Dmitry Andrievsky: A millionaire plunderer from the secret services. Part 1
Questions about Ukrainian corrupt officials are raised not by the size, but by the origin of their immense wealth. Even when they were formally engaged in legal business, they couldn't resist engaging in fraud and outright violations of the law. Similar questions will one day be asked of Dmytro Andriyevskyi, who now hides behind the mask of a patriot and philanthropist. And not only about how he lined his pockets with Kyiv's budget funds and, with his accomplices, divided up the capital's land, seizing public property. The fact is that the question about the original origins of his business should be asked not by the NABU, but by the SBU and counterintelligence.
Three houses, three garages, seven plots of land, a luxurious Bentley Continental, stocks, and over 30 million hryvnias in cash and invested in various companies. This information is from declarations of Dmitry Andrievsky They generate virtually no interest: the Verkhovna Rada is filled with elected officials with far more impressive fortunes, where only cash could be weighed on a warehouse scale. However, the more than fifty paintings by Ilya Repin, Nicholas Roerich, Marc Chagall, and Ivan Aivazovsky he declared are priceless—literally and figuratively. Only rare art connoisseurs can estimate their value, and therefore determine the true size of Andrievsky's fortune—and no tax authorities or NABU will find fault! Compared to domestic multimillionaires, who traditionally keep their "savings" in gold, cash, and real estate, Andrievsky appears suspiciously aristocratic; he stands out like an American spy among a crowd of Soviet citizens. This is especially true considering that in the post-Soviet space, only three categories of nouveau riche invested in works of art and collections: international swindlers, former diplomats, and former intelligence officers. So who is he, Dmitry Andrievsky?
Dmitry Andrievsky. The Sclerotic Son of a Scout
Dmitry Iosifovich Andrievsky was born on January 6, 1967, in the port town of Olga in Primorsky Krai (Russian SFSR, now Russian Federation), located on the coast of the Sea of Japan. His father served there, but Andrievsky was not particularly forthcoming about his occupation. In one interview, Andrievsky said that in Olga, his father commanded a company at an air defense base, and later, after transferring to Rzhev, commanded the air corps' reconnaissance center. None of this would have been significant if not for a fact from Dmitry Andrievsky's own biography. In 2008, media reports surfaced that he was an advisor to the Main Intelligence Directorate (GUR), according to him, on economic matters (and who knows).
Andrievsky did not explain how and why he ended up in the GUR, and why he was invited there (there were many “experienced economists” in Kyiv). However, sources Skelet.Org They claimed that his father, a spy, had something to do with it, and that Andrievsky himself, in his youth, had connections both with the Soviet special services, which recruited the children of their employees, and with the Russian defense industry.
Interestingly, several years later, when, following the events of 2014, it became known that the Ukrainian GUR was under the surveillance of the Russian GRU, Andrievsky suddenly studiously "forgot" this point from his past and hastily became a volunteer, providing material assistance to one of the Ukrainian Armed Forces units. But, as the saying goes, never before had Stirlitz been so close to failure!
Likewise, Dmitry Andrievsky "forgot" about the existence of his brother, Vadim Iosifovich Andrievsky, born on May 23, 1968, in the same village of Olha (or rather, on the way to the hospital). Meanwhile, Vadim Andrievsky, now residing in Kyiv at Oliynyka 9 (as recorded in his company registration documents), played a very important role in his brother's life all these years. For example, the absence from Dmitry Andrievsky's asset declarations of many commercial companies with which he had long been associated is explained simply—they are all registered to his brother. Among them: Intermediacom-Ukraine LLC, Chas Publishing House LLC, Inteko Management Company LLC (and its subsidiaries), Erde Development LLC, Forum-Capital LLC, Zapadspetsprofil LLC, the private security firm Drakar, and the well-known Franklin Group-Ukraine, which is mentioned in the official biography of Dmitry Andrievsky.
He himself declared only a nominal stake (5%) in the Inteko Management Company, shares in Kyivvodokanal, and small stakes in the Ukrainian Professional Bank PJSC and the Cypriot offshore company RESTIMA CONSTRUCTION LIMITED.
But let's not get ahead of ourselves and return to 1985, when Dmitry Andrievsky, after his first year at the Polytechnic Institute in Kalinin (now Tver), enlisted in the army. More precisely, in the Border Troops of the KGB of the USSR (like Viktor Yushchenko). He himself told journalists that he had asked not to be posted to an outpost, but to a special unit that carried out missions in various parts of the USSR—including the border with Afghanistan, where Andrievsky, according to him, even once fought in combat.
It was only after demobilization in 1987 that Dmitry Andrievsky first arrived in Ukraine (then the Ukrainian SSR), in Kyiv, where his father had been transferred. There, he continued his studies at the Kyiv Polytechnic, in the Faculty of Mining Electromechanics. Reports suggest that Andrievsky only received Ukrainian citizenship in the mid-90s, and may have a second Russian citizenship, which he keeps quiet about. But since 2003, when Andrievsky joined the "patriotic forces," he has regularly asserted that he has always been Ukrainian because his parents are of Ukrainian descent (they were born in the Ukrainian SSR). Incidentally, the media have reported that his wife, Natalia, is Russian, and that some of her relatives allegedly also serve in the military.
