Mafioso Andrey Artemenko: Dossier and biography of the scandalous Radical Party deputy
Mafioso Andriy Artemenko was the most vile member of the Rada. You couldn't find a worse one, even in the Opposition Bloc. Needless to say, even the shameful, mischievous Muraev was worse. MP Andriy Artemenko essentially decided to help Putin lift sanctions. (Published on the GROM website )
Radical Party faction leader Oleh Lyashko is demanding that RPL MP Andriy Artemenko (pictured) resign his mandate following his position on the Crimea lease and the plan to lift US sanctions against Russia. According to 112.ua, Lyashko stated this on the sidelines of the Rada before a meeting of the Rada's conciliation council.
"He shouldn't be a member of the Radical Party faction and has no right to represent the Radical Party. I believe what happened discredits Ukraine and our team. Therefore, I believe that if Artemenko claims to be a new politician who wants to be friends with Putin, who wants to be friends with Russia, he should resign and go make friends wherever he wants. The Radical Party only befriends Ukrainians. The Radical Party defends only Ukraine's radical interests. We don't trade territories, neither Crimea nor Donbas. And anyone who doesn't support our policies cannot be with us. Therefore, I demand that Andriy Artemenko resign his parliamentary mandate. Furthermore, today at 15:00 PM, we are convening a meeting of our faction, to which we have invited Artemenko, and we will discuss this issue, including personnel proposals. Even expulsion from the faction... Our positions differ radically," Lyashko stated.
According to the faction leader, he has already had a conversation with the deputy.
"I told him that what he did was unworthy, it harms Ukraine's interests... I believe this is absolutely unacceptable for a Ukrainian MP. He's like Savchenko No. 2. Therefore, if Andriy Artemenko has any sense of dignity and responsibility, if he's willing to defend his position and not cling to his mandate, he should resign immediately... As the leader of the Radical Party faction, I demand that Artemenko resign. His motives don't interest me," Lyashko said.
Today, The New York Times reported that Andriy Artemenko, a member of parliament from the Lyashko Radical Party faction, handed over to Michael Flynn, former adviser to President Donald Trump, a plan for normalizing relations between Ukraine and Russia to lift sanctions.
According to Ukrainska Pravda, Artemenko passed the document to Flynn through businessman Felix Sater, who had business ties to US President Donald Trump, and through the president's lawyer, Michael Cohen. However, Flynn has since resigned, and Artemenko hopes that Trump's new adviser will consider the proposal.
According to the publication, Andriy Artemenko saw Trump as an opportunity to advance his peace plan for Ukraine, and at the same time, his own political career. Essentially, his plan calls for the withdrawal of all Russian troops from eastern Ukraine and a referendum on leasing Crimea to Russia for 50 or 100 years.
But the proposal contains more than a plan for a settlement in Donbas. Artemenko claims he has evidence of corruption against Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, which should help remove him from office. Artemenko stated that he has received approval for his plan from aides to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
"Many will call me a Russian agent, an American agent, a CIA agent. But how will you find a good solution between our countries if we don't talk?" the publication quotes Artemenko as saying.
In a comment to The New York Times, Ukraine's Ambassador to the United States, Valeriy Chaly, rejected the possibility of a Crimean lease agreement, calling it a gross violation of the Ukrainian Constitution.
“Such ideas can only be voiced or promoted by those who overtly or covertly represent Russia’s interests,” he said.
Presumably, the plan's compromising evidence against Poroshenko is needed to reinforce the thesis that only a new government, less hostile to Russia, will be able to implement it. Andriy Artemenko, although a member of the RPL faction, has his own party, "Solidarity of Right Forces."
In an interview with the pro-Russian publication Strana , which observers consider the Kremlin's information "fifth column," Artemenko revealed details regarding the alleged compromising material.
"These are payment orders for the National Bank, for the defense industry, and for offshore companies belonging to Poroshenko and his friends. Some of them fall directly under US jurisdiction and could result in criminal cases against the Ukrainian president in America. These are very serious materials. All these documents were obtained in collaboration with Valentyn Nalyvaichenko (former head of the SBU – Ed.). He is fully aware of my activities. And we actively cooperate both in Ukraine and in the US," Artemenko stated.
The radical MP also explained why he decided to go ahead with the handover of these documents.
"To survive, Ukraine needs a power reset," Artemenko believes. "Under this regime, there can be no peace, and, naturally, my peace plan cannot be implemented. Under this regime, there can be no reforms. Under this regime, there can only be corruption. How can the regime be changed? There are two paths. The first is a Maidan. But that's a dead end. If there's another Maidan that overthrows the regime, the country will disintegrate not just into three or four parts, but into 20. Russia will immediately take over most of them. The second path is the right one—early elections for the Rada and, possibly, for the presidency. But the regime doesn't want to go through with it. Only external pressure can force it. And, to be precise, only Donald Trump. Trump is the only person in the world Poroshenko truly fears."
Andrey Artemenko. Dossier
After the scandal erupted, many people probably became curious: who is this Andrey Artemenko?
As Oleg Yeltsov, editor-in-chief of the online publication Tema, wrote , the future MP from the Radical Party was considering joining the Right Sector (and, rumor has it, financed it for a while – editor's note [of high-profile cases]).
