Potemkin. Are the defendants seeking revenge, or is Potemkin's Chaos returning?
In Ukraine, there's ARMA—a structure that searches for funds and assets (real estate, securities, yachts, companies, etc.) of Ukrainian corrupt officials, as well as the assets of Russia and its satellites. ARMA is moving at breakneck speed, but who wants to stop this movement? Antikor.
These same criminals are currently blocking all competitions taking place in Ukraine: the SAP (Special Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office) and ARMA. They're afraid these bodies will even begin to function. But they're already working and producing results. The filthy slop they're now pouring on the commissions, management, and employees of these institutions, and even on the very ideas behind their work, is nothing more than the work of special services whose mission is to destroy our state.
More than a billion rubles of seized funds are currently in ARMA accounts. The ARMA Asset Recovery Office is an anti-corruption agency that began operating in 2017. Tens of billions have been recovered.
Who "created and implemented policy" while actually destroying our institutional structure at the national and international levels? Most are now suspects and are involved in criminal proceedings (Potemkin, Pavlenko, Gumenyuk, and others).
From 2017 to the end of September 2019, the ARMA Tender Committee, under the leadership of Potemkin, held 687 meetings, as a result of which 397 public procurements were carried out, of which:
292 agreements on financing current and capital expenditures - the State Budget expenditures amounted to approximately 52 million hryvnias, and Potemkin received, and perhaps still receives, a corresponding kickback;
105 contracts for asset valuation and management - revenues to the State Budget amounted to 0 (zero) hryvnia.
According to the Special Law, the primary objective of ARMA's asset management activities is to generate revenue for the state budget, not to incur expenses. Therefore, compensation for all expenses related to the acceptance and transfer of assets, the conclusion and state registration of contracts, asset valuation, etc., is the responsibility of the asset manager and is reimbursed from future management income. But in reality, everything was being done for Potemkin and his family.
It's well known that, from the very beginning of ARMA's formation and development, thanks to this "Potemkin," Transparency International Ukraine's attention has been focused on procurement and the selection of Managers. There have been no extraneous members of staff at ARMA's tender committee meetings, during which the relevant competitive selections of managers for seized assets are conducted, and public procurement laws are applied.
Instead of establishing constructive consolidation of the efforts of all state law enforcement agencies involved in ARMA's activities, numerous criminal proceedings have been initiated against ARMA officials.
An audit for 2017-2020 confirmed that the National Agency of Ukraine for Detection, Tracing, and Management of Assets Obtained from Corruption and Other Crimes (ARMA) failed to ensure the proper management of seized assets. The lack of systematic accounting and the lack of clarity in the action plan and control measures of responsible employees create corruption risks in every operational process and lead to errors and abuses.
This was discussed in the report on the results of the audit of the effectiveness of the use of state budget funds by ARMA.
And it's with this background that Potemkin and his apostates rush to the trough. And this during a war!
Businessman and financier Nathan Rothschild said, "Whoever controls the information controls the world." Today, ARMA is obvious. No one is prohibited from viewing the work of this newly formed institution through a "false mirror," but a thinking person who wants to know the truth can always find it.
Therefore, we present to your attention information about the activities and consequences for our country of the rogue Potemkin, who failed to fulfill his civic duty. As stipulated by Article 65 of the Constitution of Ukraine, "The defense of the Fatherland, the independence and territorial integrity of Ukraine, and respect for its state symbols are the duties of Ukrainian citizens. Citizens serve their military service in accordance with the law..." and yet again he jeopardizes the image of our Fatherland!
The chaos and disorder sown by Potemkin can evoke different associations
In Marvel comics, there's a character called Mother Entropy, who strives for everyone around her to become part of her family and live in harmony. She loves and empathizes with everyone, but she does so in her own unique way. At first glance, she doesn't seem to be seeking to destroy the universe like other Marvel cosmic antiheroes, but on the other hand, anything that doesn't align with her vision of harmony is inevitably destroyed. This is precisely what our antihero Potemkin did to his "friends."
For Yanchuk's former boss and fellow Ripper, suspicions and multi-million-dollar bail resulted in economic losses and restrictions on freedom. On July 18, 2022, at the request of NABU detectives, approved by the SAPO prosecutor, the investigating judge of the High Anti-Corruption Court (HACC) selected a preventive measure for one of the suspects in the embezzlement case involving seized property worth over UAH 426 million: V., the former head of the Asset Management Department of the ARMA central office. The court granted the petition and ordered her pretrial detention for 60 days, or until September 12, 2022, with the option of posting UAH 4,962 million in bail.
It was Potemkin who was not only the author of the schemes, but also their legalizer.
