Zelensky promised to "jail": Andrey Adamovsky and company

How serious was Zelensky's promise to "jail": Andrey Adamovsky and company

Spring has long since passed, and there have been no arrests. Not a single one. It's clear that the Prosecutor General is from the "criminal power," but there's also the State Bureau of Investigation, the Security Service of Ukraine, and their new, obscure appointees to the "K" ranks. At least they should have shown some activity. But no. They've simply forgotten. Meanwhile, candidates slated for imprisonment are running en masse for the Verkhovna Rada, "seeding" constituencies, joining new parties, including Servants of the People. And by the time a new Prosecutor General is appointed, it may turn out that there's no one left to imprison. Some are in the Verkhovna Rada, and some have "found approaches" to the new government. And the pre-election promise of arrests will, as always, turn out to be just campaign talk.

And while, for example, Poroshenko's "fixer" Granovsky is cultivating a district in Kharkiv, his partner and accomplice Adamovsky is busy whitewashing his "toxic" reputation. First, in Ekonomichna Pravda. Here's what Sergey Lyamets writes about it: "Tears prevented me from typing, but I forced myself. At one time, a global franchise operated in Ukraine—let's call it Fox magazine. It was a very successful business. It made money by helping less-than-scrupulous individuals rewrite the history of how their billions came to be.

What it looked like. Once upon a time, there lived a certain Andrey Pupenko. In the 1990s, he got into the swing of things: first jeans, then computers, then suddenly the oil industry or the non-ferrous scrap metal trade. He earned his first million very quickly, but for his fifth, he had to bury a couple of competitors in the woods. At fifty, he started buying vouchers from suckers and used them to buy a factory or two. He acquired an office, security, and a parliamentary seat.

He's a persistent man, talented in his own way, and knows how to survive. But his biography is crap.
The 2000s arrived, then the 2010s. Mr. Pupenko spent most of his time living in London/Monaco/Dubai. But one thing nagged at him. His reputation was in tatters. Behind his back, people constantly whispered, "He's a bandit, a drug dealer."
And Pupenko became interested in the question of how to rid himself of this image. Pinchuk, for example, had whitewashed himself through art. Kolomoisky had given money for the renovation of the Western Wall, and Akhmetov was championing ecology. And what about me?

Then Fox magazine came into Pupenko's life. They proposed a simple idea. Come on, dear Andrey, let us tweak your biography. In the 1990s, you were burying people—we'll write that the investment environment in the era of early capitalism gave rise to many dark legends. In the 2000s, you took out $100 million in loans from a state bank and didn't repay them—we'll write that the 2008 crisis created certain difficulties refinancing the previously borrowed funds, but you decided to preserve your reputation as a matter of principle.
“Is that even possible?” Pupenko was surprised.
“We can do even better,” smiled the managers of Fox magazine.

And it all worked out. Pupenko began traveling the world as an investor who had gone through the difficult process of restructuring his own business, gaining unique experience in project management in the post-industrial era. Almost like Steve Jobs—an entrepreneurial legend. Only alive.

Many years passed, and one day a certain Vasyl Adamovsky came to Pupenko. Adamovsky complained that under Poroshenko, he and a trusted friend had been siphoning off Ukraine's defense budget by pumping low-grade diesel into the army. And that they were making a pretty penny. And they'd accomplished many other heroic deeds that no one knew about. But a sad thing happened: the country's leadership had changed, but Vasyl Adamovsky's reputation hadn't. Everyone was writing about him as a profiteer, profiting off the blood of his fellow citizens. They tried to clean up the internet, but it kept popping up.
He listened to Pupenko and said: “Contact Fox magazine.”

Adamovsky says: “There is no longer a Fox magazine.”
Pupenko: "Bad, but fixable. Then give an interview to whoever you want, but tell them you've never heard of any diesel, and that it wasn't you, and you never had a friend, and you only heard Poroshenko's name on the eve of the 2019 elections."
Adamovsky: “So, does that work?”
Pupenko: "You talk. And then we'll see."
Vasily Adamovsky listened to him and decided to give an interview. "Why?" the kind-hearted journalists were surprised. "In such difficult times, one has to go public to protect one's good name," Vasily replied.
So, I'm reading an interview with another Adamovsky—Andrey. And I can't shake the feeling that Fox magazine's disappearance was a complete waste of time. There are plenty of people in our country who want to rewrite their checkered biography. Especially now, when it's time to change their tune and continue grinding away at the golden weights.

