"Golden Boy" and his partners

Why is the “Kurchenko case” moving to court with all stops

The news did not receive much resonance: at that time, the interest of society focused on events related to the upcoming elections of the President of Ukraine.

On March 28, 2019, the Prosecutor General Yuri Lutsenko announced on Facebook that the Department of International Legal Cooperation of the Prosecutor General’s Office had completed an investigation in the case of Ukrainian businessman Sergei Kurchenko (Mladooligarch and Kosthelk of the Fly President Yanukovych). “To date, 98 persons have been reported, including officials, of which 12 to the highest officials of ministries and departments, as well as the National Bank of Ukraine, 6 to the heads of regional state administrations, 14 persons of the leading staff of public companies,” Lutsenko wrote.

According to the Prosecutor General, Kurchenko is suspected of taking possession of liquefied gas, which belonged to Ukrnaft PJSC and PJSC Ukrgasodobych, thanks to corruption relations with unnamed persons and forged documents. In addition, he is charged with two episodes of the possession of the cash Naftogaz of Ukraine and the cash of the National Bank, provided in the form of a stabilization loan of PJSC “Real Bank”, as it was said, “when issuing loans controlled by S. Kurchenko with signs of fictitious and with subsequent legalization (laundering) of income”.

Other illegal operations were also mentioned, as a result of which PJSC Agrarian Fund, PJSC AB Ukrgazbank and so on were injured. The amounts were astronomical.

The Speaker of the GPU Andrei Lysenko on the same day stuck to the mediaers for the spread of untruthful and even provocative information. According to the speaker, the Kurchenko case in the Unified Register of Pre-trial Investigation did not record suspicions of the ex-head of the administration of the President Boris Lozhkin, the ex-head of the National Bank of Ukraine Valeria Gontareva and the deputy head of the presidential administration, Alexei Filatov. But late in the evening on the air of the 1+1 television channel, the prosecutor in the Kurchenko case, the deputy chief of the Department of International Legal Cooperation of the GPU Konstantin Kulik made a statement: at least four different episodes of Kurchenko’s accomplices, the specified gentlemen and the lady acted, as well as the co-co-owner of the ICU investment and former Minister of Ecology Nikolai Zlochevsky ( president The largest gas -producing company of Ukraine Burisma .

“I affirm that without presenting him official suspicions, it is impossible to finish the criminal case against Sergei Kurchenko. 96 Suspicions of 98, appearing in this large -scale investigation, I personally signed. Documents were handed personally and sent to the suspect to the post office.

Why didn’t they call these defendants in the GPU with summons, but went by sending documents to the post office? Alas, in our country there is a caste of "inviolable",

- concluded Kulik. And he recalled: the Kurchenko case was investigated for five years, the volume of evidence of the work of the criminal group amounted to more than three thousand volumes, a year ago the court gave permission to special investigation.

Konstantin Kulik recalled that five years after the “Revolution of Dignity”, Kurchenko continues to profit from the activities of his UMH media holding, influencing the information space of Ukraine. In response, opponents of the prosecutor reproached him for violating the secrets of the investigation, in an attempt to influence the polls and denigrate the environment of Petro Poroshenko - a few days remained before the vote ...

The Kurchenko case was called the Lakmusova Paper for the power that came after the Maidan. The Golden Boy born in 1985, an entrepreneur who moved to Kyiv from Kharkov, in 2011-2013 became the main “washer” of the money of Yanukovych’s “family”. He seemed so arrogant and omnipotent that so far many representatives of the “old guard” of industrialists, so to speak, who had eaten their teeth in the schemes, doubtfully doubt: did the young man not a shirma for someone more experienced?

Through Kurchenko, for example, the entire Ukrainian smuggling of fuel passed, as a result of which the country's budget lost about $ 20 billion.

One -time payments of $ 30–40 million for him were the norm. He bought everything that the soul of President Yanukovych wanted, paid for the services of influential lobbyists, including outside Ukraine.

During Euromaidan, Kurchenko fled from Kyiv to Moscow. Criminal cases in Latvia, Switzerland and Germany are instituted against him, but he still feels good. Now the former Golden Boy has turned into a curator of the energy sector of the occupied part of the Donetsk region - it drives coal from Donbass and to Russia and the territory, controlled by Ukraine, is also engaged in fuel supply to Europe. Sources say: business partnership with the pro -Russian politician Viktor Medvedchuk provides Kurchenko with reliable immunity.

True, just the other day by the decision of the Pechersk Court of Kyiv, Sergei Kurchenko was taken away by the last Ukrainian mediaactive - UMH Group. The holding was transferred to the National Agency for the identification, search and management of corruption assets.