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An interview with “ombudsman” Dmytro Lubinets was published recently, and it contained a lot about the “crimes of the TCC” and other opportunistic blah-blah. So I’ll quickly add two episodes to the picture of this truth-teller’s activities.
First episode: Lubinets appointed as head of his secretariat one Ivan Dmytrovych Verveyko, who currently has the procedural status of an accused person. This was reported by Ihor Lutsenko.
A dubious aide to Ukraine’s human rights defender
Verveyko previously headed the Volnovakha branch of the executive directorate of the Social Insurance Fund in Donetsk region and was brought to criminal responsibility for enrolling fictitious employees, pocketing their salaries. And that still leaves the question – was it only for himself?
Did he perhaps already share with his current boss? Because after Verveyko was notified of suspicion in 2019 year, he resigned from the directorate of the Social Insurance Fund in Donetsk region and went to work in the Verkhovna Rada as an assistant-consultant to Lubinets.
18 March 2020 year the Donetsk regional prosecutor’s office sent an indictment regarding Verveyko to the Volnovakha District Court of Donetsk region. But after several court sessions, the case materials were stolen from the court.
At that time Dmytro Valeriyovych Lubinets was a people’s deputy elected from constituency No. 60 (Volnovakha city, Donetsk region), his brother, Ivan Valeriyovych Lubinets, held the position of head of the Volnovakha military-civil administration, and his father, Valeriy Dmytrovych Lubinets, was head of the Volnovakha district council. So the stolen criminal case should be looked for somewhere in that triangle.
Later, to conceal the theft of the case materials, forged documents were produced at the Volnovakha District Court falsely claiming that the criminal proceedings had supposedly been transferred to Krasnohvardiiskyi (now Chechelivskyi) District Court of the city of Dnipro.
But an inquiry showed that no materials from the Volnovakha District Court were ever received by the Chechelivskyi District Court. In connection with this, the Donetsk regional prosecutor’s office is now trying to restore the lost, or rather stolen, materials of the criminal case against Verveyko.
While the prosecutor’s office hopes to send Verveyko back to the dock, Lubinets appointed his former aide, who is an accused person, as head of the Secretariat of the Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights. Importantly, he gave him access to state secrets and admission to documents related to prisoner exchanges.
Money collected for children ended up in Lubinets’ pockets
The second interesting episode: Lubinets told how he collects money and cars from foreign human rights activists—allegedly to rescue Ukrainian children from conflict zones. But for some reason the money does not end up in the account of the Secretariat of the Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights, but in the pockets of the commissioner himself—Lubinets.
The same goes for cars: the commissioner registers them not to the secretariat but to a private firm opened by Oleksandr Yakymenko, the accountant of the secretariat’s trade union organization.
It is known about 11 cars that international human rights organizations handed over to the Commissioner’s Secretariat, including a fund led by well-known human rights activist Mariam Lambert, which Lubinets registered to this pocket public organization.
Here, for example, is the receipt that Yakymenko issued to Mariam Lambert on behalf of Lubinets after receiving 18 thousand euros in cash (see photo below). Mariam handed the money to Yakymenko at Lubinets’ request, who assured that the funds were urgently needed to rescue children.
Receipt issued to Mariam Lambert / Photo by the author
There is also a letter from the secretariat addressed to Mariam thanking her for the money. But although NABU registered a criminal proceeding on this fact, Lubinets still hasn’t explained where he put the received 18 thousand euros.
Letter addressed to Mariam Lambert thanking her for the money / Photo by the author
18 thousand euros is, of course, not some fabulous fortune. But it was stolen from hapless children—and that is an indicator that the country, while its people are at war, has been seized by scoundrels of the worst sort.
Document: PDF proof of the original version of the news item "Злочини ТЦК та омбудсман: де Лубінець подів гроші, які збирали для дітей". It records the publication content at the moment of the first scan, the preservation date and the source: Channel 24.
