Vladimir Bedrikovsky: the taking hand of Prosecutor General Lutsenko. PART 1
High-ranking law enforcement officials, who report loudest about the fight against corruption, are themselves covered in it up to their badges. A striking example of this is the department of the current Prosecutor General of Ukraine Yuriy Lutsenko, in which corruption continues to flourish as rapidly as under his predecessors. And the blame for this is not the crisis, not the opposition, and not Russian aggression, but the Prosecutor General himself, who consciously surrounds himself with people like Vladimir Bedrikovsky. Who began to revive old and build new corruption schemes as soon as he received his post as head of the Department of Legality Supervision.
The legacy of “authorities”
Bedrikovsky (Ukrainian Bedrikivskiy) Vladimir Vladimirovich was born on December 16, 1963 in the town of Zalishchyky (Ukrainian Zalishchiki) Ternopil region. It is worth noting that the media often publish incorrect years of his birth: either 1961 or 1964. However, in the database of Ukrainian residents V.V. Bedrikovsky is listed as born in 1963.
After school, with the help of his relatives, he got a job at the Dnestryanka tourist center, holding two positions at once: as an electrician and as a sports instructor (accompanying tourists on nature trips). In those days, two types of people usually found such work for themselves – creative individuals and born lazy people. Well, Bedrikovsky did not write poetry, did not compose music, and did not draw pictures. But after serving in the army (1982-1984), he joined the police – also, it should be noted, the job is not for workaholics. In 1985-87, he completed training at the Ivano-Frankivsk police school (now a branch of the Lviv University of Internal Affairs), after which he worked for two years as a district police officer in the regional center of Borshchiv (Ternopil region).
Bedrikovsky’s finest hour came in 1989, when he entered the Kyiv Higher Police School (now the National Academy of Internal Affairs). Upon graduation in 1991, Bedrikovsky was invited to the Department for Combating Organized Crime (UBOP), then it was the most prestigious and cool job in the police. It is worth noting that Valeriy Geletey, who also first studied at the Ivano-Frankivsk police school and then at the Kyiv Academy, ended up in the Organized Crime Control Department in the same way. It’s just that Geletey’s “Ubop” career, who had big patrons behind him, started quickly, and at first he even overtook Bedrikovsky, who had to work as an operative a couple of years longer. But then Bedrikovsky’s “combat opera” past was often used as a political trump card in personnel games.
What Bedrikovsky actually did in the 90s in the ranks of the Organized Crime Control Department remained shrouded in official secrets. True, you can’t hide a sew in a bag, and ubiquitous journalists somehow found information that in the 90s, Bedrikovsky, working in the organized crime group of the Savlokhov brothers, very quickly became close to his charges and then began working for them. No, the Kiev Organized Crime Control Department never stooped to the level of a servant of the “authorities” (only because it was not profitable); rather, it was their unofficial “partner” in various kinds of issues. Moreover, the “partner” is unscrupulous and vile, often abandoning his “companions”. That is why the ranks of the “authorities” were regularly thinned out, the intractable and inconvenient leaders of organized criminal groups were replaced by those who were friends with the Organized Crime Control Department, and part of the business of the killed and convicted “authorities” went to the “cops.” Here we can recall the “Ubop” banks created by Geletey’s colleague Alexey Savchenko with the money of the murdered Pimple. Of course, the details of Bedrikovsky’s relationship with the Savlokhovs remained unknown, but Skelet.Info It is known that the brave “suicide bomber” has been one of the main “protectors” of the commercial structures created by the brothers since the “zero” years. Of course, for this service he was not paid every month “in an envelope”: this is dangerous, and he would have to share with his superiors. No, according to sources, Bedrikovsky controls a stake in companies created by the Savlokhovs. Moreover, he did not limit himself to connections only with the Savlokhovs’ organized crime group.
