Igor Mosiychuk
On September 17, the Verkhovna Rada stripped Ihor Mosiychuk of his immunity and authorized his arrest. With parliament's permission, Mosiychuk was arrested right in the Verkhovna Rada chamber. The arrest was based on evidence published by Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin. A video recording presented by Shokin incriminates Mosiychuk of accepting bribes for "resolving issues."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=1&v=R462HKNElR8
Videos incriminating Igor Mosiychuk in bribery
Igor Mosiychuk persistently claims this evidence has been falsified. According to the MP, the day before, he declared Shokin guilty of the disappearance of materials in the scandalous murder case of Georgy Gongadze.
This is the third arrest for disgraced MP Mosiychuk. He didn't complete his sentence the first time, and neither did the second. What will happen to him this time?
Ardent nationalist
Igor Mosiychuk was born in 1972 in the city of Lubny in the Poltava region. After graduating from a local school, he served in the Soviet Army in the Far East. It was there that his nationalist leanings first emerged. While in the East, he founded a patriotic group for Ukrainian youth. In 1991, Igor Vladimirovich was arrested for several days for a nationalist tattoo of a trident, which he had gotten in honor of the Declaration of Independence of Ukraine.
Igor Mosiychuk
Three years later, Mosiychuk joined the UNA-UNSO organization, where he distinguished himself in a fight with Berkut riot police during the funeral of Patriarch Volodymyr. A few days after the incident, he was detained by law enforcement. He remained in hiding for a long time. After this incident, he served as an aide to MP Yuriy Tyma and actively collaborated with dissidents Petro Khmaruk and Anatoly Lupinos.
In the winter of 1996, Igor Volodymyrovych was arrested in Poltava for a year for "past sins," deemed undesirable by the current government. However, after serving six months, he was released at the instigation of influential Ukrainian politicians. After his release, he actively collaborated with prominent UNA-UNSO figures Valeriy Palchyk and Andriy Hryn. Immediately after the dissolution of UNA-UNSO, Mosiychuk joined the Social-National Party of Ukraine (the future Svoboda). Toward the end of 2000, together with the current mayor of Lubny, Vasyl Koryak, he published the newspaper "Tikhyi Uzhor," which sharply criticized the actions of President Leonid Kuchma.
During the 2002 parliamentary elections, Ihor Mosiychuk served as a trusted confidant of MP Vyacheslav Belous. He actively participated in protests against the incumbent president's policies. After the SNPU party was reformed into the All-Ukrainian Union "Svoboda" in 2004, Ihor Mosiychuk left its ranks.
In 2006, Igor Vladimirovich was wanted by the police for armed robbery. The arrest was related to his work as the right-hand man of Serhiy Ivashchenko, the mayor of the Party of Regions. It was as part of this criminal group that Mosiychuk gained extensive experience in "solving problems" through criminal means. His main task as Ivashchenko's assistant was to "establish connections" with local businessmen through racketeering. Incidentally, it was for his close ties to the Party of Regions that Mosiychuk was expelled from his temporary leadership of the Ukrainian People's Party. In retaliation, his men burned several cars belonging to the organization's leadership.
"Bespredelshchik" from Vasilkov
While living in Vasylkiv, Igor Vladimirovich re-established and headed the newspaper "Vecherniy Vasylkiv." At the same time, he and his associates founded the Social-National Assembly. During the 2010 local elections, he became a member of the Vasylkiv City Council, heading the council for regulations and cooperation with law enforcement agencies.
In 2010, after the founding meetings of the Patriot of Ukraine party in Vasylkiv, Mosiychuk's "fighters" began active operations in the city, laying the groundwork for the upcoming elections. Their activities were financed by the then-mayor of the city, Serhiy Ivashchenko. In the summer of 2010, members of Ihor Volodymyrovych's group, led by their leader, attacked participants of the Vasylkiv branch of the Batkivshchyna party. Media reports indicated that Mosiychuk's gang was personally protected by the then-head of the local police, Kuts.
The future radical rarely considered the law; he simply actively prepared for the elections through pressure, intimidation, assault, and arson. Members of Mosiychuk's organized crime group, among other things, set fire to Bohdan Korchynskyi's cars; smashed windows in the home of local Vasylkiv deputy Yuriy Krakhmalnikov; attacked Yuriy Odynets's Sapsan auto shop; and smashed a window in the Vasylkiv office of the Front for Change with a fake hand grenade. Remarkably, Sergei Biryukov was in the office when the grenade was thrown.
In the subsequent mayoral elections in Vasylkiv, Mosiychuk ensured a landslide victory for his boss, Serhiy Ivashchenko. Most of the other candidates were intimidated by his "assistants," and even though another candidate won, the presence of Igor Vladimirovich's organized crime group helped orchestrate a "recount" of the votes, making Serhiy Ivashchenko the mayor.
