Valeriy Dubil: The "European" organized crime group in Tymoshenko's criminal circle. Part 1
If Yulia Tymoshenko wins the presidential election, Ukraine could get a new Yura Yenakievskyi or Sasha Stomatolog in the person of current Batkivshchyna MP Valeriy Dubil. The co-owner of Kyiv's Troyeshchyna market, whose shares he acquired after the murder of Pryshchyk, and the leader of the Chernihiv criminal clan "Europe," is currently being called an "Orthodox raider" in the media for his active participation in UOC-MP events and organizing the seizure of businesses. However, Dubil is guilty of a far more serious sin than participating in religious processions of "Moscow priests" and the takeover of bankrupt businesses.
Valeriy Dubil: Chernihiv region is “Europe”!
Many respectable businessmen and prominent politicians in Ukraine have erased the 90s from their biographies, not wanting the public to know how they "earned" their living and how they rose to prominence during those turbulent years. Some hide financial pyramids and corporate raids in their "portfolios," while others hide something even worse: involvement in notorious organized crime groups and even ties to the international mafia. But you can't hide such a thing! Scroll through the section CRYPT On our website, you can learn more about the dark past Konstantinovsky brothers, Maxim Efimov, Gennady Trukhanov, Alexandra Nalekreshvili, Igor Krivetsky and many other odious individuals calling themselves the modern Ukrainian elite. Now this "collection of remarkable people" has been expanded to include Valeriy Dubil, a longtime and close associate of Yulia Tymoshenko, who has big plans for her victory in the 2019 elections.
Valery Alexandrovich Dubil was born on September 26, 1973, in Priluki, where his father, Alexander Petrovich Dubil (born 1952), served as a warrant officer at the famous Soviet airbase for Tu-160 heavy bombers. The entire family lived in Voenny Gorodok-12, a separate neighborhood in the city specifically built for military families. The family was quite large: an open database reveals that Valery Dubil himself, his parents, his brothers Sergei and Alexander (born 1976 and 1982), the brothers' wives, and others were all registered there until recently.
Unlike his warrant officer father, Valery still tried to get at least some kind of profession, and after school he entered the local medical school, graduating in 1992.
It seems that along with his paramedic-obstetrician diploma, he also received a certificate of some kind of illness, as there is no information about his military service—apparently, the warrant officer's son had a profound aversion to it. However, it is known that he started working in the emergency room of the central city hospital in October 1992, at the age of 19. Dubil remained there until January 2002, when he left for Kyiv.
He was listed as such because he immediately abandoned his thankless, unpaid job and took up "this and that." According to numerous sources Skelet.OrgValery Dubil started out in the "family business": working with his warrant officer father, he stole and smuggled non-ferrous metals from an airbase. In this endeavor, he became close to his neighbor, Sergei Varnavsky (born 1962), who was an underling of local crime boss Chebykin. In the 90s, Chebykin, in turn, worked under Sergei Kuntsevsky, a former Pskov paratrooper who became the head of one of the Priluki racketeering gangs.
Sergey Varnavsky
Like many other Ukrainian cities, Pryluky was teeming with gangsters of all stripes at the time. Locals whispered the names of Shurik Shuklin, Tolik Knyshenko, Volodya Gladenky, Oleg Globus, Vitko Lysyi, Sasha Kiryachek, and many others. They all wanted to control the "money-making" business: gasoline, the car market, the alcohol trade, bazaars and stores, and scrap metal collection. And it was Chebykin who was "protecting" the scrap metal collection points in Pryluky. With his "blessing," the Dubilys, father and son, opened their own, and no longer had to haul copper cable scraps and aluminum from the airbase themselves—they now had a resourceful "partner" among the airfield officers.
Alexander Shuklin and Sergey Kunetsevsky
But the enterprising paramedic-obstetrician didn't stop there. Unwilling to be a simple metal detectorist, he proved himself to Chebykin as an energetic and tough "guy"—and was accepted into Varnavsky's "brigade," which was tasked with fighting "competitors." Thus, Valery Dubil became a member of the Priluki organized crime group "Europe," named after a disco club that had been operating in the city since the 80s. According to one version, the group was founded by musicians and DJs who hosted disco parties at "Europe," while another version claims it was founded by young people who hung out there and made the disco club their "base." They earned their nickname, "Europeans," even before they became an organized crime group, and it became their signature brand. Subsequently, they called the sports and evening clubs, shops and hotels, a charitable foundation, and even a local television and radio company opened by them (including Valery Dubil) “Europe”.
