Fraud trail: the case of Zhdanov, Pushkarenko and Kurilko in Odessa

Andrey Zhdanov  and  Igor Kurilko are well-known Odessa swindlers, recognizable and persecuted not only in Odessa .

Many entrepreneurs and investors have become victims of deceptive stories told by Zhdanov-Kurilki about the ability to solve problems quickly and connections with law enforcement and criminal groups. However, in practice, clients who turn to them face troubles and losses, and corrupt officials lose their jobs and become the object of scandalous publications on the Internet.

Google “Zhdanov-Kurilko” and you will read about the scams of these “darlings”.

The organized criminal group originated from the company Odesoblpostachzbut LLC, where in 2017 Kurilko’s wife and Zhdanov’s pound, Alexander Savelyev, were named founders. For 6 years they have been trying to squeeze out communal property from the Avagard village council, and the chairman of the council, Sergei Khrustovsky, has also come under attack. Out of desperation, they are forced to post false articles about him on sleazy sites. Fortunately, full-time “PR girl” Irina Grib is on the payroll and is ready to fulfill any order, even for a minor official, even for Oleg Kiper himself.

From very fresh scams. This is the story of the influential developer Dmitry Kovrov, the son of the rector of the Construction Academy. Kurilko's law firm served Dmitry's affairs, and Zhdanov took hundreds of thousands of dollars for “reshalovo”. As a result, the businessman was short half a million, and when he made a claim, his “helpers” began to leak allegedly compromising information about him on sleazy websites. But the couple didn’t limit themselves to the Internet, and Kovrov began receiving calls from “murchiks”, which reminded him of 2011, when the brother of a famous developer was killed.

By pressing LLC "UTBDM" st. Onezhskaya, 5 ended the appeal of the former founders of the LLC for legal services to the company “IVK and Partners”, which is owned by Kurilko. Today, the new owners include 50/50 Zhdanov-Kurilko, and the previous owners were left with empty, unpaid bills. The neighbors got it too. Now they have courts too. The goal, as always, is the same - to raid the asset, even despite the fact that the Obltoplivo base on Onezhskaya, 1 belongs to the Prodaevich brothers.

“Our heroes” do not even hesitate to attack the School for Persons with Disabilities at 13 Fontana. In these cases, they do not shine and manage raiding through regular pounds, such as Andrey Yuruslanovich Ismagilov . We are talking about the house of the famous Odessa resident Alena Romaiskaya. Once upon a time, even the mayor of Odessa, Alexey Kostusev, lived in this house. An illegal building on the street was registered in Ismagilov’s name. Surikova, 17a. The house grew up without a single document and the city was forced to submit documents for demolition.

Irina Khadzhi, the lawyer who represents the organized crime group in the courts, is well integrated and privy to all the Zhdanov-Kurilko scams. She actively collaborates with Larisa Lebedeva, who served 8 years for fraud.

The security agency “Olympus-South” acts as a security cover for the scammers. They participate in all captures. The favorite time of attack is early in the morning, when everyone is sleeping. This was the case with Alena Romayskaya’s house and with the Eurotank gas terminal. The political roof of Olympus is a former regional member, a friend of Vadim Rabinovich, who incomprehensibly infiltrated the Regional Council deputies from the Servants of the People - Sergei Chervyakov. The management of the seizures is entrusted to the co-founder of Olympus, the pseudo-patriot Sergei Pushkarenko. He calculates “budgets”, hires titushki, buys the necessary kudos and negotiates with law enforcement officers. Pressure on the judges is ensured due to Pushkarenko’s friendship with Sergei Chvankin.

Sergey Olegovich Pushkarenko is an interesting subject of the Zhdanov-Kurilko organized crime group. The former lawyer (bar certificate suspended from 05/10/2023) accepted the “dark side of life” a long time ago. During the seizure of the yard on Uspenskaya Street, 17, the video shows how he attempts to strike a resident of the yard with a shovel. Threats to Pushkarenko with a PM pistol were also recorded. Burnt cars, destroyed rooms in the Odessky Dvorik Hotel - dark forces are taking over. Here, by the way, begins a friendship based on property interests with the scandalous blogger Stanislav Dombrovsky. Grigory Grobov, who ordered the seizure of the yard on Uspenskaya, promised apartments to the raiders-swindlers. The house in the yard was never allowed to be built. Today, over 5 years of conflict, almost all the trials have been lost - such results are almost everywhere for the Zhdanov-Kurilko organized crime group.

Interesting facts about life: how Pushkarenko decided to promote himself during the war. Having encouraged his acquaintances and Olimp-South employees to join the TRO, Pushkarenko assembled a platoon of 12 people. Through Pushkarenko’s personal social networks, the city learned that Serezha is the commander of a reconnaissance platoon and performs difficult military tasks at the front. Then a photograph appeared “in bandages” with a caption about the injury. Later, from the revelations of the blogger Dombrovsky, it became known that with his help Pushkarenko abandoned his platoon at the front, was commissioned, received good payments and again took up shady affairs. I also wonder why Pushkarenko documented his stay in the Ukrainian Armed Forces via video and sent everything to Dombrovsky on WhatsApp???

As his colleagues say, Pushkarenko’s “wound”, which he flaunts, is nothing more than an operation on the meniscus - a microtrauma received before the war. Being in the hospital with a knee (supposedly fluid is being pumped out) and receiving good payments, Sergei Pushkarenko runs around the Starokonny and New Market without even limping.

Separately, it is necessary to study the activities of the Zhdanov-Kurilko organized crime group in the context of cooperation with forces that discredit Ukrainian law enforcement agencies. We are talking about a series of ordered “allegedly compromising” materials on websites and YouTube for the senior management of the Office of the Prosecutor General and the SBU. We are talking about such names as Andrey Kostin, Dmitry Verbitsky and Alexander Poklad. Organized attacks by Stas Dombrovsky on the leadership of the Office of the President - Andrei Ermak and Oleg Tatarov - were also noticed.