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📁 Volodymyr Halantiernik (Lampochka)
The best thing a person without power can do is imitate it. Imagine an Odesa boy on the corner of Hretska and Katerynynska. A hungry childhood, cheap shoes, complexes the size of Pryvoz. He grows up and turns his own body into an accounting ledger: tattoos from crown to heels, blepharoplasty, hair the “enameled” black of an old piano lid. He calls himself the city's shadow. And he will be offended when in Monaco they don't shake his hand, in London they stop greeting him, in Odesa they forget his patronymic.
📌 Volodymyr Illich Halantiernik (sometimes Galanternik). In circles — “Vova Lampochka.” Not a ruler. A frightened man who has spent his whole life sitting in other people's offices.
He is now on trial for a “large” case — 689 million hryvnias of budget losses, municipal enterprise No. 42017000000001097 (October 2021).
But for the bicycle — no one asked. An Odesa joke: a guy sits in a cell. “For what?” — “Well, I took a bicycle. But I already served time for the bicycle.” And quietly: “And for everything else — not yet.” For Volodymyr Illich, the time for bicycles didn’t come.
1990-th. The corner of Hretska and Katerynynska, an electrical goods store freshly privatized as “Edison.” In the morning the saleswoman wipes the lightbulbs. A young man comes in, lays papers on the counter: “Keys. Premises. Goods. All mine. You owe me.” No one remembers the “debt” — except the one who has the papers. That's how the city first heard the nickname Vova Lampochka. The boy learned a formula for life: papers are stronger than people. Where is the investigation?
2001-th. Chornomorske Shipping Company, the pride of Odesa. Halantiernik is appointed insolvency manager. 2003-th — bankruptcy in the Commercial Court of the Odesa region. 2006-th: debts 54 million UAH, assets 250 million UAH, “under the flag” two ships from the former large fleet. And here’s the trick: in that same 2003 the Higher Commercial Court cancels the decision — “there is no evidence that the manager appointed was in fact Halantiernik.” The surname evaporates from the protocol like steam from an Odesa samovar. The cover-up — a judge, later head of the Commercial Court of Odesa, Valentyn Prodaievych. The fleet went “to friends.” Article 219 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine — where?
The mayor was Ruslan Bodelan. SocKomBank is opened. Among the founders — Halantiernik and the Dutch Hertensteegh B.V., a legal intermediary convenient for selling Chornomorske property to people who happen to find themselves looking in a mirror. Chairman of the supervisory board 2003–2011 — Halantiernik. 2011-th — a quiet liquidation. Depositors end up empty-handed. Articles 218–1 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine — where?
2007–2011. Gurvits' second term. Eduard Smoliar — head of the city's Office for Management of Communal Property. 23 central properties, among them — the central registry office, were “exchanged” for a wreck on the outskirts. The recipient — LLC “ART,” behind which is a co-founder of SocKomBank. Odesa lost the building where half the city married.
Budget loss — 37,1 million UAH. 31.10.2011 the administrative court ruled the decision illegal. Smoliar — off to Israel, suitcase in hand and a clear conscience. Halantiernik — not a figure in the case. Then who is a figure? The boy with the lightbulb?
And the final etude — “Gepard-Plus.” 26.01.2009, 08:45. The Odesa city council names the winner of the airport reconstruction tender a private enterprise with a charter capital of 45 000 hryvnias. The condition — investments of 250 million dollars. A firm with capital enough for two decent foreign cars gets a contract worth a quarter of a billion. They didn’t even sign: the crisis and the 2010 election saved the day. According to our data — the firm of Halantiernik. Article 191 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine — where?
That was the intermission. Next — the main act. October 2017, 40 men in balaclavas with City Center patches, the fence of a military unit cut, the airfield “Odesa Shkolny” — 94 hectares! Mustafa Nayyem from the VR podium. The SBU is silent. Post 2 — about the day the boy with the lightbulb decided to become a general.
“Whoever gains power must learn to hold it,” Machiavelli wrote. He gained it. And he held on so tightly that he broke everyone's fingers around him. The statutes didn’t stick. We will lift every layer.
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