Such a simple technique. I wouldn't be surprised if various Svinarchuks now stage promotional interviews, "cleanse" their reputations, and join the new government en masse. But then the new government will last significantly less than the old one.
Let us recall what Andriy Adamovsky, who is now “whitewashing” himself and claiming that he has no connection to Poroshenko and Granovsky, is like.

“Lavender fields in Crimea supply the Ukrainian army
How a businessman from Poroshenko's ranks conducts business on the annexed peninsula

Olesya Medvedeva

Andriy Adamovsky, a businessman associated with MP Oleksandr Granovsky, who is close to Petro Poroshenko, holds Russian citizenship and owns a business in Crimea. Strana has the relevant documents.
Granovsky and Adamovsky are also linked to the notorious firm Trade Commodity, which supplied fuel to the army and became a defendant in the NABU anti-corruption case.

What Adamovsky and his family own in Crimea

As Strana has discovered, Andrei Adamovsky has re-registered several of his companies since 2015, that is, after the annexation of Crimea, in accordance with Russian law.
This is evidenced by data from the Unified State Register of Legal Entities of the Federal Tax Service of Russia. Furthermore, information about Adamovsky's and his family's companies is openly published on Russian legal entity directory websites.

Thus, Adamovsky and Marina Adamovskaya are the founders of the limited liability company "Agro-Industrial Complex Avsen," according to the official Federal Tax Service register. The businessman is listed as the founder, and his wife, Marina Adamovskaya, as the director.

Interestingly, the company's primary state registration number (all legal entities in the Russian Federation have one) was assigned in 2015. However, it is stated that the enterprise has been operating since 2009. This means that the founders simply re-registered the company under Russian jurisdiction after the annexation of the peninsula.
The legal address is located in the village of Pochtovoye, Bakhchisaray district of Crimea.

The second enterprise, Krym Aromat LLC (here it is in the register), whose founder is Dmitry Andreevich Adamovsky (apparently Adamovsky’s son), also operates quietly in the Bakhchisaray region.
The situation is the same here: registration in Russian jurisdiction took place in 2015. Sergey Boronenko appears in both companies, acting as a co-founder in both, and also serving as director in Krym-Aromat. This means that the two enterprises are clearly connected.

The scale of Adamovsky's Crimean business

It should be noted that Krym-Aromat is a well-known company on the peninsula. Its lavender fields stretch throughout the Bakhchisaray district.

"When entering Bakhchisarai along the Simferopol-Sevastopol highway, a panorama of a major industrial enterprise opens up on the right," says the website of Aromat, a producer of Crimean aromatic oils.

The scale of the business is also confirmed by the direct involvement of Russian budget funds. Both companies, Krym-Aromat and Avsen, receive state subsidies in annexed Crimea.
In July, Vasily Faevsky, head of the agricultural department of the Bakhchisaray district administration, mentioned both companies at a staff meeting:

"Agricultural producers have already received 0,5 million rubles in support for their work in the field of plant growing: JSC Agrofirma Chernomorets, LLC Fanels TT, LLC Krym Aromat."
In addition, the official reported that Avsen LLC received 0,8 million rubles in reimbursement for energy costs under the estimate "for the production of protected-ground vegetables."

Interestingly, in May, Avsen was exposed as an unscrupulous employer. The issue was even brought up at a meeting of the Bakhchisaray District Administration, where it was alleged that the company's employees were being paid below the legal minimum wage.

In a conversation with Strana, both companies declined to comment on questions regarding their founders.
At the same time, open sources can be found confirming Adamovsky's connections with Crimean enterprises.
For example, Ukraine has its own company, "Crimea-Aroma." By a strange coincidence, its address in the databases is in the same building as Adamovsky's office: Zhylianska 75, Eurasia Business Center.

Currently, the company's founder and director is a certain Olga Bezpala. But this wasn't always the case. Until recently, the owner was Ukrainian Investment Capital LLC, owned by a Panamanian individual, and previously by the Virgin Islands offshore company Turitella Corporation.
At the same time, according to media reports, the partners in the Turitella corporation were Igor Filippenko (co-owner of Adamovsky's Sky Mall shopping center) and Adamovsky himself.

Adamovsky's Russian citizenship

"Strana" also learned that the businessman owns assets in Crimea based on his Russian citizenship. This follows from the charter of Avsen LLC, which was obtained by the editorial staff.
Andrey Adamovsky is listed as a co-founder of this company and owns over 50 percent of the business. The charter specifies the document by which the businessman joins this legal entity.

