Vyacheslav Nepop: “flayer” from the Kyiv construction mafia. PART 1

“Who will imprison him, he’s a monument!” – this catchphrase can be fully applied to the permanent director of the Kyiv CP “Zhitloinvestbud” Vyacheslav Nepop, who is a living monument to corruption in the construction industry of the capital. He successfully survived three mayors of the capital and three presidents of Ukraine in his post, and it is very likely that he will also survive Petro Poroshenko, under whose banner he was elected to the Kiev City Council, and Vitaliy Klitschko, with the help of whom he carries out his schemes and illegal scams.

For quite a long time, Nepop was a gray figure in the capital’s hierarchy, practically unknown outside of Kyiv, and even there he was known only to voters in the Solomensky district. Sudden “fame” fell on Nepop after the events of April 2016, when mass clashes between defenders of Duck Lake and “titushkas” hired by developers took place in Kyiv. As it later turned out, Nepop was ready to walk over the corpses of not only unfortunate ducks, but also the animals of the Kyiv Zoo, acquiring the bad reputation of a ruthless enemy of animals, almost a “flayer.” So even now, when the news reports that unknown people are deliberately poisoning ducks in the reservoirs of Kyiv, many are wondering: is Nepop planning to fill up the lakes there for development?

Houses turned out to be more profitable than planes

Nepop Vyacheslav Ivanovich was born on May 23, 1966 in the city of Artemovsk (now Bakhmut), Donetsk region. His father worked at the Artyomovsky ceramics and pipe plant, holding the position of chief mechanic there, and his mother was an economist at the Donbassecology NPO. A very interesting fact from the biography of a man who today is mercilessly destroying this ecology.

Victor Bilych

After graduating from school (No. 7 Artemovsk), Vyacheslav Nepop entered the Kharkov Aviation Institute named after Zhukovsky (KhAI), majoring in aircraft engineering, where he studied for 6 years (until 1989). He didn’t explain why it took so long: maybe he did a year’s military service after graduating, maybe he took academic leave. But something else is no less interesting: having been assigned to the Kiev Mechanical Plant (AK Antonov), where he received a position as a shop mechanic, Nepop immediately began building not airplanes, but residential buildings. Not being very interested in what was happening there in his workshop, the “young specialist” showed his energy and initiative by immediately taking an active part in the youth housing cooperative (YHK) program at the plant. Where he became close friends with another KhAI graduate, Viktor Bilych (born 1964), who was also interested in the housing issue. Thus began their long and mutually beneficial friendship. By the way, in 2016, Viktor Bilych, not without the help of Nepop, headed the capital’s BTI, and now heads the city Employment Center.

Not content with the passive role of an ordinary participant, Nepop came to an agreement with the management of the enterprise and headed the construction team of the enterprise, essentially taking construction into his own hands and becoming involved in the distribution of future apartments. In fact, Nepop, like Bilych, were only employed at the plant, spending their working time solving construction issues. And they have achieved great success in this field. Bilych, who had developed many useful connections in the capital’s construction department and in the city executive committee, and who became friends with Alexander Omelchenko, moved to work at the State Property Fund (deputy head of the regional branch) in 1994. Nepop was still employed at the plant until 1998, continuing to milk the enterprise’s construction funds. In this he was helped by Nikolai Tolmachev, another “Donetsk” (originally from Torez) graduate of KhAI, who started building houses, who in 1992 appeared in Kyiv with his company TMM LLC. There Tolmachev met Nepop and Bilych, who were building their MZHK, becoming the third member of their friendly team. Moreover, he became so close to Nepop that in 1998 he invited him to the post of director of his “TMM”.

Nikolay Tolmachev

Then, at the very beginning of the 90s, Nepop made himself another builder friend, perhaps the most important figure from his circle – Mikhail Golitsa, then deputy head of the apartment department of the Kyiv City Executive Committee (now the Department of Construction and Housing of the Kyiv City State Administration). It is interesting that in 1993-94. Golitsa was the manager of the affairs of JSC FC Dynamo-Kyiv. And it was then that the Dynamo club was an instrument of multi-million dollar financial scams of the Surkis brothers, another prominent builders of Kyiv, who issued multi-million dollar foreign currency loans for it, issued by the scandalous bank “Ukraine”. That is, we can confidently say that Golitsa is Surkisov’s trusted man, at least he was in the early 90s. After all, there it wasn’t just stolen and written-off loans, with the subsequent sale of the debt-ridden FC Dynamo to the Surkises (in which Golitsa, who managed the affairs of the club, was directly involved), there was worse crime: contract killings of businessmen involved in the scheme, carried out by the hands of the “Russian mafia” of America , controlled by Semyon Mogilevich. You can read more about this in the material Skelet.Info about other brothers: Vyacheslav and Alexander Konstantinovsky.

