Oleg Kasyanenko
Oleg Kosyanenko, a "rich kid" from Odessa, was born in 1975. Could an ordinary Soviet child have known how delicious and satisfying their adult life would be in independent Ukraine? I don't think they knew. They probably never even thought about it. They lived their lives, went to kindergarten, then to school...
But little Oleg's father thought about this a lot. Coming from a simple working-class family and having experienced hardship in his youth, Alexander Vladimirovich Kosyanenko, by the age of thirty, had already realized where the silver lining was in the Soviet Union. And he set out to build a career, first in the Communist Party, and then in the all-powerful KGB. And Alexander Vladimirovich's instincts were right! He met the collapse of the USSR as a high-ranking KGB directorate in the Mykolaiv region of the Ukrainian SSR, which quickly became the SBU directorate in the same Mykolaiv region, but in independent Ukraine, where his career skyrocketed.
In March 1994, Oleksandr Kosyanenko was appointed Deputy Head of the SBU Department in the Odessa Region, and a little later - Head of the Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine in the Odessa Region. In March-October 1994, he was Deputy Head of the SBU Department in the Odessa Region. In 1994-1996 - Head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Department in the Odessa Region. From October 1996 to May 1999 - Head of the Main Directorate of the SBU in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea. In 1999-2000 - Lieutenant General Kosyanenko - Deputy Chairman of the SBU - Head of the Main Directorate for Combating Corruption and Organized Crime. In 2000-2002 - Deputy Chairman of the SBU - Head of the SBU Department in the Dnipropetrovsk Region. In 2002-2006 – People's Deputy of Ukraine, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Combating Corruption in Higher Government Bodies of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Combating Organized Crime and Corruption.
Thanks to his father's status and his friendship with the already influential Odessa politician Sergei Kivalov, rector of the Law Institute of the I. Mechnikov Odessa State University (which became the Odessa State Law Academy in December 1997), Oleksandr Kosyanenko's son graduated from the aforementioned law academy without any problems. However, the savvy student Oleg Kosyanenko already realized that education alone wasn't enough, and that political patronage would be a good addition to his father's SBI-general patronage. It would come in handy! While studying, he met and began an affair with Tatyana Kivalova, Sergei Kivalov's daughter. Oleg became Kivalov's son-in-law.
The law academy graduate's rapid career begins:
— assistant prosecutor of the Odessa region (for control over special units of the Security Service of Ukraine and the Department for Combating Organized Crime) since 1998;
— deputy prosecutor of the Suvorovsky district of Odessa, 1999-2001;
— prosecutor of the Suvorovsky district of Odessa, 2001-2008;
— prosecutor of the Malinovsky district of Odessa, 2008-2010;
— Deputy Prosecutor of Odessa Oblast, December 28, 2010 – July 2011.
— Deputy Prosecutor of the Malinovsky District, 07.2011-08.2014.
— Prosecutor of the Malinovsky District since August 7, 2014.
Young prosecutor Oleh Kosyanenko has been having a field day in various positions. He's not above engaging in various criminal schemes aimed at extorting property from entrepreneurs, as well as covering up for economic criminals under investigation. For example, as prosecutor of Odessa's Suvorovsky District, Kosyanenko, using his position and manipulating procedural law, actively obstructed the investigation into the notorious criminal case against the company "Aliv," which had siphoned tens of millions of hryvnias from the Ukrainian budget through "gray" VAT refund schemes. The Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine conducted a serious investigation into violations of the law by the Odessa Suvorovsky District Prosecutor's Office, but thanks to his father-in-law, Sergei Kivalov, the investigation was dropped. All of the young prosecutor's "mistakes" were covered up by his father and father-in-law.
Uncontrolled power, money, and the presence of "important" relatives quickly corrupt the young prosecutor. They say Oleg Aleksandrovich Kosyanenko dined at expensive Odessa restaurants, ordering 10-15 dishes and leaving without touching most of them. His dissolute lifestyle led to a divorce from his wife, but Oleg managed to father a grandson with his notorious father-in-law, Kivalov, and the future "Seryoga the Faggot" continues to look after his ex-son-in-law.
Oleg Kosyanenko's main "business" was simple. Using criminal cases opened "in fact," Kosyanenko obtained warrants to conduct searches of entrepreneurs allegedly connected to the case. Using this entirely "legal" pretext, he confiscated consumer goods from the entrepreneurs, storing them in warehouses at the 7th Kilometer industrial market, famous throughout Ukraine. He then successfully sold the goods seized during the searches.
