Vitaly Yarema. “Honest cop” and godfather of Sergei Dumchev

The name of the former Prosecutor General of Ukraine Vitaly Yarema is well known to both businessmen and bandits. At different times he was called a “fiery revolutionary,” a “legend of the search,” and even a “protector of bandits.” To this list, judging by his biography, one can also add “corrupt official”, “schemer” and “honest cop”. In general, Vitaly Grigorievich was called differently, but who is he really?

“Honest” cop

Vitaly Yarema was born in the village of Strokova in the Kyiv region in October 1963. Immediately after graduating from school, he worked in the animal farm of the city of Pereyaslav-Khmelnitsk. Starting in 1981, he served in the Soviet Army, after which, in December 1983, he joined the police. While working as a policeman in the Dneprovsky district police department of Kyiv, he simultaneously studied at the police school of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, after which, in 1987, he was appointed a local police officer of the same Dneprovsky district police department of the city of Kyiv.

For Vitaly Yarema, working as a district police officer was mundane and boring, therefore, starting in 1990, he worked as an investigator and was also the deputy head of the criminal investigation department. Having gone through his career path from the very bottom, Vitaly Grigorievich in 1997 managed to rise to the position of head of the criminal investigation department, and two years later he became the first deputy head of the Main Directorate for Criminal Investigation of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine.

Vitaly Yarema

“Unexpected” career growth

Towards the end of the 90s, a whole series of murders of famous businessmen and simply “significant” citizens took place in Kyiv. Judging by the handwriting of the murders, everything was done professionally, without any traces. The police shrugged their shoulders, saying that nothing could be done; the investigation had reached a dead end. In 2001, the police detained a certain citizen Georgy Suvorin, an avid drug addict, who was “mistaken” for possession of heroin. Unexpectedly for everyone, he announced that it was he who killed 18 people and attempted to kill six more.

Georgy Suvorin. Drug addict who confessed to murders

It is noteworthy that it was after this incident with the “drug addict killer” that Vitaly Yarema’s career rapidly went up. In 2001, he was transferred to serve as the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine at the Lvov Railway. After a series of positions in different departments of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, in February 2005, Vitaly Yarema was appointed to the post of head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine in Kyiv.

It is noteworthy that Vitaly Grigorievich was appointed to the post of chief police officer of Kyiv immediately after the Orange Revolution and the coming to power of Viktor Yushchenko, whom he actively supported during the events on the Maidan. It is not surprising that in the next elections, he entered the Kyiv City Council on the lists of the Our Ukraine bloc. Having worked as the head of the Kyiv police for more than 5 years, Vitaly Yarema refused to hold this position after the election of a president with a criminal past, Viktor Yanukovych.

Vitaly Grigorievich went to the elections in 2012 together with former associates of Viktor Yushchenko, the Batkivshchyna party. In the 212th majoritarian district, he won more than 30% of the votes.

Vitaly Yarema. Election campaign

After the revolutionary events in Ukraine in February 2014, Vitaly Yarema was elected Deputy Prime Minister, who will be responsible for the security sector. But during the election of Avakov (Read more about him in the article Arsen Avakov: the criminal past of the Minister of Internal Affairs) for the post of head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Yareme lacked only one vote to take this post. In June 2014, Yarema was appointed Prosecutor General of Ukraine, in which post he “distinguished himself” several times.

Why Yarema was “removed” from the GPU

In order to understand this scheme, you need to go back a few years. During the formation of the “Family,” Vitaly Zakharchenko, together with Alexander Yanukovych, organized a kind of financial pyramid, which was created to “cash out oneself.” The managers of the “Family” created “certified sites”, and with the help of conversion centers (with a monopoly on transactions), money flowed into the pockets of Zakharchenko and Yanukovych. Zakharchenko directly supervised this scheme, and even after moving to the post of chief security officer of Ukraine, he continued to supervise the “cash out.” In this work, he was actively assisted by Sergei Mishchenko, who later became an assistant to the new head of the fiscal service, Igor Bilous. The chairman of the GFI needed him because he did not understand the shadow schemes launched by Zakharchenko. It turned out that money was “floating” past the pockets of the new government, and the economy was plunging even further into the shadows.

