Nikolai and Mikhail Negrichi
Budget "splinters" and land "grab-and-grab" thieves from the Kyiv City Council and Kyiv City State Administration fleece Kyiv residents of billions every year, and in return, throw the people gnawed bones on which they now write their names so voters know which "benefactors" they should vote for. Until recently, the photo site "Before and After," created by the mayor's team, was considered a masterpiece of cynical mockery. Vitali Klitschko for reports on work completed and budget funds spent. However, city council member Nikolai Negrich, who is also the son-in-law of the former head of Kyivmiskstoy, Mikhail Golitsa, decided to go further and leave his “facsimile” even on the clumsy patches of pothole repairs on the capital’s roads.
Many Kyiv residents simply couldn't believe their eyes and even assumed it was some kind of provocation by Negrich's enemies. However, this pretentious stupidity is entirely consistent with Mykola Negrich's current behavior, who for two years now has been posing as a caring defender of ordinary Kyiv residents, trying to clear his reputation from recent scandals.
Nikolai Negrich. District Chief's Son
Mykola Mykhailovych Negrich, the capital's "construction baron," was born on August 29, 1982, in Kolomyia (Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast). He came to Kyiv in 1998 to enroll in the Institute of International Relations at Kyiv State University, graduating in 2003 with a degree in international law. He immediately landed a lucrative job at the Khlib Ukrainy state joint-stock company, taking a prominent position as chief economist in the financial and credit mechanisms department. A few months later, Mykola Negrich became the head of the company's government programs and price regulation department. Then, in September 2004, Negrich became the director of Agroprombudkapital LLC (EDRPOU 32941442), a position he still leads, while also managing several other companies.
Everyone is still trying to explain the rapid career of the young provincial by the fact that Nikolai Negrich is the son-in-law of Mikhail Golitsa, about whom Skelet.Org I already talked about it in the material about Vyacheslav Nepop, the third member of their "family business triangle." Mikhail Golitsa is a seasoned veteran of Kyiv business, having started in the 90s Surkisami in their financial scam around FU Dynamo Kyiv, and Alexandra Omelchenko headed the Department of Housing Provision of the Kyiv City State Administration.
Of course, such a person could easily arrange his son-in-law’s career – just as Kharkiv official and businessman Oleg Taranov raised his son-in-law to the top Evgenia MuraevaHowever, there is a difference between Muraev and Negrich. While the former was practically a nobody before marrying Taranov's daughter, the latter married Olga Golitsa (now Olga Negrich) already as a "golden boy," a major player. The secret to Mykola Negrich's success is quite simple, and it's surprising that no journalist has yet bothered to dig into his Kolomyia roots. And that would be a shame, because then everyone would know that Mykola Negrich's father is Mykhailo Negrich, a rather well-known official in the Ivano-Frankivsk region (and somewhat forgotten in Kyiv), who twice (from 2001-2005 and 2010-2014) headed the Kolomyia District State Administration. He is known for numerous scandals, his large businesses registered in the names of his wife (Maria Negrich) and son, and for his skillful avoidance of lustration.
Mikhail Negrich
Mykhailo Mykhailovych Negrich was born in 1955 in the village of Kosivskyi district in the Ivano-Frankivsk region. He graduated from the Kamianets-Podilskyi Agricultural Institute in 1986, and by the 90s, he had already risen to his first management position, which allowed him to engage in business, leveraging his power and state resources. He pursued two types of business: he "earned" his capital through shady schemes and then invested it in a legitimate business registered to his wife and son. Sources Skelet.Org It is reported that in the 90s, Mykhailo Negrich was involved with grain and alcohol—and, as is well known, many people enriched themselves through shady alcohol schemes. There is also information that, as early as the late 90s, Mykhailo Negrich was involved with the scandalous state joint-stock company "Khlib Ukrainy," which was initially a hub for shady schemes and fraud. This is why his son, Mykola, was immediately hired by his father at Khlib Ukrainy after graduating, thanks to his father's connections, and in its finance department. After all, it was during 2003-2004 that Khlib Ukrainy (under the leadership of Viktor Bondarenko) witnessed the most monstrous abuses and frauds.
