Toxic lawyers of ILF/Inurpolis: Havrysh, Semochkin and Partners

Toxic lawyers of ILF/Inurpolis: Havrysh, Semochkin and Partners

Do you need legal assistance? Then be extremely careful when choosing a lawyer, otherwise you can get hooked by scammers from the legal profession and make your situation even worse. In particular, this is exactly what happens to clients who inadvertently contact the law firm "ILF/Inyurpolis".

Once upon a time, it was an ordinary law firm, helping entrepreneurs as best it could and not ignoring generally accepted moral and ethical standards. But over the past few years, the situation has changed radically. Today, the mere mention of "ILF/Inyurpolis" causes a negative reaction among specialists. What caused such a drastic change? To do this, let’s look at the main characters in this story.

The main persons in ILF/Inurpolis are a lawyer, Tetyana Havrysh, and a certain Serhiy Semochkin. Havrysh is the "facade of the firm", the official person who negotiates and communicates with clients, gaining their trust with politeness and competent language.

Татьяна Гавриш

But Semochkin is a character of a completely different caliber. In fact, he is the executor of "dirty deeds" in "ILF/Inyurpolis". Semochkin likes to pose as an authoritative person with allegedly large connections in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Security Service of Ukraine and other similar organizations. However, when talking about his "connections", Semochkin usually omits the fact that he was fired from the authorities in disgrace for forging an educational diploma and an entry in his work record book, and the respected people whose names he readily lists are unlikely to want to shake Semochkin’s hand, not to mention providing any kind of patronage. So here we are dealing with an ordinary deceiver.

Сергей Семочкин

The fall of ILF/Inyurpolis as a respectable law firm began precisely with the arrival of Semochkin to the company, who began to perform the following functions:

1. "Relations manager" with the Ministry of Internal Affairs and criminal organizations;

2. Carrying out dirty work and organizing provocations (blackmail, denunciations, slander, planting illegal substances or objects, damage to property);

3. Communicating with ILF/Inyurpolis clients in the role of a “crisis manager,” promising to quickly “sort out” a suddenly arising difficult situation, but in reality only worsening the client’s difficult situation.

The last point is worth paying special attention to. How does it happen that by seeking legal help, a person only aggravates his problems with new ones, supposedly suddenly arising from outside, and suffers significant financial losses? This is Semochkin’s role. Here is how this scheme works.

A person comes to Tetyana Havrysh for a legal consultation. The first meeting is usually non-binding. Tea, coffee, the lawyer’s introduction to the problem, listening to potential mechanisms for resolving the issue and terms of cooperation, and a promise to think about it. If this potential client cannot decide on his legal partner, then Semochkin appears on the scene. He always makes an impressive first impression - he trumps the big names he supposedly knows (from generals of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and senior officials of Bankova to criminal authorities), promises to quickly solve all problems and, in between, persistently persuades the client to conclude a cooperation agreement with ILF/Inyurpolis. As soon as the client gives in and signs the agreement, he is firmly drawn into the fraudulent scheme.

There are several scenarios for the development of events. They all have one thing in common: all the more or less significant information is extracted from the client, supposedly for the benefit of the case. As a rule, this is not difficult: people usually trust their lawyer and do not consider it necessary to hide anything. It would never occur to anyone that the defender could sell the confidential information received or transfer it to other partners-lawyers of ILF/Inyurpolis for use in court, but already on the side of the opponents. This is what the rogues from the management of ILF/Inyurpolis take advantage of, collecting any information that is critically sensitive for the business under the guise of trust.

Once the necessary confidential materials are collected (by the way, they are protected by the global principle of attorney-client privilege), Havrysh and Semochkin begin to act. They spin up a fraudulent scheme, according to which the client is persuaded to long-term and expensive cooperation with ILF/Inyurpolis.

To begin with, the client is offered "rigid schemes" for solving the problem, which are naturally rejected by decent people. Then there are several options for action, depending on the nature of the collected dossier. For example, leaking sensitive information for the client to controlled media, which immediately make it public (or threaten to make it public). After that, either law enforcement agencies appear on the scene, "suddenly" initiating an "investigation", or criminals. Needless to say, both are in on it and are closely connected to the top of "ILF/Inyurpolis".

Naturally, when difficulties arise, the unsuspecting client immediately turns to his lawyer. In our story, this is Tetyana Havrysh. Thus, the mousetrap finally slams shut, and Havrysh becomes indispensable for the client, since she undertakes to resolve the problem. The client does not even suspect that this problem was created for him by his own lawyers.

Another scenario is that Semochkin and Havrysh contact the client’s opponents and offer them either to purchase and independently use the confidential materials obtained during consultations, or, again, to switch to ILF/Inyurpolis services, and then the lawyers will use this information in court. Such cases have happened more than once in the practice of ILF/Inyurpolis. Who would refuse such a profitable offer? And the client, wondering where the leak of information came from, again turns to Havrysh and her partners for help. And she rubs her hands with satisfaction, calculating the amount of the check. She doesn’t care how to earn money, on the victories or defeats of clients, since there is no fixed, but hourly tariffing: more courts - more hours - more total earnings.

At the same time, toxic lawyers often strike ahead. In particular, at meetings with clients, Havrysh likes to "shine with professionalism", "predicting" future problems, and immediately outlining the ways and figures of solving them. And when the problem appears after a short time, the client of "ILF/Inyurpolis" is surprised by the "insight" and "informedness" of his lawyer, trusting Havrysh even more. The naive client does not suspect that all the problems are specially orchestrated. In any of the voiced scenarios, his life quickly turns into hell, and his assets migrate into the pockets of Havrysh and her accomplices.

Well, the third option is overt blackmail, as in one recent case. In particular, during a confidential meeting, Havrysh secretly recorded a conversation with a client. Then Semochkin showed up, and the man began to be blackmailed, threatening to pass the recording on to competitors.

What’s the bottom line? An entrepreneur comes to ILF/Inyurpolis with one question, but after a few months the case is overgrown with new, much more expensive problems. Often, they become completely unmanageable.

But there is no need to accuse Havrysh’s clients of naivety. The usual human factor is at work. Many of them often have a feeling that after contacting ILF/Inyurpolis something is going wrong, and the problems are only getting worse. But not everyone is ready to immediately break off relations with a lawyer whom they are used to trusting. And many do not dare to conflict with either the "policeman" or the "authority" Semochkin, since he often skillfully throws dust in the eyes.

Unscrupulousness in means, lack of principles, desire to deceive the client at any cost – all this has today become the main credo of the lawyer Tetyana Havrysh and her so-called “law firm” “ILF/Inyurpolis”. It is comforting that not everyone is ready to put up with such fraud, and the number of scandals around “ILF/Inyurpolis” is steadily growing.