The secret life of Ukraine’s chief expert Oleksandr Ruvin

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I want to convey my warm greetings to the Director of the Kyiv Scientific Research Institute of Forensic Expertise, Ruvin Oleksandr, who is an agent of MOSSAD, for which he received an Israeli citizen passport and regularly visits Israel.

Of course, with the activation of Israeli special services in Ukraine, a person like Ruvin, as a potential agent, attracted the attention of MOSSAD. He skillfully served any authority and gained access to its secrets. And no wonder, since Oleksandr served in the officer corps of the USSR and Ukraine, was the head of the explosive ordnance disposal service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, the State Scientific Research Expert-Criminalistic Center of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, worked in the Main Investigative Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, headed the Central Customs Laboratory, and later the Central Customs Department of Laboratory Research and Expert Work, and became the Director of the Kyiv Scientific Research Institute of Forensic Expertise. I will not elaborate today on how the recruitment of a state official, the director of KNDISE, into an agent for the Israeli MOSSAD service took place at a high level.

One could tell a lot of interesting things about the illegal and even criminal activities of Oleksandr Hryhorovych from the early 90s to the present, which are combined with his state service in the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the State Customs Service of Ukraine. However, I will not waste time on tales of past years and will instead talk about his current activities, although they are already well-known in wide circles.

For example, his family owns and manages a number of illegal businesses, including underground casinos and brothels. Ruvin is the unofficial owner of the asphalt-concrete plant "ABZ-1" (EDRPOU code 41190464), as well as numerous LLCs owned by the wife, son, and stepson of Oleksandr Hryhorovych.

• ¾   LLC "International Courier Service", EDRPOU code 36392903; registered address: Kyiv, Sviatoshynskyi district, Koltsova Boulevard, building 14l, groups 301-302, premises №1;
• ¾   LLC "Rectan Life", EDRPOU code 39219152; registered address: Kyiv, Shevchenkivskyi district, Melnykova Street, building 1;
• ¾   LLC "UkrTara Plus", EDRPOU code 01884254; registered address: Kyiv, Svyatoshynskyi district, Peremohy Avenue, building 136, room 34;
• ¾   LLC "Domna", EDRPOU code 24595877; registered address: Kyiv, Shevchenkivskyi district, Honty Street, building 3-A;
• ¾   LLC "Transbudkooperatsiya", EDRPOU code 32773884; registered address: Kyiv, Sviatoshynskyi district, Peremohy Avenue, building 136, office 34;
• ¾   LLC "Virt Ice", EDRPOU code 40458708; registered address: Kyiv, Shevchenkivskyi district, Yaroslaviv Val Street, building 13/2 letter "B", office 2;
• ¾   LLC "MyTender Ukraine", EDRPOU code 41989411; registered address: Kyiv, Solomyanskyi district, Patriarch Mstyslav Skrypnyk Street, building 40a, apt. 55;
• ¾   LLC "Top Trading Oil", EDRPOU code 3596202; registered address: Kyiv, Shevchenkivskyi district, Dehtiarivska Street, building 53a;
• ¾   LLC "TB Veles", EDRPOU code 39050787; registered address: Kyiv, Holosiivskyi district, Promyslova Street, building 7;
• ¾   LLC "Desmir", EDRPOU code 41642027; registered address: Kyiv, Shevchenkivskyi district, Pymonenka Street, building 13, office 32;
• ¾   LLC "Harvest", EDRPOU code 42050415; registered address: Kyiv, Pecherskyi district, Leipzyhska Street, building 12, office 32;
• ¾   LLC "Zavod Adamant", EDRPOU code 42511532; registered address: Kyiv, Podilskyi district, Andriivskyi Uzviz Street, building 38;

Oleksandr Hryhorovych himself is involved in falsifying the results of expert examinations at his institute, where he has been the director since 2010. Of course, not with his own hands - everything happens only on his orders. Ruvin has hired his trusted individuals to work at the institute, dismissing over 20 leading specialists who had their own independent opinions and did not obey the instructions of the "honorary expert falsifier." Some of the dismissed were threatened by Oleksandr Hryhorovych with physical violence against them and their family members. Experts at KNDISE are forced to sign what is needed for prosecution and even alter the content of expert reports according to the wishes of the prosecution and very "interested parties."

