13.10.2024 Business of Occupiers Kyiv

Criminal boss and MP with DNR ties seize Skymall shopping center in Kyiv

Outraged representatives of the Third Assault Squad and the NGO Centuria came to the walls of the Skymall shopping center. They are protesting against the influence of the pro-Russian oligarch, MP from the OPFL Khrystenko, and his business partner, criminal authority Galanternyk, owner of the Social Bank, who is also called the shadow master of Odesa.

Khrystenko left Ukraine before the war, namely on February 14, 2022, and does not participate in the VRU’s voting. He is associated with the DPR leadership and Donetsk criminals, but thanks to his generous “gratitude” to Arakhamia, he still has the mandate. Khrystenko, through Koksotrading Ltd, Trade-Akril, TRASS Ltd, and offshore companies Heating Systems OU and Evenor Energy SA, sells coal from the DPR and Russia to MelTEK, a company owned by Akhmetov and ArcelorMittal.

Khristenko, through Slavian LLC, which formally belonged to his father-in-law, took out a $60 million loan from the state-owned Ukreximbank to buy Skymall. His father-in-law, who still lives in the DPR, continues to repair and manage coal mines there. Then Galanternik joined the partnership on Skymall.

How SkyMall in Kyiv became a sponsor of terrorism

It all started when, on August 12, 2021, the National Council on Television and Radio Broadcasting was considering issuing a satellite broadcasting license to the Odesa-based TV channel TRK City TV Channel.

During the meeting, one of the channel’s owners, Oleksandr Kozyr, mentioned his investors, who had recently purchased a large shopping center in Kyiv, the SkyMall shopping mall.

According to investigations, there is no formal connection between the TV channel and the owners of the mall. However, the media report possible ties to Odesa businessman Volodymyr Galanternyk, who owns a number of shopping centers in Odesa.

As a reminder, Odesa oligarch Volodymyr Galanternyk owns many large real estate properties in Odesa, including the famous Privoz and 7th Kilometer markets, City Center shopping mall, and others.

The NABU is currently investigating Galanternyk’s seizure of six land plots in Odesa, where residential buildings were built under the direction of Budova, a company affiliated with his husband. All of the businessman’s assets are mostly registered in offshore companies or nominee owners, which makes it difficult to investigate and track his activities.

Thus, the person involved in the NABU case and a longtime Odesa criminal mastermind became the owner of the capital’s SkyMall through third parties.

In order to calm down public outrage and stop peaceful demonstrations around SkyMall, Galanternyk bribed representatives of the police and the shopping mall, who immediately arrived at the mall to detain and serve summonses to activists. So are law enforcement officers really on the side of the people? Or is it the case that whoever has the most money is right?

SkyMall is currently owned by Slavian LLC ,whose beneficiary is a resident of occupied Horlivka and Khrystenko’s father-in-law, SergeyBryukhovetsky.

And although Ukreximbank claimed that Bryukhovetskyi had successfully passed due diligence and that no facts of terrorist financing or other violations had been found, doubts remain. At least for the reasons that the businessman still owns 50% of Gorspetslift LLC (Horlivka), 24% of Deacon LLC (Bakhmut), and 16.6% of Spetsremash LLC (Horlivka).

We have submitted a number of materials to all law enforcement and regulatory agencies in order to obtain a response and further deprive Bryukhovetskyi, and with him Khrystenko and Galanternyk, of their ownership of the shopping center in Kyiv.

So, a question to the authorities:

  1. How did the National Bank and the State Bank issue a loan of $80 million to companies affiliated with the DPR?
  2. Why does Ukraine, through Akhmetov’s structures: DTEK, Metinvest, SCM, continues to buy coal from the DPR and Russia?
  3. Why is an MP with ties to and who fled the country before the war still in office?

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