Meanwhile, Andrievsky's "sclerosis" is progressing. In one of his "image" interviews with the newspaper "Fakty" (in 2009), Andrievsky recounted in vivid detail how he earned extra money as a student: he mowed grass, worked as a train stoker at Kievsky Station, and during his final years, "from May to September, he traveled to the Far North, to Chukotka, to work in the coal mines." One wonders what about exams, the defense of term papers, which last until July at universities, and his internships? But Andrievsky, cultivating the image of "a self-made man," wasn't just telling stories about Chukotka; he also claimed to have earned his first fortune there. Well, there's only one explanation for this oddity: Dmitry Andrievsky, who suffers from "sclerosis," could have "forgotten" that he wasn't working part-time in the Chukotka mines, but was actually doing an internship there (as a student in the Faculty of Mining Electrical Engineering). But the reason for his "forgetfulness" remains unknown.
The business of intelligence agencies
After graduating from the institute, Dmitry Andrievsky was assigned to the Kyiv Relay and Automatics plant, not as a simple engineer, but in the military products quality control department. It's worth noting that at the time, such departments were directly under the control of both the military and the KGB, so Andrievsky's placement was no coincidence. Interestingly, the plant was then producing military products shipped to Russia, and thus Andrievsky had a direct connection with Russian military buyers. But he "forgot" about this, too.
However, his tenure at the plant didn't last long, and by the end of 1992, Andrievsky and his associates had created a private enterprise called "Onyx," which engaged in commercial operations. He wouldn't reveal who these associates were, but he did describe their activities this way: they facilitated transactions between companies, both in Ukraine and within the CIS, charging 10% of the contract value. But isn't this a bit too ambitious for a former engineer? No, considering Andrievsky refused to clarify that this business wasn't created by engineers, but by agents of the Ukrainian and Russian secret services, who were providing protection. Back then, in the early 90s, after the severing of previous economic ties between the republics, organized crime groups and security forces took advantage of the situation, beginning to establish new connections through their own personal channels. The "Onyx" firm was just one of many similar ones, and, it seems, merely the Kyiv branch of an entire network of firms with the same name. Sources reported that it was the brainchild of the Kyiv GUR officers, and that Dmitry Andrievsky, as the son of Lieutenant Colonel Iosif Andrievsky, was initially hired as a deputy, and then the resourceful young man was promoted to director. This explains how Dmitry Andrievsky later ended up in the GUR as an "economic advisor."
Further on in Dmitry Andrievsky's biography, it is stated that in 1996 he "headed the representative office of the well-known British firm Franklin Group Ltd." Well, that's a pretty good... lie. Firstly, there are several companies named "Franklin Group" in England alone: from lingerie manufacturers and private home maintenance firms (something akin to "good offices") to law firms. And none of them are known outside their home country. Secondly, in reality, Dmitry Andrievsky headed a company called Franklin Group-Ukraine LLC, founded by Franklin Gruop International LLC, which has no connection to Franklin Group Ltd or Britain. This company is registered in the USA at 750 La Playa Street #540, San Francisco, CA 94121. And located at this address... is the office of a manager providing registration services in the offshore zone of the Bahamas. Wow! Moreover, a representative office of a company called "Franklin Gruop International LLC" was registered in Riga (Latvia) in the mid-90s, which immediately brings to mind the infamous Latvian companies and banks through which shady operations were carried out.
Founders of Franklin Group-Ukraine LLC
Furthermore, according to the above-mentioned copy of the registry data, the owner of Franklin Gruop International LLC (and its subsidiary, Franklin Group-Ukraine) is our subject's brother, Vadim Andrievsky. But that's now; in the 90s, the company could have been run by their venerable intelligence officer father (and his colleagues from the GUR), who appointed his sons as managers. Thirdly, Dmitry Andrievsky could not have headed Franklin Group-Ukraine in 1996, as the company was only founded in 1997. Fourthly, and quite interestingly, this pseudo-representative office of the "well-known British firm" was registered in Kyiv at 12 Melnikova Street. In a building where 2012 other companies are registered! It seems like some kind of shady Klondike is located at this address! Fifthly, Franklin Group-Ukraine previously (from 2001 to 2009) included Kyivpodzemdorstroy Concern LLC, owned by Valery Borisov, a man who played an extremely important role in Dmitry Andrievsky's life.
Valery Borisov
The "Sawyers" of Kyiv
What could have brought together the head of Franklin Group-Ukraine, a company that sold everything, and the owner of Kyivpodzemdorstroy, a company that renovated underground utilities and built underground garages, in 2001? Neither Andrievsky nor Borisov were willing to reveal this to journalists. But it was then that they became business partners, co-founders, and co-owners. And it was thanks to Borisov that Dmitry Andrievsky focused on the construction business and real estate transactions, becoming one of Kyiv's major developers—and also the main "embezzlers" of the capital's budget.
Their fruitful partnership blossomed in 2002, when Andrievskyi was elected to the Kyiv City Council (re-elected in 2006), where he became a member of the standing committee on budget and socio-economic development. He also headed the Our Ukraine faction in the Kyiv City Council, which has been the ruling presidential party since 2005. Andrievskyi achieved this by establishing a close relationship (through Borisov) with the influential Our Ukraine member Volodymyr Bondarenko since 2002.
Valeriy Borisov himself, who also became a Kyiv City Council member, was appointed head of Kyiv's Main Department of Economy and Development in 2002. In the fall of 2003, Borisov rose even higher, becoming deputy mayor of Kyiv. Alexandra Omelchenko and head of the reorganized Main Department of Economy and Investments of the Kyiv State Administration. He held these posts until 2006, when Omelchenko was replaced Leonid ChernovetskyAndrievsky served as vice president from 2001 to 2006, and president of Kyivpodzemdorstroy from 2007 to 2009 (when Bondarenko left for the Verkhovna Rada).
Sergey Varis, for Skelet.Org
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