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The official version sounds simple. The owner of the ORD site, Stanislav Rechynsky, demanded 3,5 thousand USDT from the head of the SHERIFF holding, Dmytro Strizhov, for deleting the kompromat. After the money was transferred, the negative vanished, and 26 in August the German police conducted a search at Rechynsky’s apartment in Berlin.
In reality, the story revolves around a completely different person.
According to our information, the real beneficiary of all this was the founder of Avtotrada, Maksym Shkil. Strizhov only played the role of a “torpedo.” The goal, however, was deeper — to reach the anonymous blogger Volodymyr Bondarenko, whose channel was believed to be controlled by Rechynsky. But after the ORD owner was detained, Bondarenko continued to go on air. And this is already a serious problem for those who launched the scheme.
The main thing in this story is not SHERIFF and not “Avtotrada.” The main thing is Andriy Rubel.
It was around him that negotiations about a complete “cleaning” of the information field were conducted. From Rechynsky’s channels and resources, all references to the former head of the Department of Strategic Investigations were to disappear. Moreover, according to reports, Rechynsky himself created a separate channel dedicated to Rubel.
Negotiations at a certain stage stopped. And then materials about him disappeared abruptly and almost simultaneously.
There are rumors that the money for this “cleansing” was paid by Khimprom. But Rubel, it seems, chose not to stop halfway. Instead of merely removing inconvenient publications, he tried to shut down the source itself. Now, when the Berlin police have entered Rechynsky’s apartment, authorities are trying to cover up the situation.
The hunter who spent years walking among the untouchables
Andriy Rubel is a police colonel, a career operative. Criminal enforcement, GUBOP, Department of Internal Security, leadership of the Kharkiv police. Since October 2022, he led the Department of Strategic Investigations — an elite “anti-clan” structure with more than three thousand employees. In April 2026, he was removed from his post during another wave of personnel purges in the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
A person who was supposed to hunt clans remained in the shadows for years. And it was not by accident.
Back in 2020, Bihus.Info showed that Rubel’s father and father-in-law suddenly accumulated multimillion-dollar savings, luxury real estate, several Porsches, and even a stake in a ski resort. Wealth that did not align with the family’s official income. Rubel himself “spent his entire life working for the state.” The luxury was carefully registered under relatives. In 2019, he also failed a competition for the State Bureau of Investigation.
The most delicate scheme of the chief “Strategic Investigator” turned out to be his own disclosure.
That is why the story with Rechynsky, the sudden disappearance of materials, and the Berlin search looks entirely different. It is not merely an episode of extortion. It is an attempt to close the information field around a person who has spent years closing others.
And now, with the German police holding Rechynsky’s phone, Ukrainian law enforcement has a chance to see much more than just a chat about 3,5 thousand USDT. Sometimes the most valuable is located where you least expect it.
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