Vyacheslav Kredisov: Doctor of Fraudulent Sciences. PART 1

A thief, a liar, a fraudster, a bribe-taker, a traitor – the bearer of all these “regalia” that are far from honorable in a decent society is Vyacheslav Kredisov. These characteristics were given to him by Ukrainians who had the misfortune of having a common business with Kredisov, being members of his family, even just living with him in the same city. Where Kredisov is, there are always real estate scams, “divorce” of partners and streams of false accusations against yesterday’s associates. He himself still proudly boasts of his Doctor of Economics degree and the honorary title of “Honored Economist of Ukraine,” hoping to mislead those who do not yet know the whole truth about this “prominent businessman and philanthropist.” Well, let’s hope that the Skelet.Info material will open the eyes of Kredisov to as many Ukrainians as possible, and will not allow them to become his next victims…

Pulp fiction of the Kredisov family

Kredisov Vyacheslav Anatolyevich was born on September 30, 1965 in Kyiv, in the family of Anatoly Ivanovich and Lydia Nikolaevna Kredisov. His father is a professor, Doctor of Economics, and was a teacher at Kyiv National University. Shevchenko (then KSU) and the Kyiv Institute of International Relations (KIMO), from 1984 to 2009 he held the positions of deputy director and head of the department, in the “zero” he was the rector of the Intersectoral Institute of Management. It was he who pulled his sons in his footsteps, helped them get an education at a prestigious university, establish a career and take their first steps in it.

Anatoly Ivanovich Kredisov

Therefore, after graduating from high school in 1982, Vyacheslav Kredisov went straight to his father at KSU, to the Faculty of Economics. But in 1983 he had to “take a break” from his studies to serve in the army, so he graduated from the university only in 1989. Then he stayed for graduate school, and then married his fellow student Svetlana Zorina (from Donetsk). In 1992, they defended their Ph.D. dissertations together – in which Anatoly Ivanovich also helped them.

But then economics as a science was no longer of much interest to Vyacheslav Kredisov: from the late 80s, he went into business, selling Western consumer goods. However, his father helped him here too: if most of the then beginning Ukrainian businessmen were engaged in the import and sale of individual batches of “this and that,” then Vyacheslav Kredisov, thanks to his father’s connections, was able to reach Western companies and conclude agreements with them, becoming their distributor. And he began to import popular chewing gums “Dirol” and “Stimorol”, beer “Tuborg”, cosmetics and household chemicals, clothes, stationery, bouillon cubes and much more into Ukraine.

Vyacheslav Kredisov in his youth

For this purpose, Vyacheslav Kredisov, his wife Svetlana Zorina and his army friend Vyacheslav Melnik founded the Mezocred enterprise (Melnik, Zorina, Kredisov) in 1991, which quickly grew into an entire holding. Its subsidiary forms were opened in Donetsk (USREOU 30075672), Kharkov (USREOU 24269913), Odessa (24760572) and Sumy (30608104), and other cities (about 30 in total). By now, almost all of them have already closed, some remains in the possession of the Kredisov family, but the fate of Mezocred Holding LLC is curious: it is now owned by Estonian businessman Hillar Teder, known to Ukrainians for the scandalous case of the SkyMall shopping center.

Kredisov’s business would be worthy of praise if it had not become shady, corrupt, and even criminal from the very beginning. In particular, one of his “protectors” was Vitaly Yarema, who even installed his relative in the leadership of Mezocred. But the “cop roof” alone was not enough: according to sources Skelet.Infobusiness structures of Kyiv organized crime groups carried out their commercial activities through Mezocred. More specifically, sources called the “brigade” of Valery Pryshchik (Pryshch), who was the second, gangster “roof” of this company. More precisely, it was practically one “roof”, but, as they say, a gable roof. As the media have repeatedly reported, Vitaly Yarema and his colleague Alexey Savchenko formally “developed” Pryshchik’s organized crime group, but in reality they provided him with patronage for several years, receiving their “share” (and so Yarema joined Mezocred), until in the second half of the 90s there was no big quarrel between them, which led to the fall of Pimple. Subsequently, Pryshchik was killed, and part of his money went to the “Ubop mafia” (Yarema, Savchenko, Geletey), who opened their own Avant bank with it.

