Public squabbles within the LPR leadership over who is stealing Luhansk coal and which oligarchs are behind it continue.
A video was posted with statements from the LPR leadership on this matter, directed against Pasechnik and the illegal actions taken during the arrest of Energy Minister Lyamin.
Pasechnik's actions are called robbery.
In response, new details are being released about Lyamin's activities, who is accused of conspiring with other Ukrainian oligarchs, along with threats against Plotnitsky that he too could be arrested.
On October 17, 2015, the Minister of Fuel, Energy and Coal Industry of the LPR, Dmitry Lyamin, was detained by the LPR Ministry of State Security.
Dmitry Lyamin
The special operation was carried out without casualties. Lyamin, an associate and business partner of LPR leader Plotnitsky, is testifying. Now, in more detail.
It's no secret that the Luhansk princes, like AvramovaEven in the midst of military action, Efremova maintained her influence in the Donbass and introduced her people into the leadership of the republics.
Over the past 20 years, the chaos in the Luhansk coal industry has been linked to these two individuals.
I remember the raid on the Belorechenskaya mine. On September 14, 2012, around 4 a.m., about 50 of Avramov's militants, dressed in tracksuits and armed with bats, stormed the mine and began beating the guards. Afterward, after breaking down the bars and kicking down the doors, the thugs seized the administrative building. They were supported by armed officers from a Luhansk Ministry of Internal Affairs unit, unmarked and wearing orange armbands, dispatched personally by Yefremov. Police from the Lutuhinsky city police department arrived and shamefully stood by and watched the chaos unfold. The company's honorary president, Igor Martynenkov, then told the media that Alexander Yefremov, head of the Party of Regions faction, and Ivan Avramov, a prominent Luhansk businessman of Bulgarian descent, were directly involved in the mine seizure.
What do we know about Avramov?
His business interests include the coal industry, automobile and air transport, and the wine industry. He owns several mining and processing plants in the Luhansk region: the Yanovske, Belorechenskaya, Luhanska, Nagolchanskaya, and Mykhailivska Mining and Processing Plants. He also controls the Lutuhin Rolling Plant, Donbassholding CJSC, Donetsk Coal Processing Group, Yenakiyevo Transport Company, and Donbassholding. Since 2004, he has been president of Luhansk Coal Company CJSC, which is the main investor in the Antratsit State Enterprise. Another director of Luhansk Coal Company CJSC is I. Avramov's younger brother, Sergei Ivanovich. He also controls Financial Company LLC, Depas Ltd LLC (Odesa), Ukragrokomp LLC (Odesa), Grand LLC (Donetsk Oblast), Donbassholding CJSC, Stavr LLC, Rukan LLC, Rodon Private Enterprise (Odesa), and the Bolgrad Winery. He also owns Donbass-Odesa Private Enterprise. His region of interest includes Ukraine (Luhansk, Donetsk, and Odessa Oblasts) and Bulgaria. Avramov's Donbassholding CJSC primarily deals with coal in the Donbas region. According to media reports, the holding accounts for nearly a quarter of all trading operations on the local coal market (particularly coking coal). The businessman also controls entities involved in coal transportation and a coking plant.
After Donbas separated from Ukraine, individuals like Avramov, Yefremov, and Korolevskaya decided to adapt to the current conditions. Consequently, the LPR leadership was filled with parasites profiting from the war, our children, and the elderly.Now about Lyamin. Just a few facts.
Even when the hryvnia and the ruble were in circulation together in the LPR, Lyamin had the following rates:
— 1,5 million rubles in cash for obtaining a license to mine and trade coal. Then, 250 hryvnia per ton, cash at the then-price of 700 hryvnia per ton;
"300 hryvnias in cash for a fuel and lubricants license. And then the following tricks happen. You can only buy fuel from Lyamin. You buy it for 19 hryvnias per liter. And then Lyamin offers to sell it to you for 18 hryvnias per liter, claiming it's Plotnitsky's order."
As for the coal trade, it is enough to simply talk to the miners.
Do you know how Lyamin dealt with uncontrolled mines? He'd visit the mine, claim the paperwork was improper, and then ship all the coal to Luhansk. The coal didn't stay in Luhansk; it was shipped straight to Ukraine. The miners went without wages, while Lyamin, Plotnitsky, and others like them made easy money. And finally, have you ever wondered why LPR MGB Minister Leonid Pasechnik isn't afraid of retaliatory action from Plotnitsky and the Luhansk criminal underworld?