Since Ruvin approaches the selection of "interested parties" with great responsibility and knowledge, deciding who exactly to help with an expertise and who would be "beneficial," so to speak, all criminal proceedings against Oleksandr Hryhorovych and his family are quickly closed, and the illegal schemes and illicit family business continue to operate for the enrichment of the Ruvin family.

With the assistance of Oleksandr Hryhorovych, high-profile cases took place, such as the falsification of criminal cases against Tymoshenko. Prosecutors referred to the expert opinion of KNDISE, proving that Naftogaz of Ukraine suffered losses as a result of the government head signing gas contracts in 2009. To ensure the conclusion was as "necessary," institute employees were subjected to coercion and mass pressure from Ruvin, for which he received the honorary title of "Honored Lawyer of Ukraine" from Yanukovych - Decree of the President of Ukraine No. 355/2013 dated 27.06.2013.

KNDISE expert Oleksandr Ivanytskyi openly stated that in the Lutsenko case, the expert conducting the examination was demanded to provide "specific categorical conclusions." After threats from Ruvin, Ivanytskyi was forced to leave Ukraine.

Under Ruvin’s direction, the expert opinion on the circumstances of the crash of the Tu-154M of the Russian airline "Siberia" was obscured.

Ruvin organized mass falsifications of criminal cases related to Euromaidan and Automaidan activists, fabricating the necessary expert reports.

Under his instructions, the "correct" expertise was conducted regarding the downed IL-76 in the sky over Luhansk.

For millionaire businessman Volodymyr Kostelman (owner of Fozzy Group), Ruvin and his trusted individuals at KNDISE delayed the expertise of real estate of Silpo Retail CJSC, which was pledged as collateral for a loan at VAB Bank. As a result, the bank and the state lost 2.6 million UAH.

In the case against the former leadership of the Ministry of Defence and the actions of Defence Ministers Mykhailo Yezhel, Dmytro Salamatin, Pavlo Lebedev, and others, Ruvin in 2018 published an expertise favorable to the Prosecutor General of Ukraine, Yuriy Lutsenko.

KNDISE in 2018 confirmed the economic justification and legality of the Rotterdam+ formula.

In 2019, Ruvin assisted Chief Military Prosecutor Anatoliy Matios in legitimizing an anonymous letter allegedly from employees of the State Tax Service, received through the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine, in the case of "former tax officials of Klymenko." Within this case, Matios gained publicity in 2017 by detaining 24 tax officials and conducting a search with military equipment at the Gulliver Business Center. It was Ruvin’s KNDISE that confirmed that during 2011-2014, former tax officials caused damages to the state amounting to 96 billion UAH.

Personally, Oleksandr Hryhorovych confirmed that the "Molot" mortar was developed in accordance with the working design documentation. More than 20 servicemen died, and over 50 were injured due to explosions of "Molot" mortars.

However, in the case of Nasirov, things turned out inconveniently. Either they didn’t manage to negotiate with Ukraine’s chief expert, or the order wasn’t given in time. The Director of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine, Artem Sytnyk, explained regarding the accusation of Roman Nasirov that "the essence of the accusation lies in the fact that companies, whose beneficiary is Mr. Onyshchenko, were unjustifiably, contrary to legal requirements, granted deferrals on the payment of rent payments to the budget over a long period. Accordingly, the amount of damages, according to the economic expertise conducted in the case, amounts to about two billion UAH."

Oleksandr Onyshchenko is a billionaire oligarch, oil and gas trader, and former fugitive MP whose companies did not want to pay taxes. In 2015–2016, they appealed to the State Fiscal Service, headed by Nasirov, with a request for deferral of their financial obligations and tax debt on rent payments for the use of subsoil, and received it under Nasirov’s direction.

