Notorious Viktor Remskyi still wants to lead the National Police

Viktor Remskyi - a notorious figure, known in the media as the "grey cardinal" of the Donetsk region, is attributed with overseeing drug trafficking and smuggling, as well as extortion and close connection to the criminal world.

According to journalistic investigations, since the 2000s Remskyi has been involved in racketeering and "covering" representatives of the criminal world, the so-called "thieves in law," as well as illegal wiretapping and blackmailing of prominent businessmen through his detective agencies.

Short biography

Viktor Remskyi is credited with having close ties to "thieves in law," which allowed him to quickly advance from a rank-and-file employee of the patrol duty service in far 1999 to key positions in the Ministry of Internal Affairs and deputy head of the Regional State Administration, where he earned the unofficial status of "chief racketeer" of Donbas.

"Stitched with white threads" is how you can describe the acquaintances, criminal connections, facts, and criminal cases associated with Viktor Remskyi, which the administration of Volodymyr Zelenskyy is still trying not to notice.

How someone who was supposed to fight organized crime could become a notorious "turncoat with epaulettes," is easy to see by looking at Viktor Remskyi’s history...

In the 2000s, working under the wing of Vitaliy Stryzhak, Remskyi was involved in racketeering representatives of the criminal world. "Those who paid remained untouchable. Those who refused were forced to flee, including abroad," describe his activities as figures in the journalistic investigation.

One of the most successful collaborations for Remskyi was with the then head of Kyiv’s Organized Crime Unit, Oleksandr Pluzhnyk. Under the guise of fighting crime, he managed to expose a large organized crime group to the benefit of its competitors. The "reward" for the valiant investigation for Remskyi was two new cars, elite capital real estate... and full control over drug trafficking.

In 2011, Remskyi became the deputy head of the Kyiv Organized Crime Bureau, then the deputy head of the regional department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Poltava. He was then appointed deputy head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Poltava and head of the criminal police. Following the 2014 revolution, under mysterious circumstances, he was not "lustrated," and in the fall of 2015, he took the position of deputy head of Donetsk Regional State Administration under Pavlo Zhebrivskyi - where he became infamously known among the region’s businessmen.

What happened in Donbas

According to the investigation, acting as the deputy head of the Regional State Administration under Pavlo Zhebrivskyi, Remskyi earned the nickname - "the governor’s wallet" by engaging in construction, taking control of smuggling and money flows in the grey zones of ORDLO, thanks to wide powers and opportunities to coordinate law enforcement and military units of the Donetsk region during the active period of hostilities.

The SSU has initiated a related criminal case regarding these events.

It is also reported that during this time Remskyi caught the oligarch Eduard Bondarenko (head of the board of the company "Donbasenergo", which belongs to the family of the fugitive President Yanukovych) by surprise. Bondarenko turned to Remskyi with the aim of resolving his problematic issues, for which they also involved the "thief in law Lvivskyi" Remskyi’s godfather, thereby tying Bondarenko to them.

Building a system of collecting taxes from businessmen and controlling drug trafficking and smuggling in Donbas, according to journalistic investigation data, Remskyi caught another oligarch Maksym Yefimov.

Reference

Andriy Nedzelskyi (or Andriy Lvivskyi) — a former influential Ukrainian criminal authority, the so-called «thief in law» (although at the time of receiving the "title" he did not serve a sentence in places of deprivation of liberty. Later, he was publicly beaten in Kyiv and deprived of his title of thief).

He is the main coordinator of Remskyi. Currently, he is internationally wanted for the murder of his partner, hiding in Cyprus.

As reported by the publication Argument UA Remskyi recently met with Nedzelskyi in a bathhouse for an urgent conference.

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Extortion under the guise of a detective agency

After losing his patron and the cessation of cash flow with the departure of Zhebrivskyi, Remskyi also resigned and opened a new business - "International Detective Agency "Sokol"

According to the "official version," the main activities of the so-called agency are legal services, security, and trade union activities, as well as polygraph business production. De facto, the agency was engaged in illegal surveillance, wiretapping, blackmailing businessmen, for which it was deprived of its license in 2019.

An interesting fact, and another confirmation that Bondarenko continues to financially support Remskyi, serves as the fact that "Sokol" was registered at the address: Kyiv, Park Road, 16a. At this address is the Congress and Exhibition Center "Parkovyi," better known to the public as Yanukovych’s "helipad."

Leaks from the Ministry of Internal Affairs

According to a source from the editorial board, one of Remskyi’s key associates, who leaks information to him during investigations of criminal case figures and internal information from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, acts as his colleague - Deputy Head of the Department of the Criminal Investigation Department, Arno Martirosyan, who is also a person with a very ambiguous and full of questions biography.

Through Arno Martirosyan, operational information from the Ministry of Internal Affairs is leaked, which is then used by Remskyi for blackmail and extortion, as well as appears on Detective INFO website. The site belongs to Remskyi.

Perhaps the leadership of the National Police should consider whether the activities of "Falcon" fall under Article 255 of the Criminal Code (creating and coordinating a criminal group) and pay attention to such relationships between Viktor Remskyi and his associates in the Ministry of Internal Affairs with the criminal world!

SSU searches in Remskyi’s office

The activities of the so-called detective agency have repeatedly come under the attention of law enforcement and controlling bodies.

The Security Service conducted searches in the agency’s office, equipment, technology, and documents were seized. A criminal case was opened.

In 2019, Remskyi’s office was closed, and "Sokol" was deprived of its license. But not for long. Remskyi quickly changed the sign, opening a new agency "Falcon," thereby continuing the previous activities.

It is reported that today the agency continues to engage in debt collection, surveillance of figures in the criminal cases of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, under the guise of analytical activities. The agency continues to be funded by the "family of fugitive President Yanukovych."

Ambitions

The culmination of this entire story, despite the sad notoriety in the media and an ambiguous image, is that Viktor Remskyi wants to take the position of head of the National Police of Ukraine, justifying this appointment with his close ties to Dmytro Razumkov.