Vyacheslav Medyanik: how a major swindler became a “Servant of the People.” Part 1

And so it happened. Under pressure from the indignant public, the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAP) opened a criminal case against Medyanik, which promised to become a landmark case. But a few days later Medyanik was acquitted using a new proprietary method of Ukrainian would-be law enforcement officers: a polygraph test (the so-called “lie detector”). Having become fashionable in Ukraine in 2019, the polygraph successfully acquitted all those suspected of corruption – after all, it seems like you can’t argue with the machine, although everyone forgets that people also operate this polygraph. Thus, Vyacheslav Medyanik received an official conclusion about his innocence, after which he left with his associates for Krivoy Rog, where he immediately got involved in a new corruption scandal. And we can confidently say that it will not be the last time!

New “solvers”

Previously little known outside Dnepropetrovsk, Vyacheslav Medyanik “became famous” throughout the country because of his correspondence on WhatsApp with his fellow countryman, businessman Alexander Yarov, which was captured by journalists from the publication “Strana.ua”. The topic of their business conversation was a discussion of the creation of a new corruption scheme for interaction between businessmen and the prosecutor’s office, since the old one collapsed after the resignation of Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko. Therefore, a new one is being created for Ryaboshapka and his deputies, among whom Viktor Trepak was named Medyanik. The latter, after the scandal was announced, hastened to say that he was not familiar with Medyanik and did not know him at all. However, given that in the past Trepak worked in the Department for Combating Corruption and Organized Crime of the SBU, where his father and godfather Vyacheslav Medyanik had great connections, it is possible that SKELET-info suspects that he lied. In general, it is extremely important for the Prosecutor General’s Office to hush up and forget this case as soon as possible, since it affects both Trepak and Ryaboshapka.

Vyacheslav Medyanik “resolves issues”

It is also known that the Krutogorny company was created in 2016 specifically for the development of a site in Dnepropetrovsk on site illegally destroyed historical buildingand this scam was “protected” by the scandalous people’s deputy of the 8th convocation Andrei Denisenko, for whom Medyanik himself was then listed as an assistant.

Secondly, it is necessary to note the level of the schemes that Medyanik promises to create – this is a high level of leadership of the Prosecutor General’s Office. And considering that Trepak, allegedly not familiar with Medyanik, is also an outlet for the Department for Combating Corruption and Organized Crime of the SBU, his connections and capabilities are quite wide. Again, no sooner had one scandal been squeezed out than another immediately arose – when Medyanik and a group of “servants of the people” began to negotiate cooperation with law enforcement officers in Krivoy Rog. In this case, we see that People’s Deputy Medyanik, who by the way is a member of the specialized committee on law enforcement issues, strives to become the new “solver” of problems and issues that someone has with the prosecutor’s office, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the SBU. Perhaps, wanting to take the place of the famous “fixer” of the Poroshenko era, Alexander Granovsky, vacated after his flight abroad. However, this cannot be said for sure, because there is a strong suspicion that Vyacheslav Madyanik is… conning everyone. After all, this is his first!

Vyacheslav Medyanik looks at photojournalists at BP

But who is Vyacheslav Medyanik? The media call him a raider-developer, involved in business from a young age, just some kind of evil genius. But in fact, before us is an ordinary major, who inherited his father’s business and connections, and is more involved in scams than in real business.

Medyanik Vyacheslav Anatolyevich was born on August 3, 1987, in the city of Snezhnoye (Donetsk region), in the family of KGB officer Anatoly Nikolaevich Medyanik. His godfather was his father’s friend and colleague Anatoly Klimenko, whom they met either in the service or at the KGB school. According to sources SKELET-infoit was Klimenko who “dragged” his friend to his place in Dnepropetrovsk, where he had good connections, got him a “grain” job and helped Medyanik immediately get a spacious apartment (in a house on Lenin Street, now Voskresenskaya).

