Stepan Ivankiv
The king of gas stations, dairies and all of Volyn Stepan Ivahiv He is not the most public figure. He is always in power - he was in Paradise both from the Party of Regions and as an independent candidate. Money does its job - oligarchs become deputies. Stepan Petrovich Ivakhiv is a Ukrainian oligarch, Director of Continuum, LLC. He is most closely associated with Volodymyr Lytvyn. He was born in 1968. He has a higher education. In April 2002, he was a candidate for People's Deputy of Ukraine from the New Generation of Ukraine party, number 8 on the electoral list. In March 2006, he was a candidate for People's Deputy of Ukraine from the Lytvyn People's Bloc, number 133 on the electoral list. He was included in the 200 richest people in Ukraine ranking in 2010. Ranking: 55, reports Compromising evidence against Ukraine and Russia.
He began his business career by sewing leather jackets.
At the end of August, Continuum President Stepan Ivakhiv laid the foundation stone for the PortCity shopping and entertainment center in Lutsk. The project is expected to attract at least $100 million in investment. The ceremonial events surrounding the occasion brought one of the country's most private millionaires into the spotlight. However, Ivakhiv emerged and immediately went behind the scenes. Igor Eremeev's (No. 32) business partner shies away from publicity. There are likely reasons for this. Regardless, Ivakhiv is a fairly active entrepreneur. His name is prominent in various sectors of the domestic economy. He is a builder, food manufacturer, fuel retailer, and, since 2005, a banker. He owns a 24,9% stake in the Bank for Investments and Savings and serves as a member of the supervisory board. The institution is still small, with only 11 branches scattered throughout the country. Ivakhiv plans to make the bank a top-thirty bank. Currently, the Bank of Investments and Savings' assets only allow it to rank no higher than the eighth tenth out of 182 existing Ukrainian banks. Net worth: $208,4 million.
Close connections:
Volodymyr Lytvyn is the speaker of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine and the head of the political bloc of the same name. He is a businessman's political front. Yeremeyev has not participated in politics since 2002-2006.
Petro Dyminsky is a co-owner of FC Karpaty. He is a sponsor of the All-Ukrainian Union Svoboda and a business partner.
Igor Eremeev is a Western Ukrainian businessman. He is a co-founder of Continuum and a business partner.
Yuriy Lozhkin is a Lviv businessman and business partner.
Sergey Lagur — Lviv businessman. Business partner. Together with Yeremeyev and Dymsky, he owned the Galychyna NPF and, with them, financed the New Generation party in 2006. He was a co-founder of FC Karpaty and held 33,7% of Nadra Bank.
Andriy Korol is a Western Ukrainian businessman and business partner.
Serhiy Slabenko is a Volyn politician and a friend of Yeremeyev and Ivakhiv.
Leonid Netudykhata is a politician of Volyn stature. Friend.
In March 2011, the group was fined 93 million hryvnia for colluding with other market participants and raising gasoline prices.
In 2010, his partner entered the top 3 largest debtors in the country with his 176 million debt to Ukrsibbank, Alfa-Bank, and Nadra Bank.
Quarrel with Minister Zvarych
In February 2005, after being appointed Minister of Justice, Roman Zvarych announced his intention to resign. The reason for this was the Cabinet of Ministers' decision to ban the re-export of oil from Ukraine. Roman Mykhailovych refused to sign the government document, believing that any commercial activity not prohibited by law is legitimate. Zvarych's "demarche" coincided with the "stallization" of 3 million tons of Russian oil at customs. Oil Transit LLC, a company co-directed by his wife, Svetlana Zvarych, was attempting to export it through Ukraine to Slovakia.
Despite the ironic comments of his Cabinet colleagues, Roman Zvarych claimed he was being pressured by a businessman-deputy who was attempting to interfere with the work of the Ministry of Justice. Zvarych later revealed his name. It turned out to be Ihor Yeremeyev, the chairman of the People's Party of Ukraine faction and an associate of Ivakhov, who is associated with the People's Party of Ukraine (NPK Galicia). Svetlana Zvarych accused Yeremeyev and the Continuum Group, which he controls, of offering Oil Transit LLC the opportunity to conduct illegal operations. "They only needed our oil for VAT schemes," Svetlana Zvarych insisted. She argued that this case was not about problems between business and government:
There's a problem with the law. There's a problem with maintaining the old principles of manual control over law enforcement agencies, ministries, and commercial firms. My husband has never been involved in business. And anyone who knows him knows that's impossible in principle. He never owned a commercial firm, never wrote lobbying laws for either oil or tobacco producers... I'm proud of my husband, and I've never allowed myself to take any steps that could compromise him" (Tribuna, February 21, 2005).
