Andrey Motovilovets
The hasty formation of the Servant of the People party for the 2019 elections brought into its ranks numerous random people and even outright crooks, whom it was unable to rid itself of. Because of them, Zelenskyy's team became mired in corruption to a degree no less than that of previous presidents! And it would be naive to hope that this problem will resolve itself by the next elections without affecting their outcome.
It would seem that MP Andriy Motovilovets is the last person one would think of as a "Servant of the People." But what do we know about this perpetually busy "intellectual and technocrat"? How does he position himself? He's a member of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Finance, Taxation, and Customs Policy, has headed the Kyiv regional branch of the Servant of the People party for two years, and was previously a top manager at Prozorro—and that's it? So why does Motovilovets periodically attract unhealthy attention?
Possible connections
Motovilovets Andrey Viktorovich Motovilovets was born on April 29, 1982, in Kyiv. He grew up in Troyeshchyna, where he graduated from Secondary School No. 119. Motovilovets never served in the army, which raises the question: would he want to undergo training and obtain a military specialty at one of the training grounds where mobilized Ukrainians are now being sent en masse? Certainly not; he's a member of parliament, after all, and he has a "reserve" (exemption).
After school, Andriy Motovilovets (according to him) went to work on a construction site as a drywaller, while simultaneously studying in the evening department of the Kyiv National University of Economics named after V. Hetman. However, according to sources Skelet.OrgHe didn't find this job through an ad, but rather found a job at one of his parents' or their friends' companies. No one ever saw Motovilovets in overalls covered in plaster dust, so one can only guess what he did there. And already in his senior year of university, he found a part-time job in his field—as an economist.
After graduating, Andriy Motovilovets worked at a bank from 2004 to 2006, where he quickly rose to the rank of head of the retail lending department. However, for some reason, he's keeping all the details of this success under wraps. Perhaps, as rumors suggest, it's because the bank was called "Nadra"? That would explain a lot: after all, few people would want to tarnish their resume by mentioning their work at one of the most scandalous banks in Ukrainian history!
In fact, if you look at Motovilovets's biography, you'll be surprised by its brevity. However, this is typical of many Servant of the People members, who are unwilling to disclose their past to voters. Perhaps they conceal it deliberately, to appear as a new and crystal-clear political force, unconnected to past regimes or the odious figures of Ukrainian corruption. But, as is now obvious even to the most naive of Holoborodko's fans, the "Servants of the People" have themselves excelled in corruption schemes.
According to rumors, his relative may be Kyiv resident Lyudmila Motovilovets: in 2013-14, she was seen as a public activist and the head of an initiative group that organized protests against the development of a forest park zone in the Svyatoshinsky district of the capital (at Lvivska 15), which was carried out by the oligarch Vasily KhmelnitskyThere would have been nothing reprehensible in this protest if Lyudmila Motovilovets' best friend hadn't turned out to be the scandalous coordinator of the "Save Kyiv Forum" Vitaly ChernyakhovskyThe same one who was repeatedly beaten, later exposed as a swindler (he organized protests commissioned by developers' competitors or extorted "severance pay" in the form of an apartment in a building under construction), and in 2015 was even put on the wanted list as a pro-Russian provocateur.
In 2007, Andriy Motovilovets decided to go into the construction business himself. It remains unclear how he got the money: perhaps he gave himself a loan, or perhaps he was continuing his parents' business. He co-founded Kyiv Construction Company Alliance LLC (EDRPOU 35159458) and an insurance company of the same name in Zaporizhzhia (35489190). Moreover, the Kyiv firm Alliance is cleverly hidden within a nesting doll of several LLCs: 99% of its capital belongs to the asset management company Dniprovskyi Investor (35263969), which, in turn, has belonged since 2015 to Energopostach 2015 LLC (39580868), now registered to a certain Elena Khomenko (no, not the one with the Servant of the People MP). Why all the complications?
