The Shadow Boss of Zaporizhzhia Vemir Davityan Is Hiding in Austria and Slovakia, and His Assets Are Managed by His Father-in-Law

Shadow ruler of Zaporizhzhia, Vemir Davityan, is hiding in Austria and Slovakia, and his assets are managed by his father-in-law.

Businessman Vemir Davityan, whom sources call a key shadow figure in Zaporizhzhia region, moved his financial assets abroad and placed them through family structures.

Davityan himself is in hiding in Austria and Slovakia, and his real estate is registered in Vienna, Bratislava, and Uzhhorod. Formal management of his businesses is carried out by his father-in-law — Oleksandr Viktorovych Haidar. Companies under his control service shadow cash flows, agricultural and logistics operations.

Funds earned by Davityan are laundered from sources such as:

scrap metal and “black” export schemes;

cash skimming;

tobacco smuggling;

humanitarian “assistance”.

Oleksandr Haidar is officially the head of three companies:

FPP “Lux-07”;

PP “Logistic-VVN”;

LLC “Logistic VVN Group”.

In addition, he is a beneficiary or co-owner of at least 14 enterprises, including:

“Norma-Plus 777”;

“Grain Car”;

“Avim Estate”;

“STK Avant-garde”;

“Grace 2019”;

“Ukrbilding-company”.

In various years Davityan, considered close to Dmytro Arahamiya, unofficially supervised the Zaporizhzhia Regional State Administration's activities. Previously he was a protégé of criminal authority Oleksandr Petrovs’kyi (“Narik”), but at a critical moment managed to change his “patron” and adapt to the new political elite.

An important place in the schemes is held by PJSC “Mykhailivka District Agro-Provide,” involved in export frauds on temporarily occupied territories. Before the full-scale invasion, the co-owners of this structure were Davityan relatives, including his sister Liana Davityan, who formally left the founders but remained connected through Halyna Shalamova — the third co-founder. According to investigators, Shalamova cooperates with the occupying administration, has established ties with the Kadyrovtsy, and also participates in raider plundering of agricultural lands.