16.10.2024 Investigations Kyiv Money laundering

How Servants of the People of Kyiv Region live and earn their living

Serhiy Levchenko and business in Koncha ZaspaДепутат Київської облради Сергій Левченко збив дитину та втік з місця ДТП

Serhiy Levchenko – Kyiv Regional Council deputy Serhiy Levchenko, deputy chairman of the budget commission, who, despite officially earning only UAH 298 in 2023, owns a luxury suburban complex called KNZS Koncha Zaspa Park, where visitors spend UAH 2,500 per hour for a bungalow by the pool.

At the same time, business profits remain in the shadows: millions of dollars in revenue from expensive events and concerts are not officially recorded. The complex operates without cash registers, and salaries are paid in envelopes. Moreover, Levchenko currently employs more than 15 people illegally, and the fine for this alone will be more than UAH 1 million! And those who are officially employed receive the minimum wage and the difference in cash.

According to recent reports, Levchenko has been evading taxes, which has resulted in a loss of over UAH 12 million to the state budget.

The investigation also revealed that Levchenko is involved in money laundering schemes using his connections with Oleksandr Tupytskyi. His companies, such as PT Lombard, were involved in money laundering through fictitious transactions. The tax authorities are already investigating the black accounting schemes.

In this regard, Levchenko began re-registering his business to front companies to avoid seizing assets, but this will not help: modern mechanisms allow for the seizure of even assets that are hidden through nominee owners.

In addition, in order to somehow whitewash his reputation, Levchenko actively boasts of volunteering and demonstrates himself as a patriot by wearing embroidered shirts.

Vadym Gerashchenko – shadowy schemes with public procurement

Предприниматель Вадим Геращенко - детей надо учить предпринимательству | Комментарии Украина

The head of the Servant of the People faction in the Kyiv Regional Council, Vadym Gerashchenko, became known for supplying cosmetic products to state-owned enterprises at inflated prices. The products of his company, Alliance of Beauty, regularly win tenders without competition, which allows the MP to enrich himself on public procurement.

In particular, during the pandemic, he supplied disinfectants with a double markup. After that, the MP purchased a luxury Range Rover for UAH 10 million, registered to the Alliance of Beauty, which raised even more suspicions of corruption schemes.

Today, Gerashchenko loyally serves the head of the regional branch of the Servants of the People party, Andrii Motovylovets, who helps his protégé avoid competition and get the best deals in mid-sized state-owned enterprises in exchange for a percentage.

Viktor Sheremeta – land fraud in Kyiv region

Віктор Шеремета: Український сорт пшениці дав 11 т/га зерна 2 класу — КУРКУЛЬ

A deputy of the Kyiv Regional Council, Viktor Sheremeta, together with the head of the regional council, Yaroslav Dobriansky, created a scheme to manipulate land documents. Using controlled entities, he received free land plots, which he later leased through his company, HERCULES. In addition, Sheremeta involved fictitious applicants from the Pereyaslav community to use the mechanism of free privatization of land plots.

The victims of these schemes were left without land and without the promised compensation, while Sheremeta enriched himself with more than 40 plots.

Now his scams have become even more widespread, and local residents are afraid to speak out against the MP because of his connections to the authorities.

For example, residents of communities wrote that it is a common practice in the community to bequeath land plots to Sheremet during their lifetime. For example, a number of cases can be found in the register, for example, No. 373/3416/14-c and No. 373/3090/15-c, where a man illegally, criminally privatized three land plots (2,053, 1,534 and 0,613 hectares) located on the territory of Hlanishiv village council and intended for agriculture.

Olena Shust (Danylenko) – an agrarian lady with millions in profits

Депутат Київської облради Олена Шуст: звіт за 2022 рік

Olena Shust, a Servant of the People MP and rector of an agricultural university, earns millions from leasing land and her agribusiness, Agrosvit. However, this income remains hidden in her declarations. Shust has managed to accumulate large assets – real estate, shops and expensive cars, although her official income for 2023 was only UAH 356 thousand.

Her non-transparent tenders at the university and shady land lease schemes make us wonder how such a “successful” politician hides her real wealth.