Valeriy Dubil: "European" organized crime group in Tymoshenko's criminal circle. Part 1
Priluki: a solid "Europe"
Young Dubil demonstrated such initiative and ruthlessness that he soon became the head of the "cleanup brigade," with Varnavsky reporting to his neighbor, the paramedic. Meanwhile, Chebykin's business expanded throughout the region and even beyond its borders: media reported that the "Europe" organized crime group controlled scrap metal purchases in the Kyiv, Poltava, Cherkasy, Khmelnytsky, Vinnytsia, Chernivtsi, and Mykolaiv regions. It was also reported that Valery Dubil, who participated in the war for the redistribution of the metal market, was personally implicated in at least two murders, but these "wet" cases remained cold. Rumor has it, this was not without the help of the "Europeans"' connections in law enforcement.
While the son was breaking someone's jaws and fingers, the warrant officer dad was busily robbing his native airbase.
After the aircraft based there were handed over to Russia and the remaining ones were scrapped, the base was closed. And under the personal protection of Valery Dubil, it was stripped bare: even underground cables were dug up, steel flooring sheets were removed from the hangars, and journalists later found the uprooted concrete slabs laid around Valery Dubil's country estate and the "huts" of his henchmen. He helped them with this. Oleg Averyanov – the very same base officer who entered the Dubil father-and-son business from the very beginning. He and Warrant Officer Dubil were the two key figures who organized the looting of the base.
Oleg Averyanov
Yet, until the late 90s, the "Europe" organized crime group wasn't the most powerful in Priluki. Far more influential at the time was Igor Kruglov, a "Union-level" crime boss nicknamed "Shpal" (Sleeper). After serving in the army, a former Priluki street thug found work in Moscow as a driver for a high-ranking official in the Investigative Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, soon seducing his daughter. At the same time, Kruglov became friends with Moscow organized crime groups, particularly the Solnevsky gang. Having thus established strong connections in Moscow, Kruglov became a powerful figure in his homeland, and by the 80s, he controlled the local mafia in Priluki. With the onset of perestroika, he began opening cooperatives and developing businesses. This business haunted Chebykin, who had his eye on him. But Kruglov was out of Chebykin's league. Instead, Valery Dubil managed to snatch up his business.
It happened in the late 1990s. Still listed as a paramedic at the city hospital, Valery Dubil opened his first limited liability company and donned the raspberry-colored jacket of a businessman. In 1998, he was elected to the Priluki City Council, becoming the number three man in the "Europe" organized crime group. He made many buddies within the group, and the others feared and respected him, so he began to act. First, Chebykin died in a DPT, and the case materials subsequently disappeared. Then someone cleverly framed Sergei Kuntsevsky for arrest—and his subsequent fate was tragic. When Kuntsevsky returned to Priluki after serving his sentence, in 2008 he and two other long-time members of the "Europe" organized crime group were re-arrested on old charges "due to newly discovered facts." One can only guess who exactly revealed these facts to the police, but Kuntsevsky was a major nuisance to Valeriy Dubil, who had just become a people's deputy on the Batkivshchyna party list. And so, on October 2, 2008, Sergei Kuntsevsky was arrested by the Sokol special forces and taken to the Pryluky city police department, where he...beaten to death during interrogation.
All of this clearly supports the theory that Valeriy Dubil achieved leadership in the "Europe" organized crime group with the help of his "handlers" in law enforcement, who assisted him in every way possible during his illustrious career. Perhaps former Chernihiv prosecutor Volodymyr Stetsenko, who worked there from 1984 to 2001, and then in 2014-2015, could shed some light on this. According to journalists, he had very close relations with the "Europeans" and Valeriy Dubil personally. In 2015, Stetsenko was appointed assistant. Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin, and then he was called a very influential person in the Prosecutor General's Office, “overseeing” the Chernihiv region.