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But for many years this information was either hidden, quickly cleared up, or hushed up. In addition, Bedrikovsky himself showed caution, and the same stories that were told about his colleague Geletey did not circulate in Kyiv. So formally Bedrikovsky remained a clean, almost impeccable employee of the Organized Crime Control Department. And when it was necessary, a legend was created about Bedrikovsky as an “honest cop” and a brave operative. And this was necessary after the first Maidan, when some ranks of the capital’s Ministry of Internal Affairs were elevated to the top by the new government. And even Bedrikovsky’s official biography available in the media for the period 1991-2006. was wiped out and cut down to the point of indecency. It was as if it had been specially cut in such a way as to give the impression that Bedrikovsky had been pulled out for promotion almost from an operational ambush on bandits. But in fact, by that time Bedrikovsky had already forgotten how to fasten handcuffs: since the late 90s, he had held senior positions in the Ministry of Internal Affairs. At least since 2003, he was in the chair of the deputy head of the Main Directorate for Organized Crime Control of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine (his chief was Yuri Cherkasov), and before that he was the head of a department of the Main Directorate for Organized Crime Control of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
By the way, then Bedrikovsky’s career in the Organized Crime Control Department far exceeded the career of Valery Geletey – before the first Maidan, he was, at most, only the deputy head of the Organized Crime Control Department in Kyiv (and then headed the Kiev criminal investigation department).
That is, if Geletey made his career in the Kyiv Ministry of Internal Affairs, then Vladimir Bedrikovsky within the walls of the Ministry of Internal Affairs itself. Accordingly, there were different levels of corruption, with which the Organized Organized Crime Control system was already thoroughly saturated by the beginning of the 2000s. Ministerial officials were less likely to have to deal with criminal bosses, unlike the Kyiv crime bosses who worked in the fields. But Bedrikovsky had the opportunity to work with “vip clients”, pulling off very intricate machinations. For example, as in the story with “businesswoman” Oksana Moroz.
Oksana Moroz
Vladimir Bedrikovsky and the “female praying mantis”
As the media have repeatedly reported, in the 80s, failed student Oksana Moroz was engaged in currency prostitution at the Dnepr Hotel in Kyiv. This activity, due to the constant contacts of dollar whores with foreigners, was closely supervised by the KGB. However, criminal structures also provided their “protection” for this business. So Oksana Moroz became a state security informant and at the same time made a lot of useful contacts in the emerging Kyiv organized crime groups. And it should be noted that Oksana Moroz was distinguished by high sociability and the ability to quickly make the necessary connections – not only sexual, but also friendly ones, which eventually also became business ones.
Oksana Moroz
And since the late 80s, when it became possible to earn dollars not only as a “frontman,” Oksana Moroz retrained as a “marukha” – becoming the wife of former butcher Harry Malik-zade Jibu, better known as the criminal “authority” of Jiba and the uncle of another “ authority” Viktor Avdyshev. She even gave birth to a son, Malik Garievich Moroz, in 1991. But the next year Jiba was killed, and Oksana found herself another “authority”, then a third, etc., replacing several killed or imprisoned “husbands” in three years. After which she grabbed the jackpot in the form of American businessman Alex Hunt – aka Ukrainian Jew Alexander Markovich Okhotin (father – Tabakmacher) who emigrated to the United States. With his money, she bought all the apartments in an old four-story building at Grushevsky 8/16 (literally next to the Cabinet of Ministers and the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine), where she already had two apartments, inherited from the “authorities.” On the ground floor she opened a super-expensive elite boutique “Sanahunt” for VIP clients of the highest rank, which became not only a clothing store, but also a kind of salon for the capital’s elite (and one can only guess what was on the upper floors of this “salon”). So the former currency whore became the first Kyiv courtesan, whose friends were generals, and her godmothers were the daughter of Leonid Kuchma and Viktor Yushchenko. I spoke in more detail about her “life” at one time. series of journalistic materials “Female Praying Mantis”.
“Salon” by Oksana Moroz Sanahunt
By the way, the resourcefulness of Oksana Moroz, who literally scams high-ranking suckers into huge cash in her boutique, is worthy of admiration. Not only did she charge prices many times higher for branded items than in Europe, not only did she sell consumer goods as exclusive, but she also often sold not certified goods, but “Taiwanese” crafts smuggled through Odessa.
At the same time, representatives of famous world brands have repeatedly noted that their companies have not sent any new collections to Ukraine, and they have no idea who is selling what in Kyiv on their behalf.