Oleh Kosyanenko owes his appointment to the high-ranking position of Deputy Prosecutor of the Odessa Region to his new friends, Artem Pshonka and Mykhailo Burov, a regular at Artem Pshonka's club on 35 Gonchar Street in Kyiv, where, according to journalist Tatyana Chornovil, the so-called "shadow prosecutor's office of Ukraine" was located. To carry out his schemes, Kosyanenko recruited Biryuk and Tselikov, officers of the Odessa Organized Crime Control Department (UBOP), who by then had already become notorious in Odessa for their lawlessness. The scheme was simple: the Malinovsky District Prosecutor's Office would initiate a criminal case based on a fictitious fact, such as the theft of consumer goods from a Chinese citizen. These goods would then be stored in a warehouse in the Malinovsky District of Odessa, which is overseen by the Malinovsky District Prosecutor's Office. A search warrant would be obtained, and the goods found would be seized. The Chinese citizens, of course, have no documentation for the goods. The victim either pays off or gives up their goods. This happens dozens of times. This scheme allowed the savvy prosecutor to earn a huge amount of money, allowing him to transfer approximately three million US dollars to Artem Pshonka and Mykhailo Burov in such a short period of time. The latter saw Kosyanenko as a "promising" prosecutor, and soon Oleg Kosyanenko became Deputy Prosecutor of the Odesa Region. The latter, naturally, is forever indebted to his patrons and swears his loyalty to them.
However, the happiness was short-lived. Oleg Kosyanenko's resignation as Deputy Prosecutor of the Odessa Region was linked to events that occurred in April and May 2011. In early 2011, the Odessa Regional Prosecutor's Office, without any justification or apparent cause, suddenly began actively initiating inspections of medium and large businesses—companies, facilities, and warehouses. Specifically, during this period, the prosecutor's office exerted pressure on Healthy Foods LLC by initiating various tax inspections.
The "harassment" was brutal and crude. A bribe of $200,000 was extorted from the company's owners through Oleg Kosyanenko's confidant, Assistant Prosecutor Irina Romashina. The story received widespread attention and ended up on the desk of Prosecutor General Viktor Pshonka. Pshonka was reportedly furious and was planning to jail the "presumptuous brat," but at the personal request of Serhiy Kivalov, Oleg Kosyanenko was kept "in the system" and sent into exile as a deputy prosecutor in the Malinovsky District Prosecutor's Office in Odessa.
Accustomed to operating on a grand scale, Kosyanenko became bored in his lowly position. His business lost momentum. Today, Oleg is covering up a criminal scheme to steal irrigation systems in the Odessa region. The pipes are simply dug up and sold for scrap. The actual theft of the pipes is carried out by Georgiy Oganezov, Oleg Kasyanenko's godfather and the brother of his subordinate, Mykhailo Oganezov, Senior Prosecutor of the Malinovsky District Prosecutor's Office of Odessa. According to available information, the metal-laden vehicles were repeatedly detained by law enforcement, but after calls from the Prosecutor General's Office to Deputy Prosecutor General of the Odessa Region, Anatoliy Danilenko, the trucks were always released. It's as simple and straightforward as that.
Prosecutor Kosyanenko, it seems, has also run out of money. It's difficult to maintain a palace on the grounds of the former Krasnye Zori sanatorium, purchased unfinished five years ago for $750,000 and renovated to Pshonkov standards, apartments in the Sauvignon Yacht Club, a Santorini yacht worth over a million dollars, and a fleet of cars, including a Bentley Continental, while running a dubious business like pipe theft. And his common-law wife, Natalya Amurova, is accustomed to dressing only in the most expensive Parisian boutiques.
Currently, Oleg Kosyanenko is once again being lobbied for the position of Deputy Prosecutor of the Odesa Region. This effort is being lobbied, in particular, by well-known figures in Odesa, such as criminal businessmen. Boris Kaufman and Alexander Granovsky, as well as high-ranking officials in the Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine, who believe that a seasoned corrupt official like Kosyanenko shouldn't waste his time on petty crimes, but should steal on a grand scale, "so that everyone has enough." That's the whole lustration!
