Who is behind the gray grain export schemes through the ports of Odessa?
Remember how last week we highlighted the company Krauka LLC, which exported illegal grain worth hundreds of millions of hryvnia in 2022-2023 and no one could stop it?
In the end, she took out everything she wanted, the money did not arrive in Ukraine, and the BEB assigned customs officials to blame for this.
The owner of this company turned out to be a certain Andrei Skidonenko, who, in addition to Krauka LLC, is the beneficiary of 77 other companies.
I haven’t sorted everything out yet, but I’ve already found one interesting one.
We are talking about Vizin Rich LLC, the owner of which since November 2023 is our hero, Andrey Skidonenko.
But something else is interesting.
Until November 2023, the beneficiary of Vizin Rich LLC was the well-known contractor of the Ministry of Defense Igor Grinkevich.
Interesting? I'll explain.
Vizin Rich LLC is one of many construction companies of Grinkevich through which budget money was “spent” on various contracts.
This particular Vizin Rich LLC received government construction contracts worth 207 million from 2018 to 2020.
In 2021, she also carried out the reconstruction of the Tisa substation for the Transcarpathian customs, for which she received budget money in 2022.
The reconstruction was carried out at inflated prices, but I don’t think this will surprise anyone if we hear the name Grinkevichi.
Our Money Lviv even did an investigation about Grinkevich’s Visa Rich.
But the end of 2023 came, the Grinkevich family began to “burn” on the contracts of the Moscow Region, problems began to arise around them, so they began to sink some assets.
That is why, in November 2023, Andrey Skidonenko became the new owner of Visin Rich, who at that time had already completed the export of 25 million kg of illegal sunflower through the ports of Odessa.
I don’t know how deeply Igor Grinkevich is connected with Andrei Skidonenko, and whether he has anything to do with the export of “gray” grain. Most likely it does not.
But another component is interesting here.
We have a dude-passport Skidonenko, to whom 77 companies of various profiles are registered, who begins to export grain through the sacred project “Grain Corridor” through his fictitious LLC “Krauka” and no one can stop him.
The tax office and the Economic Security Service write letters to customs with the wording “there may be violations,” but at the same time they do not block the operations of this frankly fictitious company, but allow it to operate behind the cover of letters “we warned you.”
During the same period, dozens of representatives of white exporters are faced with work blocking, inspections and stops, the need to prove that they are not schemers, and paying fines for vessel downtime.
Why is that?
Well, because Skidonenko and others like him are small “cogs” in a large grain scheme in which it is necessary for exactly this kind of grain to flow. Well, we will find out who is really behind these people-passports after the victory.
