Valeriy Dubil: "European" Organized Crime Group in Tymoshenko’s criminal entourage. Part 1
In case Yuliya Tymoshenko wins the presidential elections, Ukraine may receive a new Yura Yenakiyevskyi or Sasha the Stomatologist in the person of the current member of the "Batkivshchyna" party, Valeriy Dubil.
The co-owner of the Kyiv Troyeshchyna market, whose share passed to him after the murder of Pryshchyk, and the leader of the Chernihiv criminal clan "Europe", is today called a "Orthodox raider" in the media for his active participation in the events of the UOC MP and the organization of enterprise seizures. However, Dubil carries a much heavier sin than participation in the religious processions of "Moscow priests" and the absorption of bankrupt enterprises.
Chernihiv Region is "Europe"!
Many respectable businessmen and well-known politicians of Ukraine have erased the 90s from their biographies, not wanting the public to find out what they were "earning" and how they rose in those turbulent years. Some hide financial pyramids and raider captures in their "portfolio", while others have even worse: involvement in known organized crime groups and even ties with international mafia. But such a fact cannot be hidden!
Valeriy Dubil was born on September 26, 1973, in Pryluky, where his father Oleksandr Dubil (born 1952) served as a warrant officer at the famous Soviet heavy bomber Tu-160 airbase. Their entire family lived in Military Town-12, as was called a separate area of the city specially built for the families of military personnel. The family was quite large: from an open database, it can be learned that until recently, Valeriy Dubil himself, his parents, his brothers Serhiy and Oleksandr (born in 1976 and 1982), the wives of the brothers, and others were registered there.
Unlike his warrant officer father, Valeriy still tried to acquire some profession, and after school, he entered the local medical college, graduating in 1992. It seems that along with the midwife-paramedic diploma, he also received a certificate of some illness because there is no information about his military service - apparently, the warrant officer’s son had a huge antipathy towards it. However, it is known that he got a job at the receiving department of the central city hospital in October 1992, i.e., at the age of 19, where Dubil was listed until January 2002 before moving to Kyiv.
He was only listed there because he immediately abandoned the ungrateful, moneyless job and engaged in "this and that." According to journalists, Valeriy Dubil started with "family business": along with his warrant officer father, they stole and took non-ferrous metal from the airbase. In this field, he became close with his neighbor Serhiy Varnavskyi (born 1962), who was an aide to a local criminal authority Chebykin. In turn, in the 90s, Chebykin was under Serhiy Kuntsevskyi - a former paratrooper from Pskov, who led one of the racketeer brigades of Pryluky.
Serhiy Varnavskyi
Like many other Ukrainian cities at that time, Pryluky were literally teeming with bandits of all kinds, and inhabitants whispered the names of Shurik Shuklin, Tolik Knyshenko, Volodya Hladenkyi, Oleh Hlobus, Vitok Lysyi, Sasha Kyryachek, and many others. All of them wanted to control "money topics": gasoline, automobile market, alcohol trade, bazaars, and shops, metal acceptance. And it was Chebykin who "covered" the metal scrap acceptance points in Pryluky. With his "blessing," father and son Dubils opened their own, and they no longer had to carry the copper cable and aluminum clippings themselves from the airbase - they had an agile "companion" from among the officers of the airfield.
Oleksandr Shuklin and Serhiy Kuntsevskyi
But the enterprising midwife did not stop there. Not wanting to be just a metal receiver, he proved himself to Chebykin as an energetic and tough "guy" - and was accepted into the "brigade" of Varnavskyi, which dealt with "competitors." Thus, Valeriy Dubil became a member of the Pryluky OCG "Europe," named after a discoclub that had been operating in the city since the 80s. According to one version, the group was founded by musicians and DJs who organized disco nights in "Europe"; according to another version - young people who made the discoclub their "base." Their nickname the "Europeans" received even before they became OCG, and it became their trademark brand. Later, they named "Europe" the sports and evening clubs opened by them (including by Valeriy Dubil), shops, hotels, a charity fund, and even a local TV and radio company.