So, what do we have in Odesa eight months after the Revolution of Honor? Serhiy Kivalov, a member of the Ukrainian Naval Party named after himself, is running again for parliament. And his former son-in-law, the young, corrupt, and philandering prosecutor Oleh Kosyanenko, is once again the prosecutor of Odesa's Malynovskyi district and awaits appointment to an even higher, "old new" position. The Kivalov-Kosyanenko family's parliamentary and prosecutorial business has every chance of flourishing.
"Pidrahuy" doesn't abandon his own!
If "Pidrahuy" wins another seat in the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, and Oleh Kosyanenko becomes deputy prosecutor of the Odesa region, the Southern Palmyra will face a renaissance of bribery and corruption in the judicial system, in the worst traditions of the Pshonka-Yanukovych era. And this will be a real slap in the face not only of Odesans but of all Ukrainians.
It's hard to maintain the yacht "Santorini" with the money from selling stolen pipes. It's not enough.
This was the former "Red Dawns" boarding house. Now it's the "modest" home of an employee of the Odessa prosecutor's office.
Sheleng (a representative of Healthy Foods LLC) answered the call from Romashina (R.), who handed the phone over to Oleg Alexandrovich. The "harassment" was rude and primitive...
R. Artur Iosifovich, I'll now give the phone to Oleg Aleksandrovich. (Oleg Aleksandrovich (O.A.) picks up the phone.)
O.A. Hello.
Sh. Hello.
O.A. Good afternoon. Ira told me there were a number of questions, right? She asked me them.
Sh. I'm listening, I'm listening.
O.A. She asked me about them, and I answered every one of them. That's why you'll need to meet her. She'll tell you everything. I'm leaving now, on a business trip. I need to do something urgently; my boss has set some tasks for me. You can discuss them with her, so no problem, no questions.
Sh. Well, would it be possible to meet with you anyway? I'd like to apologize a little and talk about some matters that concern you and me. Would that be okay?
O.A. Well, what exactly, what is the question?
Sh. I don’t want to ask such questions over the phone, Oleg Alexandrovich.
O.A. Well then, you'll have to see me later; we'll call. You can talk to Ira without any problem.
Sh. Okay, thank you very much, thank you. All the best.
O.A. Ira told me that you will be leaving now, right?
Sh. Yes, they're calling me; I need to clarify the situation. Thank you very much for calling, because people there are nervous. I want to calm everyone down, and for us to get started.
O.A. Let's have you there on Friday and come over to me with Ira.
Sh. Thank you very much, thank you Oleg Alexandrovich.
O.A. That's it, see you later.
Irina Romashina, the "assistant to the untouchable" prosecutor Kosyanenko, is extorting $200,000 from a representative of Healthy Foods LLC on behalf of her boss.
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R. What about our business? Well, I think we're supposed to have a meeting today.
Sh. I really want to.
R. You really want to get in, right? And I'll be taking care of it. I'll call now. I called, he didn't answer. Well, we sort of agreed on Friday, at the end of the day, right? About those six points, point two, and everything else? - Well, if you want to create problems for yourself in the future, then in the form of this resolution. There shouldn't be any material at all.
Sh. I don't want to.
R. There should be no registration, there should be no decisions!
Sh. Okay. How will it happen? He said that you know everything and will tell us everything.
R. Well, how about it? You and Vitalik will connect.
Sh. No, that's not what I mean. I mean guarantees for me as a manager.
R. You are dealing with an honest man, do you understand?
Sh. I understand.
R.: This is a man who doesn't just value his reputation, but whose name goes before him, no matter what anyone tells you, but if he takes on a case, he sees it through from start to finish. Besides, as I told you from the start, you need to file a lawsuit in any case. But since we've already filed a lawsuit, we're not going to get away from it. But he said there won't be any cases at all, so there won't be any loose ends! We'll dispel all this.
Sh. Well, I'd like to see at least some documents, well, they're asking me there, at least to hold them, see them, burn them, that kind of thing. Shall we do it?
R. (laughs) We'll do it.
Sh. Shall we do it? I need to calm them down, okay? The guy earned millions of dollars, and everything he could collect, you understand.
R. (continues laughing) We'll do it. I'm not recommending that you do this; I strongly recommend that you listen to me, so that this decree doesn't happen. Because if we show it through the registration system, a year, two, three will pass, they'll pull it out of the archives, and there will be materials there.
Sh. So, okay, you propose to do all this, but where is the guarantee that Gorbik won’t go and again not (not agree.)
