Gennady Kernes
Politician and businessman Gennady Kernes was born in Kharkiv in 1959. He already has a criminal record and is under surveillance by the Ministry of Internal Affairs (under the criminal codename "Gepa"). Now Gennady Adolfovich is running again for local elections and plans to continue his tenure as mayor of Kharkiv. Will his criminal past and present hinder "Gepa" in the 2015 local elections?
How Gepa started
He began his "business career" back in the Soviet era, selling stolen jewelry and engaging in real estate fraud. During the collapse of the USSR, like many businessmen, he began seizing state-owned enterprises that were lying idle. Gennady became a shareholder in the "Aktseptor" cooperative, which specialized in tailoring jackets. It was during this period that Gennady Adolfovich became involved in criminal activity, and according to media reports, he also began penetrating Kharkiv's service sector. However, not all of his illegal activities were successful, and in 1992, by decision of the Kharkiv Regional Court, Kernes was sentenced to three years in a strict-regime correctional labor colony with confiscation of all property.
According to some reports, he was convicted of fraud and malicious hooliganism; according to others, of robbery. However, because Kernes cooperated with the investigation, and given the time he spent in custody during the investigation (more than two years), he was released by court order. His imprisonment had a less than favorable effect on Gepa—his criminal schemes simply became more sophisticated, making him harder to catch.
Gennady Kernes currently owns the Central Service Center, the National Hotel, and a large stake in the Metallist Hotel. Kernes acquired most of the property with the assistance of Duleba, the former head of the City Property Fund, who in turn introduced Kernes to Chairman Kushnarev.
How Gennady Kernes became "Gepa":
https://youtu.be/bTm-nMBK318
A "good" family man
The current mayor of Kharkiv, Gennady Adolfovich, is married to Oksana, the daughter of former Kyiv prosecutor Yuriy Gaysinsky. In 2003, it became known that Kernes was systematically beating his wife. On one occasion, the beatings were so severe that Oksana sought a forensic examination; she had been horribly beaten. According to the forensic examination, "the witness stated that on January 22, 2003, at approximately 7:00 PM, in the National Hotel, citizen Kernos (misspelled "Kernes") struck her with an object on the head, kicked her in the face, hit her on the torso, and choked her with his hand.
Gennady Kernes with his wife Oksana
As it later turned out, this was not an isolated incident. The media also identified Oksana Vladimirovna Vasilenko, born in 1964, as another of Kernes's repeatedly beaten spouses. Documents obtained by the media attest to Gennady Kernes's systematic use of physical force against his wives. In other words, they document the repeated beatings of his wives and his first mother-in-law, who stood up for her daughter during yet another outburst of Gennady Kernes's aggression.
It's also noteworthy that no criminal case was opened regarding the incidents recorded by the Kharkiv Regional Prosecutor's Office. This is likely due to his coveted "psychopath certificate," which once saved him from military service.
Information about “Kernes psychopathy”:
Shortly after this certificate was issued, on November 11, 1990, Kernes's diagnosis was confirmed by a commission at the infamous 15th Psychiatric Clinical Hospital. The report was signed by three experts and sealed with the seal of the forensic psychiatric examination department of Hospital No. 15.
It's possible that over the past 18 years, without observation, prevention, or treatment, Kernes's condition may have worsened. But when a person with mental illness is at the top of the management hierarchy, the question arises: who elected them there?
Criminal proceedings related to Gennady Kernes:
§ 1988 - criminal cases were opened against Kernes for extortion, fraud and shell game schemes in Ukraine and the Russian Federation - in Tula and Moscow for using counterfeit checks and underpayment of funds;
§ 1992 — The Criminal Division of the Kharkiv Regional Court found Kernes, who was prone to fraud, “guilty of a crime under Article 141, Part 2 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine” and sentenced him to 3 years of imprisonment “in a strict regime correctional labor colony with confiscation of all property that is his personal property”;
§ 2007 — The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine opened and investigated a criminal case for organizing mass riots that resulted in dozens of civilian injuries on Klochkivska Street, where Kernes oversaw the dismantling of a Target shopping center construction site. Dozens of people sustained bodily injuries. The case was withdrawn by the Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine and never brought to trial.
§ 2007-2009 - the Kernes and Kartavykh case
§ 2008 — The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine opened and investigated a criminal case regarding the assault on Deputy Medvedev (Party of Regions) ordered by Kernes for the supply of low-quality cocaine. The Ministry of Internal Affairs interviewed witnesses and perpetrators in this case. The case was withdrawn by the Prosecutor General's Office, which is considering sending it to court.
§ 2008 — the case of "City Council v. SBU"
In March 2015, the Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine completed a pre-trial investigation against Gennady Kernes on charges of "illegal deprivation of liberty or kidnapping," "torture," and "threat of murder." The case had been under investigation since February 2014, when suspicions arose of involvement in the kidnapping and beating of Maidan supporters in January 2014. Two of Kernes' bodyguards are also involved in the case, along with the mayor.
Is Gennady Kernes a drug addict?
Gennady Kernes has been repeatedly accused of drug use. This allegedly came to light through testimony from Gavrilov, who was convicted of drug distribution and was a drug supplier to city officials.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs' official website has repeatedly reported that the Main Investigative Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs is investigating a criminal case against citizen G. for drug distribution, in which the city council secretary is a witness. This is precisely why he was brought to Kyiv. Furthermore, in March 2006, police reported the arrest of a supplier who was bringing cocaine from Odessa.
In September 2008, despite all the previous charges, the Dzerzhinsky District Court of Kharkiv closed the proceedings in the case of administrative violation of the Secretary of the Kharkiv City Council Gennady Kernes
The scandalous conversation between Igor Kolomoisky and Gennady Kernes
An audio recording of a conversation between Igor Kolomoisky, the owner of the Privat Group, and the current mayor of Kharkiv, Gennady Kernes, has surfaced online. According to the recording, Kolomoisky personally orders Gennady Kernes to eliminate two entrepreneurs.
Conversation between Igor Kolomoisky and Gennady Kernes:
https://youtu.be/zUDuMkeiSF0
Much of the conversation concerns the activities of Dnipropetrovsk businessmen, brothers Gennady and Yevhen Soroka, in Kharkiv. More precisely, the discussion revolves around how to destroy their business. The brothers built a shopping mall in Kharkiv. There were plans to open another one, but it appears those plans are being abandoned.
What connects an oligarch with a fortune of nearly 5 billion to the city council secretary? The answer can be found in the conversation itself, where Igor Kolomoisky recounts in detail the 2000 scam. It involved the corporate raid on Balcem, Europe's largest cement producer. PrivatBank established a branch in Balakliya (a district center in the Kharkiv region) for this operation. At the time, Balcem workers, shareholders, were forced to sell their shares for pennies under threat of dismissal, herding them into the newly created PrivatBank branch.
Dmitry Samofalov, for SKELET-info
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