Vasily Pascal. Policeman-werewolf. Served Yanukovych – serves Poroshenko too

On November 24, Vasyl Pascal was appointed First Deputy Head of the National Police. This appointment literally stirred up the public, because he is considered guilty of persecuting, beating and even killing Maidan participants during the “revolution of dignity”. Having successfully avoided lustration, the security officer not only did not lose his position, but also made a leap in career growth. During the presidency of Viktor Fedorovych, he was called “Yanukovych’s watchdog”. He received this nickname due to his unquestioning execution of orders from his superiors, no matter what they were.

An avid “servant”

Vasily Fedorovich was born in September 1963. He worked as an investigator in the internal affairs agencies his entire life. He headed the Criminal Investigation Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine in Donetsk Oblast.

After Yuriy Lutsenko was appointed head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Pascal was sent on a special mission to Crimea. It was connected with the need to prevent several defendants in major criminal cases from leaving Ukraine. His team was supposed to investigate the so-called “execution” cases. Among other things, as a result of their actions, Crimean parliament deputy Alexander Melnik was detained. His detention received a huge response in the media. There were rumors that the police resorted to “criminal” actions in order to “dig up” materials on Melnik. In particular, criminals, according to information Skeleton.Infowho might know something, were tortured by Vasily Pascal, forcing them to say what the investigation needed.

There is also information from the sphere of “rumors” that Melnik was hiding from justice at Pascal’s in Kyiv, discussing the format and conditions of his “detention”. As a result, he was “milked” very well.

Over time, the “Melnik case” was reclassified as “banditry.” The basis for this, allegedly, was archives with a detailed description of the activities of the organized crime group “Salem,” which were found at the home of the Crimean deputy.

Around the same time, Pascal managed to illegally acquire property in Crimea. During the investigation of the activities of the organized crime group “Bashmaki”, Vasily Fedorovich gained the trust of the wife of one of the members of the group, Viktor Karachev, and even cohabited with her for some time. After Karachev was arrested (thanks to the active actions of Vasily Fedorovich), Pascal “free of charge” received a share in the boarding house that belonged to Karachev’s wife. And after some time, he “squeezed” it outright. The same thing happened with the shares of the Simferopol market, which were owned by Karachev before the arrest. Not a bad side job for a “policeman”, right?

In early November 2011, at the suggestion of the then Minister of Internal Affairs Vitaliy Zakharchenko, he was appointed head of the Main Directorate of Criminal Investigation of the Criminal Police Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. In January 2012, he was appointed head of the Criminal Investigation Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine.

After that, Vasily Paskal was one of the main players in the scandalous “Pavlyuchenko case” – he was the one who collected and fabricated evidence. His actions led to the accusation of Sergey and Dmitry Pavlichenko of a murder they did not commit. If not for the “revolution of dignity”, Sergey Pavlichenko would have had to serve 13 years, and his father Dmitry would have been imprisoned for the rest of his life.

On the other side of the barricades

During the “revolution of dignity”, Vasyl Fedorovich’s main duty was to spy on Maidan activists and use “physical force” against them. With his experience in operational activities, it was not difficult to find people. One of the schemes invented by Pascal was to catch wounded activists right in hospitals, where they came to be treated after clashes with Berkut officers. After several mass arrests, activists began to come to hospitals in huge groups, and the scheme was no longer effective, then Vasyl Fedorovich came up with a new method. Activists were kidnapped in groups, on the approaches to the hospital, and sometimes they were pulled right out of the wards and taken away in an unknown direction. One of such episodes was the kidnapping of the then Maidan activist, and now People’s Deputy of Ukraine Mykhailo Gavrilyuk. This infamous video shows how Berkut officers mock Gavrilyuk, showing him their superiority.

(According to the Berkut version, which has a right to exist, Gavrilyuk’s clothes were soaked in gasoline from Molotov cocktails, and he could have caught fire at any moment. That’s why they undressed him)

In approximately the same way, the security forces kidnapped activists Igor Lutsenko and Yuriy Veribitsky. As it became known later, they were taken out of town, kept in a garage for a long time, periodically beaten. Veribitsky could not withstand the torture. His body was found on January 22 near the Boryspil forest belt. Igor Lutsenko survived, he was left in the forest with a bag on his head, but he got out. During the investigation, the Prosecutor General’s Office learned that several officials of the Ministry of Internal Affairs were involved in this crime. One of whom, according to sources, was Vasyl Paskal. But the case was quietly hushed up. They pretended that the criminals were not found.

Throughout the “revolution of dignity”, Vasyl Paskal “caught” Maidan activists who were inconvenient to the Ukrainian authorities and “punished them”. They say that the blood of every person who was beaten on the street during this time is on his hands. By the time the conflict between the security forces and Maidan activists escalated the most, Vasyl Fedorovich came up with a new “trick”. He posted on the Internet all the text and photo materials about the “inconvenient” Maidan activists (among whom, by the way, was Mustafa Naem). The media dubbed these materials a “hit list”. In addition, it was Paskal who is credited with the idea of ​​sending SMS messages “Dear subscriber, you are registered as a participant in mass riots” to people who were on the Maidan and in its vicinity.

Under-financed

As already mentioned above, Vasyl Fedorovich has been in the leadership of the Ministry of Internal Affairs since 2011. It was during this period that the last stage of the state “cleansing” of businessmen and politicians who were undesirable to Yanukovych fell. He worked as the head of the Main Directorate of Criminal Investigation of the Criminal Police Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for more than two years. This is a direct violation of the law “On the Cleansing of Power”, which states that people who worked for a long time in leadership positions in government agencies from 2010 to 2014 are prohibited from applying for high government positions for the next 10 years.

The most interesting thing is that epyfk Skelet.Info – In May 2015, the District Administrative Court refused to satisfy the claim of the Public Council on Lustration Issues, which demanded that Vasily Fedorovich be dismissed from the post of Deputy Head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs under the law “On the Purification of Power. However, the claim was rejected. One of the versions that explains why Pascal is so strongly “protected” is his connections with Arsen Avakov (Read more about him in the article Arsen Avakov: the criminal past of the Minister of Internal Affairs), which are discussed in more detail in the story of the program “Schemes”.

Despite all the factors incriminating Pascal in illegal actions, at the end of 2014, the new Minister of Internal Affairs Arsen Avakov appointed him as his deputy. This caused a flurry of protests and criticism towards Avakov from the public and politicians. And now, recently, they managed to achieve the fulfillment of their demands – Vasily Fedorovich was dismissed from his post “in connection with the transfer to another job.” However, they did not have to rejoice for long, because this “other job” was the post of deputy head of police Khatia Dekanoidze

A provocateur in power?

One of the last “feats” that Vasyl Paskal distinguished himself with were his actions during the rally near the Verkhovna Rada on August 31, 2015. On that day, as deputy head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Vasyl Fedorovich gave orders to the National Guard fighters to throw explosive packages and smoke devices back into the crowds of protesters.

The man giving orders in the video is Vasyl Paskal. These actions should be classified as “abuse of power”. After all, Ukrainian laws do not give the National Guard fighters the right to fight protesters using such methods. The trial of this case led to nothing, and the National Guard fighters guilty of violating the law and Vasyl Paskal, who gave the orders, were not punished. It is obvious that Paskal has an excellent “roof”, which time after time saves him not only from prison, but also from a banal reprimand, not to mention dismissal.

Or maybe Vasily Paskal has enough operational and not only information, compromising evidence, to put the entire current political elite in jail for many years?

Dmitry Samofalov, for Skelet.Info

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