ROMAN FEDIK AND HIS COLLEAGUES' ARMORED PROSECUTOR'S "BOOMER"
Roman Fedyk
The Dnipropetrovsk Regional Prosecutor's Office is known to many for its scandalous and odious chief, Roman Fedyk, who was joined by equally odious newcomers, Vladimir Vasenin and Roman Soskov. The two found themselves at the center of a corruption scandal literally from their first day on the job.
Here, the lustration law is like swapping one for another—rich people have replaced rich people, and the tires on a car have been changed. The Beemer rules!
This guy is a thorn in Kolomoisky's side, deal with him.
Activists have been trumpeting at the top of their lungs that regional prosecutor Roman Fedik has long been "begging for lustration." They've even put a trash can over his head and filed complaints against him, but all in vain. Fedik is still in office.
The "lustrators" accuse the regional prosecutor of inaction, claiming that Fedyk is not investigating high-profile cases and is unwilling to report to the public.
However, the regional prosecutor hasn't angered the public as much as he has regional Governor Ihor Kolomoisky. For his intransigence with Kolomoisky, Fedyk has been criticized both by his deputies and by those same "lustrators."
Just remember how Deputy Governor Svyatoslav Oliynyk accused Fedyk of protecting drug dealers, and he owes his current position to Oleh Makhnitsky and Oleksiy Baganets. It was Baganets who once placed the current regional prosecutor, Fedyk, in the Rivne prosecutor's office, and then in the Lviv region.
And it was Kolomoisky's deputy, Oliynyk, who started the well-known rumor about Fedyk's alleged mental illness. Prosecutor General Vitaliy Yarema, as usual, regularly defends his subordinate, arguing that Fedyk is an honest prosecutor and that all the rumors about him are pure fabrications.
Prosecutors also describe as a similar hit job the information that Fedyk accepted a $400 bribe to secure the release from custody of Volodymyr Zaritsky, former deputy head of the Main Justice Department and head of the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast State Enforcement Service department. Zaritsky, against whom 25 counts of corruption have been established and proven, is a target. Interestingly, as soon as the squabbles between the oligarch and Fedyk began, incriminating evidence, even documented, immediately surfaced in the media.
Only Fedyk himself can answer how it really happened.
And just the other day, the winner of the elections from the president’s party, Vitaly Kupriy, made a complaint to the regional prosecutor (Read more about it in article BItalian Kupriy. Kolomoisky's shavka received an order to eliminate Poroshenko.). He accused the regional prosecutor of "protecting" human trafficking.
These are the kinds of serious squabbles taking place in the regional prosecutor's office in this region. Former Prosecutor General of Ukraine Svyatoslav Piskun, who suddenly wanted to get behind the wheel of Dnipropetrovsk's "Bumer," the prosecutor's office, immediately noticed this "mess." Piskun is confident that he would look quite comfortable as Dnipropetrovsk regional prosecutor and much better than Fedyk.
Incidentally, it raises suspicions about what Fedyk, who suspended his work as a prosecutor in 2010, was doing before his appointment this year.
However, last year he declared a mere pittance – just 50 hryvnias. His wife and two sons also didn't gain much, adding only 25 hryvnias to the family budget.
The entire prosecutor's couple lived on 75,000 hryvnias throughout 2013. Interestingly, the prosecutor owns neither a home nor a car, but his family owns a 0,1-hectare plot of land and a 183.7-square-meter house, as well as a 2005 Mazda 6 (a used version currently costs around 190,000 hryvnias), which the regional prosecutor apparently uses to get to work.
Managed to survive the lustration, or we won't give up the Beemer!
Only two of Fedyk's deputies survived the lustration. One of them is Oleh Gladkikh, the son of the same MP Vasyl Gladkikh, who served in the Verkhovna Rada from 2002 to 2005.
Gladkikh apparently isn't on good terms with his boss, as a week after his appointment, he issued a press statement confirming that regional prosecutor Roman Fedik had indeed instructed 22 employees of the procedural guidance department to simultaneously submit resignations. In other words, the deputy betrayed his immediate superior, despite claiming that Fedik was conducting a personal lustration. The regional prosecutor himself denies any involvement in the "wet job"—the dismissal of his subordinates.
As for the financial situation of the surviving deputy regional prosecutor, it turns out he earned more than his boss: Gladkikh's income amounted to a whopping 135 hryvnias. Despite the deputy regional prosecutor's meager income, Gladkikh's son and wife were fully supported by the prosecutor in 2013.
Gladkikh owns three apartments, measuring 123 square meters, 90 square meters, and 150 square meters. The prosecutor drives three cars: a 2007 BMW (a used version currently costs around 300 UAH), a 2002 Mercedes-Benz S 600 (a used version currently costs around 300 UAH), and a 1987 GAZ 2410 (a used version currently costs around 16 UAH).
The unemployed prosecutor's family also owns a nice BMW X6—a 2012 BMW X6. It's certainly not a BMW 7 Series, a cool car from the Beemer era, but much cooler. A used version of this car currently costs almost 1,5 million hryvnias. The prosecutor's family also owns a 2011 Lexus (a used version currently costs around 1 million hryvnias).
