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2007 year Ivan Vynnyk founded LLC “Building Materials Plant No.1”, which became the owner of the Novokakhovka aerated concrete (foam concrete) plant. It was under this enterprise that he took on debts and loans. In particular, these were loans from PrivatBank, registered to his company “Global Concentrate”: in 2013 he owed Privat 22,51 million hryvnias, and in 2016 Vynnyk’s companies still owed the bank 35,57 million hryvnias. And add to that the aforementioned 7 million dollars from Zykov and nearly 4 million dollars that Vynnyk “stiffed” Ukrainian juice producers for. A very large sum accumulated, but how much of that money he actually invested in the plant remains unknown. Then Vynnyk took an impressive loan from Alfa-Bank secured by 70% of the company’s shares. He himself remained with 30% of the shares as chairman of the board and CEO of LLC “Building Materials Plant No.1.”
Vynnyk was in no hurry to pay his debts, instead devising crafty schemes. For example, he persuaded Vitmark and Erlan to settle the debt with goods (aerated concrete), but in doing so he effectively stole it from his own plant — to the detriment of the other shareholders, the plant itself, and its workers. Later Ivan Vynnyk tried to settle with Chumak the same way, but he “stiffed” them a second time: the aerated concrete supposedly transferred to Chumak (illegally re-registered) and stored in the plant’s warehouse suddenly… disappeared. It turned into a double theft — first the aerated concrete was stolen from the plant, and then it was stolen from Chumak, with all of this happening in the same warehouse.
Vynnyk claimed “third parties” were to blame, and he even defeated all of Chumak’s lawsuits in the Kherson courts, but the corporation later managed to get Kyiv Court of Appeal to recognize Vynnyk’s debt. However, this was no longer the million-plus dollars for the tomato paste that was never delivered to Chumak, but only a debt for the stolen aerated concrete — the amount turned out to be smaller. So here too Ivan Yuliyovych duped Chumak, which suffered from him repeatedly!
By a 2013 decision of the Kakhovka district court, Vynnyk was released from criminal liability for tax evasion and VAT fraud (thanks to his wife’s uncle). But deceiving Alfa-Bank proved much harder, since it had shareholder rights. Still, Vynnyk tried. The company’s assets were re-registered to LLC “Beton Tavrii,” and the equipment and even office furniture to LLC “Kakhovka-Market,” controlled by another of Vynnyk’s partners — Muscovite Dmytro Vasyliev, who settled in Kakhovka (1968). Vasyliev had previously been charged with fraud and later was involved in an extortion case.
In 2013 Alfa-Bank exercised its right and convened a shareholders’ meeting, which removed Vynnyk from the CEO post, appointed Mykola Shiyan in his place, and subordinated the enterprise to a specially created LLC “Energy Product.” This kicked off a prolonged physical confrontation: for half a year Vynnyk’s people defended the plant, not allowing Shiyan in, and in March 2014 they tried to retake it. About fifty members of Novokakhovka’s “patriotic club” of Dmytro Vasyliev took part in the assault; Vasyliev turned out to be as fond of historical reenactment as his compatriot Igor Girkin. Despite that in 2011–2012 this club organized “St. George ribbon” motor rallies and generally leaned toward Soviet themes, right after the second Maidan it rebranded into a club of Ukrainian patriots — which Ivan Vynnyk suddenly became as well. He began claiming his aerated concrete plant was “seized by Russian raiders” who “deliberately destroy the Ukrainian economy,” emphasizing that the owner of Alfa-Bank is the Russian oligarch Mikhail Fridman (of Lviv origin, incidentally).
The Novokakhovka City Court issued a judgment to recover 335,43 million hryvnias from Vynnyk and his partner Tkachuk in favor of Alfa-Bank: this amount included taken loans, siphoned-off assets, and stolen assets. But Vynnyk had prepared for such an outcome in advance: he had fictitiously divorced his wife back in 2009 and re-registered almost all his real estate, as well as cars and boats, in her name.
To be continued..
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