I'll answer. Plotnitsky didn't appoint Pasechnik as minister, and it's not up to him to remove him. Even if you create a dozen investigative commissions in the LPR People's Council and sign dozens of orders to remove the minister, it won't yield any dividends for your opponents. The LPR MGB is committed to protecting the republic's security. And Plotnitsky can rest assured that he, like Lyamin, can be arrested at any moment.
Incidentally, Lyamin was planning to flee to Ukraine and was preparing a place for himself in Kyiv. But a mishap occurred. It turns out the detained minister had large debts to Ukrainian criminals, including those related to the Luhansk coal trade. Returning to Ukraine could have ended badly. The escape had to be called off.
In conclusion, I want to state that this arrest is only the beginning of the story. All those implicated in corruption and theft in the young republic will be brought to justice, regardless of their position. Watching the LPR leader's hysteria over the arrest of his accomplice, I can only conclude that Plotnitsky has already realized the sword of justice is hanging over his head.
As Anatoly Papanov's character said: "They'll put you in jail! But don't steal!"
https://www.donsju.donetsk.ua/cgi-bin/dsju/start.cgi?info1=2278 — цинк
Plus, the fact of Pasechnik's removal is denied, although Plotnitsky apparently said this on video and it can't be blamed on hackers.
Kyiv is attempting to provoke a conflict between the authorities and law enforcement agencies in the Luhansk People's Republic, the region's Ministry of State Security (MGB) told a Federal News Agency correspondent.
The department denied reports that LPR State Security Minister Leonid Pasechnik had been temporarily suspended from his post. "He is at his post and fulfilling his duties, despite attempts by third parties to provoke a conflict between law enforcement agencies and the republic's leadership and to interfere with the investigation of high-profile corruption scandals," the LPR MGB stated. Ministry representatives noted that the false information emerged following the arrest of LPR Minister of Fuel, Energy, and Coal Industry Dmitry Lyamin. LPR MGB officers emphasize that the agency is currently carrying out its duties as usual and is continuing investigative measures against the detainee. "We are conducting investigative measures to identify those involved in inciting conflict between the republic's security agencies and its leadership," the FAN source stated.
As a reminder, following the incident involving Lyamin's detention, a group of Ukrainian hackers, under the direction of the SBU, repeatedly attacked the information resources of the Luhansk People's Republic (LPR) in an attempt to discredit the actions of the LPR Ministry of State Security (MGB) and the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD). For example, the Luhansk Information Center, the republic's official information resource, was hacked, where a message was posted on behalf of the regional governor, Igor Plotnitsky, alleging illegal actions by law enforcement agencies regarding Lyamin's detention. According to the MGB, the Ukrainian hackers subsequently carried out a DDOS attack on the site, aiming to create an information vacuum and prevent the public from being informed.
As part of the Kurchenko investigation, the DPR has published a sanctions list targeting Ukrainian oligarchs.
https://riafan.ru/445246-kiev-pyitaetsya-poseyat-razdor-v-luganske-mgb-lnr/ — цинк
A horse-drawn circus: Plotnitsky claims on camera that he has removed the MGB minister, and the MGB claims it's a lie. It's clear they're filming videos of a man resembling Plotnitsky in underground apartments.
The conflict is obviously more serious than just a showdown within the DPR leadership, given the simultaneous activity in the DPR.
The head of the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), Alexander Zakharchenko, has imposed personal sanctions against several leading Ukrainian businessmen, including President Petro Poroshenko.
The corresponding decree was published on the website of the Council of Ministers of the Republic. "I decree the imposition of personal sanctions against Ihor Valeriyovych Kolomoisky, born in 1963; Serhiy Vitalyevich Kurchenko, born in 1985; Borys Yevgenyevich Lozhkin, born in 1971; and Petro Oleksiyovych Poroshenko, born in 1965," the decree states.
The sanctions were imposed due to "the activities of a number of individuals and related legal entities aimed at organizing and financing aggressive military actions against the Donetsk People's Republic and destabilizing the political and socioeconomic situation in the Republic." All individuals subject to sanctions and those affiliated with them are prohibited from acquiring real estate and other property, as well as conducting banking operations in the DPR. All existing transactions are declared null and void.
