Yuri Ivanyushchenko
Fugitive former Party of Regions member Yuriy Ivanyushchenko, who hasn't given up hope of returning from a tiresome Moscow to his beloved Monaco, continues to cover his tracks in Ukraine while awaiting the lifting of EU sanctions against him.
Yura Yenakievsky still has a viable business in our country, which he's in no rush to sell cheap. For example, TK Credit Bank, whose shareholders include Ivanyushchenko and his longtime business partner, who fled. Ivan Avramov A whole host of citizens from the distant Republic of South Africa have emerged from Ukraine, diligently pretending to be the owners of this business. These are individuals like Willem Martinus de Beer and Ibanets Elmari, who, on paper, jointly own the corporate investment fund "New Technologies" (through London-based Goodlight Capital Ltd and Fieldlane Limited).
However, both of these "independent shareholders" found no better way to represent their interests in Ukraine than to issue powers of attorney to Yuriy Umanets, a trusted confidant of Ivanyushchenko and Avramov, who succeeded Avramov as president of the New Technologies Foundation and still manages several enterprises located in the so-called "LPR"—for example, Luhansk Coal Processing Group LLC. Why this hasn't raised questions from law enforcement agencies or the National Bank of Ukraine, which has been pretending for almost a year to legalize the ownership structure with TK Credit Bank, remains unknown.
Rumor has it that much of the credit for maintaining the status quo goes to another of Ivanyushchenko's confidants, Oleh Nedava, Avramov's former deputy at the New Technologies Foundation, who has been a member of parliament and a member of Petro Poroshenko's bloc since 2014. There, he is said to have found contacts capable of addressing specific issues within the new vertical of power.
However, this doesn't obviate Ivanyushchenko's need to continue to disguise his assets, especially those in plain sight. Chief among these is a 50% stake in Master-Avia, the company that manages Kyiv Airport (Zhuliany). Master-Avia itself coyly lists only one person as its ultimate beneficial owner: former Zaporizhstal shareholder Vasyl Khmelnitsky, who owns half of the business through Nika-Invest Management Company LLC, Akers Invest LLC, and the Cypriot company Master Avia Holdings (Cyprus) Limited. The remaining 50% is held by Freelance-Trans LLC, which was registered in 2011 in Ivanyushchenko's historic homeland of Yenakiyeve, where it remained until the fall of 2014.
Shortly before Yury Yenakievskyi was placed on the wanted list, the company moved to the homeland of his partner, Ivan Ivanovich, Odesa. The ubiquitous South African "businessman" Willem Martinus de Beer was declared the beneficial owner of half of the Kyiv airport operator. However, the company's director remained unchanged: Freelance-Trans continued to be managed by Inna Vechernyaya, a young lawyer from Yenakiyevo. It was only a few days ago that the decision was made to sever this connection. As SLED.net.ua has discovered, a certain Vitaliy Kaplienko became the new director of Freelance-Trans LLC on January 26.
However, this time, Ivanyushchenko and his partner's trusted confidantes in Ukraine were let down by a lack of imagination. The aforementioned Kaplienko (born 1984) is from the village of Verhulivka in the Luhansk region (controlled by the so-called "LPR" since 2014), home to the Vergelivska mine of the state-owned enterprise Luhanskvugillya. During Yanukovych's presidency, Ivanyushchenko and Avramov were the ones who controlled the coal flows from this state-owned enterprise, and their Luhansk Coal Company and Luhansk Coal Processing Group earned hundreds of millions of hryvnias by enriching coal extracted by the region's state-owned mines at their own enrichment plants (Luhanska, Naholchanska, Mykhailivska, Yanovske, and Belorechenska).
Thus, the clumsy attempt to cover up Ivanyushchenko's presence in the capital of Kyiv Airport has in fact once again confirmed that he remains its owner...
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