Yurkevich Anatoly: paying off debts for a credit fraudster from Milkiland PART 2

BEGINNING: Anatoly Yurkevich: paying off debts for the credit fraudster from Milkiland PART 1

Let’s go back to the beginning of the 2000s, when Tatyana Kozachenko was not engaged in lustration and protection of oppositionists, but in fact in legal raiding and fraud in favor of Anatoly Yurkevich’s companies. We are talking about a real scheme, according to which Yurkevich received several dairies at his full disposal “for debts.” This happened in December 2004: the first Maidan was still noisy in Kyiv, where Yurkevich sent a number of his employees to “support the choice of the people,” but Tatyana Kozachenko was not among them, then she was in Khmelnitsky, where she was the arbitration manager of the OJSC holding company that had been brought to ruin. Khmelnytskymolprom”. The Yurkevichs set their sights on him immediately after they bought a dairy plant in Kamenets-Podolsky in 1997. Already in 1999, they controlled the holding and began to ruin it with their schemes involving the BKS-Export company and other Yurkevich companies, because of which Khmelnitskmolprom worked at a loss, accumulating debts.

And so on December 22, 2004, Kozachenko transferred seven dairies of the holding to the companies “Molochny Mir” (USREOU 32769291) and “Prometheus” owned by the Yurkevichs. Among them: Volochysky cheese-making plant (Volochisk village, Khmelnitsky region), Izyaslavsky butter factory, Slavutsky oil processing plant and Teofipolsky cheese-making plant.

Yurkevich Anatoly: paying off debts for a credit fraudster from Milkiland PART 2

Yurkevich Anatoly: paying off debts for a credit fraudster from Milkiland PART 2

Yurkevich Anatoly: paying off debts for a credit fraudster from Milkiland PART 2

Yurkevich Anatoly: paying off debts for a credit fraudster from Milkiland PART 2

Journalists made these extracts from the archives of old business cases, in which these transactions were unsuccessfully tried to be challenged in 2007. By the way, is it a coincidence that it was in the same year of 2007 that Tatyana Kozachenko acquired her own company, Capital, and hid her long-term connection with the Yurkevichs’ business? Probably not. But this is not all the details of that December scam! It turns out that even with a greatly underestimated estimated value of these enterprises amounting to over 20 million hryvnia (4 million dollars at the then exchange rate), Yurkevich paid for them only… 304 thousand hryvnia. He paid the rest with certain “securities”, the value of which is questionable – these were unnamed bills.

Journalists dug deeper and found another interesting deal for April 2006, when the long-suffering Khmelnitskmolprom, which was still in a state of permanent reorganization, was forced to buy Ukrprofbank bills in the amount of 18.2 million hryvnia, transferring money for them to LLC MalKA-Trans” (EDRPOU 25568003), owned by mother and son Yurkevich. The interesting thing about this is that this “Ukrainian Professional Bank” has belonged to the same Yurkevichs since 1999! That is, they, using a corruption (not to say criminal) scheme, through promissory notes from their bank, withdrew 18 million hryvnia from Khmelnytskymolprom. Now it’s clear why they brought this enterprise to eternal bankruptcy! It is also clear how exactly the Yurkevich family put together their multimillion-dollar business.

It is curious that in 2014 MalKA-Trans LLC, which controls the Konotop Dairy Plant, appeared in another high-profile scandalowing the villagers 4.5 million hryvnia for the milk supplied. Moreover, in the best traditions of the Yurkevich family, the company had no intention of repaying its debts. And in 2015, leaving its depositors and holders of their bills high and dry, Ukrprofbank also burst.

Anatoly Yurkevich. Where did the Magellan sail to?

Most Ukrainians have never heard of Ukrprofbank, or simply did not notice its signs and advertising, preferring larger banks. And yet, at the beginning of 2014, UPB had about 6.5 thousand depositors who placed deposits in it amounting to more than 200 thousand hryvnia. Let’s multiply, calculate, we get 1.3 billion hryvnia, and this is only for large deposits! Plus another 120 million in refinancing allocated by the National Bank in 2014, when UPB had already begun the procedure of self-liquidation and theft of funds. From the materials of criminal proceedings No. 42015100000000795, opened by the SBU (but never completed), in March 2014, UPB began generously distributing loans to front companies (Razvitie-2012 LLC and FC Aurum Finance LLC) and dummies from among bank employees. Thus, 2.42 billion hryvnia were withdrawn from the bank (according to the SBU), and as a result of fraud, the National Bank did not receive back its 120 million refinancing. When “UPB” was recognized as problematic and they decided to appoint a temporary administration in it, Yurkevich’s people began to hastily remove even office furniture from it!

Yurkevich Anatoly: paying off debts for a credit fraudster from Milkiland PART 2

Naturally, the state tried to return what it had, at least partially. Another case was opened No. 12015100000000490now the Ministry of Internal Affairs. In response, Anatoly Yurkevich began to claim that he had nothing to do with UPB. Formally, this was so, because by that time he had already gotten rid of the bank’s shares, and previously they had been hidden in the depths of his offshore companies. However, according to Skelet.Infothere were agreements between UPB and the National Bank, under which the Milkiland-Ukraine company acted as the bank’s guarantor, and there was no way out of this. And yet The National Bank had to prove its case in court. Yurkevich countered with counterclaims, trying to prevent the seizure of the property of his companies, to which numerous creditors had already filed their claims.

