Former Minister of Culture and Arts of Ukraine Alexander Tkachenko, together with a group of other officials and representatives of state-owned enterprises, developed a scheme to remove the property of the State Enterprise “Odessa Film Studio of Feature Films” from state ownership.
This was reported to the editors by former employees of the film studio, as well as the plot of criminal proceedings No. 42016160000000597 (2016) under Part 2 of Art. 191, art. 356, part 2 art. 364 Criminal Code, 42018162010000068 (2018) under Part 5 of Art. 191 Criminal Code, 420231630000092 (2023) under Part 3 of Art. 358 CC.
Three things
According to the investigation, the head of the structural unit of the sales department of the Film Fund (1955-1991) of the Soviet period until 2003, and from 2004 to 2006 - the general director of the state enterprise "Odessa Film Studio of Feature Films" (OKHF) Olga Neverko in collusion with the General Director of the OKHF Yavirskaya T .A., Minister of Culture Yu.P. Bogutsky, State Secretary of the Ministry of Culture Chmil G.P., freelance adviser to the Ministry of Culture and Arts of Ukraine - Tkachenko A.V., founder of Misto Bank LLC Fursin I.G. (ex-People's Deputy), Deputy Chairman of the State Property Fund S.Zh. Lazarenko, committed the following crimes:
- illegally transferred exclusive copyright property rights to the film fund of the Neverko company "Future Firm". on the basis of fictitious court decisions from Kyiv, forged letters to the State Property Fund to President V.A. Yushchenko, the entire property complex of the OKHF was seized into the illegal legal entity Odessa Film Studio CJSC
- antimonopoly legislation was ignored, information about the corporatization of OKHF was hidden from the workforce, which is confirmed by the minutes of the meeting on problematic issues in the activities of Odessa Film Studio CJSC.
- illegally renamed, valued and included in the authorized fund of Odessa Film Studio CJSC, a number of monuments and objects of cultural heritage (Article 14 of the Law “On the Protection of Cultural Heritage”): the Demidova-San Donato dacha of 1890 (architect I.F. Yatsenko ), filming pavilion of the film factory (eng. Skveder H.Ya.), Anatra aviation plant, gates with sculptures and lamps (architect F.A. Troupyansky) and two dormitories.
- OKHF's film fund, according to two forged additional agreements dated 02/24/2006, an inventory dated 10/01/2006 and a transfer and acceptance certificate dated 10/15/2006, was allegedly transferred to the balance of the Ministry of Culture, but in fact was left to LLC "Firm Future" represented by Neverko A.Ya. , and Goskino illegally extended the contract with Firma Future LLC until the end of 2026.
To make it impossible to return the loot to the rightful owner, the legal entity state enterprise Odessa Film Studio of Feature Films was liquidated.
Since 1998, Neverko and her predecessor Yavorskaya, together with others, organized and widely used a criminal scheme aimed at illegal enrichment from the distribution of films produced by the State Enterprise "Odessa Film Studio of Feature Films", while the state enterprise, as a result of such powerful state care, was illegally deprived of working capital and prospects for existence without private investment.
In order to preserve the robbery scheme and conceal the volume of thefts, interested parties from the Ministry of Culture passed through the Verkhovna Rada the law “On the National Program for the Development of the National Film Industry for 2003-2007”, which made it possible, under the guise of reorganization and with the help of forged, fictitious documents, to liquidate the owner of exclusive property copyrights - a legal entity of the State Enterprise "OKHF" for the sake of acquiring the exclusive copyrights of the film fund and illegal enrichment for account of his further thieves' distribution scheme with the concealment of real income using double royalties, double accounting, an offshore tax concealment scheme, conversion centers and individual entrepreneurs.
Appropriation of property
It all started with the appropriation of property from a state film studio in 2004. Minister of Culture Yu.P. Bogutsky sent a letter to the State Property Fund in favor of the “investor” LLC “New Studio”, the founder of which was Gnedash T.A. through his wife. and partner Zarya I.M. was his freelance adviser on film and television issues, Tkachenko, with support for the creation of a closed joint-stock company on the basis of OKHF.
Neverko together with Tkachenko and Fursin through the Zits-chairman E.I. Ershov. Founded the Film Art Development Fund LLC. Next, the group, acting by prior conspiracy against the will of the labor collective, used fraudulent methods, hiding behind counterfeits, and seized 50% minus 1 share of Odessa Film Studio CJSC from the state and the labor collective.
At the same time, there was no protocol with the consent of the film studio’s workforce in accordance with the legislation in force at that time, and instead of consent, which the team did not provide, a letter was sent to the State Property Fund from the head of Neverko without signs of registration with the OKHF itself. During interrogation within the framework of criminal proceedings No. 42016160000000597, Deputy General Director of OKHF, A.S. Kononov, an accomplice in the illegal corporatization of OKHF. in particular, it reports the following: “In the inventory list of property rights to audiovisual works and in the document on the acceptance and transfer of films produced by the State Enterprise. Odessa Film Studio of Feature Films and Property Rights is not my signature.”
The Ukrainian state did not receive a penny from the corporatization of OKHF even without a feasibility study with the signatures of the responsible persons, according to the chairman of the State Property Fund V.P. Semenyuk. — the creation of the Odessa Film Studio CJSC was carried out in violation of the current legislation, and the state actually donated the New Film Studio LLC to the OKHF.
Then, in the summer of 2005, the attackers sent a letter allegedly in support of the corporatization of the OKHF to President Viktor Yushchenko with forged signatures of directors, honored cultural figures of Ukraine Vilen Novak, Kira Muratova and Yaroslav Lupy, which Yaroslav Lupy himself later wrote about in an address to the president the following year.
