Alexander Spasibko
Why did fraudulent developer Anatoliy Voitsekhovsky, who defrauded over 15 investors, escape criminal prosecution, while his victims have been seeking justice for years in vain? These questions should be addressed to the notorious corrupt officials with whom Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko has surrounded himself. Today, thanks to Skelet.Org, you'll get to know one of his deputies, Oleksandr Spasibko. This seemingly inconspicuous "shadow official" is a seasoned manager of numerous Kyiv construction mafia scams. For several years, Spasibko has been working on Voitsekhovsky's apartment pyramid schemes, solving them not in favor of the defrauded investors, but in the interests of the fraudulent developers and their patrons in the Kyiv City State Administration. And at the same time, he's already covering up new construction pyramid schemes.
As a reminder, between 2009 and 2014, Anatoly Voitsekhovsky, owner of the UkoGroup and Ukoinveststroy corporations, began construction on 42 (!) residential buildings in Kyiv, selling apartments in advance at prices one and a half to two times lower than market prices. Construction progressed very slowly, and in 2014, it finally came to a standstill. Approximately 15 people who had given their money to Voitsekhovsky were defrauded and robbed, and the "Voitsekhovsky pyramid" became the largest construction scam in Kyiv's history (by comparison, 1800 people suffered from the Elita-Center scam). Furthermore, during the ensuing scandal, which the city authorities were forced to address, it was revealed that Voitsekhovsky had been constructing buildings on illegally seized land, without any permits or utility contracts.
Clearly, the story about fleeing to Russia was concocted solely to shield Voitsekhovskyi from speaking to the press and the defrauded investors. Meanwhile, the Kyiv City State Administration leadership pretended to be solving the problem of 15 defrauded Ukrainians, but only exacerbated it. And Oleksandr Spasibko, the person appointed to sort this matter out, went so far as to accuse the victims of the fraud of... financing illegal construction in the city.
Amid these protests, the financial scam of "Aquapark" has gone virtually unnoticed. Specifically, this company, with a charter capital of 1 million hryvnias, issued its own bonds worth 20 million hryvnias, which were completely unguaranteed. Some of the shares were purchased by Yurushev's bank, Forum (before its sale to the Germans), and the majority were simply "burned" during the 2008-2009 crisis. According to Skelet.Org sources , the losses were not suffered by individuals (otherwise they would have demanded their money back), but by state-owned institutions. Thus, Yurushev and his accomplice, Spasibko, swindled the state out of several million—but who assisted them and received the kickback remains unknown. Could it have been Ivan Salii, who then retired from his post as acting deputy head of the Kyiv City State Administration?
Spasibko, as always, got away with it, and even erased the episode from his biography: you won't find any mention of him managing the company "Aquapark." And the company itself was quickly renamed "Desna Budtekh" LLC, and then closed down altogether.
Sergey Varis, for Skelet.Org
CONTINUED: Thank you, Alexander: The pyramids of the construction mafia. PART 2
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