Pryluky: solid "Europe"
The young Dubil showed such initiative and toughness that he soon led the "cleanup brigade," and already Varnavskyi obeyed his paramedic neighbor. Meanwhile, Chebykin’s business expanded throughout the region and even beyond: the media reported that the OCG "Europe" controlled scrap metal procurement in Kyiv, Poltava, Cherkasy, Khmelnytskyi, Vinnytsia, Chernivtsi, and Mykolaiv regions. It was also reported that Valeriy Dubil, who participated in the war for the redistribution of the metal market, was personally implicated in at least two murders, but this "wet work" remained "unresolved." Rumors had it, not without the assistance of the "Europeans’" connections in law enforcement agencies.
While his son was breaking someone’s jaws and fingers, dad-warrant officer was diligently looting his native airbase. After the planes were transferred to Russia, and the rest were sent to scrap, the base was closed. And under the personal "roof" of Valeriy Dubil, it was looted to zero: even underground cables were dug out, the steel sheets of floors from the hangars were taken out, and the journalists later found the torn-out concrete slabs laid around the suburban estate of Valeriy Dubil and the "houses" of his aides. Helping them in this was Oleh Averyanov - the very officer of the base who initially joined the business of father and son Dubils. It was he and warrant officer Dubil who were the two key figures who organized the base looting.
Oleh Averyanov
And yet, by the end of the 90s, the OCG "Europe" was not the coolest in Pryluky. Much more influential was the criminal authority of "allied scale" Igor Kruglov aka "Shpala". A former Pryluky hoodlum, after the army, he got a job in Moscow working as a driver for a big boss from the Investigative Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, soon began courting his daughter. Simultaneously, Kruglov became friends with Moscow OCGs, including the "Solntsevskaya" Thus gaining significant connections in Moscow, Kruglov became a big man in his homeland, and already in the 80s, he controlled the local mafia in Pryluky, and with the beginning of "perestroyka," he began opening cooperatives and expanding his business. And this business did not let Chebykin rest, who laid eyes on it. However, Kruglov was not a match for Chebykin. But Valeriy Dubil succeeded in taking away his business.
This happened in the late 90s. Valeriy Dubil, who was still officially listed as a paramedic at the city hospital, opened his first LLC and donned the purple jacket of a businessman, in 1998 ran for the deputy of the Pryluky City Council, and became person #3 in the OCG "Europe." In the group, he had many "homies," others feared and respected him, and he began to act. First, Chebykin died in a car accident, with the case materials later disappearing. Then someone skillfully framed Serhiy Kuntsevskyi under arrest - and his fate was tragic. When Kuntsevskyi, after serving time, returned to Pryluky in 2008, he and two other old members of the OCG "Europe" were again arrested on old cases of the group "in connection with newly discovered facts". Who exactly opened these facts for the police, one can only guess, but Kuntsevskyi was greatly hindering Valeriy Dubil, who had just become a people’s deputy on the "Batkivshchyna" list. And so, on October 2, 2008, Serhiy Kuntsevskyi was arrested by the "Sokol" special forces, delivered to the Pryluky branch of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, where he was... beaten to death during interrogation.
In all this, a very clear version can be seen that Valeriy Dubil achieved leadership in the OCG "Europe" not without the help of his "curators" in law enforcement agencies, who actively helped him in such a brilliant career. Perhaps, former Chernihiv prosecutor Volodymyr Stetsenko, who worked there from 1984 to 2001, and then in 2014-2015 - and, according to journalists, had very close relations with the "Europeans" and personally with Valeriy Dubil, could shed light on it. In 2015, Stetsenko was appointed assistant to General Prosecutor Viktor Shokin, and he was then called a very influential person in the Prosecutor General’s Office, the "overseer" for Chernihiv region.
Volodymyr Stetsenko
So, having become the main "European" by the end of the 90s, Valeriy Dubil rather quickly took over Kruglov’s business first in Pryluky, and then in the region. It was not without bandit "raids": car bombs were detonated, ribs broken, and the supervisor of Kruglov, Vasyl Sobchuk (Vasya Krymskyi), appointed over the city, was put under pressure by the police. Then half-criminal businessmen working for Kruglov began defecting under the "roof" of Dubil and the "Europeans." First, there was Radalov, who controlled the wholesale food base. He even renamed his company to "Evrorad" (Europe-Radalov) to emphasize that he was working for the new owner of the city. Soon, two city markets, the "Chernihivvtorchermet" enterprise, and the timber trading base came under the control of "Europe." This allowed the "Europeans," in particular, to monopolize the metal market, and further conduct operations through their companies LLC "Miksher" and LLC "Ecoresurs".