Behind the crowds of oligarchs, high-ranking officials, famous politicians, and members of their families who went to Sanahunt, the relatively modest figure of Vladimir Bedrikovsky was almost invisible. However, he was called one of Oksana Moroz’s personal defenders. According to information from a number of sources Skelet.InfoVladimir Bedrikovsky has known her since the early 90s, when he worked as an operator for the Organized Crime Control Department. There were even unconfirmed rumors that it was supposedly Oksana Moroz who put in an ear for him so that Bedrikovsky would be assigned directly to the ministry – in any case, rumor did not name any other patrons of his at that time, but meanwhile, someone really looked into Bedrikovsky’s career in the late 90s helped. Whether this is true or not, in 2003 he had the opportunity to repay her a very big favor.
A couple of years earlier, Oksana Moroz had the idea to leave her next husband, Alex Hunt, even though she gave birth to a child from him. To begin with, Oksana created the Art-Plus company, which took over the management of the Sanahunt boutique, which took out large foreign currency loans under Hunt’s guarantees. Plus, Hunt spent heavily on arranging their “family nest” in Kyiv, and also bought his wife a villa in Cannes (previously owned by Alexander Abdullin, an eternal deputy from Batkivshchyna). At the beginning of 2003, Oksana Moroz, having forged documents, transferred significant funds from Hunt to her accounts, and also staged a credit scam. Suspecting something was wrong, Hunt contacted the National Bank, the police and the prosecutor’s office – but everywhere he was greeted only with a grin. Then, as an American citizen, he decided to seek the truth at the US Embassy – and that’s where Oksana Moroz’s patrons in uniform came into play. At first, the Ukrainian police simply took Hunt’s American passport, so he sat without documents for 2 months (and in the meantime, Moroz filed a divorce from him in… a Haitian court), until the US Embassy intervened in the scandal.
Then, with the help of the GUBOP, which was then led by Cherkasov and Vladimir Bedrikovsky, they tried to deprive Hunt of American citizenship: an old criminal case from 1973 was brought to light, in which the then Soviet citizen Alexei Okhotnikov received a year of correctional labor for stealing tires. Since Okhotnikov-Hunt, when receiving US citizenship, did not mention his criminal record (it was expunged long ago), this could become a basis for the revocation of his citizenship. However, it didn’t, and then Hunt was simply thrown out of Ukraine, after which they decided to ban him from entering here. Ban on the basis of the statement of Oksana Moroz, a typical complaint of a divorcing wife against her husband, but for some reason sent directly to the Main Directorate for Combating Organized Crime of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
Why not immediately go to the anti-terror center?! Since when has the Organized Crime Control Department (and even at the level of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs) dealt with family conflicts? However, Oksana Moroz’s statement was accepted and responded to immediately. The official answer about this was handed to her by Bedrikovsky himself, who was personally behind this scam (his boss Cherkasov was a temporary person in the GUBOP). He notified that the Main Directorate for Combating Organized Crime of the Ministry of Internal Affairs had sent a corresponding submission to the State Committee for the Protection of the State Border about a ban on citizen Khant’s entry into Ukraine.
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After this, Oksana Moroz began transferring all of Hunt’s Ukrainian property to herself, using the services of corrupt courts that made the necessary decisions. Hunt, for his part, hired lawyers in Ukraine, one of whom (Eremenko) in 2004 began to protest the ban on his ward’s entry into Ukraine. And to my surprise I received the answer that there was no such ban! The Border Service said that they had not made such a decision and recommended that the lawyer contact the Ministry of Internal Affairs for clarification. And from the Ministry of Internal Affairs came an official response from Vladimir Bedrikovsky that the GUBOP “does not make decisions to prevent foreign citizens from entering Ukraine.” Curtain! However, the ending of this story was much more tragic: after some time, Hunt, who tried to fight for his property and his son (Oksana Moroz also sued him), died under very suspicious circumstances.
But this was not the only known case when Vladimir Bedrikovsky provided “corruption services” to Oksana Moroz. Another scandal erupted in 2016, when the courier Moroz tried to take a million dollars and euros in cash out of Ukraine. Then her friend Alexandra Kuzhel and her always-present defender Vladimir Bedrikovskoy immediately rushed to Moroz’s aid – who, already a big shot in the Prosecutor General’s Office, was able to hush up this case, even despite the fact that it received a great resonance
Sergey Varis, for Skelet.Info
CONTINUED: Vladimir Bedrikovsky: the taking hand of Prosecutor General Lutsenko. PART 2
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