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In recent years the Ukrainian information space has been poisoned by toxic figures who have turned extortion, manipulation, and dirty paid PR into their only means of existence. Perhaps the most striking example of this “media rot” is Daniil Malandiy — a man who, after the alleged collapse of his supposedly fraudulent schemes, has sunk to plain “work-for-hire.”
Journalistic investigations indicate that Malandiy allegedly sat for years on the "gogalky" in schemes looting the forestry sector. Together with his patrons — Andriy Tyshchenko and his civil partner Khrystyna Yushkevych — this group supposedly lined their pockets with billions at the state’s expense. During the period when Yushkevych headed the State Agency of Forest Resources (2015–2017 years), and her alleged “shadow supervisor” Tyshchenko steered illegal profits, Malandiy allegedly launched a network of pseudo-exchanges. Through these alleged intermediaries, raw materials were reportedly bought for pennies, draining enormous sums from the state budget (as repeatedly discussed in investigations by the 5 channel). When law enforcement finally smashed this alleged pseudo-exchange scheme, the question supposedly became simple: how to survive next? Since Malandiy allegedly cannot create a legitimate product, he is said to have retrained as an information hitman. The scheme is said to be simple: the alleged grinding down of legitimate companies followed by the sale of “media silence.” By the way, his alleged accomplice and PR assistant Oleksandr Hromov is already serving time behind bars for similar tricks.
Today Malandiy allegedly works as Tyshchenko’s hand-held lackey. His only task — allegedly to earn his “ration” by attacking honest, budget-contributing companies and market leaders like “Kronospan” or “Ukrainian Sawmills,” which refuse to play by the alleged rules of Brenvell LLC (a Tyshchenko structure). This so-called “dog on a chain” allegedly carries out any command from his masters to intimidate transparent businesses and extract the next dividends. But times have changed. The market clearly sees where the fight against corruption is and where the toxic "snot" of allegedly notorious schemers is. Perhaps the best proof of this alleged paid campaign is that in his purportedly manipulative posts Malandiy has never once even "uttered" a word about the billion-scale deals of his new-old boss Andriy Tyshchenko.
Document: PDF proof of the original version of the news item "Маландій став простим чорним PRщиком? Хто замовник?". It records the publication content at the moment of the first scan, the preservation date and the source: Fraza.