One episode of that redistribution was the 2000 murder of Vasyl Dehtyar, director of the Pryluky poultry farm, which at that time was hardly operational and engaged only in the processing of beef skins for haberdashery. Dehtyar was killed after he refused to appoint warrant officer Oleksandr Dubil as his deputy and rewrite a controlling stake to him. Seven point-blank shots ended the stubborn director’s life right in the doorway of his own building, and immediately after his funeral, the new head and owner of the poultry farm became Dubil-father, later rewriting the enterprise to his son’s partners. This murder also became a "hangover".
Interestingly, during this war, Kruglov was unable to use either his connections in law enforcement agencies or the help of the "Solntsevskaya"’s members - both local authorities and Moscow "brothers" took the side of Dubil and his "European" team. Why remains unknown. But from that moment, according to journalists, Valeriy Dubil, who was still officially listed as a simple paramedic, became not only the leader of a powerful organized crime group in Chernihiv but also an "authority" of all-Ukrainian scale with connections in Russia. Moreover, there is a notion that Dubil’s subsequent political choice towards "Batkivshchyna" was made not without the "Solntsevskaya’"s members participation. As known, one of the curators of the "Solntsevskaya" OCG was international mafioso Semen Mohylevych, and the ties between Mohylevych and Tymoshenko have long been discussed by journalists.
The path of the "Europeans"
In the early "noughties," Valeriy Dubil moved to Kyiv, and not alone: with him, several "Europeans" arrived in the capital, and they quickly settled there. Dubil was elected as a deputy of the Kyiv Dnipro District Council, and his friend and closest ally Varnavskyi later became a deputy of the Kyiv City Council (BYuT faction). But that was later; for now, the first and most large-scale success of Dubil in Kyiv was the Troyeshchyna market.
As known, all capital markets at one time were under the "roof" of prominent criminal "authorities." Troyeshchyna was managed by Valeriy Pryshchyk (nicknamed Pryshch), the leader of a very well-known Kyiv OCG at the time. Legally, the market was registered to the company LLC "Rynok 1," whose owners were Pryshchyk himself, his half-brother Ihor Tsyshkovskyi, and the closest "friends" Serhiy Onopriyenko (nicknamed Saloid) and Oleksandr Lyshchenko (Licha), whom Pryshchyk knew from childhood. Apparently, he didn’t know them well enough. On December 1, 2003, Valeriy Pryshchyk was killed, with several different versions regarding the organizers, but his mother believed that Lyshchenko and Onopriyenko organized the murder. Other versions mentioned a trace in the corrupted Kyiv Office for Combating Organized Crime and possible involvement of Valeriy Heletey, Vitaliy Yarema, and Oleksiy Savchenko. Also mentioned was the potential involvement of "Donetsk" and "Solntsevskaya" OCGs in the killing of Pryshchyk. But here’s what’s interesting: after Pryshchyk’s death, the ownership composition of LLC "Rynok 1" changed. Apart from Tsyshkovskyi, Lyshchenko, and Onopriyenko, who continued to control half of the market shares through LLC "Komfort-Lux" (EDRPOU 32246123), its owners became Pryluky firms "Asfa-Line" (EDRPOU 37632505) and "Budpostach Pryluky" (37984674), as well as LLC "ITC-London Technology Company" (34479827) owned by Vitaliy Prysyazhnyuk - son of Vasyl Prysyazhnyuk, who at the time of Pryshchyk’s murder held the position of Deputy Prosecutor General of Ukraine. And soon Valeriy Dubil officially became the deputy director of LLC "Rynok 1" - who was called the new owner of the Troyeshchyna market.
Sergiy Varys, for SKELET-info
04 September 2018 г., 14:37
