Boris Kaufman, Artem Danilov & Co. – a modern mafia octopus in a bloody war against the state.

The activities of domestic law enforcement agencies can be viewed differently. However, it should be rightly noted that with the emergence of modern anti-corruption institutions, the effectiveness of the fight against “white-collar” crime has also increased. Thus, only since the creation of NABU and SAP, society has seen high-profile arrests of high-ranking officials and high-class businessmen associated with them, exposure of multibillion-dollar schemes that have been paralyzing in the bosom of the Ukrainian economic system for years.

However, we dedicate this article to fair criticism aimed at correcting errors and shortcomings using the example of a high-profile criminal case of a well-known Odessa “entrepreneur” – Boris Kaufman & Co..

Thus, on December 5, 2022, under the procedural guidance of SAP prosecutors, NABU detectives informed three participants of the criminal scheme of suspicion of the businessman Borys Kaufman, ex-Nardeput Oleksandr Granovsky and their trusted person on suspicion of creating a criminal organization that controlled officials of the Odesa City Council, and the commission of other corruption crimes.

The investigation established that in the fall of 2021, after NABU detectives and SAP prosecutors exposed a criminal organization (hereinafter – ZO) that specialized in corruption schemes for illegal disposal of property from communal property of Odessa, a new one appeared in its place. This ZO took control of almost all issues of the city’s economic life, including interaction with developers, purchases from the local budget, activities of utility companies, and other aspects of interaction with business. For the uninterrupted implementation of the set goals, the organizers of the ZO established a process of systematic bribery of officials and deputies of the local council, as evidenced by the evidence obtained by NABU and SAP during the investigation.

As of the time of publication, the said proceedings are being actively investigated, and the bail amount for the person involved in the case was increased to 159 million hryvnias by the decision of the State Administrative Court dated September 18, 2023.

According to the well-known circumstances of the indictment, together with Boris Kaufman, no less loud and influential personalities should share the dock: Svitlana Bedrege, Oleg Bryndak, Mykhailo Kuchuk, Oleksandr Borukhovych (Granovsky) and Kostiantyn Yefremov.

It should be noted that NABU detectives really did an excellent job in this case, but there are objective reasons to believe that the mere fact of announcing suspicions to the above-mentioned company will not be able to fully defeat the corruption system created by them. Yes, it is the system that consists of dozens of small and medium-sized links that are able to work remotely, autonomously, continuing to cause significant damage to the interests of the state.

Precisely in order to understand how this criminal system works, we want to acquaint you with the history of its activities and the personalities of the participants who remained in the shadows.

So, in particular, according to our sources in the law enforcement agencies, it was created by Boris Kaufman & Co. the criminal system was involved in dozens of episodes with billions in state losses:

– KP “Odesa International Airport” in 2016-2017 made 38 purchases in the SPMK-7 PE company (EDRPOU: 32891528) in the amount of 32 million hryvnias. All purchases made were non-competitive (that is, without competitive selection among suppliers) and related to repairs of city parking lots on the territory of the airport, these were the only purchases of the specified company.

In 2017, KP “Odesa International Airport” also made 25 non-competitive purchases from Chornomorhydrobud LLC (EDRPOU: 36610868) for UAH 21.33 million, these were also the only purchases of the specified company.

Thus, there are direct signs that state funds were withdrawn from the utility company for services/works related to citizen B.R. Kaufman. companies in the amount of more than UAH 50 million, and procurement items were deliberately divided into separate tenders with an expected price of up to UAH 1.00 million in order to avoid open bidding.

About the connection of these companies with Kaufman B.R. it is evidenced by the fact that within the framework of the investigation of the bankruptcy of PJSC “Platinum Bank”, the owner of which was recognized as the owner of a significant share of Kaufman B.R. according to the letter of the National Bank of Ukraine, within the framework of criminal proceedings No. 22018000000000024 of 18.01.2018, it was established that the persons connected with the bank are the arbitration administrator A.I. Danilov, PP “SPMK-7” PJSC “Finbank”, LLC ” Chornomor Hydrobud”, “VERTEX INVEST” LLC, “VERTEX INVEST GROUP” LLC, “Tedis Ukraine” LLC.

The most interesting fact from the above information is the active participation in the life of the criminal system of the arbitration administrator Artem Ivanovich Danilov. We will focus our attention more carefully on it.

