Valery Karpuntsov
Since 2012, online publications have been replete with reports of the “exploits” of the former general director of Construction Materials Plant No. 1 LLC (Nova Kakhovka) Ivana VinnikRecently, there have been reports that "a raider from Nova Kakhovka is planning to become a member of parliament."
However, the publications lack any evidence that Vynnyk will actually become a people's deputy. This evidence was substantiated today by a source close to Vynnyk, who is convinced that the following factors will guarantee Vynnyk's success in the upcoming elections.
I. Vinnik ran as a hidden independent candidate for the UDAR party's single-mandate constituency No. 184 in the 2012 elections. He lost.
UDAR has decided to support a self-nominated candidate whose votes were allegedly stolen and added to Dmitruk, a member of the Party of Regions, as UDAR's representative to the Central Election Commission, Valery Karpuntsov, announced during a press conference after the election.
(Read more about it in the article "The Fixer" with Stripes: How Karpuntsov Got Promoted to General and Why He's Holding on to the GPU)
According to Karpuntsov, Ivan Vinnik contacted UDAR several days ago, and the party decided to support this independent candidate.
Following this, V. Karpuntsov continued to care for Vynnyk and, as an honored lawyer of Ukraine, a people's deputy (UDAR party), on November 18, 2012, he represented the interests of I. Vynnyk in the Supreme Administrative Court of Ukraine in Vynnyk's lawsuit to recognize the Central Election Commission's protocol on the election results as invalid, as well as to schedule re-elections in this district.
However, all efforts by V. Karpuntsov to promote I. Vinnik to the people's deputies were unsuccessful.
Having not received parliamentary immunity, I. Vinnik, already in April 2013, became a defendant in a criminal case on the fact of the seizure of credit funds of PJSC Alfa Bank in especially large amounts (over 300 million UAH), initiated by the investigative bodies of the city of Kyiv, which is currently being conducted by the Investigative Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine in the Kherson region.
Throughout the entire investigation, the same benefactor, V. Karpuntsov, constantly interfered with the investigation, using his parliamentary mandate and connections to ensure the criminal proceedings were terminated, I. Vinnik was reinstated in his previous position, and the control of Construction Materials Plant No. 1 was returned to Vinnik, who had previously incurred losses of up to 250 million hryvnias by seizing a bank loan.
But this did not bother V. Karpuntsov and he continues to write parliamentary appeals and interfere in the course of the investigation.
According to the close circle of I. Vinnik, the influential husband of the aunt of I. Vinnik’s wife, Lakizyuk Elena Aleksandrivna, born February 26.02 (near Nova Kakhovka), Viktor Petrovich Lakizyuk, who worked at the National Academy of the Prosecutor’s Office of Ukraine (2004-2005), the Supreme Court of Ukraine (2005-2007), and since 2012 has been working at the National School of Judges of Ukraine, is also involved in these processes.
Along with this, in order to increase his influence on the course of the investigation and to ensure the raider takeover attempts of the plant carried out by I. Vinnik, a well-known Odessa businessman (judging by the media, a smuggler) Vadim Alperin was involved in this process.
In the spring of 2014, V. Alperin, as a representative of Kakhovka Market LLC, a company associated with I. Vinnik, wrote a letter to Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine General S.A. Yarovyi requesting that the Ministry of Internal Affairs' State Security Service remove its security forces from the ZSM No. 1 plant, thereby facilitating another corporate raid planned by I. Vinnik and his partner D.V. Vasiliev. The request was granted.
After the removal of the State Security Service guard on March 31, 2014, Vasiliev D.V. organized a group of militants armed with bats and rebar, who attacked the plant with the aim of seizing it.
NOTE: According to the Information Resource Center, Dmitry Vyacheslavovich Vasiliev is the head of the public organization "Nova Kakhovka Historical and Patriotic Club "Kakhovka," which was founded in 2010 and registered in Nova Kakhovka at 1 Entuziastov Street; identification code 36565763. There is no information online about how many "echo of war" items the patriots led by Mr. Vasiliev found and used in combat, but there is a photo report from Perekop, where this comrade tests a real machine gun. He then organizes a motor rally for the "St. George's Ribbon" campaign.
Vasiliev recently surfaced on the RBC-Ukraine website as a confidant of Ivan Vynnyk. The news feed reported that it was Vasiliev who, on March 31, 2014, organized approximately 50 fighters in helmets and body armor, armed with bats and rebar, to attack his comrade's former property. The factory workers, along with residents of Nova Kakhovka, repelled the attempted takeover, and Vasiliev then attempted to bring in "titushki," twice as many. Again, he failed.
But why does Vinnik trust Vasiliev? Russian private detectives told Nasha Versiya that the latter, as the general director of AOZT Spika, embezzled $120,000 from the company AVIS (1996, Article 147 of the RSFSR Criminal Code, "fraud"). Later, in 2009, Vasiliev was charged under Article 148, Part 3, "extortion," but the detectives declined to disclose the details of the case.