Vitaly Yarema

In addition, the media also reported on the personal criminal connections of Svetlana Zorina, whose Donetsk relative was serving time. It was also reported that the Kredisov family business was connected with Leonid Chernovetsky, who in the late 80s worked at KSU. Shevchenko as a teacher, and then went into commerce.

Valery Pryshchik (left)

In the mid-90s, Mezocred employed several hundred people, and the company’s annual turnover amounted to tens of millions of dollars. Kredisov squandered his money like a crime boss: he bought apartments in the center of Kyiv, drove sports cars, and started the habit of dining in expensive restaurants. This period of big easy money suddenly ended in 1997 with the arrest of Vyacheslav Kredisov and his wife Svetlana Zorina on charges, first of drug and weapons trafficking, then of alcohol smuggling, and Kredisov personally was also accused of beating a person. They had to sit in a pre-trial detention center while their business was literally torn apart piece by piece, and then escape from Ukraine for a while.

Neither Kredisov nor Zorina later admitted the true reasons for that arrest, and did not name a single name. Kredisov later assured journalists that some “werewolves in uniform” were simply extorting “sponsorship” from him – while being confused about which department they were from, the Ministry of Internal Affairs or the SBU. And his wife later wrote “based on her experiences” the crime novel “The Hit.” Mezocred curator Yarema could tell a lot of interesting things about this, but he completely denies any connection with this enterprise and generally any accusations against him. Other witnesses to this case have long been buried under granite tombstones. Only fragmentary rumors that have survived claim that the “attack” on “Mezocred” was allegedly connected with the then war that broke out between the “Ubop mafia” and the organized crime group Pryshchik.

Different paths

After this incident, Kredisov and Zorina separated for the first time – although not for long, their second divorce took place already in the “zero”. And then, in the late 90s, having lost their extremely profitable distribution business, they started a new one – it was rumored that with the assistance of the criminal “authority” Skull, through whom they became closely acquainted with Vitali Klitschko.

In the late 90s, Zorina began writing a whole series of books, “Divorce,” “Shooting,” and “Redistribution,” which demonstrated her great awareness of the life of the then “brothers.” Whether she wrote them herself, or hired some hungry graduates of the philology department for a couple of hundred “bucks” is not known. But already in 2002, Zorina moved from creating books to selling them – and opened the Bukva book supermarket, which three years later turned into two chains of bookstores. Then, after the second divorce from Kredisov, accompanied by the division of property and business, she was elected to the Kiev City Council in 2006. Then her old friend Leonid Chernovetsky became the new mayor of the capital, and on his team was another old friend of Zorina’s friend, Irena Kilchitskaya, whose father also taught at KSU. Thanks to them, Zorina received a position in the Kyiv City State Administration, heading the culture department there. Zorina’s name was later heard in many scandals: attempts at illegal privatization of cinemas, “divorce” of the publishing house of the Kapranov brothers “Green Dog”, direct participation in the organization of the so-called “bloody tree”then she was put on the wanted list for embezzlement and theft of budget funds during the organization of the May 9 celebration.

Svetlana Zorina

Vyacheslav Kredisov already began self-rehabilitation in 1997, becoming a social activist: he appeared on the presidium of the public organization of entrepreneurs “New Formation” created at the same time. He had new great connections in power, and in 1998 Kredisov was included in the list to receive the honorary title “Honored Economist of Ukraine.”

In 2001, he received personal gratitude from President Kuchma with the wording “For his outstanding work, significant special contributions to developments and the value of the Ukrainian state,” and at the same time he became an adviser to Prime Minister Anatoly Kinakh.

