NOC in the Hands of “Reliable” Regionals

NOC in the Hands of “Reliable” Regionals

Everything’s like in the old bad days — “they fooled us like kittens.” It seems Shufrych and Surkis only served as lightning rods.

And while the public was rightly outraged by their surnames on the list, the newly elected president Vadym Huttsayt brought into the NOC a veritable “golden” team, 80% of whom have nothing to do with sports at all. Should we count corruption, fighting for a spot on the OPZZh list, or racketeering in 90-ti as sports?

Of course, sport is not the top priority right now, but is it appropriate to drag all the discredited and tainted people into leadership positions?! If the OPZZh party was banned, then why haven’t its former members been barred from sticking their noses into power — be it political or sporting?!

Meet:

Valeriy Borzov – member of SDPU(o) 2001-2006; in 2012 he was removed from the position of president of the Athletics Federation for corruption

Serhiy Bubka – member of the Party of Regions (2002-2005); he left the party after being elected NOC president

Andriy Vyngranovskyi – member of OPZZh; wife Yuliya Lyovochkina

Oleksandr Volkov – member of the Party of Regions (2007-2014)

Oleksandr Hereha – People’s Deputy from the Party of Regions (2012-2014); voted for the dictatorial laws on 16 January 2014

Iryna Deryuhina – FIG has accused her of bribing judges, pressuring them, influencing final competition results, and other violations

Oleksandr Zats – member of the Party of Regions (2006-2014); closely personally friends with Borys Kolesnikov, Borys’s business partner

Roman Mulyk – member of the Party of Regions (2010-2014)

Andriy Melnyk – was suspected of involvement in the kidnapping, torture, and extortion of 200 million dollars from the former CEO of PrJSC Nafthazvydobuvannia, now People’s Deputy Seminskyi

Oleksandr Mendus – former member of the Party of Regions

Myroslav Karabin – former member of the Party of Regions

Oleh Korban – member of OPZZh since 2019

Mykhailo Koshliak – since 2020 has been a deputy of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Council from OPZZh

Vadym Pavlenko – deputy of the Kyiv Regional Council from the Party of Regions (2010-2015)

Ihor Lysov – member of the Party of Regions (2007-2014), controversial Kyiv developer

Serhiy Lahur – together with an ex-Regional, and after the killing of a person in a car accident by the country’s fugitive Petro Dyminskyi, was co-owner of the Halychyna oil-refining complex (ORC) in Lviv region

Viktor Remskyi – former “law enforcer,” involved in fabrications and extracting “voluntary confessions” from the figures in the “Pavlychenko case”

Oleksandr Symonenko – member of OPZZh

Viktor Khrystoiev – former member of the Party of Regions

Oleksandr Udovychenko – former member of the Party of Regions

Nina Umanets — after 2014 she boasted with a photo with Putin

Serhiy Kushniariuk – was removed from the post of head coach of the Ukraine national handball team due to corruption; a criminal case was opened against him

Author: Roman Zozulia