What else can we expect from Vasiliev in Nova Kakhovka? Will he lead a column of Russian tanks into town with St. George's ribbons tied to their muzzles? Or will he dismantle his friend's aerated concrete plant one night and ship it to Crimea?
Thus, an unsightly picture emerges of assistance to crime on the part of V. Karpuntsov and V. Alperin.
So what now? Now we need to drop the criminal case against Vinnik I. as quickly as possible and present him, "white and fluffy," again as a hidden independent candidate for the UDAR party or the party itself. Then swear him in, return the plant to his control, and acquire a stable source of funding for the UDAR party and his own needs in the form of ZSM No. 1.
The plans are ambitious and realistic, considering that, according to a source in the prosecutor's office, the criminal case materials against I. Vinnik were requested from the Prosecutor General's Office (one can guess at whose initiative among the aforementioned individuals) and returned to Kherson with verbal recommendations. Guess right away – WHAT?
As the saying goes, a big swindler with powerful connections has a long way to go, but the question arises: what is UDAR really fighting for?
And as a wish, do not forget to inspect the stolen property of Vinnik I., in particular the Don Mare fish markets, Italian pizzerias in Kiev and Nova Kakhovka, as well as the offshore companies Amakuza LTD and Nialand Limited, acquired by Vinnik I. from the former top manager of the Kyivcity Branch of JSC CB Privatbank - Dergun V. Good luck!
Oh, and don't forget! Vinnik's associate, Dmitry Vasiliev, is an avid fan of military reenactments. The notorious Igor Girkin is also a fan.
Before the capture of Slavyansk, Igor Strelkov was known for his peaceful wars. He is well known among Moscow's military history reenactors. He moderates a forum dedicated to reenacting the Napoleonic Wars of 1812, the Civil War of 1917-1921, and other battles in Russia.
Now, regarding the personal qualities of the "candidate for parliament" (according to Freud). As his former colleagues and business partners characterize him, "Ever since his school days, Vanya has been developing as an adventurer, con man, and swindler with signs of paranoid disorder."
Before the start of the project to build a plant for the production of aerated concrete and attract credit resources from banks, former mechanic Vinnik I.Yu., using borrowed resources, imported tomato paste and fruit concentrates from China and Uzbekistan, including to Chumak CJSC (Kakhovka), Vitmark-Ukraine (TM Jaffa, Odessa), Erlan CJSC (TM Biola, Dnepropetrovsk) and simultaneously built townhouses in Vita Pochtovaya, Kyiv region.
His main creditor was and remains his Russian partner, V.K. Zykov, to whom I.Yu. Vinnik owed USD 7 million at the time of the plant's construction. During the plant's construction phase, I.Yu. Vinnik misled V.K. Zykov, claiming to have invested borrowed funds in the plant and promised to make Zykov a founding member, but, as usual, he cheated him. In February 2012, Zykov filed a complaint with the police requesting that a criminal investigation be opened into Vinnik I.Yu.'s fraud.
Another major creditor of I.Yu. Vinnik was and remains Swiss citizen Kurt, owing approximately $1 million. Since I.Yu. Vinnik failed to repay the debt, Kurt, through his Ukrainian lawyers, filed a lawsuit against Vinnik.
Vinnik I.Yu. also signed loan agreements and repayment schedules with Chumak CJSC for the amount of USD 1 million, but failed to fulfill the agreement; he repaid his personal debt to Vitmark-Ukraine and nearly repaid his debt to Erlan with the supply of counterfeit aerated concrete (the approximate total of his liabilities to Vitmark-Ukraine and Erlan was approximately USD 2,7 million).
Vinnik I.Yu. also had significant outstanding loans to Privat Bank.
The total amount of personal liabilities of I. Vinnik to individuals and legal entities in January-February 2013 amounted to approximately 9-10 million USD.
In order to cover his personal financial obligations for the period from the launch of the plant until the end of 2012, Vinnik I.Yu. withdrew at least 4 million USD from the working capital of the enterprise "ZSM No. 1" and put the plant into a debt hole.
During his tenure as CEO of ZSM No. 1, this incompetent manager faced a series of criminal charges for the illegal withdrawal of plant assets and tax evasion. In February 2013, by decision of the Kakhovka Court, I.Yu. Vinnik was released from criminal punishment under an amnesty for illegal VAT refunds, thanks to his young child and the guarantee of the plant's staff, to whom he had failed to pay wages.
Anticipating the possibility of creditors foreclosing on his personal property, as well as the loss of his business (“ZSM No. 1”), on July 20, 2009, Vinnik I.Yu. fictitiously divorced his wife Vinnik E.A. and subsequently transferred all of his real estate to her and his daughter Anastasia.
Fraudulent schemes, document forgery, and embezzlement run throughout I. Vinnik's activities.
So, I. Vinnik really does need parliamentary immunity. But does UDAR really need the problems of I. Vinnik's "scam"? And is it worth tarnishing the party's reputation by aiding criminal activity? Common sense must prevail, let's hope.
Ilya Semenov, for ORD
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