Who is Bakanov’s “Yermak” doing all the dirty and corrupt work — Leros

Who is Bakanov’s “Yermak” doing all the dirty and corrupt work — Leros

Are you interested in finding out who actually “runs” everything in the SBU (Ukr.)?..

This was told half an hour ago on Facebook by MP Geo Leros.

Are you curious to learn who really “runs” everything in the SBU?

Of course Bakanov and Zelensky benefit, but who is Bakanov’s “Yermak,” the one who does all the dirty and corrupt work?

Meet Andriy Naumov — chief of the Main Directorate of Internal Security of the SBU.

By the way, we have already mentioned his crimes, but note that Zelensky does not react because he already knows everything)

We came to Naumov after we began exposing the corrupt ties of the “watchers” across the country.

Naumov himself, since his appointment to the Security Service of Ukraine, has been a figure in two criminal proceedings No. 42019000000001749 and No. 6201910000001044.

He always focuses his efforts on building his own corrupt vertical among subordinate employees and organizing schemes to extort bribes from commercial entities in exchange for non-interference in their business activities for the purpose of personal enrichment.

It is known that in Kyiv, Naumov, through the head of Kyiv SBU Oleg Holovash, receives a percentage of all budget payments from Denys Komarnytsky (the main corrupt official of the capital), so Komarnytsky brings suitcases to the SBU in an SBU operational vehicle directly to the Security Service’s courtyard.

At Naumov’s initiative, employees of the Main Directorate BKOZ of the SBU who refused to carry out his illegal orders to pressure commercial entities and to appoint people completely under his control to leadership positions were dismissed.

One of the first illegal appointments was in July 2019, when native of Kryvyi Rih Artem Viktorovych Kapeliukha was immediately appointed to the position of head of the 1 department of the 4 directorate (countering smuggling) of the Main Directorate BKOZ of the SBU.

It should be noted that before his appointment, A.V. Kapeliukha served as an operative officer of the SBU Main Directorate in Kyiv and the Kyiv region, and during his service in the SBU he was repeatedly subjected to disciplinary action in various units and was also a figure in several criminal cases.

Despite this, in April 2020 Kapeliukha, with Naumov’s assistance, was appointed by Bakanov to the position of head of the directorate for combating smuggling of the Main Directorate BKOZ of the SBU.

Subsequently, with Naumov’s support, Kapeliukha replaced all heads of regional anti-smuggling units.

The necessary criteria for appointing new leaders were not personal or professional qualities, but loyalty to leadership — and understandably why, like cosa nostra)

It is noteworthy that in many regional SBU directorates, Kapeliukha’s classmates were appointed to the positions of heads of anti-smuggling units.

The newly appointed leaders, under the direction and support of Kapeliukha and Naumov, over 4 months restored extortion, lists, and black schemes for smuggling goods across customs, including excisable goods into Ukraine’s customs territory, smuggling of narcotic substances, and illegal production of spirits and tobacco products.

As an example, note the written instructions addressed to the Head of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine S.V. Deineka dated 04.04.2020, signed by the chief of the Main Directorate of Internal Security of the SBU, A.O. Naumov, letter No. 9/3992, which required allowing the newly appointed regional leadership headed by A.V. Kapeliukha access to virtually all border control zones.

At the same time, the stated purpose of these actions was control over SBU employees’ compliance with the law. This order effectively allowed employees loyal to Naumov to exert pressure on foreign economic activity subjects directly at the customs.

Thus, according to available information, Naumov currently plays a key role in organizing and controlling smuggling flows in Ukraine, personally contacting all major players in smuggling schemes and the leadership of large state companies, agreeing with them on operating conditions, bribe amounts, etc.

