The "Donetsk people" were needed not only in Donetsk and Kyiv, but also in Western Ukraine, to firmly and permanently consolidate their power. For this purpose, Oleksandr Kalifitsky, currently on the run, was "unleashed" on the Ivano-Frankivsk region. But since the February events, he has been actively whitewashing himself in the media, apparently trying, like many of his entourage, to return to their positions. Although why bother? The "Donetsk people" have shown that it's very easy to do so now.
Who is this "Donetsk" Carpathian prosecutor?
The Ivano-Frankivsk region, where a certain Alexander Kalifitsky was sent to work by Kiev in 2011, also felt how the “Donetsk people” expanded their possessions during the “reign” of Victor II, using traditional and not so traditional methods.
A native of Kotovsk and having worked as an investigator for the already familiar Kotovsk inter-district prosecutor's office of the Odessa region, Kalifitsky quickly climbed the career ladder and, beginning in 2003, worked exclusively for the GPU.
As soon as he was transferred to the Carpathian region, local entrepreneurs immediately felt the impact of prosecutors collecting tribute. After all, this member of the "untouchable" caste immediately began imposing a personal tax, which, according to these same entrepreneurs, started at 50 rubles. The businessmen, who were not exactly poor, couldn't afford to obey—they had to obey the central government or face imprisonment.
And in this, our esteemed hero was quite successful, even imprisoning his colleagues from the Ministry of Internal Affairs in one case. But he is more remembered for his investigation of the criminal case against members of Givi Nemsadze's criminal group. The gang was responsible for over twenty contract killings. Thanks to his operational measures, a criminal case was eventually opened against Nemsadze himself. Mr. Kalifitsky headed the team investigating the Donetsk criminal group. Thanks to his work, several defendants in the criminal case evaded arrest, and the gang leader, Givi Nemsadze, fled to Russia, where he remained in hiding until 2010.
And that same year, a Donetsk court acquitted Nemsadze. And how could one not express gratitude? Mr. Nemsadze and his gang of "hitmen" have been deeply grateful to Mr. Kalifitsky ever since and were ready to fulfill his every whim, including in the Ivano-Frankivsk region.
Timur and his team
In his new position, the regional prosecutor from the Prosecutor General's Office (GPU) assembled his own team of like-minded associates, including his first deputy, Vladislav Grishchenko, and his deputy, Oleh Kiper. To expand his own extensive powers, Prosecutor Kalifitsky also bolstered the police ranks with his own people: Kalifitsky's godfather, Ihor Vakulenko, was appointed head of the Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast Department for Combating Organized Crime; another godfather, Ihor Sorochinsky, was appointed head of the regional SBU's "K" department. The prosecutor also persuaded Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast Governor Mykhailo Vyshyvanyuk to "cooperate" in mid-2012.
This whole gang of prosecutors in the Carpathian region started dealing with land issues, specifically the allocation of land in recreational areas. For their assistance in a case of embezzlement of public funds, land belonging to the Yaremche City Council was transferred to the prosecutor's control. This includes cottages and subsequent property sales.
And for the aforementioned sum of 50 greenbacks, the prosecutor ruled favorably in the case of Ivano-Frankivsk developers who were accused of bribing the head of the city's architecture department.
It's also worth mentioning all the oil wells that were under the protection of the prosecutor's office and "Co." Without the prosecutor's office's approval, not a single residential project approved by the Department of Architecture and Urban Development was completed, and almost all car dealership owners in the Carpathian region paid a one-time fee of 100,000 hryvnias for non-interference in their business.
A surprise or a master class: how did he do it?
And everything would have been fine and dandy (which is trending these days), if not for Kalifitsky's vaunted position, entrusted to him by Pshonka at the beginning of October last year - head of the main investigative department of the Prosecutor General's Office.
We remember well how events unfolded after November 30, 2013. Kalifitsky was no longer forced to count money, but to interrogate (albeit ostensibly for the media) the former Minister of Internal Affairs Zakharchenko, the head of the Kyiv police Koryak, as well as a number of officers of the Berkut special forces unit.
“Something went wrong,” and after those events and the accompanying questions, to which the investigation, for obvious reasons, never provided answers, in February a new acting prosecutor general Oleg Makhnitsky fired Alexander Kalifitsky.
But to imagine the scale of Kalifitsky and Co.'s atrocities, it's enough to glance at the number of commissioned articles that poured out immediately after his dismissal (apparently he was extremely afraid of reprisals). Most interestingly, they were all published in Ukraine's eastern regions. For example, "Priazovsky Rabochy" published an article about how hard things are for real, professional prosecutors, how hard times have fallen on them, and everyone is being tarred with the same brush. But Kalifitsky is not like that; even though he's on the run, he continues to pursue his just cause.
What? It's simple: his deputy, Volodymyr Gavryushenko, has become head of the Desnyansky District Prosecutor's Office in Kyiv, while Vladislav Grishchenko and Oleh Kiper have returned to the Prosecutor General's Office.
In this regard, the Prosecutor's Truth has the following questions:
— Is the groundwork being laid for the return of experienced prosecutor Alexander Kalifitsky to the prosecutor's office, given that his people are already employed under the new government?
Since Kalifitsky "broadcasts" through media outlets from eastern Ukraine, it's possible that he, as a loyal servant of the former regime who never left the country, could be on the separatists' side. Aside from this possible fact, does the Prosecutor General's Office (GPU) have an open criminal case against this individual?
— Who else of those who served the previous government does Vitaly Yarema employ at the Prosecutor General's Office? Or is it just those who were involved with big business, like Kalifitsky and Co.?
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