In the previous investigative journalism we talked about the stormy past of the director of the bankrupt company "EUROPEAN AGRO INVESTMENT COMPANY" ("European Agro Investment Ukraine") Galina Arsentievna Brynzyannyk and her provocation, which occurred in December 2020 at the state-owned enterprise "Sea Trade Port "Chernomorsk".
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.
However, a lot of disagreements immediately surfaced in this case, and the journalists of the ElitExpert edition managed to find out that this whole operation, as told by knowledgeable sources in the port who know the situation from the inside, was a provocation by Halyna 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.
Halyna Brynzyannik has a lot of court cases, but at the moment we will focus on one of them, as the most indicative - a case that was considered in 2012 by the Ilyichevsky City Court of the Odesa Region. Then a local resident went to court, demanding to collect a large sum from the woman.
It turned out that four years before that, in 2008, Halyna Brynzyannyk had borrowed 10 thousand US dollars from him (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.
The victim in this case is a resident of Chernomorsk, Ivan Nikolaevich, who contacted the agency to tell his story and warn others against any business ties with Brynzyannik.
"Actually, I lent her 15 thousand dollars in total," he said. - We were well acquainted, together we were members of the local branch of one of the parties, we had good, equal relations. And then she asks, almost crying - well, how can you not help a person, if possible... At first she took 5 thousand, then returned it, but soon asked for another 10 thousand - literally for a couple of weeks. And after that she was completely lost. I called her, asked "where is the money", and she first texted me saying that she would bring it soon, give it back soon, fed her with promises, and so it went on for several years. Then she completely changed her phone numbers and I, having already despaired of waiting, after 4 years, filed a lawsuit against her.
The victim's story is confirmed by the case materials (https://reyestr.court.gov.ua/Review/22327077).
The most cynical thing here is the fact that Brynzyannyk told the court that she did not receive any money - on the contrary, she accused the victim of lying and insisted that the receipt was fake.
Since the parties clearly contradicted each other, the court appointed a handwriting examination (No. 9525/02 dated October 26, 2011), the verdict of which was unequivocal - the receipt was written by Halyna Brynzyannyk.
"At the same time, she did not appear in court, lawyers came instead of her, who tried to delay the consideration of the case in every possible way by rescheduling sessions, etc. But the court still made a final decision," says Ivan Nikolaevich.
Let's turn to the documents again. As follows from the decision in case No. 2-825/11 dated March 23.03.2012, 79, the Ilyichevsky City Court decided to collect from Brynzyannik not only 635 thousand 238 hryvnias, but also monthly interest for the use of borrowed money in the amount of 905 thousand. 5208 hryvnias, three percent annual interest on the overdue amount of 1820 hryvnias, and court costs in the amount of 325 hryvnias. The total demand for fraud amounted to 568 thousand 7 hryvnias. This decision entered into force on June 2012, XNUMX (https://reyestr.court.gov.ua/Review/22327077).
However, despite the victory in court, the victim still, after 13 years, has not been able to receive a penny of his debt.
"Despite the fact that I had a court decision in my hands (and then another one), the Executive Service honestly told me: "You are not her first. She has a whole bunch of debts, and you will be about seventh in line," said Ivan Nikolaevich. - There is nothing to borrow from her, officially she has no apartment, no property, nothing. Now, as the executors explained to me, there is an arrest on her land shares. We will wait for the lifting of the land moratorium, and maybe through the auction it will be possible to sell them and settle with her debtors."
In 2018, the man again appealed to the court, now demanding to recover, in addition to the amount of debt previously awarded by the court, also the inflationary losses that he suffered over the past ten years due to the fraudster.
As a result, the Ilyichevsky city court of Chernomorsk unequivocally sided with him and by its decision dated August 28, 2018 decided to additionally recover inflationary losses in the amount of 248 from Halyna Brynzyannik. 42 hryvnias and 3% per annum in the amount of 26 thousand. 458 hryvnias. (https://reyestr.court.gov.ua/Review/76119182).
However, as in the first case, Ivan Nikolayevich was unable to get this money either.
Journalists of the publication, in the presence of the victim, tried to get in touch with Halyna Brynzyannyk to get her point of view on the situation, but she generally does not make contact.
Moreover, according to Ivan Nikolayevich, his friend also got into a similar situation, whom the woman "dumped" for 50 thousand dollars with the help of a cunning scheme. He also has receipts written by Halyna Brynzyannik, and for the fifth time in a row, he cannot get anything from the swindler. At the same time, let us remind you that the "silverless" Brynzyannik just in that year created the image of a successful business woman in the mass media and promised the authorities of Chernomorsk and the port of Chernomorsk to attract investments in the amount of a quarter of a billion dollars! The story ended as we expected - the company headed by her, having leased the port terminal, went bankrupt, left millions in debt to both its employees and business partners, and the Odessa Oblast prosecutor's office became interested in the case.
And on March 25, 2021, the State Property Fund of Ukraine terminated the real estate lease agreement on the territory of the Chernomorsk seaport with European Agro Investment Ukraine.
The reason for the termination of the contract was the cessation of rent payments by the company: the last time the company paid for rent was in August 2019. And the employees of the leased terminal have not seen their salaries for a year and a half - and they are still not promised anything.
Now, European Agroinvestment Ukraine must return the facilities, including buildings, berths, cranes and access roads, to the disposal of the port within three days.
But this time too, Brynzyannik herself, like a high-flying swindler, got out of the water dry...
It is quite strange that such a person, who has many court cases, problems with law enforcement officers and a lot of debts, feels so at ease. Perhaps the matter is that she is very beneficial to some influential person who (at least for the time being) is "crushing" her?
ElitExpert will monitor the situation and inform readers and law enforcement agencies about it.
Information:
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) Shevchenkiv police department of Kyiv.
Another case (No. 12013170160000862, 06.04.2013) was registered by the Black Sea Police Department under a similar article.
Another criminal proceeding, registered on April 23.04.2013, 12013110100007356 in the ERDR under No. 400, all under the same article on 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.