In order to organize a systematic mechanism for obtaining illicit rewards and establishing permanent control over all shadow flows in various sectors of the state economy, taking advantage of his close proximity to SBU Head Ivan Bakanov, Naumov built a stable corrupt personnel vertical of people close to him, among whom are:

• Main Directorate KZE SBU (chief — Andriy Tripilka, first deputy — Volodymyr Burzak, deputy — Rostyslav Rashchyk)

• Main Directorate K SBU (head of the 4 Directorate of Main Directorate K (smuggling) — Artemii Viktorovych Kapeliukha)

• DKI B SBU (chief — Oleksii Korniichuk, deputy — Artem Shylo)

• DKR SBU (chief — Oleksandr Rusnak)

• HSU SBU (acting chief — Andriy Shvets)

Regional SBU directorates:

• in Volyn region — Pavlo Danyukov,

• in Lviv region — Yurii Honcharov

• in Kharkiv region — Roman Dudin

• in Zakarpattia region — Ivan Rudnytskyi

• in Poltava region — Yevhen Borzilov

Today, only with Naumov’s personal approval are all appointments to key departments (directorates) and to regional SBU bodies made, and it should be noted that each appointment to a position has its own price.

Since the start of this corrupt personnel vertical, Naumov personally established contacts with known figures in the smuggling milieu: Orest Firmanyuk, Viktor Sherman, and the Babych family (Yevhen Babych and Maksym Babych — father and son).

In addition, at Naumov’s instruction, monthly payments for non-interference in illegal activities of state enterprise leadership were established by his deputy in the Main Directorate KZE of the SBU, R.A. Rashchyk.

According to available information, Naumov receives:

— from the leadership of the state enterprise “Ukrspirt” a monthly payment of over 100 thousand USD.

— from the state enterprise “Energoatom” — a monthly reward of about 100 thousand USD, delivered by the Director of Physical Protection and Special Security of Energoatom, Oleh Makarenko,

— from JSC “Ukrtransgaz,” about 70 thousand USD monthly.

For non-interference by the SBU in Ukravtodor’s tender procurements, R.A. Rashchyk receives 1% of the amount of won tenders monthly from companies “Avtomagistral Pivden,” “Rostdorstroi,” the Onur group of companies and others, amounting to about 3 million USD per month.

The funds received are passed by R.A. Rashchyk and A.V. Tripilka directly to Naumov.

In addition, Naumov actively uses the Main Investigation Directorate of the SBU, headed by acting chief A.Z. Shvets, for personal enrichment. Following Naumov’s orders, the latter, using his official position, forces subordinates to open criminal proceedings under articles of the Criminal Code of Ukraine that are not within the SBU’s jurisdiction.

There are cases of the SBU’s involvement in criminal proceedings concerning weighing trucks on Ukraine’s roads, large-scale fraud in the sale of mortgaged property of commercial banks, theft of harvests from farms, fraudulent takeover of commercial enterprises’ property, illegal sale of amber, and others.

The investigative unit is also used by A.O. Naumov for personal vendettas.

On contrived grounds, the HSU SBU is investigating criminal cases against competitors of firms of Bakanov’s family and his relative on his wife’s side — O.V. Belyaiev, who were involved in schemes to transfer Bohuslav and Dybynets HPPs into private ownership.

Currently many investigative and operational-search actions are being carried out; pressure is being exerted on the businesses of energy companies competing with Bakanov I.H.’s family by conducting searches, seizing property, and blocking bank accounts.

In this process, Bakanov’s relative I.H. — O.V. Belyaiev — who, not being a career SBU officer, is a personal contact of Bakanov on “delicate matters” and oversees potentially high-profile cases, is involved and exerts active influence.

In addition, according to available information, in 2011, the current Head of the SBU Bakanov and Belyaiev O.V.’s wife, who is the sister of Bakanov’s wife, were figures in criminal proceedings on the theft of budget funds on a particularly large scale by companies under their control, which indicates a possible personal interest of Bakanov in avoiding liability for previously committed acts, representing a direct conflict of interest.

As of today, based on Naumov’s professional and official activities, it should be noted that with his direct involvement in the processes of agreeing and appointing personnel to positions within SBU structural units, significant personnel changes have been made.

As a result of personnel appointments, employees on the line of countering the special services of the Russian Federation have been removed from those duties and reassigned to other units; promising materials on countering Russian special services have been deemed unworthy of attention.

