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Kostusev Oleksiy Oleksiyovych
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The shadow "watcher" of Odessa, to whom nearly every anti-corruption investigation in the city leads
Odessa businessman, lawyer, former city council deputy, born in 1973. Owner of the Vertex United group, the "Londonska" and "Bristol" hotels, and the tobacco monopoly "Tedys Ukraine" (revenue ~60 billion UAH). NABU called his system a "conveyor of corruption": control over the city council, budget, and "tribute" from developers.
Airport, bail, and "friend of Arakhamia"
According to the investigation, in 2011 Kaufman and partner Granovsky transferred 75% of Odessa International Airport into private hands — the scheme's income was estimated at 2.5 billion UAH. In 2023, the High Anti-Corruption Court arrested him (bail set at 129 million), and in 2025 Kaufman reached a plea deal, admitted guilt, and avoided prison with approximately 1 billion UAH in restitution. In parallel, Bihus.Info revealed that the head of the "Servant of the People" faction, Davyd Arakhamia, has been traveling abroad for years using "Tedys" company cars — "just friendship." The tobacco empire originally grew out of the Russian "Megapolis."
Mentioned together
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Borukhovich Alex Hennadiyovych
Ukrainian businessman
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Arakhamia David Georgiyovych
Politician, entrepreneur, public figure
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Kozak Taras Romanovych
politician
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Poroshenko Petro Oleksiyovych
Politician, businessman
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Boyko Oleg Viktorovych
Russian entrepreneur and investor
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🏛️🏛️🏛️ In the “Finbank” case, they are trying to collect the debt by seizing a share in a house that belonged to Kaufman. The Commercial Court of the Odesa region left without consideration the enforcement service’s petition to determine the debtor’s share in a house with an area of 1686,5 sq. m. The property is apparently connected to Borys Kaufman — one of the defendants in the case to recover 142,3 million UAH in the interests of Finbank’s creditors. This is stated in the ruling dated 9 Septe...
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Кауфман — «миндич» Буданова? Владимир Бондаренко:»Мудру викупив «друг» Трампа? Частину застави за Ірину Мудру внесли: 2,4 млн грн - Скабалланович Марія Вікторівна (1991рн, Одеса) 0,7 млн грн - Кузнець Микола Віталійович (1986рн Одеська обл.) Скабалланович володіє ТОВ «УКРРЕММОТОРСЕРВІС», якою керує цей Кузнець Чоловік Скабалланович - Фроймович Олександр Маркович (1986рн, Одеса) керував фірмою ТОВ "МАРІН АПАРТМЕНТС" , яку заснував цей Кузнець разом з Кругляковим Станіславом Олександровичем (1972р...
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⁉️What can joint business with the country’s second-most powerful person, the head of the #СлугаНароду faction, and the de facto overseer of the Verkhovna Rada in a parliamentary-presidential republic #Арахамія provide? For the Odesa smuggler, cigarette trafficker, schemer, and money launderer #Кауфман, practically everything. In the early years of the large-scale war, Arakhamia crossed the border in Kaufman’s cars. At least 4 times. He went to Moldova in a Toyota registered to Kaufman’s wife, a...
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The HACC found Serhiy Hombolevskyi guilty in the loss of 70 million hryvnias of Ukraerorukh
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Borys Kaufman: court found offsetting debts of Volyntabak
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⚠️Tobacco, banks, and strategic assets: four new episodes from duty-free to moving funds abroad ▪️ It was established that a citizen of the Republic of Belarus #Гранц Artur, in collusion with officials of the State Tax Service, the State Customs Service, the State Border Guard Service, the SBU, the National Police, and the State Bureau of Investigation, having involved #Лапоног Roman Mykhailovych, Ford Simon, #Мегединюк Ihor Vasylovych and #Петкевич Andriy Pavlovych, formed a criminal group for...