His ex-wife, Yulia Leonidovna Motovilovets, also owned the company "Jay Custom" (37783739), located in Odesa, until the summer of 2019. After her ex-husband was elected to the Rada, she transferred the company's ownership to a certain Taras Tarasovich Kuzmenko, who, according to the database, was the interim director of more than fifty companies across Ukraine. It appears he's some kind of figurehead...
A little more about Motovilovets' connections. When the MPs' declarations were still publicly available (they were classified with the start of the war under the pretext of national security), journalists drew attention to his Kyiv apartment (94,7 square meters). He owns only 20% of it, sharing it with the Potapov family (Petro Vladimirovich, Denis Petrovich, Svetlana Nikolaevna) and Natalia Viktorovna Beskina. His current common-law wife, Anastasia Maykova, owns another apartment (87 square meters) jointly with Mikhail Weisberg. Who all these people are, what their relationship is to Motovilovets, and why the far-from-poor MP has yet to acquire an apartment that is entirely his own remains unknown.
Andrey Motovilovets. At the Ministry of Infrastructure
We scroll further down his biography: there's nothing there until 2014! If Motovilovets was diligently involved in the construction business at that time, then why was that never mentioned? Only once in an interview did Motovilovets let slip that before creating Prozorro, he had been involved in government tenders, which "they" (who were they?) had rejected in favor of private sector contracts, and that his most significant project was his participation in the construction of the Biopharm plant in Bila Tserkva. However, Andrey Motovilovets didn't specify what specific facilities he was talking about, as the plant was built successively between 2013 and 2018. And what was he doing before that?
Another interesting piece of information: this construction began with the fact that in 2012 the American-Ukrainian investment company Horizon Capital, one of the co-founders of which was the well-known Natalia YareskoTheir paths would cross again and again.
However, can you trust it? interview A professional storyteller? In which, for example, Motovilovets, without batting an eye, told journalists a fascinating story about how a grenade exploded under his feet on the Euromaidan, and how doctors later retrieved shrapnel from him, how an activist fell next to him, cut down by a burst of machine gun fire, and how he carried a corpse out of the Ukraina Hotel on his back.
And then Motovilovets smoothly transitioned to the story that in 2014, "several of my friends ended up in the Cabinet of Ministers" and invited him there to "help the country." He said they had nothing at first, and they offered him only a table and a chair—and he offered them "his knowledge and experience." And that's how they, he said, began to raise the country and the economy from the ruins of the Yanukovych regime! It seems that such stories are only suitable for elementary school students, since they are composed in the style of Maria Prilezhaeva's "The Life of Lenin." However, Motovilovets told far more outrageous tales—you'll read about them below.
But what really happened? In the fall of 2014, Yatsenyuk's second government was formed, with the Ministry of Infrastructure headed by Andrey Pivovarsky – previously (in 2006-2012) worked at Soros businessman Dragon Capital Thomas FialaPivovarsky has assembled an impressive team of advisers around himself. Moreover, as reported in the article "Abromavicius and others: the latest history of VIP migrant workers in Ukraine" , Andrey Motovilovets was invited by him as a former Dragon Capital employee, along with Ivan Makushenko, Alexey Sobolev, and Alexander Myagky. So, these are his "friends who ended up in the Cabinet of Ministers"?
Andrey Pivovarsky
However, Motovilovets became not only an advisor to Minister Pivovarsky, but also the “personal assistant” (what’s that?) of his deputy. Vladimir Shulmeister. Known as the former financial director of the Foxtrot supermarket chain (from 2006 to 2009), who then resigned in scandal after being exposed for creating shady schemes and causing the company huge losses. But accomplice The man behind the "foxtrot schemes" was Oleksiy Pavlenko, who became Minister of Agriculture in the fall of 2014. It's simply astounding what kind of crooks and swindlers the government was made up of back then! It's no wonder they brought Ukraine into a severe crisis.
And also the media ReportedIt's believed that these advisors were professionally engaged in "looting," that is, searching for and evaluating state infrastructure assets suitable for privatization. And they received compensation for this ranging from 3 to 5 dollars per month! Let's remember that millions of Ukrainians were surviving on 2 to 3 hryvnias at the time.