Vacant positions in the directorate have been filled with employees who have low professional qualifications, have repeatedly found themselves in compromising situations, were subjected to disciplinary action, and some of whom are under investigation.

Thus, as a result of these actions, significant damage was inflicted on Ukraine’s counterintelligence units.

It is also noteworthy that at Naumov’s instruction, employees of the Main Directorate of Internal Security of the SBU studied the provision of sponsorship assistance by foreign partners for the period from 2014 to the present, and documentary materials on this issue, at his instruction, were taken out in an unknown direction outside the SBU.

Therefore, given the consequences of Naumov’s participation in the above processes, there is a high probability that information about Naumov’s possible involvement with the agent network of Russian special services will be confirmed.

Volodymyr Zelensky, could you be a bribe-taker and a traitor?

In addition to the above, it should be noted that before his appointment to the SBU, Naumov for one and a half years worked as director of the state enterprise “Center for Organizational, Technical and Information Support for the Management of the Exclusion Zone,” and before that as deputy head of material and technical support of the General Prosecutor’s Office of Ukraine.

The results of his activities in these positions are several criminal proceedings initiated by the SBI in 2019 concerning theft of large-scale budget funds allocated for work in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, as well as orders to illegally collect confidential information about the staff leadership of the SBI, GPU, Office of the President of Ukraine, National Police of Ukraine and other law enforcement units.

Thus, the central apparatus of the State Bureau of Investigation registered criminal proceeding No. 42019000000001749 dated 14.08.2019 on suspicion of:

— the Deputy Head — Head of the Department for Ensuring the Operation of State Registers of the NACP Information-Analytical Systems and Protection Directorate Yurkov O.V. in committing criminal offenses provided for in part 1 of art. 182, part 1 of art. 343, part 1 of art. 363 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine;

— Senior operative officer of the 2 department of the 2 directorate of the SBU Main Directorate K, Lieutenant Colonel K.G. Savchenko, in committing criminal offenses provided for in part 2 of art. 190 and part 2 of art. 189 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.

Yurkov O.V. and Savchenko K.G. were notified of suspicion that, following the instructions of the former deputy head of the Main Directorate K of the SBU, Colonel Naumov, they obtained operationally confidential parts of declarations of persons authorized to perform state or local government functions (leadership of the SBI, the Territorial Department of the SBI in Kyiv, the GPU, the Office of the President of Ukraine, the Kyiv UZE of the National Police of Ukraine and others).

The Territorial Department of the State Bureau of Investigation located in Kyiv registered criminal proceeding No. 6201910000001044 dated 05.08.2019 under part 5 of art. 191, part 2 of art. 205, part 3 of art. 209 and part 2 of art. 364 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine:

— In the period from 01.12.2018 to 25.06.2019 the former director of the state enterprise “COTIZ” Naumov, acting in collusion with the deputy head of the State Agency of Ukraine for Exclusion Zone Management V.P. Feschenko and with his subordinate employees Kukharev V.V. and Harnik K.V., who hold managerial positions in the State Agency of Ukraine for Exclusion Zone Management, SE “COTIZ” and the visitor admission and escort service of the exclusion zone, committed theft of budget funds allocated for work in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone (transfers to enterprises with signs of fictitious activity (LLC “Budstroy Energy”) and (LLC “Tekhinvest Engineering”));

— In September, December 2018 and March, May 2019 the former director of SE “COTIZ” Naumov, abusing his official position, knowingly that the maximum allowed bonus is established at 100% of the salary, granted himself inflated salary payments of 300%, thereby causing damage to the state enterprise.

— In January–February 2018 the former director of SE “COTIZ” Naumov, acting in collusion with his subordinates in the visitor admission and escort service of the exclusion zone, caused damage to the state budget by inflating needs in budget appropriations for payroll (including in the primary and additional salaries of SE “COTIZ” employees services for visiting the exclusion zone by foreign and domestic citizens, while these employees were actually maintained from the general fund of the state budget).