Resigned to his fate, Mishchenko agreed to work for the benefit of Yatsenyuk-Bilous’s pockets, however, when he came to the cashing market, he discovered a competitor on the cashing market – Sergei Dumchev. So it is Dumchev who is the godfather of the former Prosecutor General of Ukraine Vitaly Yarema. In addition, just under the patronage of Vitaly Grigorievich, he was actively involved in building a cash-out system.

Sergei Dumchev, godfather of Vitaly Yarema

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This was confirmed by the detention of several tax officials involved in cash-out schemes and involved in the activities of convert centers. These officials were detained at the instigation of Vitaly Yarema for bribery. Another fact confirming the involvement of Dumchev and Yarema in this scheme can be considered the appearance on cash-out sites of “fresh offers, with interest rates half as low as those offered by the tax authorities.

Immediately after Bilous discovered this scheme, Vitaliy Yarema began to be actively leaked, and Arseniy Yatsenyuk, the most interested person who was losing a lot of money due to Yarema’s activities, agreed to file incriminating evidence against him. As you know, in February 2015, Vitaly Yarema was finally fired from the post of Prosecutor General, and Yatsenyuk received another way to “make money.”

Fight with a policeman

As a member of the Batkivshchyna party, during the revolutionary events on the Maidan, Vitaliy Yarema beat a policeman. This is exactly how all Ukrainian media wrote about this episode in his biography. This incident happened on the night of December 23-24, during his duty on the Maidan. According to Yarema, the incident occurred during an attempt to unblock the road for cars with food and firewood for the Maidan tent city. Traffic police officers who were in a service vehicle refused to allow cars to enter the Maidan due to the lack of accompanying documents for the cargo. During the conflict, Vitaly Grigorievich hit one of the police officers (his former subordinate) in the face with his fist. Later, during a special briefing, Yarema denied the fact of a fight with the police, saying that it was he who was hit in the stomach, and not the policeman, as trumpeted in the media.

“Dangerous” relatives

Vitaly Yarema, among his other exploits, is associated with the beating of Russian Mikhail Klimov. The episode occurred in 2008 in one of the hotels in Kyiv. A group of people of Caucasian nationality, among whom were the Aloyan brothers, “barged” straight into Citizen Klimov’s room. The Caucasians kicked Klimov, mocked him, and in the end raped him. During the beating, he was also threatened with a pistol and stabbed with a knife. After that, they punched him in the throat and threw his lifeless body into a forest belt near Kyiv. Surprisingly, Klimov managed to survive to tell about all this.

Now to the main thing. In fact, this case was not allowed to proceed because of Vitaly Yarema, who is related to the Aloyan family by family ties. The brother of his wife Margarita is Jamal Aloyan, who in turn is the brother of crime boss Shabab Aloyan, the man who ordered Mikhail Klimov’s throat to be cut. At the instigation of the then head of the Kyiv police, Vitaly Grigorievich, the case was buried due to the lack of evidence of a crime. Rumor has it that the case was settled “relatively” for $100,000. And after a couple of years, Yarema was noticed in family photos with members of the Aloyan family.

Experience in “protection”

At the beginning of his career, Vitaly Yarema, like most “successful” police officers of that time, was involved in “protection” of commercial enterprises, the main one among which was the Mezocred company, which was engaged in alcohol and clothing production. The director of this enterprise was a certain V.A. Kredisov. (Deputy Minister of Defense under Viktor Yushchenko). It is not difficult to protect the enterprise; there was enough of a relative in the law enforcement environment, so Vitaly Grigorievich was hired at Mezocred. His duties included “cover” from the police and resolving tax issues. With the help of Vitaly Yarema, this enterprise did not pay several million dollars in taxes to the state budget.

Kremlin pocket journalist Anatoly Shariy, now hiding in Lithuania, argued that Yarema’s conscience is not only the organization and “protection” of Kyiv brothels and the organization of contract killings, but also human trafficking. During Yarema’s tenure as head of the capital’s police, Kyiv was practically overwhelmed by a wave of sales of girls to brothels in Asian countries.

Data from the online publication “Phrase”:

There are quite a lot of interesting episodes in the biography of Vitaly Yarema; at various times he was associated with racketeering, murder and even real estate fraud. However, the “honest cop” is still at large, and, judging by the latest information, is in excellent health, preparing for future “exploits.” In the meantime, Vitaly Grigorievich is preparing, his godfather Sergei Dumchev is actively planning to become mayor of Kyiv…

Dmitry Samofalov, for SKELET-info