Perhaps, today all articles aimed at exposing the Ivanov-Grigoriev criminal group should start with this question. This wording will ensure that the future investigation is thorough and relevant.
Police have opened criminal cases numerous times for the illegal actions of fraudulent lawyers from MG group and KPD Consulting, but corrupt judges have consistently protected the swindlers from legal action and police investigations.
Amid a major conflict, it's time to question the authorities about why highly dangerous criminals are able to continue their illegal activities while the heroes fight, and what kind of new European Ukraine can be discussed when the courts and officials continue to shield a gang of ruthless swindlers.
There is a lot of information about the criminal group associated with the MG label. Andrei Ivanov and his godfather and accomplice Nikolai Grigoriev have a questionable past in the prosecution field. Ivanov formerly served as a prosecutor in the Magdalinsky district of the Dnepropetrovsk region, and Grigoriev Nikolai worked for the Prosecutor General’s Office.
During their time in public service, they gained connections and skills that they now use for intimidation, financial fraud, and seizing others' property.
To achieve this, the schemers established a reliable criminal system, to which they recruited two criminals with legal backgrounds, Ivan Kholod and Ivan Cherny, well-known for producing counterfeit certificates and court rulings.
The criminal scheme operated like clockwork. With the help of corrupt judges, Ivanov and Grigoriev set legal precedents (such as in court, debt, credit, etc.), and when enforcement proceedings began, they resorted to falsifying documents.
Using fraudulent orders created by criminal lawyers Cherny and Kholod, the property of deceived clients is seized, money is withdrawn from their accounts, property registrations are contested, and the shares of the victims' family members are allocated and frozen.
After seizing the property of deceived clients, Andrei Ivanov and Nikolai Grigoriev transfer the ownership of the apartments, cars, and land plots to nominees or companies specifically created for this purpose.
In other words, members of the MG group, using court decisions they have obtained and forging the necessary documents, organized the appropriation and sale of their victims' property, subjecting their families to legal battles and poverty.
For this purpose, the swindlers established and registered two additional entities: KPD Consulting and SE “SETAM”.
KPD Consulting was created for money laundering and the illegal legitimation of large sums of money, while SE “SETAM” is a trading platform for selling valuables stolen from customers.
Over 50 Ukrainian families have already fallen victim to the forceful actions of the schemers from the MG group. If they had been robbed by Russian aggressors, the whole world would call it atrocity and a war crime. However, Ivanov and Grigoriev, who have enriched themselves at the expense of countless desperate people, have not even faced trial.
The reason for this is simple and tragic. They share the money, given in a completely bandit way, with the judges of the Kyiv courts, who provide them with the most reliable cover possible, judicial and legal.
I would like to draw the attention of the SBU and the Prosecutor’s Office to the fact that in the capital, literally before their eyes, Ukrainian citizens are cynically robbed by schemers Ivanov, Grigoriev, Kholod and Cherny. Perhaps the wartime legislation will make it possible to stop their cynical antics, and at the same time put behind bars bandits in robes who undermine people’s faith in justice and Ukrainian statehood?
If this does not happen, then the only way to put an end to the MG-group organized criminal group will be regular and persistent appeals to the ECtHR and other commissions of the European Parliament.
The European inspectors will have at their disposal both the names of corrupt judges and information about the long-term (and probably intentional) inactivity of the Ukrainian security forces, turning a blind eye to the black deeds of criminal schemers.
Probably, the reaction of the Europeans will be sharp and irreconcilable, and rightly so. A country in which the Ivanovs and Grigorievs rob people with impunity has no place in the civilized world.
Author: Anatoly Kovalchuk