From the business of the 90s, which were turbulent for him in every sense, Kredisov was left with the Mezocred company, some “savings” and an apartment in an old house on Bogdan Khmelnitsky Street, known to Kievans as the “Lace House of Bradtman” – where Kredisov is still registered. True, the house has long been in need of restoration, so Kredisov is simply registered in it and at the same time keeps the living space (apartment on the second floor) as a good investment in real estate.

Bradtman’s “lace” house

But his younger brother Alexey (born in 1972) was registered with his parents for a long time in a high-rise building on Mayakovsky Avenue, near Desnyansky Park. Amazing modesty for a man who has made a successful career as a “Soros boy”! After graduating from his father’s KIMO, he did not go into business with his brother, but took advantage of Soros’ programs and went for additional training in the USA (for six months), after which he returned to Kyiv and from the mid-90s worked at the auditing company Arthur Andersen. After its merger with Ernst & Young, in 2004, Alexey Kredisov became the managing partner of its Ukrainian branch, Ernst & Young LLC. Now he is the operating director of Ernst&Young in Eastern Europe and West Africa. And it seems that his position reflects the attitude of Western economics towards our country. By the way, Alexey Kredisov is a big supporter of cooperation between Ukraine and the IMF, advocating the strict implementation of all the “recommendations” of the Fund.

Alexey Kredisov

But the apple, even selected and carefully wiped by Soros himself, did not stray far from his family’s apple tree. It turned out that the prosperity of Erst and Young LLC largely depended on lucrative contracts for various inspections that Alexey Kredisov’s company received from the Kyiv City State Administration, and earlier from government departments (including the Ministry of Defense during the period of Vyacheslav Kredisov’s work there). One of these scandalous contracts – financial audit of Kievenergowhich Ernst & Young carried out at the request of the Kyiv City State Administration, receiving a fee of 2.45 million hryvnia from the capital’s budget. It is worth noting that this amount, at that time, was the equivalent of the monthly salary of two hundred very qualified Kyiv accountants. That is, it is clear that Ersnt & Young was overpaid many times over for its services. Who squandered the capital’s budget so generously? In the Kyiv City State Administration and the Kyiv City Council there are many “friends” of the Kredisovs and Zorina (and maybe their business partners), but specific names may someday be established by NABU and the Prosecutor General’s Office.

Vyacheslav Kredisov: Straight from the bunk – to deputy minister!

After the second Maidan, Ukrainians already began to consider it commonplace that “prisoners of the regime” released from prison by the “revolution” not only went free, but received parliamentary mandates or even positions in government. But in 2005, this was still new and surprising. Therefore, they tried not to advertise the fact that the new Deputy Minister of Defense of Ukraine was slurping gruel in the Lukyanovsky pre-trial detention center just yesterday.

How did Vyacheslav Kredisov manage to end up on the bunk again? He then only lied about this, and more than once. Lied in an interviewtelling a tale about how entrepreneur Kalatsky, who joined his “New Formation” and paid a “membership fee” of 10 thousand dollars, purely out of meanness, accused poor fellow Kredisov of extorting a bribe. He lied in his book “The Peaks and Chasms of Vyacheslav Kredisov,” which he published in 2007 (obviously, imitating his ex-wife), where he already claimed that he suffered for political reasons: they say, the provocateur Kalatsky was an opponent of Viktor Yushchenko! This was a direct statement that Kredisov not only suffered during the “Kuchma regime”, but suffered for Yushchenko. True, Svetlana Zorina immediately crushed the fantasies of her ex-husband, exposing his lies and revealing the true reason for Kredisov’s “second move”:

