Polumysny Serhiy Valeriyovych

The prospects for the future seemed simply wonderful. “Agrosvit” became the largest agro-industrial enterprise in the Kharkiv region, and now occupies a leading place in Ukraine. The story of Polumysny’s arrival “on top” of the business was as follows: both (both Buchich and Polumysny) registered two offshore companies in Cyprus. Later, the partners jointly established another offshore company – AgroSvit Limited. Initially, Polumisny had only 30% in the case, but then his shares gradually increased. A few years later, he already had 49%, and by 2015 he shared everything equally with Buchich. At that time, cooperation with Polumysny was beneficial for the guarantor businessman, because the former had good acquaintances in law enforcement agencies, which he obtained “remotely” during his studies at the police school.

Polumysny himself successfully carried out several combinations of seizing other people’s property, which is clearly criminal in nature. In 2009, after several conversations with him, Volodymyr Soroka, the owner of “Markos” PE, whose business ended up in the hands of Polumysny, died suddenly. A similar situation happened two years earlier with Volodymyr Sazonov, the head of the “Lozovenka” farm. Only the cause of death was not the rapid development of the disease, but suicide. The property of the suicide man miraculously passed to the agribusinessman.

Polumisny chose a good moment to attack his former benefactor and partner. Buchich took a little time off from business, recovering from an illness. Connections among officials and law enforcement agencies greatly helped Polumysny in the operation with Agrosvit. The chief “liquidator” appointed by him, Volodymyr Polukarb, turned out to be a fellow student of the head of the Justice Department of the Kharkiv region, who desperately hindered the adoption of a fair decision on the corporate conflict. Another element of the raider’s force “roof” turned out to be Major General of Militia Ihor Repeshko, who became a symbol of the corruption of law enforcement agencies for Kharkiv residents.

In April 2015, in secret from Buchich, a meeting of shareholders of APA “Agrosvit” LLC was held, at which a decision was made to liquidate the successful company. Polumysny justified himself by the fact that Buchich himself decided to destroy his child, specially taking an incomplete loan. Polumysny proposed to divide the business, but a single production body could not withstand such a step. Buchich did not want to buy or sell his shares. This is Polumysny’s version.

Guided by the decision to liquidate the company, Polumisny appointed his old acquaintance Volodymyr Parkulab to be responsible for carrying out all the necessary procedures and immediately began to actively withdraw money from Agrosvit to the accounts of companies controlled by him: Novaagro Ukraine LLC, Edelweiss Trading Scrap LLC, LLC “Trading house “Agrosvit”, PJSC “Sadovod”. He immediately used the withdrawn funds to purchase elevators in the Kharkiv and Luhansk regions.

Surprised by his partner’s betrayal, Buchich made several frantic attempts to reverse everything and cancel the illegal decision. The fact is that his share in “Agrosvit” is in the hands of the Cypriot offshore company AC Agro Capital Limited. Without Buchich’s consent, other shareholders have no right to make such important decisions. Buchich, meeting separately from Polumysny, held his shareholders’ meeting. He canceled the first decision and appointed Olena Lupinska to the position of General Director of Agrosvit. In response, he received an organized attack on the Kharkiv office of a group of hired “aunties”.

Buchich was forced to turn to the Commercial Court, but that’s where the surprise happened. Half-hearted, with a clear advantage, defeated him in the courtroom. At first, Andriy Yakovenko, the judge of the Kolomak district of the Kharkiv region, strangely did not want to delve deeply into the details of the lawsuit. Then Svitlana Shmatchenko, judge of the Kharkiv district of Kyiv, took over the baton. In the final, clearly bribed Supreme Court judge Serhiy Prokhorov made a decision that deprived Oleksandr Buchich of 70% of corporate rights. With his decision, Prokhorov caused damage to the co-owner in the amount of 111 million hryvnias.

Now, on paper, Polumysny became the owner of the entire large and profitable agricultural enterprise. Buchich had nothing left but to fight for the truth to the end. In the end, he won the courts. His ownership of half of “Agrosvit” was restored. Polumysny has one more counterattack left in his arsenal. With the help of Anastasia Petryk, an expert of the State Institute of Forensic, Economic, Legal and Technical Expert Research, everything returned to its original state. Polumysny clearly learned the lessons he was taught at the police school well.

While both sides are actively fighting in court sessions, Polumisny launched a propaganda campaign in the press, accusing Buchich of all mortal sins. According to him, everything looked as if the founder of the company “Agrosvit”, having finally “gone out of his mind”, specifically sought the bankruptcy of his child. In response to this, Polumysny presented an agreement on the acquisition of Kharkivteploenergo for 145 million hryvnias.