Andrii Kripak – collaborator and chairman of the healthcare commission

Фарбований лис: хто очолив напрямок медицини в Київській облраді

Andriy Kripak, a member of the Kyiv Regional Council, was appointed head of the Healthcare Commission despite his ties to Yanukovych’s entourage and suspicions of corruption.

After the Revolution of Dignity, he joined the European Solidarity party, and after the election of the new president, he joined the Servant of the People party.

An even more egregious fact is that his mother-in-law, Larysa Yeropaeva, does business in the occupied Crimea, having Russian citizenship, which calls into question Kripak’s loyalty. At the same time, the wife of Kripak’s regional deputy, Yulia Yeropaeva-Kripak, received a recreation center, Morska Zatoka, located in the occupied Crimea.

According to sources, Kripak illegally exports looted money, for example, in 2022 he took 400,000 thousand euros in cash from Ukraine.

The MP repeatedly traveled to Crimea through other transit states before and after the full-scale invasion. The last time he traveled there was reportedly through Turkey.

Investigators are already looking into how the MP is taking money out of Ukraine and conducting suspicious activities.

Roman Bukovsky – a developer with a criminal record

Депутат Київоблради від «Слуги Народу» Роман Буковський приховує мільйонні статки та нерухомість за кордоном • Портал АНТИКОР

Roman Bukovsky, a developer of Vyshhorod district and current deputy of the Servant of the People party in the Kyiv City Council, who in 2024, under the patronage of MP Motovylovets, headed the capital construction commission of the Kyiv Regional Council, is known for his schemes to defraud investors. His companies involved in the construction of residential complexes – POG Association of Developers Solidarity, Profzhylcomfort LLC, Profzhylcomfort Plus LLC, Profrent LLC, and the NGO Association of Experts of the Construction Industry of Kyiv Region – are involved in fictitious transactions and money laundering.

Bukovsky defrauded more than one thousand investors through his construction pyramids: Emerald City, French Boulevard, Fourth Map, French Quarter, and Provence.

The pre-trial investigation established that investors of the Borys Hlibskyi residential complex (Bukovskyi’s project), where the customer for the construction of the said residential complex is an ordinary individual (Bukovskyi’s protégé), when selling apartments, enter into preliminary agreements for the sale of apartments on their own behalf, and the settlement under the agreements is carried out exclusively in cash without appropriate reflection in tax reporting (proceedings No. 42017110000000202 under Part 1 of Art. 212 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine).

The MP concealed from declaration multimillion-dollar assets, including: 4 apartments, 7 parking spaces, IWC, Hublot, Zenith, Ulysse Nardin watches with a total value of more than UAH 1.5 million.

At the same time, Bukovsky was among the 20 largest tax debtors. He ranked 17th on the list with a debt of UAH 14.3 million.

Despite his debts to the state, Bukovsky continues to enrich himself through cash transactions on the sale of apartments.

Vadym Pasichniuk – corruption and escape to the Armed Forces

Пасічнюк Вадим Олександрович - Київська обласна рада

Vadym Pasichniuk, the former head of the Tarashchansky District State Administration and now a member of the Kyiv Regional Council, used his position to embezzle charitable contributions through a fictitious fund.

Without any significant wealth, Pasichniuk suddenly acquired an apartment in Kyiv and a car during his term as a deputy. This development was facilitated by his appointment as the head of the Communal Property Fund of the Kyiv region. Salaries there do not exceed UAH 20,000 per month, but Pasichniuk set up a corrupt scheme of extortion from municipal institutions, which allowed him to make his first considerable money.

With the outbreak of the war, Pasichniuk created a charity foundation called “Let’s rebuild Ukraine” and, bypassing official accounting, collected millions of hryvnias, ostensibly for housing for people affected by the war, but in reality, he embezzled the money and spent it on his own needs. Interestingly, this charitable foundation was registered without the permission of the regional council at the address of the council’s municipal property fund, where Pasichniuk conducted corrupt practices and embezzled charitable contributions from ordinary people.

After the exposure of the corruption schemes, he decided to join the Armed Forces to avoid responsibility. However, his activities continue to be investigated, and he remains under close law enforcement scrutiny.

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