Who is "covering for" the embezzler and money launderer Ihor Stakovychenko?

The problem of conversion centers through which hundreds of billions of hryvnias are siphoned from the state budget of Ukraine has not disappeared, despite the pre-election promises of the current government. Moreover – it has reached catastrophic proportions over the past three years.

Perhaps the most striking thing in this entire bacchanalia of unlimited theft is not even the amount that passes through the conversion centers. What is most frightening is that the organizers of these «converters» have not only stopped hiding – they have become public figures. In the coordinate system of the current government, they have transformed from criminals who are destroying the economy of a warring country into leading experts and investors who openly and secretly offer advice on economic development.

What you see in the picture above is a vivid confirmation of the surrealism into which modern Ukraine has transformed. A person whose annual turnover of the conversion center exceeds 40 billion (!) hryvnias, instead of appearing in criminal chronicles, is positioned by leading mass media as an economic expert.

No one denies that Ihor Stakovychenko understands economics – it is not for nothing that his «converters» have been operational for many years, with clients working in the highest offices. But only in Ukraine is it possible for a swindler and a thief to give advice on the development of the country. It would be laughable if it were not true.

There is also LLC «Sigma Invest Group», which until April 2021 was owned by Ihor Stakovychenko:

There are reasonable doubts as to whether the current beneficiary of LLC «Sigma Invest Group», Mariya Shvedchenko, is the true owner of the enterprise.

Additionally, another co-owner of the company – the venture fund «DK Investment» appears extremely odd and leads to a whole series of equally strange business entities. They are united by an extremely convoluted ownership structure.

Among those lists is FOP Ihor Stakovychenko, who, according to the registry, is engaged in the restaurant business:

Notice – the entrepreneur Stakovychenko is a single tax payer. This means his business is small. Simply put, the same tax system is applied at markets for those who trade there. Can you imagine a market trader from "Troyeschyna" as an expert explaining the results of the forum in Davos? We – cannot. But the reality is:

Not Davos, of course, but the level is quite high. This is modern Ukraine. It’s rather frightening.

Because Ihor Stakovychenko actually hides the activities of conversion centers of cosmic scale behind all these grandiose cosmic-scale advice. Moreover, a fairly significant business is concealed behind his modest FOP status. Ihor Stakovychenko owns the Villa Riviera restaurant near the yacht club in Osokorky – one of the most expensive in Ukraine:

He also owns a Leopard 51 Powercat yacht worth about one million dollars. It is located and serviced at the elite yacht club in Osokorky, Kyiv.

An elite house, with a total area of over 800 sq. meters in Koncha-Zaspa with an area of 5 hectares and a private exit to the lake.

How exactly Stakovychenko earned his millions, yachts, and villas is unknown. Information about Ihor Stakovychenko’s activities is quite scant, which is not surprising, considering that the activity of conversion centers is illegal.

It is known that until recently at least, his main place of residence was the eighth floor in the IQ Business Center at Bolsunovska 13-15. Under the direct control of Stakovychenko is Artem Mishukhin, known as Artem-Global Opt. The place of economic activity is listed at Lypka 10, where he occupied two floors of the former office of the Party of Regions.

The main activity is the purchase of grain and oil-bearing crops, oil, and sunflower cake with cash under companies provided by his patron Ihor Stakovychenko for further export without reimbursement of foreign currency proceeds.

Also under direct control is Maksym Khomukha, who performs all the technical work of Stakovychenko’s conversion center. The turnover of this group reaches up to UAH 70 million per day.

Moreover, it is known that in 2019, Stakovychenko actively plundered the budget in the Kherson region. He was invited there by Ihor Klim, the head of the tax service of the Kherson region, known in narrow circles of financial criminals in southern Ukraine as the organizer of large-scale conversion and obnal centers. Subsequently, these two geniuses of financial terrorism organized a scheme for the illegal export of agricultural products by fictitious enterprises. The scale of the crime exceeded the legal export volumes of Kherson and amounted to over four billion hryvnias.

At that time, the amount of damage caused by the criminals to the state only from VAT exceeded one billion hryvnias, which exceeded the sum of VAT payments by all real businesses in the Kherson region.

Some of the fictitious enterprises through which money was transferred to Ihor Stakovychenko’s conversion centers are also known:

LLC “Adonis Mega Trade” (42269440), LLC “Virtex-A” (42269388), PP “Bateyn” (43449277), PP “Imexplaza” (42844631), LLC “Agrodom Ukrtavryk” (43253887), LLC “Steybl” (43321490), LLC “Meganat” (41736387), LLC “Smarahdovyi Svit” (42303266), LLC “Ekspotov” (41984015), PP “Barton Grand” (41866057).

However, most likely, this is already "used material" - after their names became known to the general public, they had to be abandoned.

However, the names of the companies used by Ihor Stakovychenko to steal money are no secret to tax officials or other numerous law enforcement bodies in Ukraine, which have proliferated in great numbers in our country in recent years.

The fact is that the activity of any conversion center is impossible without cover in these very bodies. And the bigger the "converter" turnover, the higher the patrons. And Ihor Stakovychenko, or Stakan, as he is called in narrow circles, has simply sky-high turnovers. And accordingly, his cover is at the very top of the Ukrainian government.