R. Gorbik won't do it; he's a decent man, believe me. He's a decent man. He's ambitious, he's like a locomotive, but he's a decent man. And Oleg Alexandrovich, for us, well, not just a stronghold, he's a god in this structure. And he vouches for those people, meaning you no longer have guarantees from me, not from [others], you have guarantees from Oleg Alexandrovich. Because he always vouches.
Sh. I just want to meet him, for tax purposes?
R. Yes, I understand. Regarding the tax authorities initially, as we discussed? I don't know what to do with the tax authorities. I don't know what to do! I told you initially that you'd have two problems; the tax authorities would count them. What did you tell me? They won't count them; they have nothing there! I told you they'd count one million two hundred, and they did: tax securities, two businesses that need to be closed.
Sh. Irina Valerievna, well, we have to close it. Of course he can! He's the supervising prosecutor, I've already made inquiries, for heaven's sake, what are you talking about, he's such a big shot! With a friend like that, I don't know.
R. Velichina. He says, Ira, did you say from the start that the securities could be closed? – Yes, I did, I said it right away, that there would be problems, that it needed to be closed. They dragged it out, dragged it out for a long time, gave them the opportunity to write…
Sh. In a conversation with me, they told me that we have now issued a Resolution, they can cancel this Resolution upon a call from (1)?
R. Can they cancel it?
Sh. They can cancel it, just a phone call! That guy there, Andrey Opanasovich, he's like, well, that's how it is.
R. It seems he doesn’t work anymore, they sent him somewhere.
Sh. Yes, I know it doesn't work. It's already been moved.
R. We need to discuss this with Oleg Alexandrovich.
Sh. I want to ask him, look, today is my last day to make a list. I'll make a list, he's there, I don't know how he'll do it, but I know he can do it. Wow, what a big deal!
R. Well, he can do a lot of things. That wasn't an option!
Sh. Irina Valerievna, for that kind of money, two hundred thousand, excuse me, do you think it’s that easy to collect?!
R. It's not easy! It's a big problem! We've discussed it, and now you want to go even further! You're messing with my head! And I'm starting to get nervous. Why the hell did I even sign up for this mess?!
Sh. No need to be nervous, no need to be nervous! Everything's fine. I need to be calmed down. You understand, yesterday I had a meeting with the main boss, he's Estonian, you see, he asked how things were going?
R. Things are fine! We're firing far, far away already.
Sh. That's exactly what I'm saying. I spoke with Alexey, and he says I'm asking you, I need clear guarantees, for someone to reassure you, and for you to be shown all these details. So you can be present.
R. I understand, okay, at the stake (laughs loudly) I honestly can't imagine how to do it myself?! But somehow it has to be done! (continues laughing).
Sh. But I won’t tell him this, he’ll think I’m completely crazy.
R. (can't hold back his laughter) Let me go to the region now, the Head of the Department is calling me, I need to show documents, I'll try to go in and arrange a specific meeting.
Sh. I'm waiting for a call. I want to see him, shake his hand.
R. I understand. Well, basically, everything remains as we agreed, right? So, are you basically ready?
Sh. Okay, we're ready! Everything's fine. I'm waiting for your call.
R. Oh! What a nightmare! Okay. (laughs). Well, actually, if you two start a friendship, it will be a friendship that will last forever. I'm telling you, it's just that, if everything works out.
Sh. I understand. I want to discuss construction issues with him there, prospects, and all that. I need some, excuse the expression, cur to come. I say, please excuse me, my dear comrade, but they'll call you now and tell you everything! Everything! I need a green corridor for construction. Everything!
R. Well then, we need to discuss the terms separately for the green corridor. Well, that's later.
Sh. I'll put a check mark, and then we'll move on. I want us to have a normal conversation.
R. Let's solve this problem for now, I get it. Anyway, I'm telling you, if everything works out, you'll actually be glad that such a problem arose and that you went to such pains to resolve it, because he's a person worth dealing with.
Sh. I say again, I made inquiries.
R. We all have different personalities. There might be some unflattering comments about me, like I'm this or that! Ambition and all that, but when it comes to business, when it comes to working relationships, it's all different.
Sh. We have a business, sorry.
R. In short, wait for my call. Respond to the order.
Sh. Okay, okay. Let's talk, see you later.
Based on: MirSMI.com
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