"Any violation of this decree by legal entities or individuals shall constitute grounds for the temporary introduction of state management at the enterprises of these entities, regardless of their form of ownership," the order states.
It should be clarified that the primary target of the sanctions is not President Poroshenko, although confectionery products from his Roshen corporation, despite the blockade he declared, still make their way into the republics. The real war in the DPR was declared against Serhiy Kurchenko, a "young oligarch" once associated with the clan of former President Yanukovych. Kurchenko, who once made a fortune in fuel and lubricants, attempted to return to Donetsk after the ceasefire began, attempted to create a "private army," and allegedly tried to influence the decisions of the DPR authorities.
Moreover, some of the fuel from the republic's territory was smuggled directly to Ukrainian troops with his help. Moreover, Kurchenko's "scheme" involved both the head of the Ukrainian presidential administration, multimillionaire Boris Lozhkin, and the notorious sponsor of punitive battalions, Igor Kolomoisky. Kurchenko had previously been declared persona non grata in the DPR.
https://www.rg.ru/2015/10/19/sankcii-site.html — цинк
P.S. Of course, the absence of Akhmetov or Yefremov from these sanctions isn't surprising, even though Akhmetov's companies supplied the Kharkiv Malyshev Plant, which assembled and repaired tanks for the junta forces in Donbas. But this has long been an open secret about Akhmetov, so let's not dwell on the sad news. The LPR also insists that the machinations of the oligarch Kurchenko are to blame.
The "customer" of Lyamin's arrest may be oligarch Kurchenko, a member of the People's Council's special commission.
The "customer" behind the arrest of the Republic's Minister of Fuel, Energy, and Coal Industry, Dmitry Lyamin, may be Ukrainian businessman Serhiy Kurchenko, suspected by LPR law enforcement of fraud and involvement in financing the Kyiv security forces' operation in Donbas. This was announced today by Deputy Konstantin Matsiurak, deputy chairman of the special investigative commission of the LPR People's Council.
"I am confident that the head of our Republic made the right and timely decision to dismiss State Security Minister Pasechnik," Matsiurak noted.
"What happened at the home of the Minister of Fuel and Energy (Lyamin – LIC note), his so-called 'arrest,' is a complete outrage on the part of Pasechnik's subordinates. And given the intensifying struggle for our Republic with the Ukrainian oligarch Kurchenko, such attention to Lyamin's figure suggests that the oligarch himself is the organizer of this outrage, and is perpetrating it through the hands of our state security," the deputy stated.
https://vk.com/wall-92739722_84392?reply=84495 — цинк
Akhmetov and Kurchenko
Judging by the active information war against Kurchenko, he was quietly carrying out his schemes in Donbas for a while, but then something happened. Either he came into conflict with his handlers, or a war broke out between the oligarchs, who are now divided into those who can be accepted and those who can't. Kurchenko, it seems, has been added to the list of those who can't be accepted and will be driven out of Donbas, and his property and assets will either be confiscated by the republican budgets (which is not a bad thing) or divided among the good oligarchs and their protégés. And another funny thing: remember how Borodai declared that we're not Bolsheviks, so we can't take away the oligarchs' property? It turns out it can, but not from all oligarchs. If an oligarch is feeding the republics poverty and handing it over to the right people in Moscow, he can't be touched. But if he's gone too far and started his own business, he'll be nationalized. So, Kurchenko will likely disappear from Donbas. It would be nice if he did, along with Akhmetov, but for now, that's how it is.
Akhmetov and Efremov
Regarding the events in the LPR, after all the statements made, the situation could end either with the dismissal of the MGB Minister and a purge of the ministry, or with the complete eviction of Lyamin and those associated with him, followed by further purges within the LPR leadership as part of the investigation into the large-scale coal theft case. Kurchenko will be ousted from Donbas under any circumstances; he's too obvious a scapegoat to blame for the coal theft, which he deserves, regardless of how the conflict over Lyamin and Pasechnik's actions plays out. Overall, it can be concluded once again that without eliminating the Ukrainian oligarchy that has entrenched itself in the republics, normal development there will be difficult, even with Russian assistance, and even the fight against theft and corruption will be tilting at windmills.
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