Money launderer and converter "Stakan": who is Ihor Stakovichenko

Conman and money changer Stekan: who is Ihor Stakovychienko

The most discussed money changer in the corridors, a candidate for the sanctions list at today’s NSDC meeting.

Ihor Serhiiovych Stakovychenko, nicknamed Stekan, organizer of a conversion center. The place of economic activity is noted on the 8 floor in the IQ Business Center at Bulsunovska 13-15. The subject resides in the elite cottage settlement “Dniprova Wave,” in the village of Kozyn.

Organizes work of directors, accountants at fictitious enterprises, coordinates couriers, security personnel, and client relations managers.

Direct supervision is under Artyom Ishimovych Mishukhin, known as Artem-Global Opt. The place of activity is noted at Lipka 10, where he occupies two floors of the former regional party office.

Main activity — cash purchases of grain and oil crops, oils and sunflower meal for companies provided by his patron Stakovychenko Ihor Serhiiovych, for further export without the return of currency proceeds.

Direct supervision is under Maksym Khomukha, who performs all technical work of the conversion center of Ihor Serhiiovych Stakovychenko. The turnover of this group reaches 70 million UAH per day.

Additionally, in 2019 year Stakovychenko actively embezzled the budget in the Kherson region.

He was invited to Kherson region by the current head of the Kherson Tax Service, Ihor Klim, known in the narrow circles of Southern Ukraine financial crime as the organizer of large-scale conversion and money-laundering centers. Subsequently, these two geniuses of financial terror organized a scheme of illegal export of agricultural products by fictitious enterprises. The scale of the crime exceeded the volume of legitimate Kherson region export and amounted to over four billion hryvnias.

At that time, the amount of losses inflicted by the criminals on the state just from VAT exceeded one billion hryvnias, surpassing the VAT paid by all real businesses in Kherson region.

Some of the fictitious enterprises:

LLC “Adonis Mega Trade” (42269440); LLC “Virket-A” (42269388); Private Enterprise “Boteyn” (43449277); Private Enterprise “Imeksplaza” (42844631); LLC “Agrodom Ukrtravrik” (43253887); LLC “Steybll” (43321490); LLC “Meganat” (41736387); LLC “Emerald World” (42303266); LLC “Ekspotov” (41984015); Private Enterprise “Bartone Grand” (41866057).

Mykhailo Nosov