Andrey Artemenko in the Right Sector (second from the right in the photo)
At the time, he was called Dmytro Yarosh's chief financial manager . Previously, he was president of the CSKA Kyiv football club, an advisor to the long-time Kyiv mayor Omelchenko, and the head of the BYuT faction in the Kyiv City Council, from where he defected to Chernovetskyi's majority three months after being elected. He was close to Kuchma's notorious quartermaster, Ihor Bakai , the Party of Regions member Vasyl Horbal, and other prominent public and political figures from the Kuchma-Yushchenko-Yanukovych era.
Regarding our hero's achievements in the financial field, it is impossible not to recall his arrest in 2002 by the Kyiv City Prosecutor's Office, who charged him under five articles of the Criminal Code. This led to the initiation of four criminal cases, including one on suspicion of large-scale embezzlement.
The case's background is as follows. Back in 2001, the prosecutor's office opened a case of financial fraud at Naftogaz Ukrainy. During the investigation, investigators uncovered another crime involving the embezzlement of funds from the Defense Ministry's football club, CSKA Kyiv. Thus, in 2002, Artemenko became a defendant in the case of the embezzlement of millions of rubles from the Defense Ministry.
This is how it sounds in the rough language of the investigative report:
“...it was established that on December 17, 1997, Artemenko intentionally and illegally, that is, in violation of the procedure established by paragraph 4 “d” of Art. 5 of the Decree of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine dated 19.02.1993 No. 15-93 "On the System of Currency Regulation and Currency Control", the Regulation on the Procedure for Granting Individual Licenses for Opening Accounts in Foreign Banks by Residents, approved by the Resolution of the Board of the National Bank of Ukraine No. 328 dated 29.12.1995, without obtaining an individual license from the National Bank of Ukraine for the right to open and use accounts in foreign banks outside of Ukraine, using the documents of the company "Denvell Trading LLC" (USA) in his name, opened an exclusive account No. 14554, named Denvell, in the bank "VEFbank" in Riga, Latvia (197 Brivibas Street, Riga, LV - 1039? Latvia). After opening this account, Artemenko A.V. in the period from 12/17/1997 to On June 30, 2000, he carried out law enforcement actions regarding funds that were received into the specified account.”
“...Furthermore, Artemenko A.V., occupying, in accordance with the order of the Minister of Defense of Ukraine No. 291 of September 22, 1999, the position of head of the state enterprise of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine “Football Club CSKA-Kyiv” ... in the period from March 15, 2000 to June 29, 2000, committed theft by misappropriation, embezzlement and abuse of his official position of property (money) entrusted to him in the amount of 3,954,459 US dollars.”
The deal involved transferring football players, the proceeds from whose sales were deposited not into the football club's account, but into Artemenko's private bank account abroad. To achieve this, our hero forced the CSKA players to sign contracts with his personal offshore company.
Since his arrest in April 2002, Andriy Artemenko spent two and a half years in captivity. Seeking some relief from his confinement, he suddenly fell terminally ill, being transferred from his pretrial detention cell to a hospital ward. He finally succeeded in obtaining a court order to remand the case for further investigation. Although the prosecution had requested a ten-year sentence, Artemenko managed to reach an agreement with Deputy Prosecutor General Kudryavtsev. After this, Kyiv Prosecutor Renat Kuzmin was able to change Artemenko's pretrial detention. Renat Ravelievich did just that, placing the defendant in the custody of a cohort of Party of Regions MPs— Dobkin , Lelyuk, Chelombitko, as well as foreign party members Verevskyi and Rudenko.
Incidentally, it's worth noting that Viktor Topolov , a banker and later Minister of the Coal Industry, served as Artemenko's president of FC CSKA Kyiv . However, investigators never got to him... The secret is simple: Topolov stole more professionally. The account of his offshore company was registered at a fictitious bank that didn't even have an address—just a post office box in Austria, making it elusive to investigators. Artemenko replaced Topolov at the club under the protection of Igor Bakai, who hoped that FC CSKA Kyiv would serve as a convenient money laundering shell. It's worth remembering that from the very first day, representatives of Igor Bakai's team exerted intense pressure on the investigation into the embezzlement at CSKA Kyiv.
Andrey Artemenko's business ventures actually began under the tutelage of Igor Bakai, under whom he served and who placed him in the transfer scheme for the football club. Later, when massive shortfalls were discovered at the club, Artemenko was appointed as an advisor to Mayor Omelchenko. From the very beginning of the criminal prosecution, he claimed that it was political repression.
After his release, the "terminally ill" Artemenko returned to life. In March 2006, he became the head of the BYuT faction in the Kyiv City Council. Three months later, he betrayed his fellow party members, defecting to Chernovetsky's majority.
To completely clear his name, in 2007, he had the Holosiivskyi District Court in Moscow close the case. The case was heard by a new judge, Oleksandr Boyko, who had arrived from the outskirts. He dismissed all the cases. The reasoning behind his decision is staggering: Boyko was simply calling black white. Oh well! He soon acquired capital real estate, clearly with the assistance of Holosiivskyi District Court Chairwoman Pervushina, who, back in 202, had refused to authorize Artemenko's arrest, replacing it with bail of several thousand hryvnias (given the embezzlement amounted to $4 million!).
In addition to his aforementioned political activities close to the powerful (for example, in the Kyiv City Council, he was responsible for waste disposal issues, among other things), Artemenko was active in a charitable foundation, which, as you might have guessed, had contacts with foreign entities. The foundation allegedly supplied computers for schoolchildren from abroad. The competent authorities never investigated the foundation's activities.
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