The interests of various oligarchic clans in Ukrainian ports have been known for a long time. Officially, however, their financial and industrial groups always deny any connection with the ports of Greater Odessa. This is a well-known practice, because formally the ports are still considered state-owned. Consequently, legally, no group of influence can openly declare that it controls this or that object. And yet it is absolutely no secret to anyone that for many years various ports have been "supervised" by one or another large businessmen. In connection with this, it is vitally important for them to keep "their" people in the leadership positions. Periodically, this fierce underground struggle hidden from prying eyes (names of Akhmetov and Kolomoisky are mentioned, in particular) breaks out in the form of loud resignations, public dismissals or criminal proceedings in the maritime sphere.
Perhaps one high-profile story that happened in December 2020 at the state-owned enterprise "Sea Trade Port "Chernomorsk" is connected with such a war.
Then NABU detectives publicly announced that they had convicted the head of the Black Sea port of receiving a large bribe. The official allegedly demanded $250 for agreeing to a rehabilitation plan for the bankrupt company.
According to the investigation, this company was negotiating with private investors. "However, their involvement required the approval of the creditors' committee. Therefore, when the head of the state-owned enterprise felt the seriousness of the intentions of one of the investors, he demanded a payment for "loyalty" and estimated it at 250 thousand dollars," the message says.
However, a lot of inconsistencies immediately surfaced in this case, and the journalists of the ElitExpert publication managed to find out that this whole operation, as informed sources in the port who know the situation from the inside told, was a provocation known in narrow circles by the bankrupt LLC "EUROPEAN AGRO INVESTMENT COMPANY-Ukraine" (" Europian Agro Investment Ukraine") — companies with a track record of litigation.
The director of "EUROPEAN AGRO INVESTMENT COMPANY–Ukraine" is Halyna Arsentievna Brynzyannyk. The lady, who appears to be a successful businesswoman with a multi-million turnover, is actually very well known by law enforcement agencies of Ukraine. Behind the respectable appearance of the "lady boss" hides a swindler and fraudster, a figure in several criminal proceedings and a wanted person.
However, journalists managed to collect the facts of Halyna Brynzyannik's real life, which she modestly prefers to keep silent about. More on that below.
We immediately notice that she knew how to deceive people professionally. Now it's hard to believe, but just four years ago, the company headed by her trumpeted in all Odessa mass media about an economic miracle that in a few months would turn provincial Ilyichevsk, now Chernomorsk, practically into a new Singapore.
Here are a couple of excerpts:
"EUROPEAN AGRO INVESTMENT COMPANY-Ukraine" is ready to implement a project that has received foreign investments in the amount of a quarter of a billion dollars. Taxes will go to the local budget, port workers will receive a higher real European salary, and the state-owned enterprise will be able to develop further. Investments in the amount of a quarter of a billion dollars are an economic miracle in a single Ilyichevsky port. This is a completely different level of life and work." Halyna Brynzyannyk assured in an interview with mass media. According to her, it was about the "largest Dutch company" (however, so large that it didn't even have its own website).
She also promised manna from heaven - the company's construction of transport interchanges on the territory of the port and the city. And also - "more than three hundred ship calls to the port per hour, which will give the invested funds." For this company "European Agro Investment Ukraine" all that was needed was a transshipment complex in the area of berths No. 7 and No. 8 of the Black Sea port, which the company received on lease for a period of 49 years under the promise of a billion-dollar investment.
The result of these fabulous projects is known - the company operated the leased complex for several years, and, as it turned out later, fruitfully for free, and then, as expected, it burst like a soap bubble and declared bankruptcy.
At the same time, Chernomorsk never saw the investment of a quarter of a billion dollars, and accordingly did not become the second Singapore.
In June 2020, the Prosecutor's Office of the Odesa Region filed a claim with the Regional Commercial Court to recover 15 million hryvnias from European Agro Investment Ukraine LLC.
As reported by the department, the company was obliged to pay rent in the amount of UAH 2,507 million every month, but very soon it began to accumulate debts. And since October 2019, Halyna Brynzyannyk's company stopped paying its employees as well - these are 180 people who previously worked at the Chernomorsk MTP State Enterprise and transferred to a private company after the terminal was leased. Then these port workers regularly staged protests, blocking important city highways and demanding salary payments.
As you know, during the bankruptcy procedure, the company's property must be sold, and the proceeds go to pay off debts. However, at this stage, it suddenly turns out that such companies as "European Argo" have neither money nor property, and money is withdrawn from the accounts as soon as it is received. Therefore, there is nothing to gain from them. A classic of the genre.
CRIMINAL LIFE OF HALYNA BRYNZIANNYK
However, all this will not seem surprising at all if you study the biography of the director of the company Halyna Arsentievna Brynzyannik, born on July 30.07.1967, XNUMX in more detail.