Vladimir Stetsenko
So, having become the leading "European" in the late 90s, Valery Dubil quickly took over Kruglov's businesses, first in Priluki and then throughout the region. Gangster "shootouts" weren't enough: cars were blown up, ribs were broken, and the police began to pressure Vasily Sobchuk (Vasya Krymsky), the city overseer appointed by Kruglov,. Then the semi-criminal businessmen who had worked for Kruglov began to defect to Dubil and the "Europeans." Radalov, who controlled a wholesale food warehouse, was the first to do so. He even renamed his company "Eurorad" (Europe-Radalov) to emphasize that he was working for the city's new master. Soon, two city markets, the Chernihivvtorchermet enterprise, and a timber warehouse came under the control of "Europe." This allowed the “Europeans,” in particular, to monopolize the metal market and subsequently carry out operations with it through their companies, Mixer LLC and Ecoresurs LLC.
One episode in that reshuffle was the 2000 murder of Vasily Degtyar, director of the Prilutsk poultry processing plant, which was barely operational at the time and only processed beef hides for the haberdashery industry. Degtyar was killed after he refused to appoint warrant officer Alexander Dubil as his deputy and transfer his controlling stake to him. Seven point-blank bullets ended the life of the stubborn director right in his own building, and immediately after his funeral, Dubil "Papa" became the new director and owner of the poultry processing plant, later transferring the business to the son of his partners. This murder, too, became a cold case.
But the most mysterious thing about this war was that Kruglov was unable to utilize either his connections in law enforcement or the help of the Solntsevskaya gang—both local authorities and the Moscow gang sided with Dubil and his "European" crew. The reason remains unknown. But from that moment on, according to Skelet.OrgValeriy Dubil (still listed as a simple paramedic) became not only the leader of a powerful organized crime group in the Chernihiv region, but also a national "authority" with connections in Russia. Moreover, some believe that Dubil's subsequent political choice for Batkivshchyna was not without the involvement of the Solntsevskaya gang. As is well known, one of the curators of the Solntsevskaya gang was international mafioso Semyon Mogilevich (now missing), and journalists have long been speculating about connections between Mogilevich and Tymoshenko.
The path of the "Europeans"
In the early 2000s, Valeriy Dubil moved to Kyiv, and not alone: several other "Europeans" arrived in the capital with him, and they quickly settled in. Dubil was elected as a member of Kyiv's Dniprovskyi District Council, and his friend and close ally, Varnavskyi, later became a member of the Kyiv City Council (BYuT faction). But that was later; Dubil's first and most resounding success in Kyiv was the Troyeshchyna Market.
As is well known, all the capital's markets were once under the protection of renowned criminal "authorities." Troyeshchynsky was controlled by Valeriy Pryshchik (nicknamed Pryshch), the leader of a once-notorious Kyiv organized crime group. Legally, the market was registered to the company "Market 1" LLC, co-owned at the time by Valeriy Pryshchik himself, his half-brother Igor Tsishkovsky, and his closest buddies, Sergei Onoprienko (nicknamed Saloed) and Alexander Lishchenko (Licza), whom Pryshchik had known since childhood. Apparently, he didn't know them well enough. On December 1, 2003, Valeriy Pryshchik was murdered. Many different theories were put forward regarding who ordered the murder, but his mother believed that The murder was organized by Lishchenko and OnoprienkoOther versions included a connection to the corrupt Kyiv Organized Crime Control Department and possible involvement in this Valery Heletey, Vitaly Yarema и Alexey SavchenkoThere was also talk of the possible involvement of the Donetsk and Solntsevskaya gangs in Pryshchik's murder. But here's what's curious: after Pryshchik's death, the ownership structure of Rynok 1 LLC changed. In addition to Tsishkovsky, Lishchenko, and Onoprienko, who continued to control half of the market's shares through Comfort-Lux LLC (EDRPOU 32246123), its co-owners were the Priluki firms Asfa-Line (EDRPOU 37632505) and Budpostach Pryluky (37984674), as well as ITS-London Technology Company LLC (34479827), owned by Vitaly Prysyazhnyuk, the son of Vasyl Prysyazhnyuk, who held the post of Deputy Prosecutor General of Ukraine at the time of Pryshchik's murder. And soon Valery Dubil officially became the deputy director of OOO Rynok 1 – he was called the new owner of the Troyeshchyna market.
Sergey Varis, for Skelet.Org
CONTINUED: Valery Dubil: "European" organized crime group in Tymoshenko's criminal circle. Part 2
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