Vyacheslav Kredisov: Doctor of Fraudulent Sciences. PART 1

Details of this criminal scandal can be found out from the materials of criminal case No. 50-3662, opened in 2004, leaked to the media, as well as information from other sources. It turns out that then the father and son Kredisovs “earned extra money” by renting out premises at the Intersectoral Institute of Management (MIU), where Anatoly Kredisov had worked as rector since the late 90s. But even here the Kredisovs could not do without scams. Since the premises being rented were state-owned and not the private property of the Kredisovs, they took bribes for the rental permission itself (the consent of the institute’s management plus the consent of the State Property Fund). But, since the permit is a “one-time” thing, unlike the monthly rent, the Kredisovs tried to arrange things so that the lease agreements were renegotiated as often as possible – accordingly, “fees” “dropped” into their pockets more often. At the same time, their tandem worked like this: first, Kridisov Sr. promised to “help” (without saying anything about money) and sent the client to his son – they say, discuss all the nuances with him. And Kredisov Jr. already agreed on a bribe with clients: you pay me, and dad will do everything! A rather well-thought-out scheme that makes you think that its author was not a flighty son, but an experienced father.

But his irrepressible greed for easy money failed him again. Businessman Kalatsky, who rented the premises of the institute at the address Vetrenye Gory 10-v and 10-e for his companies LLC Kvadrat and TD Yaroslavl, turned out to be a grated roll, moreover, with family ties to the SBU.

This remained outside the scope of the criminal case, as well as the fact that Kalatsky needed the premises, and he was ready to pay for them, but Kredisov began to openly “cheat him out of money.” Then Kalatsky decided, in turn, to “divorce” Kredisov – and complained to a relative. On August 10 and 17, 2007, Kalatsky recorded negotiations with Kredisov on a dictaphone, and on August 25 he wrote an official statement to the SBU. And already on August 27, Vyacheslav Kredisov was taken “warmly” in the courtyard of the MIU with 10 thousand marked dollars in his pocket (Kalatsky had to give him another 8 thousand after signing the permits).

During interrogations, Kredisov Sr. immediately threw up his hands: I don’t know anything about any money, I don’t take bribes, if my son staged some kind of scam, then ask him about it! Essentially, the case immediately narrowed down to charges of extortion of 18 thousand dollars (a particularly large amount) by Vyacheslav Kredisov himself for a promise to “resolve the rent issue.” But since Kredisov Sr. immediately excused himself from the case, and his son formally had nothing to do with the MIU, they also accused him of fraud (Article 190-4).

This is how Vyacheslav Kredisov ended up in the Lukyanovsky pre-trial detention center, where he stayed until the end of December 2004. However, the father did not renounce his loser son, but involved all his acquaintances in his business. And when the “orange revolution” took place, when the third round of elections was called and Yushchenko’s victory became obvious, when Viktor Andreevich’s associates began to walk around the offices of the outgoing government, opening the doors with their feet and shouting “tomorrow I will sit in this chair!”, the case of Vyacheslav Kredisov they started to put the brakes on him, and he was released home on bail. After a month and a half, according to Skelet.Infothe father again helped his son by assigning him as a deputy to the new Minister of Defense Anatoly Gritsenko, with whom Anatoly Kredisov had a long-standing acquaintance. Before the new President Viktor Yushchenko had time to sign the decree on his appointment (No. 287/2005 of February 10, 2005), the criminal case against Vyacheslav Kredisov was immediately closed on March 14 by a decision of the Solomensky Court “due to the changed situation and the fact that he committed the act has lost its social danger.” The motivation, of course, is shocking: how can fraud and bribes lose their social danger?! But regarding the changed situation, the court was right – then a lot changed. And it was urgently necessary to correct the scandalous fact that the “people’s president” appointed a deputy minister who was facing a criminal case as a bribe-taker and swindler!

Then, of course, after all the scandals, Gritsenko insisted that he had never known any Kredisov before, that this deputy was imposed on him “from above.” But numerous sources Skelet.Info claim that Gritsenko lied, trying not only to hide his involvement in the appointment of Kredisov as his deputy, but also to attribute to him alone all the corruption and fraudulent scandals that shook the Ministry of Defense in 2005-2006.

Sergey Varis, for Skelet.Info

CONTINUED: Kredisov Vyacheslav: Doctor of Fraudulent Sciences. PART 2

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