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Svitlana Yemelyanova, the ex-wife of Judge Artur Yemelyanov, with whom he maintains a relationship, signed an investment agreement for $1 million 300 thousand in an overseas cigarette business. Among the company's partners in Ukraine is a new cigarette factory in Zhovti Vody controlled by Ruslan Zhurilo. Zhurilo himself regularly meets in Ukraine with Judge Yemelyanov.
This is reported in Marina Ansiforova’s piece “Headquarters of Judge Artur” for the program “Nashi Hroshi with Denys Bihus.”
At the end of 2017, in Zhovti Vody (Dnipropetrovsk region), the small hometown of the suspended head of SE “United Mining and Chemical Company” Ruslan Zhurilo, a cigarette factory was opened. According to the investigation by the program “Skhemy,” only one out of 11 packs of the factory’s cigarettes has a genuine excise stamp. All others, checked by the Ministry of Finance, turned out to have forged excise stamps. In other words, journalists suspect the enterprise of not paying taxes.
The factory “United Tabaco” (Zhovti Vody) is registered to the British firm Alderton Business, 75% of which is controlled by Olena Boyko – a former partner of Ruslan Zhurilo.
Zhurilo’s younger brother Mykola works at the factory as the “director of general affairs.” The cigarette production is located at the former instrument plant “Electron,” where Ruslan Zhurilo previously served as director.
Minority partners of Zhurilo in the Zhovti Vody factory are people of businessman Vitalii Kiro. 25% of the firm Alderton is controlled by Olha Kiro.
Vitalii Kiro is the owner of a larger-scale tobacco business. In particular, companies in the United Arab Emirates Space Star Tobacco (renamed VK Tobacco).
In March of 2017, Kiro’s company signed a cooperation agreement with Svitland Global (also UAE), whose founder and director is the judge’s ex-wife Svitlana Yemelyanova. According to the agreement, Yemelyanova’s company agreed to invest in Vitalii Kiro’s cigarette business $1 million 300 thousand. In exchange for 40% of net income and with a distribution of all equipment in the ratio 50/50.
In the bank’s client verification form, the main client of VK Tobacco in Ukraine is listed as the firm “United Tabaco” – the name of the factory in Zhovti Vody that is controlled by Ruslan Zhurilo’s close circle.
According to the regional TV report “Zhovta Richka,” the factory was opened with the assistance of Oleh Kryshyn, a People's Deputy from the Narodnyi Front faction. A Narodnyi Front plaque is also on the door of the factory itself.
On 22 June, after the broadcast about the cigarette factory and the fake excise stamps aired, journalists from the program “Nashi Hroshi with Denys Bihus” recorded a car belonging personally to Deputy Kryshyn near the office of Judge Artur Yemelyanov. A man and a woman who arrived in Kryshyn’s car visited the entrance that leads to Yemelyanov’s office.
Deputy Kryshyn denied having ties to the judge but could not explain why people who arrived in his personal car entered the building housing the judge’s office. “Neither I nor any of my friends have any relations or business contacts with Artur Yemelyanov,” Kryshyn told reporters. He suggested the car may have brought passengers to “Passazh” or “Volkonsky,” which are actually located several blocks from the office they entered.
Document: PDF proof of the original version of the news item "Екс-дружина судді Артура Ємельянова інвестувала в тютюновий бізнес, який пов’язують з Русланом Журилом". It records the publication content at the moment of the first scan, the preservation date and the source: Bihus.Info.
