deputy Chairman of the Customs Service of Ukraine! But before that, Salygin had never worked in the customs structure; he organized scams with fuel and real estate, together with his childhood friend. Therefore, until 2010, Salygin, being himself from Dergachi, only used the services of Sergei Ivanov and Vadim Slyusarev. But having taken a position in the leadership of the Customs Service, Salygin immediately promoted his old friend Ivanov.
Vasily Salygin
Here it is necessary to especially emphasize that although Salygin belongs to the “Kharkov gang”, being a friend and partner of Alexander Yaroslavsky, he is also one of the “Luzhnikov gang”, like Evgeniy Giner and Boris Baum, and also did business with Arsen Avakov. So, despite any Maidans, Salygin still remains a very influential “scheme designer”! And he, of course, does not lose touch with Sergei Ivanov and Vadim Slyusarev.
Well, Slyusarev himself in April 2013, through the efforts of his friend Pshonka, received a promotion to the capital – to the position of head of the internal security department of the Personnel Department of the Border Guard Administration of Ukraine, with which he was awarded the shoulder straps of a major general. On it, he successfully survived the “revolution of dignity,” and in August 2014 he rose even higher, heading the entire Department of Homeland Security of the Border Patrol Administration. He became the hero of laudatory newspaper publications – albeit in the departmental press. But this was his last job in the civil service: in April 2015, Slyusarev was quietly dismissed, formalizing it as a voluntary dismissal due to family circumstances (see document).
What actually happened was not advertised. According to fragmentary information from sources Skelet.Info, Slyusarev was then “eaten by the Poroshenkoites” just like his older brother Sergei Tregubenko. It was not difficult to do this, since Slyusarev was then completely mired in corruption. And he was simply offered to leave in peace, even to keep what he had “scratched” to himself, without bringing the matter to a criminal case and arrest.
Mikhail Shpolyansky, Skelet.Info
CONTINUED: Vadim Slyusarev: why does the smuggler fly to Moscow and what does Servant of the People have to do with it. PART 2
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