In short, this is how Mykhailo Negrich rose to the rank of a "respected person" in the region, and in 2001 he was appointed head of the Kolomyia District State Administration. He was appointed not without the help of his old friend and associate Mykhailo Vyshyvanyuk, who twice served as head of the Ivano-Frankivsk Regional State Administration, from 1997 to 2005 and from 2010 to 2013 (he died of illness in 2016). As you can see, they held leadership positions almost simultaneously, and both are officials of the "Kuchma regime" and the "Yanukovych regime." But Negrich's first appointment (in 2001) was not without the help of the former president himself. Vladimir Litvin, who then headed President Kuchma's Administration. The connection between Mykhailo Negrich and Volodymyr Lytvyn continued afterward: Negrich headed the Ivano-Frankivsk regional organization of the People's Party and the Lytvyn Bloc campaign headquarters for many years.
Incidentally, his deputy for party work was Oleksiy Golubchak, head of the regional forestry and hunting department. It's no surprise that Mykhailo Negrich was successfully involved in the "forestry business," stripping the slopes of the Carpathian Mountains bare! The Negrich family's business portfolio also includes private hunting clubs and farms, including in other regions of Ukraine. For example, the Pliske Hunting Farm LLC (EDRPOU 35891892) and the Plisky Hunters and Fishermen's Club (EDRPOU 35583823), located in the Chernihiv Oblast. Why there, on the other side of the country? Because their owners are Mykhailo Negrich and his brother-in-law, Mykhailo Nikolayevich Golitsa, along with his nephew, Vladislav Vitalyevich Golitsa (the son of Vitaly Nikolayevich Golitsa). And the Golitsa family hails from this very village of Plisky! Pliski-Agro LLC (EDRPOU 34275671) is also registered there, with Nikolai Negrich serving as the chairman of the supervisory board.
Blacks are not afraid of Maidans!
After the first Maidan, in early 2005, the head of the Kolomyia district, Mykhailo Negrich, was dismissed as a "Kuchma regime official." But he immediately found work in Kyiv: first as deputy head of the board at the same Khlib Ukrainy, then as acting head of the Kyivspirt general directorate (a gold mine!). In 2007, he returned to his homeland, where he was given an even more lucrative position as deputy head of the Ivano-Frankivsk Regional State Tax Administration, overseeing excise taxes on alcohol and tobacco products. After all, it was through excise tax fraud that the most profitable "alcohol schemes" were carried out! Finally, in 2010, after Yanukovych's election victory, Vyshyvanyuk returned to the Ivano-Frankivsk governor's seat, and Negrich to the Kolomyia District State Administration's chair. And the first thing they did was attempt a hostile takeover. Zaluchansky distillery.
Mykhailo Negrich tried hard to appear the most patriotic leader of Ukraine's most nationally conscious district, regularly hosting vyshyvanka and kolomyika festivals and patronizing the local pysanka museum. But the local opposition saw him as a Yanukovych official, one steeped in corruption. Among other things, they accused Negrich of protecting the massive deforestation in the district. Furthermore, Negrich, the district head, and the mayor of Kolomyia invited the Austrian timber processing company Holzindustrie Schweighofer to the region and even allocated it 30 hectares of land for the construction of a plant. But the plant was never built, and square kilometers of forest were mown down!
It's therefore fair that in February 2014, a local Maidan protest roared beneath the windows of the Kolomyia District State Administration, demanding the resignation of Mykhailo Negrich. But the official was cunning: he went on vacation during the turmoil, and when the government in Kyiv changed, Negrich, unlike many of his colleagues, did not resign voluntarily. "I don't plan to leave my position. After my vacation, I'll return to my duties as head of the District State Administration. Life will tell what happens tomorrow," he told reporters at the time. At the same time, as a member of the Ivano-Frankivsk Regional Council, Negrich attempted to disrupt the vote on the resignation of Governor Vasyl Chudnov (as demanded by the Maidan) and publicly tore up his ballot. Negrich also publicly condemned the incident that occurred on February 3, 2014, at a session of the Regional Council, when Some masked "Maidan activists" forcibly removed three Party of Regions deputies from the hall..
And so, despite his “moderately pro-regime” political position, Mikhail Negrich remained in his chair until mid-April 2014, until, under pressure from the local Maidan, he was dismissed by decree. acting President TurchinovAt the same time, Negrich managed to avoid the lustration procedure!
Already in 2015, the "under-qualified" Negrich found himself in a scandal again, this time in connection with the upcoming elections (he was running for mayor of Kolomyia). Mikhail Negrich and his old friend Lyubomir Zhupansky decided take control of the electoral commission and the local Solidarity organization, in order to return to power under the banner of President Petro Poroshenko. Apparently, Negrich's vigorous activity greatly angered some of his fellow countrymen: in August 2016, unknown individuals tried to set fire to his country house in the village of Korolevka.
Sergey Varis, for Skelet.Org
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