In the early 90s, both “KGB officers” became “SSB officers,” but in 1994 Klimenko left the service and went into power: first he became the deputy mayor of Dnepropetrovsk, then the deputy chairman of the Regional State Administration (supervising law enforcement agencies), and in 2002 he was elected people’s deputy of the 4th convocation, having replaced several factions over 4 years. The “KGB little soul” Klimenko does not know any political principles, so he jumped from one party in power to another: first to “United Ukraine”, then to the PPPU, in 2004 Klymenko became Viktor Yanukovych’s confidant in electoral district No. 24, after the Maidan he defected to the SPU, and in the 2007-2010s. worked in the Tymoshenko government as Deputy Minister of Transport and Communications Joseph Vinsky. In the same way, his godson Vyacheslav Medyanik runs from one promising political force to another, clinging either to the socialists, to the radical “patriots”, or to the “servants of the people”.

Anatoly Klimenko

Today Anatoly Klimenko is known as a “successful agrarian” – he owns a dozen companies, including the Ekaterinoslavsky MPK (USREOU 33766993), and has established a fund to support equestrian sports. Apparently, the latifundist general remembered in his old age that he had once studied to be an agronomist (it was at the institute that he became a “sextist”, starting his career in the KGB).

Under his patronage, Anatoly Medyanik made a good, quick career in the department for combating corruption and organized crime of the Ukrainian State Security Service of the Dnepropetrovsk region – and headed this department by the end of the 90s. But here’s the irony: the main fighter against corruption was himself a corrupt official and a “werewolf in uniform.” It was Anatoly Medyanik who founded the family business based on raiding. While he was wearing shoulder straps, he registered his business (including the shares taken away from businessmen) to his wife Klavdia Veniaminovna Medyanik, then to his children. And after his death in 2017, his son continues his father’s work.

A striking example of the raider activities of Dnepropetrovsk law enforcement officers in general and Anatoly Medyanik in particular was the case LLC “Ukrstar” (EGPOU 20190356). This company was founded in 1993 by Mikhail Sokolsky. A year later, Vladimir Borisovich Zlatopolsky became one of its founders, taking 50% of the form for himself. This is a rather “murky” personality: Zlatopolsky comes from a family of Dnepropetrovsk Jews; in the 90s he received German citizenship, but continued to “do business” in Ukraine, engaging in very dubious schemes. And besides, Vladimir Zlatopolsky more than once surfaced next to the odious “suicide bomber” Pavel Kononenkoknown in the criminal world as “Pasha Konon,” who organized entire organized crime groups under the roof of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Yes, yes, the same Kononenko, whom Yuriy Lutsenko later appointed as deputy prosecutor of Kyiv! But then, in 1994, Kononenko was just beginning his journey: the young deputy head of the Krasnogvardeisky Regional Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs created a racketeering gang of athletes, and through his former colleagues from the Department of Economic Crimes, he traded in smuggled cigarettes. Apparently, it was then that he began to “stick” his people into the companies of the entrepreneurs he intimidated.

And in 1997, Sokolsky’s share suddenly “shrank” to 30%, but Zlatopolsky’s share grew to 60%, and a third founder appeared in Ukrstar with the remaining 10%, Alexander Grigorievich Svergun – known in Dnepropetrovsk as the director of a number of enterprises located under the control of the corrupt mafia. Five years later, Sokolovsky was completely eliminated from Ukrstar: Svergun became the director of the company, and Sokolovsky’s share was reduced to 20%. But a new founder appeared in the company – Anatoly Medyanik, who received 35% completely free of charge, without contributing anything at all to the authorized capital of the company. Soon after this, Medyanik, Zlatopolsky and Svergun completely excluded Sokolsky from among the founders of the company. This was so blatantly illegal that Sokolsky began to defend his rights in the courts and even won the case. However, while the litigation lasted, Medyanik, Zlatopolsky and Svergun withdrew a significant part of the capital from Ukrstar to K.A.S LTD LLC (EDRPOU 33855543), including a building plot at 13 Shmidta Street. And from that moment another began scam involving Anatoly Medyanik: “divorce on grandmas” of Azerbaijani citizens, who were co-founders of K.A.S LTD, who were promised to build the Azeri housing and office complex on this site. It was about 80 million dollars…

Sergey Varis, for SKELET-info

CONTINUED: Medyanik Vyacheslav: how a major swindler became a “servant of the people.” Part 2

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