Until 2004, she was an ordinary teacher in one of the schools of Chernomorsk, but then she radically changed the profile of her activity, entering the political sphere. In particular, she was a confidant of the presidential candidate Alexander Moroz, then unsuccessfully ran for the Verkhovna Rada from the Social Party. After that, she became the head of the Socialist Party in Ilyichevsk, an assistant to the people's deputy under Mikhail Melnychuk from the SPU, and then - under Evgeny Sygal, a people's deputy from BYU, thanks to whom, according to rumors, she owes such a rapid career in the business sphere.
However, the fraudulent mindset cannot be changed, so our heroine, as indicated above, is a participant in several criminal proceedings and court cases at once. All of them are officially documented, and about them in order.
H. Brynzyannyk is a defendant in the case of fraud (Article 190 Part 4 of the Criminal Code). Proceedings on the fact of possession of funds by fraud in the amount of 581 thousand hryvnias were registered in ERDR No. 12013110100013405. (24.08.2013) Kyiv, Shevchenko police department.
Another case (No. 12013170160000862, 06.04.2013) was registered by the Black Sea Police Department under a similar article. As it is said in the story: "I borrowed money and did not return it, the explained one escapes."
And after that, another criminal proceeding, registered on April 23.04.2013, 12013110100007356 in the ERDR under No. 400, all under the same article about fraud. Now - in the amount of XNUMX thousand. hryvnia
In the period from 24.10.2019/27.02.2020/XNUMX to XNUMX/XNUMX/XNUMX (already a "successful business woman"), Halyna Brynzyannyk was officially wanted and was on the run.
Now let's move on to court cases, of which Brynzyannik also has a lot. For example, the case that was considered in 2012 by the Ilyichevsky City Court of the Odesa Region. The plaintiff appealed to the court, demanding to recover a large sum from the woman.
Four years before that, in 2008, Halyna Brynzyannyk borrowed 10 thousand US dollars (at the time of consideration of the case, this sum was equivalent to 79 thousand 635 hryvnias). Having taken the money, she wrote a corresponding receipt in which she undertook to return the money by October 22, 2008, and also to pay 10% monthly for using the loan.
In the specified period, she did not fulfill her obligations, did not return the funds, and moreover, she stated that she did not receive any money, and the receipt is a fake.
However, when the plaintiff went to court, a forensic handwriting examination was appointed (No. 9525 / 02 dated October 26, 2011), the conclusion of which was final - the receipt was written by Halyna Brynzyannik.
As a result, as follows from the decision of the Ilyichevsky City Court of the Odesa Region dated 23.03.2012/07.06.2012, the claim of fraud cost Brynzyannik dearly - the court decided to recover from her not only 79 635,00 hryvnias, but also monthly interest for the use of borrowed money in the amount of 238 thousand. 905,00 hryvnias, three percent annual interest on the overdue amount of 5208,00 hryvnias, and court costs in the amount of 1820,00 hryvnias. All this resulted in a large sum of 325 thousand 568 hryvnias. (https://reyestr.court.gov.ua/Review/22327077)
By the way, the plaintiff later collected more than 300 thousand hryvnias from her as inflationary losses, which he suffered due to the fraud. (https://reyestr.court.gov.ua/Review/76119182).
In the second court case, Brynzyannyk herself was the plaintiff, who accused her colleague of promising her a place in the deputy corps of the city council for a bribe. But very soon the court established that there was no basis for a criminal case. (https://reyestr.court.gov.ua/Review/6254272)
The last (only for today!) court decision is dated October 22, 2019. The limited liability company "Marshal Group Company" appealed to the Economic Court of the Odesa Region with a claim for recovery from the same "European Agro Investment Ukraine", whose director is Brynzyannik, for a debt in the amount of UAH 908.
Claims were related to "improper performance by the defendant of his obligations" (read - another request for fraud) under the contract for the provision of special equipment services.
The companies concluded an agreement with each other on the provision of equipment services. LLC "Marshal Group" provided these services in the amount of 1 million 199 thousand hryvnias, and "EUROPEAN AGRO INVESTMENT COMPANY-Ukraine", firstly, violated all payment terms, and secondly, paid only 300 thousand hryvnias and asked in every way will refuse to return the rest of the debt. But it was unsuccessful - the court decided to recover 899 from the Brynzyannyk company. 552 hryvnias contract debt and court fees in the amount of UAH 13. (https://reyestr.court.gov.ua/Review/84633808).
Thus, when you get to know the full extent of Halyna Brynzyannik, you look at the case of the alleged bribery in the Black Sea port in a completely different way. It is logical to assume that a lady with such a train of criminal cases simply played the role of a professional provocateur, a phenomenon so widespread that there is a special article for it in the Criminal Code.
Moreover, according to our sources, the professional provocateur and swindler Galina Brynzyannyk intends to repeat her trick with the provocation of a bribe soon, which means that any official who has contacts with her may be hit. Be vigilant.