Mikhail Golitsa

By the end of the 90s, Golitsa was already in the retinue of Alexander Omelchenko, and was already appointed by him as director of the Department of Housing of the Kyiv City State Administration (they said that this appointment could not have happened without the Surkises). According to available Skelet.Info information, when in 1998 Tolmachev put Nepop at the head of his company “TMM”, Nepop, Viktor Bilych, and Mikhail Golitsa received their shares in it – who then re-registered it to his wife Valentina Golitsa. Subsequently, she was Vyacheslav Nepop’s business partner in a number of companies working with the Zhitloinvestbud-UKB CP, whose director Nepop has been since 2002. It should be added that now Golitsa’s business relatives also include his daughter Olga and son-in-law Nikolai Negrich, who are also involved in capital construction and are members of corruption schemes involving Vyacheslav Nepop, Viktor Bilych and other persons.

schemes by Vyacheslav Nepop

Vyacheslav Nepop. At the head of Zhitloinvestbud-UKB

The creation of the communal enterprise “Zhitloinvestbud-UKB”, 100% of the authorized capital of which belongs to the Kyiv City Council, was approved by its session on December 21, 2001. But who exactly was behind its creation and what goals did they pursue? Numerous sources claim that one of the “fathers” of the enterprise was Mikhail Golitsa, who in 1998-2010 headed the Department of Construction and Housing of the Kyiv City State Administration. One can only guess who was behind Golitsa itself (Surkisy, Alexander Omelchenko or other characters of the Kyiv elite), because he never revealed his patrons. But it is known that in the period 2001-2010 Golitsa carried out his schemes through the enterprise Zhitloinvestbud-UKB, the general director of which from the very beginning (since 2002) was and still is his old sidekick and companion Vyacheslav Nepop. And even when Golitsa was forced out of his chair, in return he received the leadership of the Kievgorstroy holding, and Nepop’s enterprise Zhitloinvestbud-UKB remained an important component of their schemes for cutting up Kyiv real estate and the budget.

schemes by Vyacheslav Nepop

What is Zhitloinvestbud-UKB? On its website, the company positions itself as a construction company: we built, we erected, we delivered, etc. In fact, Zhitloinvestbud-UKB does not build anything itself, and does not even design anything. This is an ordinary intermediary company that only organizes construction. It orders projects from other enterprises, it hires construction contractors and subcontractors – and all this is paid for with money from the Kyiv budget, for the development of which it was created. And just imagine that Vyacheslav Nepop has been sitting on this cash flow for sixteen years now!

According to the report of Zhitloinvestbud-UKB, in the period from 2002 to 2016 the enterprise commissioned (not itself, but with the help of contractors) 2.3 million sq.m. housing, having built 180 residential buildings, plus 4 schools and 8 kindergartens, as well as a tram depot in Troeshchyna, 22 parking lots and 22 office and entertainment facilities. And this is quite a lot; Zhitloinvestbud-UKB accounts for about 15% of the total volume of housing built during this period in Kyiv by all developers – that is, the company belongs to the largest of them. Considering the cost of building housing alone, billions and billions of hryvnia passed through Zhitloinvestbud-UKB, and one can only imagine how much of it ended up in the pockets of those involved. The main method of “cutting” is the transfer of work to private contractors and subcontractors associated with Nepop and Golitsa, as well as inflating the cost of construction and materials.

As reported Skelet.Infoin 2016 alone and for capital construction alone, Zhitloinvestbud-UKB received about a billion hryvnia from the capital budget.

But construction is not enough. “Zhitloinvestbud-UKB”, which is an ordinary “office” that hires contractors for construction, spends huge sums on the salaries of its management and “leading specialists”: accountants, lawyers, heads of departments, as well as engineers, whose whole job is to accept and approve projects (please sign under the plan). In 2016, at the height of the worst economic crisis in the country, their average salary was 202 thousand hryvnia! Of course, they did not deprive themselves earlier, in more fat years. And all this, let us emphasize, is Kyiv’s budget money, that is, taxes and duties of honest residents of the capital. After all, swindlers find hundreds of ways to evade paying taxes.

