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They found the scapegoat: Which deputy minister of justice will sit for helping raiders
20 August at the Ministry of Justice a order No. 2713/5 was signed. This document put the Ministry of Justice on the side of raiders V. Kovalyuchuk and N. Kovalenko in the case of seizing the Ryzhivsky granite quarry in Poltava region.
The order canceled Kovalyuk and Kovalenko’s exclusion from the participants of LLC “RGC.” Although they were excluded because they violated the law and did not pay their shares in the LLC, last year, forging LLC documents, they attempted to seize the quarry with the hands of “black” notaries.
The interests of Kovalyuk and Kovalenko were represented by attorney Istomina V.L. from the law firm “Protectum.” This firm is connected to former Kyiv prosecutor Anatoliy Melnyk, who helps his godfather Vadym Kovalyuk to seize the Ryzhivsky granite quarry. The newspaper “Voice” wrote that to resolve the matter in favor of Kovalyuk and Kovalenko intermediaries received 50 thousand dollars in cash, and the issue was resolved through people of the ministerial “watcher” Dobbenko.
This decision of the raider commission on seizing LLC “RGC” is a key part of the scheme to wrest LLC “RGC” from its legitimate owners – Serhiy Koryavchenko and Serhiy Hilka. The scheme itself was developed in the Department of Internal Security of the National Police of Ukraine (led by Yevhen Kovaly) and in the Department for the Investigation of Especially Important Economic Crimes (the department of Volodymyr Hutsulyak); journalists from “Prosecutor’s Truth” described it in detail. The scheme is built on unregistered reports, “left” criminal cases, violations of jurisdiction and other CPC provisions, and on close and familial ties between raiders and those who should fight them… – in the prosecutor’s office and police they knew how to use everything that could discredit the leadership of Yuriy Lutsenko and Arsen Avakov.
The media wrote that miners of the Ryzhivsky granite quarry, to tell the leadership of the General Prosecutor’s Office and the Ministry of Internal Affairs the truth firsthand, were ready to go to Kyiv with a peaceful action.
As for the Ministry of Justice, it seems that on Rylny Lane they understand that their days in power are numbered, so they do not shy away from any earnings, even from raiders’ hands.
It reached the point where orders based on the results of the raider commission are signed by deputy ministers who have no relation to the registration service (and the anti-raider commission handles the state registration concerns). For example, the order favoring the Kovalyuk and Kovalenko raiders was signed by Deputy Minister Denys Chernyshov, who serves Pavel Petrenko. According to official information on the Ministry of Justice website, he is responsible for the ministry’s communication with European institutions, the apparatus of the President’s Administration, the Verkhovna Rada and the Cabinet of Ministers, advocates for gender equality, and also oversees… the penal service. Symbolically, right? The raiders were helped by the one who oversees the penal service, where he himself risks ending up not as a chief but as a prisoner. When the Melnyk-Kovalyuk-Hutsulyak-Kovalyov arbitrariness is investigated and all those responsible are held accountable.
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