The position of the “dairy king” worsened every day, his fortune was blown away by an order of magnitude (from 390 to 40 million dollars), the shares of his companies could hardly be called securities: in Poland their value fell from 50 to 1.2 zlotys! The size of Yurkevich’s credit debts is 14 times the value of his own assets. The same Milkiland holding owes Ukrainian, European and Russian creditors 149.37 million euros (in particular, UniCredit Bank Austria AG and the Russian Raiffeisen Bank). He also owes Ukreximbank, Forum and VTB banks, two Polish and one French banks. All that Yurkevich is doing now is trying to agree on debt restructuring, filing counterclaims or withdrawing property from collateral through fraudulent means. In May 2017, the court banned Anatoly Yurkevich from leaving Ukraine at the request of Fortuna Company LLC, to which Milkiland owed 65 million hryvnia. A month later, the SBU came to the office of Bankomsvyaz JSC, and Yurkevich had to again turn to the services of Tatyana Kozachenko.

Yurkevich’s biggest headache remains the Kiev Magellan shopping center, for which he fought desperately, even resorting to outright fraud. The Yurkevichs founded a network of their own markets and shopping centers back in 1999. The stores are directly owned by Krai Property (USREOU 24365189), Krai-3 (USREOU 32043092) and others, which are registered to the offshore KRAI CORPORATION. And in 2011, the Ukrainian branch of the Russian Sberbank opened credit lines No. 119-B/11/55/KL and No. 120/B/11/55/KL to the Krai Property company in the amount of $56.2 million. As collateral, Krai Property issued the Kiev shopping and entertainment center Magellan, which belonged to it, and the aforementioned company Prometey became the guarantor of Krai Property, mortgaging the Slavuta Butter Factory and the Volochyssky Cheese Factory, which belonged to it (after the deprivation of 2004). Yes, those that he received for practically nothing!

It is not difficult to guess that these 56 million dollars, as well as 149 million euros and other debt obligations, formed the basis of Anatoly Yurkevich’s fortune in the fat years 2011-2013 for him. But then the time came to pay off the debts.

By the end of 2016, Yurkevich’s debt to Sberbank already amounted to about 65 million dollars (now 68), and he had already agreed to give the bank the Magellan shopping centerwhen suddenly he “changed his mind.” Yurkevich resorted to a trick: he delayed the transfer of Magellan, and in the meantime he brought him out of bail. To do this, he used a legal combination, which, perhaps, could not have been done without the help of the same Tatyana Kozachenko. Namely: it suddenly turned out that the right to Magellan was claimed by the offshore company Lanex Inc, whose successor since 2015 is the offshore Artprogroup Ltd. It is interesting that the formal owner of “Lanex Inc” was Evgeniy Balushko – to whom “Ukrprofbank” was also registered! It seems that he is the personal Pound of the Yurkevich family! So, according to the claim of “Artprogroup Ltd”, a court was quickly organized, it made the necessary decision, after which the state registrar of the Malomikhailovsky village council (!) of the Pokrovsky district of the Dnepropetrovsk region transferred “Magellan” to the new owner.

Yurkevich Anatoly: paying off debts for a credit fraudster from Milkiland PART 2

And litigation began again, during which Sberbank argued that the withdrawal of the shopping center from the collateral was illegal. Ultimately, in May 2018, the Supreme Court of Ukraine ruled that Sberbank has the legal right to take over the shopping center for debts (although its market value does not cover even half of the debt). But by this time, Yurkevich had already played the “patriotic card”: he declared in the media that the “bank of the aggressor state” was carrying out a raider seizure of the property of a Ukrainian manufacturer right in the center of Kyiv, and turned to national patriots and right-wing radicals for support. Only by a miracle was it possible to avoid a massacre, although there were incomprehensible movements of unidentified “titushki” around the territory of the shopping center: they were called representatives of “Sberbank”, although it remained unclear why they staged this “raid” after the official decision of the Supreme Court? As a result, the work of the shopping center was partially paralyzed.

Behind this noisy epic with the Yurkevichs’ countless debts on loans and payments, no one noticed how their original company JSC Bankomsvyaz was animatedly “chopping cabbage” on tender transactions. At the same time, its main customer is military unit No. 2428 located in Kyiv, which belongs to the State Border Guard Service. Based on public data, this unit deals with all kinds of electronic equipment for the protection of borders and border points. So, back in 2013-2014, JSC Bankomsvyaz won several tenders for the supply of engineering complexes and equipment for control of transport and individuals – for a total amount of over 300 million hryvnia. During the period 2017-2018, Banksvyaz won ten more tenders worth 570,159,757 hryvnia – which accounted for 90% of all its contracts.

All this would be great if Bankomsvyaz did not belong to the Bahamian offshore Ditel Inc., and its main owner did not owe tens of millions of dollars to the banks of Europe and Russia (*country sponsor of terrorism). After all, it is not appropriate for the State Border Service to get involved with such contractors, especially when it comes to special border control equipment.

Sergey Varis, for Skelet.Info

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