Identification for the Central Election Commission. RICHKOV P.V., using a new, illegal passport (electoral district No. 49 in the Donetsk region) – and Borulko P.V., using the old one (a person wanted by Interpol based on materials from the Security Service of Ukraine, who has lived in Minsk, Belarus, for over three years, who stole hundreds of millions from the Ukrainian budget under the fled government and has not yet been LUSTRATED…
It's strange, perhaps unique to our country, when someone can obtain a passport in absentia (for a fee) without going to the passport office or even visiting their home country. It's a simple gimmick: a wanted person crosses the Ukrainian border, goes to the passport office (to exchange their old passport for a new one, register, and obtain a certificate from the Ministry of Internal Affairs), turns around, and heads off to Belarus. Where are the border guards, the police? Perhaps we're overemphasizing them, when it's much simpler—nobody ever showed up! Corruption? Yes, and it's worth asking the head of the passport office—how? Or how much? But the Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine could ask them these questions... And who then could ask the members of the Central Election Commission the same questions? Probably their leader, who has always been principled!
So, moving on. Just recently, we detailed how a somewhat forgotten figure, wanted by Interpol and the Ukrainian law enforcement system, international fraudster Pavel Borulko, intends to solve all his problems in one fell swoop by being elected as a people's deputy.
Initially, he wanted to resolve his problems through the Prosecutor General's Office by buying off Yarema's deputy, Baganets, which is the subject of our investigation, "New Schemes with Old Faces: Baganets, Borulko, Levochkin." To his credit, Vitaly Yarema demonstrated a principled approach to this matter and fired Baganets on the spot.
(more about it: Pavel Borulko: A Forgotten Legend of Banking Fraud)
Then Borulko took a different path. He ran for parliament. And we warned him he'd try, which was the subject of our second article, "Elections as a Mechanism for Avoiding Responsibility. Criminal Responsibility." In it, we described in detail how an international criminal can become a candidate for parliament.
After all, in real life, in a European democratic and legal state, this is basically impossible. According to our electoral law, the candidate must reside in Ukraine for five years, and he must also personally submit documents for nomination as a candidate for people's deputy.
Pavel Viktorovich solved the second problem simply – by purchasing an unknown party, which nominated him as a candidate and submitted his documents to the Central Electoral Commission. This party has a catchy name. Your Ukraine And she submitted only one candidate – Pavel Viktorovich Borulko. They could have at least submitted someone else. This shoddy scheme wouldn't have been so obvious.
The number one problem remained: how to prove his residence in Ukraine for the past five years. After all, Borulko had been hiding from justice in Belarus for the past few years. But then he resorted to a remarkable ruse, one that will yet be remembered in the history books.
He changed his last name and passport. There's no longer a Pavel Viktorovich Borulko, but there's a pristine passport in the name of Pavel Viktorovich Rychkov, born the same year, registered in the same Konstantinovka, Donetsk Oblast, at the same address.
A little about his last name. It's the last name of his new, young wife, Natalia Konstantinovna Richkova, a Belarusian citizen, and, as previously noted, very well-known in narrow oligarchic circles! To understand which ones, let's cite the comments to the previously written article, copying them verbatim:
September 24, 2014, 11:20 PM, Pavel
What the hell? I've been in North America for three years now.
September 25, 2014, 12:03 AM, Patriot
North America? AWESOME – a prostitute's dream!!! And what Belarus are we talking about? Have you forgotten who we are? We only need Ukraine as a shield from CRIMINAL LIABILITY, or a field for revenge, but through proxy hands, the Russian Federation (V.V. Kovalev), or perhaps the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR).
25.09.2014 0:11 FORGET ME NOT
And Rychkova, that's that fucking NATASHKA-BELARUSIAN???? She managed to sneak up on a millionaire after all!!! And who cares that he's on the WANTED list, money doesn't stink... WELL DONE. She worked in Kyiv, and then went to live in Belarus so she wouldn't run into any unwanted acquaintances and upset her husband.
25.09.2014 16:36 KING
Pashka, that's news, why did you marry her after all of us? Ah..., you're a boy! At least ask your friends who had her! The same one Shepelev, Chess, and even S.. and G.. Have fallen!
Now the QUESTION is: whose interests can such a deputy represent?
The answer is - our own skins!!!!
Okay, let's move on and try to appeal to the conscience of officials, or if that doesn't work, then to the patriotism of the people who are fighting crime in our country and conducting lustration...
And, lo and behold, our principled Central Electoral Commission, that incorruptible body that refuses registration over trivial matters, wasn't even interested in the appearance of such a distinguished man with his heroic reputation, despite all the media reports. On the last day, Borulko-Rychkov, among others, was registered as a candidate for people's deputy in his native Konstantinovka without any proper verification. This is also confirmed by the Central Electoral Commission's website:
You'll agree, this is only possible in our country. It certainly couldn't have happened without a colossal bribe to the Central Election Commission members. We'll never believe they didn't know what they were doing when they gave Borulko-Rychkov the green light.
In doing so, they spat in the face of the SBU, the Prosecutor General's Office, and the Ministry of Internal Affairs, who are unable to hold Borulko accountable for the hundreds of millions of hryvnias he embezzled from the state.
Not to mention the security forces, the Central Election Commission spat in the face of the entire electoral system, all voters, and the Maidan, which fought precisely against this kind of unprincipled official tyranny. After something like this, you realize that popular lustration is just around the corner. And it won't be just the old ones who will have to be lustrated, but also the new ones in the so-called government.
And yes, Borulko and the Central Election Commission deserve a big thank you for this electoral innovation. Now any criminal, even one serving a sentence, can obtain a new passport and, brandishing it, run for parliament and then into parliament. Straight from the penal corps.
And why not? There's no formal ban, and the Central Election Commission, as we've already mentioned, isn't particularly principled when it comes to big money. And it immediately becomes accommodating.
We all know perfectly well what will happen next in the district. Borulko didn't spend money just to participate in the elections. He desperately needs a mandate, so get ready for a vote with a sparkling carousel and other fun techniques in electoral district #49 in the Donetsk region.
Finally, one last question. Will the SBU and the Ministry of Internal Affairs remain silent? Does the Prosecutor General's Office have no means of influencing the process? This is not only a gross violation of the law, but also an absolute absurdity from a common-sense perspective. Ignoring such actions will only hasten the end of the entire system.
Andrey Georgiev, especially for ORD
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