In 2011, after Viktor Yanukovych came to power, Ihor Mosiychuk, along with other activists from the Social-National Assembly and the Patriot of Ukraine organization, was arrested for organizing a terrorist attack. In addition to Mosiychuk, Vitaliy Zatelepa, Serhiy Bevz, Volodymyr Shpara, and Oleksiy Chernega were also arrested. It was these arrests that marked the beginning of the infamous "Vasylkiv terrorists" case.
Vasylkiv terrorists
The case caused a significant stir. Protests against political repression against nationalists erupted across Ukraine. Mosiychuk served almost three years in prison. During this time, he managed to participate in absentia in the local elections, running for mayor of Vasylkiv. After the events on the Maidan, Ihor Mosiychuk contacted Oleh Lyashko's aides, convinced that he was a political prisoner, and likely convinced them. Just a year later, the Court of Appeals, under pressure from his "patrons" Yuriy Boyko and Anatoliy Prysyazhnyuk (close to the Firtash-Levochkin group), dropped all terrorism charges against him, closing the criminal case due to the lack of evidence.
Mosiychuk owes his successful return to the political arena to Oleh Lyashko, the leader of the Radical Party. It was on the Radical Party's ticket that Ihor Volodymyrovych first won a seat in the Kyiv City Council (in May 2014) and then in the Verkhovna Rada (in October 2014).
Igor Mosiychuk in the Verkhovna Rada
It's worth noting that after the outbreak of the armed conflict in Donbas, Mosiychuk served as the Azov Battalion's deputy commander for public relations. However, another deputy commander of the Azov Battalion for personnel affairs, Oleh Odnorozhenko, stated that neither the "notorious warrior" Oleh Lyashko nor Ihor Mosiychuk ever took part in combat. According to Odnorozhenko, they were merely there to conduct a PR campaign against the backdrop of events in the ATO zone. One of the Azov Battalion's fighters recounted a scandalous incident involving Mosiychuk: "The unit is developing a reconnaissance plan. And this fatso happily writes on Facebook: 'We're going on a reconnaissance mission!' Our guys were almost caught. After all, all the coordinates can be determined from a cell phone. It's a complete mess!"
"Fighters" Igor Mosiychuk and Oleg Lyashko
Incidentally, he was expelled from the battalion by the deputy chairman of the Dnipro Regional State Administration, Boris Filatov (the owner of the battalion). The reason was false information spread by Mosiychuk on social networks, which led to casualties in the Azov and Shakhtarsk battalions.
While in Mariupol, Igor Mosiychuk also attempted to entangle himself in the main corruption and smuggling schemes at the Mariupol port. However, he was unsuccessful, and was forced to settle for stealing several cars owned by the port.
A troublemaker and a provocateur
Almost a year has passed since Ihor Mosiychuk was elected as a people's deputy. During this time, he has truly become a public figure, having become embroiled, or rather, embroiled, in several scandals.
On July 21, Igor Mosiychuk, along with Andrey Lozov, assaulted the notorious showman and blogger Andrey Durnev. Video footage shows the victim being kicked, punched, and beaten with a cane. It later emerged that Igor Vladimirovich and his associates were retaliating against Durnev for provocations during the Maidan protests.
https://youtu.be/n0HlA1LVcfo
Mosiychuk's men beat up Durnevа
On September 19, a video surfaced online showing Igor Mosiychuk, along with a man wearing a balaclava and wielding a machine gun, forcing traffic police officers in Berdyansk, Zaporizhzhia Oblast, to their knees.
https://youtu.be/duDEhfbelps
Mosiychuk brings traffic police officers to their knees
On September 13, a video surfaced clearly showing Igor Mosiychuk yelling and cursing at a hospital employee, demanding an explanation as to why armed people were allowed into the intensive care unit. He then threatened, despite her protests, that she would call the police.
https://youtu.be/nNJLEOED0Zw
Mosiychuk yells at a medical worker
Later, the MP commented on this episode, explaining that the woman was a member of the Kremenets District Council in the Luhansk region. He claimed she allowed machine gunners to remain in the hospital room of Aidar fighter Andriy Stepankov. Furthermore, Mosiychuk claimed that she kicked the fighter's lawyer out of the room and allowed him to be transported to court unconscious.
Mosiychuk’s next “feat” is an appeal to Ramzan Kadyrov:
Mosiychuk shot at Kadyrov's portrait
This video was recorded by a people's deputy immediately after the head of the Chechen Republic, Ramzan Kadyrov, ordered a criminal case to be opened against him and several other Ukrainian people's deputies, and that he be transferred to the Russian Federation for publicly supporting the militants responsible for the events in Grozny.
Igor Mosiychuk behind bars
Igor Volodymyrovych's biography is replete with facts implicating him in nationalism, provocations, and illegal activities. He has long been labeled a disgraced member of parliament, but grounds for his arrest have only emerged now, with local elections looming in Ukraine. Compromising materials about various politicians appear online almost daily, raising the question: "Who has Igor Mosiychuk crossed this time?"
Dmitry Samofalov, for SKELET-info
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It's clear who Mosiychuk crossed—the BPP. And his only fault is that he's a radical (Lyashko's party, which rightfully criticizes the current government).