President Viktor Yushchenko, despite the unanimity of government members in favor of abolishing oil re-exports, sided with Roman Zvarych. Ultimately, the Cabinet of Ministers made a "Solomonic" decision: Ukraine introduced VAT collection on crude oil imports. Zvarych withdrew his resignation. "I would like them (the government members – S.R.) to realize that if we are one team, then we are not a team separated from the president of the country," he declared (Ukrainska Pravda, February 23, 2005).
The situation surrounding the family business prompted Roman Zvarych, along with other government officials—Yulia Tymoshenko, Roman Bezsmertny, Mykola Tomenko, then-Speaker of Parliament Volodymyr Lytvyn, and SPU leader Oleksandr Moroz—to sign a rather strange call for journalists not to participate in information wars.
The gasoline king of Iowa has already “privatized” the largest district of Martinenka
Recently, at one of his open lectures in Ukraine, Georgiy Derlugyan, a professor at the Evening University (Chicago, USA), revealed that one of the key features of the The political-party system in Georgia became its distinguished homeland, from which these and other party creations were formed from the very beginning.
In Ukraine, the situation is different: in our country, all the subjects of the influx from the beginning gathered from the “financial homeland”, and then tried and are trying to convert their capital into political representation in Ukraine over and over again. localities and bureaucratic mandates in the central region.
An excellent example in this context can be the low-ranking Volyn people’s deputies in particular among the leaders of the “Continuum” group, one of the most mysterious representatives of which is a current people’s deputy and candidate in his own majoritarian constituency No. 21 (when here Arseniy Yatsenyuk’s ally Mykola Martinenko became a people’s deputy) with the center in Kovel, Volinsk region, Stepan Ivakhiv.
In advance of the elections, we analyzed which of the possible candidates for the seat of deputy could compete with Stepan Petrovich in the pre-election parliamentary elections of 2014. However, if the new list of candidates for the 21 constituencies has been completed, it becomes clear that in 2012, before this election campaign, Igor Iremeev’s ally Stepan Ivakhiv Garno prepared by being aware of the presence of serious political opponents in other political parties.
It is possible that the fact that within the constituency of the Central Election Commission registered the least number of candidates for deputies among those equal to other single-mandate constituencies in Volina. This means that the likelihood that Volinsk regional deputy Igor Guz will impose the same serious fight on the 2012 elections is very small.
With what baggage of powerful effective work will Stepan Petrovich go to his electors from the parliament?
It is clear that in 2012 the Ivakhiv team is looking for beneficial donations, pompous support for Maidan activists, kindergartens... And what is behind the back of Nina’s active people’s assembly in the region Vikonannya of yogo peredviborchih obitsyanok? During 2012-2014, the system of people's control “Word and Deed” recorded approximately 27 cases.
It appears that behind the pouches of 2 rocks there are robots in parliament, behind the back of the Volyn people’s deputy Ivakhiv there are far fewer bills, and even worse statistics. And if they burnt exactly, then the same viconnoy obitsyanki. However, Stepan Petrovich, without missing a word, if he told fate on the 1st quarter of 2014 that war would begin, he would wear his uniform and go to the front line. In the same way, just as the 7th campaign of the parliamentary group “For the development of Polish territories” was carried out at different times until the new parliament.
However, the program of the newly minted candidate for people’s deputy, Ivakha, has no word about them. Finally, it is planned to implement the “Kovel - European Place” program, develop legislative changes to drive diversification of energy security, and legislative protection of Volynsk forests construction, development of engineering and transport infrastructure in Volina.
Pragmatic and relevant speeches, wait a minute. It is not the fact that Stepan Petrovich Yshov was in the 2012 election and that it was lost in the process of victory, without knowing the same power in the legislative initiatives of the people's assembly, or in specific ones decisions at the side of power. Although, judging by this, I have little praise for the Volyn election candidate. Today, Ukraine happily accepts donations from the Ivakhiv Foundation and hears all the same people without thinking about it, that everything is worth nothing in the same way, like the current state. citizens to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine and such from unidentified deputies as Ivakhiv.