As can be seen from the photocopy, the document type is designated by the code "21," which in Russian document flow means "passport of a citizen of the Russian Federation." Its number is 45 08 828155.

Adamovsky's passport was issued in Moscow 11 years ago, on August 28, 2007. As we can see, after the annexation of Crimea, the businessman not only retained this document but also actively uses it to conduct business in the territory not controlled by Ukraine.

Strana attempted to obtain a comment from Andrey Adamovsky regarding the situation, but he has not yet responded to our questions.

Curiously, open sources list vastly different dates and places of birth for Andriy Adamovsky. Some report he was born on January 1, 1970, in Odessa. Others list his birth date as 1972.
But, according to a number of websites, his real date of birth is the same as that indicated in his Russian passport: March 1, 1962.
In addition, a man clearly resembling Andrei Adamovsky was present at a reunion of alumni of Frunze School No. 61 named after Kurchatov in 2004 (according to his Russian passport, Adamovsky was born in the city of Frunze).

Owner of Sky Mall and Trade Commodity. What is Andrey Adamovsky known for?

Andriy Adamovsky currently owns land and commercial real estate in Kyiv. One of his companies owns a half stake in the Sky Mall shopping center. His companies were also implicated in a scandal involving fuel supplies to the Ukrainian army.

SkyMall. One of Kyiv's largest shopping centers became the subject of a real war between Adamovsky and Estonian investor Hillar Tedder, who actually built SkyMall.
The Estonian turned to Adamovsky for help because he was unable to complete the shopping center due to the crisis in Ukraine, and sold him a controlling stake with the option to buy it out.

However, after the mall's construction was completed, the Ukrainian businessman refused to sell his shares. The Estonian accused him of corporate raiding and went to court. He won several international lawsuits (the most recent in 2017, when the London Court of Arbitration ruled in Tedder's favor), but the defendant, Adamovsky, has not complied with these rulings to this day, continuing to control the shopping center.
Interestingly, future BPP MP Oleksandr Granovsky was also summoned to testify in court. He was the director of Assofit, the company that owned SkyMall shares.
Granovsky does not deny his close acquaintance with Adamovsky
, but he insists that after becoming a deputy, they no longer have any joint affairs. This, however, according to media reports, is not true.
For example, an investigation by the program "Nashi Groshi z Denis Bigus," which aired in June 2017, reported that Granovsky rented an office on the fifth floor of Kyiv's Eurasia Business Center, with businessman Adamovsky's office located nearby. According to journalists, both offices are located in a large office building, with a sign outside the entrance reading "Reception Office of People's Deputy Oleksandr Granovsky."

Fuel supplies to the army. Another high-profile scandal surrounding Adamovsky is the aforementioned case of the company "Trade Commodity," which, according to the NABU, supplied fuel to the Ukrainian army at inflated prices.
The case began a year ago, when Anticorruption Bureau detectives arrested Deputy Defense Minister Ihor Pavlovsky. He was accused of masterminding a corruption scheme in which the Defense Ministry overpaid for fuel by 149 million hryvnias.
The little-known company "Trade Commodity" was chosen as the supplier and awarded a billion-dollar contract, while offers from established market players like "Okko" and "WOG" were rejected. During its cooperation with MO, "TK" raised the price by 16% before deliveries had even begun—even before there had been any tender.
Adamovsky then admitted that he was an investor in Trade Commodity.

"Many people have probably gathered here to see me. I'll tell you right away that I'm not a shareholder of the company or a manager. We are investors in the company and organize financing for various projects," Adamovsky said. He claimed that all actions by Trade Commodity's management were fraudulent.
and legal.
Adamovsky also stated that MP Oleksandr Granovsky is not connected to the company.
He's become incredibly wealthy this year. Adamovsky was included in the latest ranking by Novoye Vremya magazine among the top 100 richest people in Ukraine for 2018. His net worth is estimated at $93 million. Moreover, compared to last year, Adamovsky's wealth has increased by 49%.

In addition to real estate and fuel, the businessman has interests in telecommunications and, as we can see, agriculture. He is also known as an art collector.
The question arises: how soon will Poroshenko's entire criminal entourage receive a pardon from the "new government"? And how will not only voters but also the protest electorate react?
(to be continued)

Ivan Demidov, for ORD

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