The “7 Kilometer” Market — Collaborators of the Occupiers: Why Hasn’t It Been Nationalized Yet?

The “7 Kilometer” market — collaborators of the occupiers: why hasn’t it been nationalized yet?

The “7 Kilometer” market — collaborators of the occupiers. This business has long attracted the attention of the media, the public, and independent investigative journalists with its scandals, financing of terrorism, purchase of court rulings, and the illegal removal of tens of millions of hryvnias.

Why hasn’t the “7 Kilometer” market been nationalized yet? This question interests many, especially during a full-scale war. How can, at such a difficult time for Ukraine, the main Odesa market “feed” the terrorists of the LNR by making scandalous deals?

The topic seemed to have been muted recently, but then a high-profile event occurred that again drew much media attention to the “7 km.” On the coast of Odesa, the ex-co-owner of this scandalous market, Viktor Dobryanskyi Jr., who had been wanted since last year, was found dead. What is known now?

On 23 January, media reported that the grandson of the market’s founder, “7 Kilometer,” had died. His body was found on one of Odesa’s roads in the morning.

It is known that the day before he had been relaxing in one of the saunas located on the beach, but left it wearing only sneakers and underwear. Law enforcement agencies are currently determining the cause of his death.

Notably, this businessman who died had been claiming to become the owner of this goods market.

Another important point: the entrepreneur had been wanted for more than six months under articles 205-1, 206-2, 209 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. The charges include a whole list of accusations: unlawful appropriation of company property, money laundering of assets obtained by criminal means, and falsification of registration documents.

According to Dumska, investigators established that the businessman, in collusion with unidentified persons, forged a purchase-sale agreement for the company “Viktor D.” It is this company that owns the scandalous “7 Kilometer” market. At that time, the company’s owner was Dobryanskyi’s mother.

Currently the “7 Kilometer” is owned by entrepreneur Volodymyr Galanternyk. This figure is also hiding from law enforcement authorities because he is a defendant in the so-called “Odesa case.” He now lives in the United Kingdom, evading investigation. All in all, Santa Barbara can take a break. This already looks like some kind of crime thriller.

How the “7 Kilometer” market bought a court decision to cover up a scandal involving the diversion of assets to LNR accounts in the amount of 23,5 million hryvnias

Back at the end of 2015, the Darnytskyi District Court of the capital issued a scandalous ruling that shocked many. The court then found that an article published by the authoritative outlet Censor was untrue and damaged the reputation of the limited liability company “Promtovarnyi Rynok” (“7 km”). One wonders how much the company’s management paid for such a court ruling — obviously a substantial sum with many zeros.

That damning article stated that this popular Odesa market conducted scandalous deals related to financing the occupiers in the LNR. The amount of assets diverted to accounts in the temporarily occupied territory of the LNR by the Ivanyushchenko group, as cited by journalists in the article, amounted to 23,5 million hryvnias.

One participant in that scheme to finance the terrorists was Oleksandr Kifak, the German consul in Odesa. He handled the legal support for the very controversial contract worth 23,5 lari, the details of which surfaced in the media.

The deal was between the market’s management and the limited liability company “Luhansk Coal Enrichment Company,” as a result of which more than 23,5 million hryvnias were sent to the occupiers’ accounts. Of course, this was not done directly but through the banking structure “TK Credit,” where both companies had accounts, and the financial operations were conducted as payment for shares of the public joint-stock company “Yasna Polyana.”

All of this looked even more scandalous because the legal side of the contract was handled by Kifak’s company “ANK,” which is listed in the 8 sanctions lists and appears in 159 court documents.

Investigators reported that Ivanyushchenko, together with Kifak and other associates, by conducting such deals, for a long time have been financing the terrorists and illegal formations of the LNR/DNR, supporting the occupiers during the full-scale war in Ukraine.

What is known about the court ruling that was issued

In November of 2015, the Darnytskyi District Court of the capital issued a decision on the lawsuit of the management of the “Promtovarnyi Rynok” against Censor’s editor-in-chief Yu. Butusov. The claim was granted, and the damning article on the site was recognized by the court as untrue and defamatory to the market’s business reputation. At the same time, Butusov was not in a hurry to publish a retraction on the site, and several fines were even imposed on him for failing to comply with that court ruling.

Here is the text of that ruling.

Notably, that was far from the only article. At the time, there were many publications in various sources reporting that Ivanyushchenko’s group (from Yenakiieve) finances terrorism through the “7 Kilometer.”

In addition, there are a number of other informative materials on Censor itself. We recommend getting acquainted with them.

- “7 km” — “the market of discord”? We fully agree with the title of that journalistic investigation. Read the details about corporate wars and the detective story surrounding this market via the link.

– “It’s time to cleanse the “7 Kilometer” of Yurii Yenakiievskyi’s bandits”? And that is absolutely certain; it’s long past time to do it.

Yes, the article published a demand to investigate the criminals’ schemes and to imprison those responsible, and also to cleanse the “7 Kilometer” of the mafia clans of Yanukovych and the oligarchy.

More details at the link.

- “25 MPs demand to cleanse the “7 Kilometer” market of Yurii Yenakiievskyi’s gang”

Details about Ivanyushchenko’s schemes at the “7 km” — read in another Censor piece.

Considering all of the above, the main question has ripened. Why, after so many years of frauds and schemes that Ivanyushchenko’s gang has carried out at the “7 Kilometer,” financing and supporting the occupiers, has the scandalous market still not been nationalized? It’s long overdue!

To be continued.