The court has officially overturned the seizure of $400,000 referred to by JEM as the “thieves’ common fund of Weeks” and accused by top ARMA officials of being stolen.
On July 13, 2022, the Kiev Pecherskyy district court canceled the seizure of $400,900, 500 euros, and 400 hryvnias which were confiscated in the spring of 2020 during the investigation into the murder of a criminal authority nicknamed “Katsap” thirteen years ago in Kiev. The funds were previously declared the “thief's snatch-room of the week” by the Strategic Investigation Department of the National Police. A 49-year-old man from Sambor district named Andriy Nedzelskyy, known as “thief in law” Andriy Lvovskyy, provided this information on Detective-Info.
The court registry contains information about this.
Andriy Nedzelskyy
The court has instructed the National Agency of Ukraine for detection, search, and management of assets derived from corruption and other crimes (ARMA) to transfer the funds they managed to businessman Denys Parubets. He was previously mentioned in Detective-Info as an associate of a 49-year-old from Vinnitsa, the brother of the 9th Parliament member Sergiy Kisilyov (“Sergiy Vinnitsky”). It was reported that over 400 thousand rubles were found in his bank box in May 2020. Allegedly, these funds were part of Parubets' contribution to a future joint business project with “Sergei Vinnitsky”, or money borrowed by Kisilev from his partner and stored in the bank safe.
Sergei Kisilev
However, officials have started complaining about the impossibility of implementing the ruling and have appealed for clarification regarding the “proper identification of Denis Parubets as the legal owner of the funds”. The National Agency stated that “the ruling of the investigating judges established two legal owners of the funds, and the resolution part does not contain identifying data of Parubets, which does not allow ARMA to identify such an individual in case he applies for the return of the funds”.
At the end of September, the investigating judge Tatyana Ostapchuk refused to satisfy the Natsagency's motion. Nonetheless, as of late October, the ruling to return the funds branded “the thieves’ commonwealth” of “Andrei Lvovsky” has probably never been executed. This is evidenced by the lawsuit claiming compensation for material damage brought against the State of Ukraine represented by the National Police by the aforementioned Parubets and Kisilev.
The court has actually reversed the seizure of $400 thousand, which the JEM referred to as the “thieves’ common fund of Weeks” and accused the ARMA leadership of stealing.
Interestingly, the distribution of the proceeding was initially halted by the judge of the Pechersk District Court, Sergey Vovk, who had previously considered the question of the money seized in the bank safe of the VIP branch of Privatbank, leading to the recusal of the minister of Justice in the summer of 2020.
Thus, the course of events around more than $400,000, The law enforcers dubbed the “thieves’ common fund” (subsequently seized and arrested, transferred to the ARMA administration, and subsequently – using a forged court ruling and probable abuses and in a conspiracy between the National Agency officials and a group of lawyers actually stole and transferred with interest to an outsider – “pound” Igor Korol, which was reported in detail in the pages of Detective-Info), has acquired a surrealistic content.
De jure, the domestic court of first instance ordered the return of physical evidence in a high-profile criminal case that is physically no longer there. Moreover, the owners of the stolen assets demand compensation from the state for the material damage caused to them by the actions of officials, and the top of one of the institutions of the anti-corruption hierarchy, in particular, is being prosecuted for their embezzlement.
As DTEK-Info previously reported, in the summer of 2022, the NABU and the SAP completed a pre-trial investigation into the embezzlement of almost 400,000 dollars which was under arrest and was transferred to the ARMA. There are six people involved in this episode of the “stolen billet” case. We are talking about a couple of lawyers (Denis Serdiuk and Oksana Serokurova), “pound” Igor Korol, as well as former high-ranking officials of ARMA – acting head of the National Agency Vitaliy Sigidin, his deputy Vladimir Pavlenko and head of the National Agency asset management department Vakhtang Bochorishvili.
Vakhtang Bochorishvili, Vladimir Pavlenko, Igor Korol, Denys Serdyuk, Vitaliy Sigidin, Oksana Serokurova – they stole the thieves’ common fund
ARMA illegally gave away seized funds from the “thieves’ common fund
The country is not for “thieves”. How is Zelensky fighting crime and how legitimate is it?