Among the surviving members of the regional prosecutor's office is Stepan Truskavetsky, a "westerner" and Fedyk's deputy. This prosecutor, with a surname typical for western Ukraine, earned 191 hryvnias last year, which supported his entire family—his wife and two daughters—for the entire year. None of them contributed a penny to the family budget in 2013. Truskavetsky, the prosecutor, has just over 5 hryvnias in his bank account.
As for real estate, the prosecutor, like his boss, doesn't own a home. However, Truskavetsky's family owns a 63-square-meter apartment. The prosecutor also drives a BMW to work, but a different model—a 2007 BMW 525 (a used one currently costs around 400 hryvnias).
"Boomer" left, but the prosecutors remained
Three deputies were dismissed from the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Prosecutor's Office due to lustration. Roman Fedyk's deputy, Serhiy Kuzmenko, also fell victim to lustration. Last year, he earned a whopping 415,000 hryvnias, while his wife earned 3,443,000 hryvnias, including 82,000 hryvnias in salary, 357,000 hryvnias in income from the sale of property, 1,800,000 hryvnias in income from entrepreneurial activity, and 14,800 hryvnias in income from property leases.
Despite all this, the lustrated prosecutor does not own any real estate, but his millionaire wife owns a 209-square-meter house, a 114,2-square-meter apartment, and 610 square meters of other real estate.
It's funny, but true: neither the prosecutor nor his wife owns a car. And, according to their asset declarations, they both drive trucks to work belonging to the millionaire wife (a 2008 GAZ 33104, a 2004 GAZ 33021, and a 2005 GAZ 3302). Interestingly, the prosecutor's family doesn't have a single kopeck in the bank. So where do they invest their millions?
Oleh Rychka also lost his position as deputy regional prosecutor. His income last year also exceeded his boss's—255 hryvnias. The prosecutor lives alone and owns a 125-square-meter house and a 0,25-hectare plot of land. Rychka drove to work in a 2009 Toyota Prado (a used one currently costs around 380 hryvnias).
Deputy Regional Prosecutor Svetlana Vinogradova was also fired. Her salary in this position last year was a whopping 609 hryvnias, while her husband earned only 42 hryvnias. The prosecutor owns a 112-square-meter apartment and a 0,2-hectare plot of land. Vinogradova's husband also owns his own property—an 82,9-square-meter apartment.
Vinogradova doesn't have her own car, but the prosecutor's low-income husband has a 2010 Lexus 460 (a used version currently costs around 700 UAH).
It turns out that anyone who wasn't lucky enough to get into a Beemer ended up driving a Lexus.
The disreputable Kents in Fedyk's car
Fedyk had barely gotten used to his new team when his subordinates were already accused of corruption. Prosecutor Vasenin was accused of corruption by the aforementioned Vitaly Kupriy.
Here's what he reported to us: "I was surprised by the appointment of Volodymyr Vasenin to the position of Deputy Prosecutor of the Dnipropetrovsk Region. I know him personally, as he worked for several years in my hometown of Dniprodzerzhynsk as Deputy Prosecutor, and also served as the city's acting prosecutor for a long time. Mr. Vasenin is obliged to combat corruption in government. However, during his years of 'fruitful' work, he not only failed to hold a single official accountable, but also successfully defeated a number of criminal cases involving the embezzlement of approximately 10 million hryvnias of budget funds and the dispossession of hectares of land."
The people are also harassing another deputy regional prosecutor: the newly appointed Roman Soskov, according to the public, is also asking for lustration. The prosecutor gained his fame as the head of one of the departments during Vladimir Shuba's tenure.
Back then, Shuba was defending his business interests as prosecutor, while Soskov was promoting his boss's initiatives for the people. In 2011, under the patronage of Viktor Pshonka, Soskov became prosecutor in the Amur-Nizhnedniprovsky district of Dnipropetrovsk. Here, his prosecutorial duties were directly linked to working for the authorities, and it was thanks to Soskov that Yevhen Morozenko, a member of parliament from the Party of Regions, built an entire palace on the left bank of the Dnieper (the mouth of the Shpakova River), taking away from the city's residents a public beach that had existed for decades.
Only the new deputy, Nikolai Gornostaev, has not yet been caught up in the corruption scandal; both the press and the "lustrators" are still silent about the possible blemishes on his prosecutorial uniform.
Meanwhile, while the "lustrators" are demanding the impalement of regional prosecutor Roman Fedyk and his new deputies, the prosecutor's "Boomer," with a trunk full of Lava, is leisurely driving along the well-trodden prosecutorial path. He fears neither the traffic cops nor the lustrators, and for now, the oligarch Kolomoisky isn't a threat either...
In connection with the above, the Prosecutor's Truth has a number of questions:
— How did Roman Fedyk earn his living since 2010, after leaving the prosecutor's office?
— Doesn't Vitaly Yarema find it embarrassing that he has replaced the lustrated prosecutors with those whom the people accuse of corruption?
— What role does Yarema play in the dirty game of Benya Kolomoisky and prosecutor Fedyk?
How did Deputy Regional Prosecutor Oleg Gladkikh, with his remarkable family income, manage to acquire several expensive cars and three apartments?
— So which way is Fedika's "prosecutor's boomer" heading?
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