Mikhail Terentyev
Will the impunity of Kyiv City State Administration officials, who have been siphoning off billions of hryvnias from the capital's budget through corrupt construction projects for years, ever end? The notorious "Klitschko Bridge," which has been falling apart since its opening and around which a number of criminal cases have already been opened, has reached its breaking point. This high-profile scandal threatens the city administration's leadership not only with resignations but also with mass arrests for colossal embezzlement. Among the leading contenders for the "slop bucket" is Mykhailo Terentyev, head of the Engineering Center municipal enterprise. His company, which built the bridge, is one of the key links in the team's corruption schemes. Vitali Klitschko.
For a long time, Terentyev believed his "protection" was completely secure, but after the presidential elections, he felt the icy chill of approaching retribution. His last hope was the parliamentary elections: Terentyev ran in the 221st single-member constituency as a candidate from Poroshenko's European Solidarity party, but only finished third, losing to candidates from Servant of the People and Voice. Now his fate hangs in the balance, although much also depends on whether the leadership of the Prosecutor General's Office and the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU), where corrupt officials from the Kyiv City State Administration have extensive connections, will be replaced soon.
"The Gang of Historians"
Mikhail Aleksandrovich Terentev was born on September 12, 1985, in Nikopol (Dnipropetrovsk Oblast). At the age of 16, he moved to Kyiv and enrolled in the Dragomanov National Pedagogical Institute, where he studied from 2001 to 2006, earning degrees in history and law. While studying, from 2004 to 2006, he worked part-time as a "legal assistant" at Vinada LLC (apparently owned by relatives or acquaintances).
Claiming to be "ill," Terentyev successfully avoided military service and remained at the institute for graduate school, also working as a teacher (from 2006 to 2009). The reason for leaving teaching is still unknown, but Terentyev suddenly lost interest in it, retraining as a social activist. In 2010, he took a job as the head of the public reception office for Kyiv City Council member Alla Shlapak.
Alla Shlapak
So, what's interesting is that Shlapak is also a historian from the Dragomanov Institute! She studied there from 1993 to 1998, and from 2001 to 2005, she worked there as an assistant in the history department—precisely when the handsome student Mikhail Terenyev was studying there. That's when they met. It would seem like nothing special, if it weren't for the third participant in this "triangle," Andrey Sergeevich Andreev — another historian from the Dragomanov Institute! This odious figure has already discredited the Kyiv government by being close to Klitschko for several years.
Vitali Klitschko and Andrey Andreev
According to reviews from Andreev’s acquaintances, who received Skelet.OrgHe started out as a street thug in Borshahivka, snatching phones from teenagers. After enrolling in the history department of the Pedagogical Institute (a department that, after all, doesn't require much intelligence), where he became close with Terentyev, Andreyev immediately became the chairman of the Student and Graduate Center, then the head of the student union, a member of the academic council (as a second-year student!), and the chairman of the trade union audit committee. Officially, Andreyev arranged for students to stay in dorms for money and arrange for them to take exams, but he often cheated them, earning him repeated punches in the face. Incidentally, Andreyev was regularly beaten up even after graduating, even when he became a member of the Kyiv City Council.
After graduating, Andreev stayed on for his postgraduate studies, continuing to advertise his paid services. Then he remembered his youth and returned to robbery: in 2012, he was a former member of the academic council of the pedagogical institute. attempted to "squeeze" a tablet from minor Vladislav Baranov, but was caught red-handed. And he would have been behind bars, not on the Kyiv City Council, if not for the help of Terentyev and Shlapak, who helped close the criminal case. A joyful Andreyev declared that he hadn't robbed anyone and that it had been a "setup by the Party of Regions," and "Auntie Alla" recruited him into her team, assigning the "gopnik" to manage her parliamentary candidate's office. There, Andreyev and Mikhail Terentyev distributed food packages (a pack of tea and a bag of candy) to pensioners, buying their votes for Shlapak.
Andrey Andreev
But the most cynical thing is that Andreev, who robbed teenagers, together with Terentyev, founded and headed the "Adults for Children" foundation (EDRPOU 38855239) in 2013. These people truly have no shame or conscience!
And then came the revolutionary year of 2014, the winds of change blew across Kyiv, stirring up all sorts of filth from the depths. In the June Kyiv City Council elections, Mykhailo Terentyev was elected in the 75th district as a candidate for Poroshenko's Solidarity, and Andreyev in the 52nd as a candidate for Klichkov's UDAR. A year and a half later, in October 2015, they were re-elected to the Kyiv City Council under the banner of the Petro Poroshenko Bloc. They won the elections primarily through voter bribery, which is where they made use of the "Adults for Children" foundation.