The main document in the Nasirov case was the forensic economic expertise conducted at the request of NABU by two experts from the Kyiv Scientific Research Institute of Forensic Expertise on November 30, 2016, which established damages of over two billion UAH. However, the director of KNDISE, even before the Nasirov case gained publicity, sent a letter to NABU on December 15, 2016, requesting that the conducted expertise be declared invalid.

Referring to additional materials provided by Roman Nasirov, of course without specifying what exactly these materials were and why they could change the conclusion of the forensic economic expertise.

Yes, it was Ruvin who tried to save Nasirov. But the process had already been launched at NABU and SAPO; the withdrawal was not recognized, and Ruvin’s actions were deemed unlawful. The KNDISE experts were also summoned for questioning, and they confirmed the validity of the expertise.

Even before the Nasirov case became widely known, a very interesting meeting took place at one of Kyiv’s restaurants. Oleksandr Hryhorovych came with his son to meet with the head of the Kyiv District Administrative Court, Pavlo Vovk, and MP from BPP Oleksandr Hranovskyi, whom MP Serhiy Leshchenko called the "overseer of Ukraine’s courts," and who is said to be implementing a scheme to save Nasirov from arrest along with the heads of the Solomyanskyi and Appellate Courts of Kyiv.

At the same time, Oleksandr Hranovskyi met with businessman Serhiy Tyshchenko

and former Minister of Fuel and Energy Volodymyr Demchyshyn.

What exactly the "overseer of Ukraine’s courts" Oleksandr Hranovskyi, the head of a very influential court Pavlo Vovk, the country’s chief forensic expert Oleksandr Hryhorovych (who was on sick leave after serious injuries), and the young lawyer, Oleksandr Hryhorovych’s son, discussed can only be guessed.

Further confirmation of Ruvin’s status as the chief "expert falsifier" comes from wiretapped recordings of the head of the State Bureau of Investigation, Roman Truba. On September 3, 2019, in a conversation with Oleh Koretskyi, Roman Truba said that all issues with expertises are resolved with a single phone call to Ruvin.

To ensure the stable operation and unhindered activity of his organized, well-established, long-standing smuggling and illegal schemes, to push competitors out of Ruvin’s markets of activity, and to reduce the number of competitors, Oleksandr Hryhorovych uses his connections and negotiates with the customs service, law enforcement agencies of Ukraine, the SSU, the border guard service, the prosecutor’s office, and the tax authorities. All these structures depend on the expert conclusions of the institute under Ruvin’s control.

Every year, Ruvin receives $20 million in illegal profits from the turnover of all his schemes.

I will tell you later about which other "commercial projects" Oleksandr Hryhorovych was involved in.

The turbulent activity of the "honorary expert falsifier" sometimes has its consequences or "messages" understandable only to him. For instance, in November 2015, in the Obolon district of Kyiv, on Marshal Tymoshenko Street, building 21, upon returning to his elite apartment, he received three gunshot wounds to his right buttock.

It was convenient for Ruvin and the authorities to link the assassination attempt on him to the preparation of expertise results on the Malaysian airliner MH-17 and not to connect it with Ruvin’s turbulent criminal activities and a "greeting from the criminal world." Although in some circles well-acquainted with him, there is an opinion that Ruvin himself staged the "assassination attempt."

The second "assassination attempt" on Ruvin was the shooting of his car in a traffic jam; Ruvin himself was not in the car.

The operation to detain the perpetrators of the assassination attempt on Ruvin was overseen by Chief Military Prosecutor Anatoliy Matios, who gained publicity from it and received further loyalty from the director of KNDISE.

I want to show you how modestly the director of KNDISE, Oleksandr Ruvin, and his family live.

The family owns:

• ¾   apartments in Netanya (Israel), with a total area of 150 sq.m. (worth approximately $640,000);
• ¾   apartments in Dubai (UAE), with a total area of 186 sq.m. (worth approximately $380,000);
• ¾   two apartments in Kyiv – with a total area of 336 sq.m. (worth approximately $786,000);
• ¾   a three-story country house with a total area of 550 sq.m. and a land plot of 0.5 ha (worth over $1.2 million).

