17.07.2024 Construction Corruption Kyiv

Manipulations with Medvedchuk and Stolar’s assets. Who from the top authorities and the SBU helps traitors to influence processes in Ukraine

The assets of Viktor Medvedchuk, the traitor and Putin’s godfather, that were not fully seized, suddenly passed into the hands of two foreigners and Kyiv businessman Valeriy Mishchenko. These are the companies Akadem-Klub, Osokorky 7, and Orest. Each of them had long-term lease agreements for large plots of land on the banks of the Dnipro River in Kyiv and should have been arrested in 2022, but law enforcement officers never contacted the state registrar, and a new residential complex is already being built on these lands.

What is known about Medvedchuk’s companies?

In 2005-2006, the Kyiv City Council leased two plots with a total area of 40.24 hectares in the Darnytsia district of Kyiv, in the Osokorky neighborhood, to Academ Club LLC for 25 years. 

In 2019, Jan Marchenko, an aide to MP Taras Kozak, an associate of Viktor Medvedchuk, became a signatory to the Akadem-Klub LLC.

In 2015, the lease agreements with Akadem-Klub were sought to be terminated through the courts and the 40.24 hectares of land worth UAH 150 million were returned to the Kyiv City Council due to violations in the payment of rent and misuse of the land.

The courts of appeal and cassation dismissed the prosecutor’s claim.

In July 2022, the Lychakivsky District Court of Lviv seized 3 companies: Akadem-Klub, Osokorky-7, and Orest.

Then the court proved the direct connection of the companies Akadem-Klub, Orest, and Osokorky-7 with ex-MP Viktor Medvedchuk, a suspect in high treason, through the Cyprus-based Pilawer Limited. But, in fact, no arrests were made, as prosecutors decided not to apply to the state registrar to enter the relevant information into the register.

Stolar’s role in Medvedchuk’s assets

In addition to the fact that ex-MP Vadym Stolar “highlighted” the Cyprus-based Viemar Holding LTD, which owns Akadem-Klub LLC, in his own declaration, there is something else that demonstrates the close relationship between the “watchdog for Kyiv” and the traitor Medvedchuk.

For example, a few months after the court decision to arrest Akadem-Klub, Orest, and Osokorky-7 was made public, each of the companies changed its ownership. Oleksandr Bilyavsky from Kherson region became the first pawn in the puppet game. Why puppets? Because all these actions to change the ownership are just manipulations to divert the attention of law enforcement and create the appearance of separation from the assets of the traitor Medvedchuk and his fellow party member Stolar. 

That’s how Bilyavsky, who was Stolar’s bodyguard and acted as his front man, got involved.

At the end of 2022, the new owners of the companies not only took away Bilyavsky’s share, but also “threw out” Medvedchuk’s former shares from the companies, and “removed” Stolar from them.

New faces and old schemes

Petros Togramadzhyan, who lives in Bulgaria and may not even be aware that he owns such significant assets in Kyiv, has become the new manager of the Akadem Club. According to media reports, the man has a criminal past, and his father is very fond of Russian President Putin. As a reminder, the man received both Medvedchuk’s and Stolar’s shares in the company.

The share in Osokorky 7 was rewritten to a Latvian, Vadym Ivanov. Other companies (Orest, Victoria) owned by MPs from the OPFL passed into the hands of Valeriy Mishchenko. By the way, a residential complex is currently being actively built on the plots owned by Victoria. Moreover, the owner of the land plot managed to change the purpose of the land plot as a “technical error”.

It looks like another manipulation, where the new owners of companies are fronts for the previous ones.

Of course, such rotations would not have been possible without the direct involvement of the authorities, including law enforcement agencies. Therefore, after receiving information from journalists, the Prosecutor General’s Office appealed to the Ministry of Justice, which in October 2023 canceled the registration actions with the new owners and returned everything to the state of arrest.

The Bulgarian Togramadzhian, Latvian Ivanov, and Ukrainian Mishchenko were able to challenge this order of the Ministry of Justice in the Kyiv Commercial Court and thus regained their companies.

The court proved that the Prosecutor General’s Office should have known about the problem with the rewriting before the journalists were notified, and thus missed the two-month deadline from the moment they learned about it to the moment they had to appeal through the Ministry of Justice.

What’s next?

We think that we are now facing a wave of resonance that will subside as quickly as it starts. What is surprising is that we have repeatedly submitted materials in the form of complaints and statements to all possible levels of law enforcement and regulatory authorities of Ukraine regarding the activities of Medvedchuk’s business structures in Ukraine. 

For example, the Evo Invest fund, whose ultimate beneficiary and owner is Estonian businessman Oleksiy Chulets, who is closely associated with Medvedchuk and Stolar, is still withdrawing funds from Ukrainian investors who buy the right to claim from the ENSO developer. In fact, citizens’ money is being transferred to the traitor’s offshore accounts, and the projects remain in the same state of “freezing.” 

Regarding the activities of Evo Invest, the Pechersk District Prosecutor’s Office of Kyiv even launched an investigation in the proceedings 42024102060000071 under Part 1 of Article 364 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine, and the Holosiivskyi District Prosecutor’s Office entered information into the URPI 42024102010000033 under Article 190, Part 5 of the Criminal Code. But what’s the point?

Medvedchuk and Stolar still control other investment funds, including: JSC “ZNVKIF Stream Investment”, JSC “ZNVKIF Astera”, JSC “ZNVKIF Skilling”, LLC “AMC Asset Management Group”.

We conducted a study of the activities of each of them in terms of compliance with the legislation of Ukraine, information on financing of development companies and criminal proceedings initiated against them. In particular, when analyzing JSC “ZNVKIF “Stream Investment”, it became known that the ultimate beneficial owner of the latter is Inna Maistruk, now Stolar’s ex-wife. At the same time, Stream Investment was an active

investor in the construction of all three residential complexes (Fjord, Poetica, Diadans) by the development company ENSO, which, we recall, belongs to Medvedchuk’s orbit. 

At our initiative, the criminal proceedings registered in the URPI 42022000000001382 under Part 2 of Article 364 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine are now under investigation by the Shevchenkivskyi Department of the Main Department of the National Police in Kyiv. But will the above have any real effect? And again, there are many questions.

Even after leaving Ukraine, Stolar and Medvedchuk still have influence on the construction business in the capital. And, presumably, someone from the highest echelons of power and law enforcement is helping the ex-OPFLers to avoid interference in this business. For example, David Arakhamia, who has repeatedly demonstrated his support for pro-Russian politicians, as well as security officials from the SBU, whose specialization is precisely the investigation and stopping of the activities of people like Medvedchuk and Stolar.

Watch the video to learn more about the influence of Stolar and Medvedchuk’s OPFL on the construction business in Kyiv.

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