- NABU and SAP obtained evidence of at least four episodes of such illegal activity in 2019. Specifically:
- the sale of three plots of land in the Odessa region, acquired at one time for the construction of shopping centers of the Auchan chain, was carried out at 18 times less than the market value;
- sale of 2,6 thousand tons of medium and fine river sand in the Kyiv region, understating the price by more than 6 times compared to the market price;
- sale of more than 4,5 thousand tons of urea - almost 5 times cheaper than market prices;
- The sale of grain, cereals and oilseeds is four times cheaper than the market price.
The sale of the seized property at undervalued prices in these four cases alone resulted in damages of over 426 million hryvnias. To prevent further prosecution, the NABU and SAPO initiated the seizure of the aforementioned land plots and the money paid for the river sand. Potemkin himself will soon be placed under suspicion.
ARMA is neither a party nor a participant in the criminal proceedings, and therefore cannot influence the decision-making process regarding the transfer of assets to its management. However, ARMA officials may be a party, and Potemkin is the main defendant.
The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine's Committee on Anti-Corruption Policy (hereinafter referred to as the Committee) has repeatedly reviewed several important issues related to ARMA's management of certain assets. Overall, Potemkin has managed to simulate a comprehensive analysis of ARMA's application of legislation and its vigorous activity.
For example, the Committee included in its agenda the meeting that took place on June 5, 2019, the issue of assessing compliance with the requirements of the current anti-corruption legislation of ARMA during the tender for the right to manage the seized real estate and movable property of the Mezhyhirya residence, as well as the corporate rights of Tantalit LLC.
ARMA issues were discussed at a Committee meeting on June 5, 2019. Committee members were outraged by the insolence and casuistry. This issue was also on the agenda for Committee meetings held on June 19, 2019, July 3, 2019, and July 10, 2019. ARMA representatives were subjected to scolding at all of these meetings. The deprivation of ARMA of certain discretionary powers was the most significant.
During all the years of Potemkin's activity at ARMA, the Cabinet of Ministers repeatedly intervened, reviewing at its meetings the management of ARMA assets seized in criminal proceedings:
— property of the Thermal Power Plant “Energia-Novy Razdel” (criminal case No. 12014000000000464 dated 09.10.2014) and the Thermal Power Plant “Energia-Novoyavorovsk” (criminal case No. 22016000000000266);
— CNBM photovoltaic cells with a capacity of 245 W (CNBM — 245P, 2013) in the amount of 56,320 pieces (criminal case No. 42019000000000113 dated 01/14/2014).
The heads of prosecutor's offices and their subdivisions constantly inquired about the state of storage of the material evidence transferred to ARMA. But Potemkin destroyed both evidence and documents.
Potemkin introduced the illegal practice of making asset management decisions at ARMA, as the head of an independent structural unit of the Agency's central office, which he himself was. ARMA's negative experience with assets is sufficient to understand in advance the potential weaknesses in the transfer of seized assets for safekeeping, and how to prevent their potential unfair sale or transfer to a third party for management under a contract. When transferring assets, their visual inspection was not performed, their technical condition was not checked, and the presence of hidden defects was not checked.
Thanks to Potemkin's destructive behavior, ARMA has failed to earn the public's trust or confidence in the integrity and goodwill of ARMA's leadership. During competitive asset management selection processes, it is essential to continually seek and implement additional tools to ensure fair competition among participants, openness and transparency at all stages of the competition, an objective and impartial evaluation of proposals from participants, and the prevention of corruption and abuse.
According to the first paragraph of part three of Article 26 of the Budget Code, the head of the government body is obliged to organize internal control and ensure its implementation in his institution, in particular, in accordance with the Basic Principles for the Implementation of Internal Control by Budget Fund Administrators, approved by Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine dated 12.12.2018 No. 1062 (hereinafter referred to as the Basic Principles).
Unfortunately, the Agency, under the Potemkin schemes, never organized or implemented internal controls as envisaged by the Fundamental Principles. This led to the accumulation of numerous internal and external problems in ARMA's operations.
As Potemkin himself publicly acknowledged, ARMA and he personally illegally disseminated pre-trial investigation information during his tenure at ARMA. He did precisely this during his interview with the ARMA Chairman Selection Commission. According to Part One of Article 222 of the Criminal Procedure Code of Ukraine, pre-trial investigation information may only be disclosed with the written permission of the investigator or prosecutor and to the extent they deem appropriate.
Overcoming the chaos of Potemkin and the disorganization in the activities of ARMA described in the Publications is possible only by removing Potemkin and his apostates from any state power, especially during the war.
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