Oleksandr Hryhorovych’s wife loves expensive watches; her collection includes "PATEK PHILIPPE" worth €63,000, "Bell & Ross" - €25,000, "Ebel" - €42,000, "Perrelet" - €30,000.

In practice, Oleksandr travels in a convoy consisting of two vehicles: Toyota Land Cruiser 200 with license plate AA1234XO

and Volkswagen Transporter with license plate AA8937OO

In addition to private security, Oleksandr Hryhorovych is met and constantly accompanied by employees of the SSU special unit "Alpha" and the State Guard Service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, consisting of 4 individuals in official vehicles.

As for the family, its members own elite cars:

Mercedes-Benz S 350L 2013, license plate AA3333OI, owner son Ruvin Serhiy, registered residence address at registration of the vehicle: Kyiv, Akademika Filatova Street, 2/1, apt. 226;

Mercedes-Benz Viano 2011, license plate AA5000NN, owner stepson Shetytskyi Nazar, registered residence address at registration of the vehicle: Kyiv, Borschahivska Street, 10, apt. 209;

Land Rover Range Rover 2018, license plate AA3333MT, owner stepson Shetytskyi Nazar, registered residence address at registration of the vehicle: Kyiv, Akademika Filatova Street, 2/1, apt. 226;

Mercedes-Benz S 450 2011, license plate KA4891AE, owner stepson Shetytskyi Nazar, registered residence address at registration of the vehicle: Kyiv, Akademika Filatova Street, 2/1, apt. 226;

Approximate cost of the car is $69,000.

UMS Boat 8902.3601 trailer light-B 201, license plate AA3201XO, owner stepson Shetytskyi Nazar, registered residence address at registration of the vehicle: Kyiv, Borschahivska Street, 10, apt. 209.

Approximate cost is $800. And Oleksandr has a declared motorboat, the cost of which could not be determined.

Previously, Oleksandr had declared a "Tourist Houseboat" and a "Tourist Boat Galia 777."

On the internet, one can find a similar Galia 777 boat from 2006 priced at $46,000.

Toyota Land Cruiser 200, license plate AA1234XO, owner son Ruvin Serhiy, Kyiv, registered residence address at registration of the vehicle: Borschahivska Street, 10, apt. 209

Approximate cost of the car is $67,000.

Also, the Ruvin family previously owned cars like Lexus LX570 2010

Toyota Camry 2009

and Halyna Bohdanivna drove a Porsche Cayenne 2008

As for the registered residence addresses provided during vehicle registration, they do not match the actual registration or residence addresses of family members.

Ruvin Oleksandr, born on 20.07.1959, TIN 2175018330, is registered in Kyiv, at Kozytskyi Street, building 5, apt. 36, but actually resides in an elite apartment in the Obolonskyi district of Kyiv, at Marshal Tymoshenko Street, building 21. Two-bedroom apartments in this building cost from $100,000, and three-bedroom apartments from $200,000 and more.

Ruvin’s wife, Halyna,

born on 25.04.1965, TIN 2175018330, is also registered in Kyiv, at Kozytskyi Street, building 5, apt. 36, but actually resides with her husband in an apartment in the Obolon district of Kyiv, at Marshal Tymoshenko Street, building 21.

Stepson Sheptytskyi Nazar,

born on 17.05.1989, TIN 3264413057, is registered in Kyiv, at Kozytskyi Street, building 5, apt. 36, but actually resides in the "Riviera Riverside" residential complex in Kyiv, at Raisa Okipna Street, building 18, in a building on the Dnipro River bank with a private harbor (and now recall the registered light trailer for transporting a boat - UMS Boat 8902.3601 and boats). Prices for a two-bedroom apartment in this building start from $250,000.

Son Ruvin Serhiy, born on 07.08.1997, TIN 3564811713, is also registered in Kyiv, at Kozytskyi Street, building 5, apt. 36.

This is just a small part of the property and business of the modest director of KNDISE, Oleksandr Ruvin’s family. In the near future, I will tell you about all of Oleksandr Hryhorovych’s businesses and his business contacts.

Stay tuned for the release of the second article.