Indirect confirmation of his mega-earnings is the fact that in 2015, Andrei Motovilovets registered as a sole proprietor (specializing in consulting services). Why would a co-owner of construction companies need this? It's very simple: Aivaras Abromavicius's team of "reformers" used his sole proprietor status in their entirely legal scheme to earn enormous profits and evade taxes. Hundreds of various advisors and assistants received regular payments both from the ministries where they worked and from the private foundations with which they were associated. The money was registered as consulting fees and deposited into the sole proprietors' accounts, who then paid only a small flat tax of no more than 1-2% of the proceeds (instead of income tax, military tax, and social security tax). And all legally, all under the slogans of reform, the fight against corruption, and a bright European future!
Motovilovets claimed that his job as an advisor to the Minister of Infrastructure consisted of analyzing tender documentation—something he allegedly became an expert in during the Maidan era, when he dealt with tenders as the head of a construction company.
And if he assessed the tender conditions as "tailored to a specific company," he would go to the head of the state-owned enterprise (port, etc.) and reprimand him, who would look at the floor in shame. Do you believe this?! It's absolutely true that Motovilovets was the "tender overseer" under Pivovarsky and his deputy Shulmeister! But he didn't shame the heads of ports and Ukrzaliznytsia departments for "discriminatory tenders," but demanded that they be revised in favor of other participants—threatening to fire him.
Vladimir Shulmeister
From what else we were able to find out later Skelet.OrgAs an adviser to the minister, Motovilovets actively defended the interests of the TIS Group, which owns terminals in the Yuzhny port. Its owners are scandalous businessmen. Andrey Stavnitser and Alexey Fedorychev. Moreover, it turned out that Motovilovets' wife was a PR manager at TIS, which explains how she came to own the Odessa firm "J-Kustom."
It is also worth mentioning that at the beginning of 2015, Motovilovets also managed to work as an advisor to the head of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional State Administration. Valentina ReznichenkoThe nature of their close collaboration remains unknown, but it's possible that it was then that Motovilovets, the "tender overseer," slipped Dneprovsky Investor LLC into his "matryoshka doll of enterprises." And at the same time, he made some very useful connections, including another of Reznikov's then-advisors, Yuri Golik, who later, already under the Servants of the People, became the coordinator of the Big Construction project (more about him later).
At the end of 2015, the "reform government," mired in corruption and fraud and unable to stem the economic collapse, began to falter. This was largely due to the impatient pressure from rival factions, also eager to profit from the country's plunder. In December, Pivovarsky and Shulmeister submitted their resignations. While the former was immediately dismissed (and wisely disappeared until 2019), Pivovarsky remained in office until April, yielding to Volodymyr Omelyan. Andriy Motovilovets, however, remained in his post even longer, working well with the notorious Omelyan.
Under Omelyan's cover, Motovilovets lobbied in 2016 for the sale of the Odessa Commercial Sea Port's tugboat fleet to P&O Maritime (behind which stood Andriy Stavnitser). Had the deal been successful, Stavnitser would have monopolized towing services in Yuzhny, earning him up to $12-15 million a year. However, it was flagged because the obvious corruption element sparked a major scandal. Motovilovets did not deny his involvement, but claimed he was acting in the interests of the state—saying that all state property should be put up for auction so that it could find a "more effective owner." Nevertheless, in November 2016, the SBU conducted an investigation into this and other TIS scams in Yuzhny. a series of searches, including the residences of Stavnitser, Shulmeister, and Motovilovets. It was reported that this was done on the initiative of the new head of the Yuzhny port, Igor Tkachuk, a protégé of the Vinnytsia gang. Interestingly, three years later, when Motovilovets became a "Servant of the People" and Shulmeister made many friends in Zelenskyy's party, lecturing them at training sessions in Truskavets, they arranged for Tkachuk to be revenge, and now the SBU was “harassing” him with searches.
Mikhail Shpolyansky for Skelet.Org
CONTINUED: Andrey Motovilovets: The Dossier of a Prozorro Fraudster. Part 2
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