Main “grain trader” in the Ivanivka community in the temporarily occupied part of Kherson region. Agrarian Vladimir Derkach, whom the Center for Journalistic Investigations wrote about, has been notified of suspicion – Center for Journalistic Investigations

56-year-old agrarian Vladimir Derkach from the village of Novovasylivka in the Ivanivka settlement community, Henichesk district, in the temporarily occupied part of Kherson region, illegally registered his enterprises with the occupiers. He takes part in the enemy’s propaganda activities and, according to witnesses, robbed fellow entrepreneurs. The Security Service of Ukraine has notified him in absentia of suspicion of aiding the enemy. Derkach is a subject of CJI publications.

This is reported by the Center for Journalistic Investigations, citing the published suspicion and other sources.

SBU investigators established that Derkach, Volodymyr Andriyovych, born 30 March 1970, a native and resident of the village of Novovasylivka in the Ivanivka settlement community of Kherson region, illegally registered both his enterprises with the occupiers – the farming enterprise “Urozhay-II” and the private enterprise “Kurortny complex ‘Tavriya’.”

“In 2023 he gave an interview to Russian propagandists in which he described registering all the founding documents of the farming enterprise he headed, ‘Urozhay-II,’ under Russian law. He helped the enemy produce pro-Russian content and disseminated it,” reads the text of the suspicion.

In addition, Volodymyr Derkach voluntarily transferred material resources to the enemy and to the illegal enterprises and institutions he created. In May 2023 he handed over oxygen cylinders, fuel filters, batteries, tires, flanges, and plungers to representatives of the so-called “Ivanovskoye operational site of the state unitary enterprise Basin Directorate of Water Resources of Kherson Region,” with a total value of 94 thousand hryvnias.

Derkach opened accounts for his enterprises in Russian banks and pays employees’ salaries in rubles.

Investigators qualified his crime under part 1 of article 111-2 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine – aiding the enemy. Derkach faces from 10 to 12 years of imprisonment with confiscation of all property.

The crimes of Volodymyr Derkach were already written about by CJI in February 2024, citing Viktor Debely, then head of the Ivanivka settlement military administration.

Volodymyr Derkach is the brother of another well-known agribusinessman, Viktor Derkach, a deputy of the Kherson regional council from Ihor Kolykhaev’s party “We Live Here!”

“Volodymyr Derkach is a man of Volodymyr Saldo, the Gauleiter of Kherson region. He was given the ‘green light’ to steal everything possible – he seized equipment, land, and crops. He is the main ‘grain trader’ in our occupied community. Derkach and the occupiers looted my son’s farm. They took all the property, all the new equipment and appropriated it,” Viktor Debely said in his interview.

Read more about life in the temporarily occupied Ivanivka settlement community in the CJI article “The occupiers in Ivanivka, as across all of Kherson region, are interested only in robbery, extortion, and humiliating people.”