Electoral violations
People's Deputy Stepan Ivakhiv, who is running in 21 electoral constituencies, supports the activities of the charitable foundation “Patriots of Volyn” to agitate election voters for their own interests. I would like to publicly represent the candidate’s headquarters to convey the responsibility of the politician to the organization.
10 zhovtnya near the village. In Lyubitiv Kovel district, the candidate of the People's Deputy Stepan Ivakhiv conducted a consultation with the elections. He spoke about his activity as a people’s deputy, and said that he did not vote for “dictatorial laws” on the 16th day. Much respect has been given to the topics of the ATO.
However, the meeting ended traditionally - with the distribution of gifts and material assistance to the election officials and institutions.
At his speech, the candidate said that now, during the election period, we cannot especially present gifts. Stepan Ivakhiv said that his lieutenant Valeriy Cherkaska was ready to speak. After these words, the candidate left the office and became a member.
Then, without interrupting the entry, Mr. Cherkaska spoke to those present, identifying himself as a representative of the charitable foundation “Patriots of Volyn”. We told the voters that the founder of the charitable foundation was Stepan Ivakhiv himself. Then he handed over gifts and envelopes to the local residents of the village of Lyubitiv. Zokrema, pennies for the needs of the school were taken away by the director, the village head was given money for the construction of a new fenced storage area (15 thousand), the local children's health center - toys, one family was given to Mikrokhvilov pich, and the family military service, which is in full – 2 thousand UAH. The representative of the fund promised to transfer a number of other gifts without delay.
The same format was followed in other settlements in the district.
It is also significant that all campaigning and information production of the candidate is related to the activities of the charitable foundation. All such materials bear the logo or name of the foundation. In addition, in the discussion about the work of a people’s deputy, the next section is dedicated to the very activity of the charitable foundation. With this rank, the electors have no doubt about who should allocate the beneficent fund.
Representatives of the candidate would like to publicly declare that Stepan Ivakhiv has no interest in the charitable foundation. This statement was made by another deputy deputy during the recent OPORI press conference.
I'm going to get a drink from OPORI by donating to the Patriot Volyn charity fund.
The city guards asked on the offensive:
What is the relationship between the candidate of People's Deputy of Ukraine Stepan Ivakhiv and the Volyn Regional Benevolent Fund "Patriots of Volyn"?
How will people's deputy Stepan Ivakhiv have a beneficial fund for the election goals of the candidate?
How will the charitable foundation “Patriots of Volyn” continue to operate throughout the year 2014?
What came the proof:
“As of the date of withdrawal of information from September 30, 2014, Stepan Petrovich Ivakhiv will not enter the warehouse of the founders and participants of the VOBO “Patriots Volini”...
Apparently, until the current legislation, charitable foundations are not subjects of the election process, therefore a charitable foundation cannot take part in the election campaign.”
However, as can be seen from the video recordings of other products that are spreading throughout the district, candidate Ivakhiv and the charitable foundation “Patriots of Volyn” are closely working within the boundaries of the 21 electoral districts.
Thus, the booklets “News about the activity of the people’s deputy for 2013” are written: “For the beneficial activity of the 2013 year, the foundation of the people’s deputy Stepan Ivakhiv “Patriots of Volyn” saw 6 million 800 thousand 816 thousand hryvnia. Let’s help the people’s deputy of Ukraine Stepan Ivakhiv and his charitable foundation “Patriots of Volyn” by providing material assistance to 21 churches and 2 weekly schools for a total amount of 490,000 hryvnia.”
This is confirmed by information from the website of People’s Deputy Stepan Ivakhiv, which states that he was the founder of the Volyn regional charitable foundation “Patriot Volyn”. As the people’s deputy Valeriy Cherkasky says from the video, this is the same foundation that soon changed its name to “Patriots of Volyn”.
Such actions, in the opinion of representatives of the Gromadyansky measure of OPORA, violate Part 14 of Art. 74 of the Law “On the Election of People's Deputies of Ukraine”, therefore, any assignment to voters, pledges, institutions, organizations of companies or free of charge for the benefit of goods, services, work, other material assets, etc. is accompanied by guessing the name of the candidate and indirect bribery of voters. Therefore, these facts are to be investigated by law enforcement officers.
It is significant that Stepan Ivakhiv is suddenly running for parliament in the 21st electoral district (metropolitan Kovel). In 2012, he was elected as a people's deputy of Ukraine. That politician also vindicated the activities of the charitable foundation for his propaganda campaign.
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