Namely: Danilov A.I. according to information from the unified register of court decisions, participated in the bankruptcy of “AIRPORT HANDLING” LLC (case 916/1428/19) as the head of the liquidation commission of this company

The founder of “Airport Handling” LLC was the offshore company Airport Development Solutions LTD.

Back in 2016, it was reported that these companies are directly related to Kaufman B.R. the then journalist (now MP) Oleksandr Dubinsky and journalist Dmytro Golubov carried out the investigation. Then, according to Golubov, on May 17, Saakashvili and his team flew on a chartered business jet on the Odesa-Katowice (Poland) route, and it was these companies that paid for the flight, on the chartered business jet, for maintenance services at the Odessa airport, and receiving the plane , a parking lot, and a gas station, and it is Odessa businessmen Kaufman B.R. who are behind them. and Granovsky.

The same Danilov A.I. by proxy represented, for example, the interests of Odesa Airport Development LLC in the lawsuit: Odesa City Council against ODESA International Airport LLC and Odesa Airport Development LLC, regarding the illegal seizure of Odesa airport property. (case 916/4525/14) .

Information about Danilov A.I. we also find participation in the bankruptcy case of Chornomortechflot PJSC, which participated on the side of Cargo Invest LLC as its representative, and according to the case materials, the assets of Chornomortechflot PJSC were sold to the specified company, and the bankruptcy itself the company in mass media (“Antikora”, “Odesa Daily” and “Odessa Biz Info”) was called intentional even then in order to withdraw all the assets of Chornomortechflot PJSC.

Svitlana Fabrikant, a deputy of the Odesa City Council, a member of the supervisory board of the charity organization “Assol Seamen’s Aid Fund”, stated back in 2012 that Boris Kaufman and Oleksandr Granovsky are the actual owners of the open joint-stock company “Chornomortechflot”.

The mobile phone number that Danilov A.I. notes on auction sites how to contact the arbitration manager (+380503160457) also related to the Kaufman family. In particular, according to the data of the Unified State Register of Legal Entities, Individual Entrepreneurs and Public Organizations, this number is registered as official for communication with: “Action Cinema” LLC (EDRPOU Code: 43651834) whose founder and ultimate beneficial owner is Kaufman Rafail Borisovych – father Boris Rafailovich Kaufman;

The head of the public organization Yoga Federation “Yoga Sport” is Hanna Illivna Kaufman – the wife of Rafail Borisovych Kaufman.

In the case regarding the illegal seizure (privatization) of the property of the Moldova sanatorium located in Odessa, which belonged to the Republic of Moldova, Artem Ivanovich Danilov also acted as an arbitration manager (liquidator) in the bankruptcy of Maxtgroup LLC, thanks to which it was possible to remove the property from the liquidation mass of Platinum Bank and savings in the interests of Kaufman B.R.

(https://antikor.com.ua/articles/25-kak_ukrali_u_moldovy_gosudarstvennyj_sanatorij)

In the case regarding the seizure of the territory of the “Chervoni Zori” sanatorium in Odesa for development, where the developer “Budlife Invest” LLC (which is also related to Kaufman B.R.) seized a piece of land representing a cultural value and is going to build high-rise buildings there , in which even city council lawyers appeared in court on the side of the developers, Danilov Artem Ivanovich is also present and represents the interests of the developers.

(https://zeleniy-list.od.ua/u_spravi_sanatoriu_chervoni_zori_dopytaly_svidkiv)

Why do the judicial authorities not pay attention to the fact that in the bankruptcy proceedings in which Danilov A.I. with companies related to Kaufman B.R. he acts as an interested party in the interest of citizen Kaufman, remains a corrupt mystery. As well as the fact that Artem Ivanovich Danilov is the bearer of a huge amount of information about the criminal activities of B. Kaufman & Co. in dozens of illegal acts with billions in losses.

However, no law enforcement agency summoned A.I. Danilov. upon questioning, did not establish his real role in the committed crimes, and did not even ask questions about his arbitration activity, which is nothing more than a masking of banal crimes.

So, why do respected law enforcement officers stubbornly close their eyes to obvious facts and persons who are excellent witnesses with the prospect of taking a decent place on the dock?