Vyacheslav Nepop. Secrets of immunity

Although Zhitloinvestbud-UKB has been active since 2002, especially during the construction boom of 2006-2008, it attracted the attention of journalists and law enforcement agencies relatively recently. Before the second Maidan, his activities were carefully covered by Nepop’s friends and associates in the government structures. However, Zhitloinvestbud managed to get involved in several scandals before.

For example, in the fall of 2013, it became known about facts of corruption and theft in the reconstruction project of the National Museum Taras Shevchenko. “Zhitloinvestbud-UKB” participated in this project, which hired the companies “Azur Group”, “Fundament” and “Inbud” as contractors. The first two companies were directly included in the orbit of Nepop’s business schemes. Thus, the Fundament company, founded in Soviet times, was gently “squeezed out” from its former owner Heinrich Spiegel in 2008 under the pretext of “saving from a hostile takeover”, after which Vyacheslav Nepop became the chairman of its supervisory board, and 90% of its shares were distributed among his friends and companions. The co-owners and members of the supervisory board of Fundament were Viktor Bilych, Nikolai Negrich (Golitsa’s son-in-law), as well as Viktor Puziychuk and his son Valery Puziychuk, but Nepop controlled his share of 23% through Anzhelika Kovaleva, head of the administrative and personnel department of Zhitloinvestbuda. . In addition, in 2017, information appeared that Maria Vyacheslavovna Nepop, who works there as an economist, became one of the shareholders of Fundament. Yes, his daughter!

At first, “Fundament” was the main winner of tenders held by “Zhitloinvestbud” for several years, and then often began to play the role of a front company in “tenders with two participants,” losing them to the companies “Azur Group” and “KZhBK” – which were controlled by the Puziychuk family. By the way, it is Azur Group that is the contractor of Zhitloinvestbud in the scandalous development of Duck Lake.

As for the Inbud company, it belongs to Viktor Notevsky, a business partner (in the Sials private enterprise) of Leonid Skalozub, the former head of the Department for Combating Economic Crimes of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine (oh, cynicism!), who in 2010 became the head of the security service FUIB, bank of Rinat Akhmetov. And in the same 2010, “Inbud” became one of the tender favorites of “Zhitloinvestbud” – that is, thus, Akhmetov’s people entered into a share according to the schemes of Nepop and his friends-companions. By the way, one of the first tenders that Inbud received from Nepop was a contract for the construction of a scandalous fence around the Verkhovna Rada, which fenced off the parliament of the people in 2011.

In addition to such cover from Akhmetov, Nepop also had cover from the then Prosecutor General Viktor Pshonka, with whom his friend Nikolai Tolmachev was closely associated. It is not surprising that in the period 2010-2013. Nobody touched Nepop’s company! Even when the GFI, based on only one episode, officially disclosed facts of corruption and abuse amounting to almost 300 thousand hryvnia, Nepop got away with it – he remained at the head of Zhitloinvestbud-UKB.

Vyacheslav Nepop: “flayer” from the Kyiv construction mafia. PART 1

It is worth emphasizing that the close cooperation between Zhitloinvestbud and Inbud continued after the second Maidan. Thus, in March 2016, Inbud received from Nepop a contract for the construction of a residential building in the Dnieper district (contract value 135.32 million hryvnia). And in June of the same year, Inbud won the tender held by Zhitloinvestbud for the restoration of the Kyiv cycle track (contract value 74.124 million hryvnia). At the same time, only two companies participated in the tender: Inbud and Fundament…

Another guarantee of Vyacheslav Nepop’s immunity is the correct political stake. From 2002 to 2006, he was a deputy of the Kyiv City Council from Alexander Omelchenko’s Unity party. At the same time, Nepop was one of the assistants to the people’s deputy from Our Ukraine, Vladimir Moisik. In 2006, Nepop was again elected to the Kyiv City Council, but already supporting the majority of the new mayor Leonid Chernovetsky, and in 2008 he became an assistant to the people’s deputy from BYuT Yuri Serbin.

Maxim Lutsky, scandalous elections of 2012

In 2010, Vyacheslav Nepop began to actively support people’s deputy Maxim Lutsky (godfather of Dmitry Tabachnik), and even helped him in every possible way to run in the Solomensky district in the 2012 parliamentary elections. Lutsky’s election campaign was incredibly dirty (bribery, falsification) and caused a wave of protests from public organizations and oppositionists.

Sergey Varis, for Skelet.Info

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