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The first deputy of Serhiy Pashynskyi at NAUDI is his former colleague on the National Security Committee, Ivan Vynnyk, but there isn’t even a photo of him on the site. So who is this figure?
Vynnyk was born on 3 January 1979 in Nova Kakhovka. Until 1993 his family lived in the old private-housing neighborhood, where Vanya attended Secondary School No. 4, and in 1993 they moved to a panel five-story building on Dovzhenko Street 25, and Ivan transferred to Comprehensive School No. 10. The young man went to work at the Novokakhovka Electromechanical Plant as a simple fitter. At the same time, from 1996 Ivan Vynnyk was considered a student of the Kherson Industrial Institute, but which faculty he initially enrolled in remains unknown. Ivan Vynnyk did not serve in the army—and the reason for that is also unknown.
Everything changed in 1998, when the 19-year-old Vynnyk got a job at the recently opened Swedish-Ukrainian firm Chumak in Kakhovka. Immediately as deputy head of procurement.
Among his kinship ties, a figure named Viktor Petrovych Lakiziuk repeatedly surfaced—allegedly either the husband of an aunt or the husband’s relative of Ivan’s wife Olena Zhmailo (1980). His name is first mentioned in 1998, when Mykhailo Potebenko became the new Prosecutor General. Potebenko had once worked in the Kherson regional prosecutor’s office and built numerous connections and “reliable people” there, one of whom was Viktor Lakiziuk—appointed in 1998 as the new head of the GPU press service. As Potebenko’s trusted associate, Lakiziuk was one of the channels of access to the Prosecutor General for resolving any important issues. And access to Lakiziuk himself was his relatives—particularly the husband of a niece.
Vynnyk’s ticket to a new life was an early marriage: the handsome young man managed to “woo” the niece of a prosecutor employee on the eve of the latter’s promotion to Kyiv.
Lakiziuk’s subsequent career is quite interesting. In 2000 he was the one protecting the Prosecutor General’s Office from numerous attacks by journalists and civil activists who were interested in the Gongadze case. At the time of the first Maidan, senior justice advisor Lakiziuk “disappeared,” moving to work at the National Academy of the Prosecutor’s Office, but by 2005 he appeared in the Supreme Court. He long exchanged the prosecutor’s uniform for a judge’s robe, since in 2012 Lakiziuk received the position of department head at the National School of Judges.
Vynnyk created the company Global Koncentrat (EDRPOU code 31966466), which imported tomato paste and juice concentrates, reselling them to branded manufacturers. In 2004 he, together with Stanislav Tkachuk (20%) and the Russian firm DALK (50%), which likely belonged to Russian businessman Zikov, founded the company Zed-Service. In 2005 Vynnyk and Tkachuk founded the companies Tomato Country (90% and 10%) and Concentrate Trading (80% and 20%). Vynnyk acquired many partners in this business, but his treatment of them varied widely: after partnering with some, he “stiffed” others. That happened in the case of LLC Building Materials Plant No. 1.
The second turning point in Ivan Vynnyk’s life was the period 2007–2008. That was when he became the swindler and “con man” he is known as today. For some reason he personally destroyed his tomato-concentrate business: having received substantial prepayments for goods, he never delivered them to the companies Vitmark (Jaffa juices) and Erlan (Biola juices), owing them 2,7 million dollars. Then he similarly “stiffed” his original employer Chumak, failing to deliver raw materials worth over one million dollars. At the same time he owed his Russian partner Zikov more than 7 million dollars—and instead of repaying it, he convinced him that he would invest it in a new profitable enterprise, making Zikov his co-owner. It seems that this enterprise became the main fraud of his entire life.
To be continued...
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