And now the crux of the matter: both of these "historians" headed two important Kyiv municipal enterprises involved in the Kyiv City State Administration's corruption schemes. Andriy Andreyev became deputy director of the Kyiv Improvement Municipal Enterprise back in 2014, and from August 2017, acting director. He was removed from office in June 2019, after which his last hope, like Terentyev's, became the parliamentary elections—Andreyev bought himself the #35 spot on Poroshenko's European Solidarity party list. But, as we know, Ukrainians didn't give Petro Oleksiyovych's party enough votes, so only the first 24 candidates on the list received mandates. It looks like Andreyev, too, needs to get his teeth into the dust!
Mikhail Terentyev received his position in August 2016, becoming director of the Engineering Center (EDRPOU 33239981), which he still heads. And over the past three years, he has become famous not only for the ill-fated "Klitschko Bridge"...
Faces of the Mafia
The construction mafia exists in many countries around the world. But nowhere is it as greedy, brazen, and shameless as in the Kyiv City Council and the Kyiv City State Administration. It flourished there back in the days of Alexandra Omelchenko and still sets the tone for the capital's government. In the sea of Ukrainian corruption, largely closely intertwined with the central government and the state budget, this is a separate archipelago of clans that independently embezzle Kyiv's budget through various construction projects.
They have a common scheme: money from the city budget, as well as funding for various programs (public and private), is "mastered" through several municipal enterprises (MEs) that act as the main contractors. These include Zhitloivenstbud-UKB, Kyivavtodor, Kyivzelenbud, and others, including the ME Engineering Center and Kyivblagoustoystvo—each of these enterprises regularly finds itself at the center of some kind of corruption scandal (you can Google it and see for yourself). Having received orders and funding, these enterprises passed them on to subcontractors—companies associated with the heads of these enterprises or with people from the Kyiv City State Administration and Kyiv City Council behind them. These MEs are "distributed" among different clans in the capital's government. Some of them, such as the "family," Negrichi , Golitsy и Nepopa For several decades now, the largest KP developers have controlled the project, while other enterprises have changed hands during changes in power.
Whoever appointed Mikhail Terentyev to the position of director of the Engineering Center had an obvious goal: to install a trusted individual who would flawlessly execute the agreed-upon corruption schemes. This means Terentyev is an executor, not an organizer, which, however, does not absolve him of criminal liability for his actions. But who is behind him? According to the data Skelet.OrgFirstly, this is the aforementioned Ms. Shlapak. It's worth remembering that the Engineering Center, a municipal enterprise established in 2003, initially specialized in renovating medical facilities. And Alla Shlapak, during Chernovetsky's tenure, oversaw the scandalous "reform" of the capital's healthcare system, meaning she had long been associated with this enterprise.
Next, there's Konstantin Fedotov, head of the Kyiv City State Administration's Department of Construction and Housing. A certified food production technologist (the kind of specialist who oversees construction in Kyiv), Fedotov worked at the Kyiv City State Administration under Omelchenko, and during the "Chernovetskyi era," from 2007 to 2012, he served as head of the tender procedures department at the Zhitloinvestbud-UKB municipal enterprise. Thus, Fedotov is directly linked to the "old mafia" and the corrupt "family" of Nepop-Golitsa-Negrich, as well as their business partner. Leonid Yurushev, who at one time was a sponsor of Arseniy Yatsenyuk.
Konstantin Fedotov
Vlada Molchanova
Through a subcontractor, Spetsavtobud LLC (EDRPOU 40106979), which was directly involved in the construction of the "Klitschko Bridge" and received 330 million hryvnias in two contracts, and its director, Sergei Dubenko, we are connected to the well-known Kyiv businesswoman and "construction lioness" Vlada (Vladislava) Molchanova. Together with Valentin Isak, Vladimir KosterinAlong with Mikhail Shpilman, Garik Korogodsky, Alexander Melamud, and other well-known figures in Kyiv's construction mafia, she was a co-founder of the Stolitsa Group, a company created on the basis of the Kyivmiskbud-1 municipal trust. And Alla Shlapak, who has since become Molchanova's friend, actively helped to divide up and privatize this one of Kyiv's largest municipal enterprises in the 2000s. And here the thread leads to Shlapak!
By the way, Vlada Molchanova has been the head of the Kyiv organization of “Batkivshchyna” for many years, and in 2019 headed Tymoshenko's election headquarters in Kyiv in the elections. This means it is backed by one of Ukraine's largest political forces, which continues to struggle for power at all levels—and is currently actively "driving wedges" against Zelenskyy's team.
Sergey Varis, for Skelet.Org
CONTINUED: Mikhail Terentyev: The Bridges of Kyiv Corruption. Part 2
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