In the media, Igor Stakovichenko is openly called a fraudster, a conspirator and an embezzler. His fortune, two plots in the Koncha-Zaspa tract, an elite mansion in Kozin, the Leopard 51 Powercat yacht and the Villa Riviera restaurant near the yacht club in Osokorki, were most likely acquired with dubious funds. Who really is Igor Stakovichenko and how can you earn a comfortable life?
Today, many “financial experts” have appeared in the media field who know how to invest funds “correctly”. But why aren’t Ukrainians getting richer so massively? So, are we doing something wrong? Could there be something wrong with those advising us? Let's figure it out together. He is quite well known as an outstanding financial consultant in the field of construction and real estate, whose name is often mentioned in the media - Igor Stakovichenko. He actively comments and gives recommendations on the Internet for the revival of Ukraine.
But is he really trying so hard for the state? Who is Igor Stakovichenko and how does he earn a comfortable living?
What kind of business does Igor Stakovichenko have?
Igor Stakovichenko began his career at Khreshchatyk Bank. Information from open official registers indicates that Igor Sergeevich also owned and was a beneficiary of Sigma Invest Group LLC. The company's authorized capital was only 10 thousand hryvnia. But in April 2021, the company experienced an unexpected change in director and owner, who became Maria Shvedchenko, and today the company already has a fourth director - Artem Pakhalyuk.
So, by the end of 2020, the company’s assets were valued at more than 65.6 million hryvnia, while its official income was only 1,200 hryvnia, and its net profit was only 200 hryvnia. An interesting situation under the leadership of Stakovichenko. So, is it really an expert who knows how to work?
However, that's not all. This company appears on three Ukrainian sanctions lists and is also subject to sanctions by the United States, Great Britain and the European Union.
And individual entrepreneur Igor Sergeevich Stakovichenko, whose activities were terminated in March of this year, is also on the same sanctions list. Obviously, this situation is not usual, otherwise the company would not have been subject to numerous sanctions.
So, according to media reports, this “great financier” even has a criminal nickname “Glass”. And open sources call it one of the largest converters in Ukraine. The annual circulation of its conversion center allegedly exceeds 40 billion hryvnia. Stakovichenko works in the capital’s IQ Business Center office and lives in a luxurious cottage in the village of Kozin. Where did this condition come from?
What is known about the activities of the businessman?
Considering the person of Stakovichenko, we find information that he is not only a “big financier”, but also a lawyer. After all, on November 27, 2003, Igor was registered with the Kyiv City Bar Association, certificate No. 1823. He indicates his work address at Institutskaya.
According to information from the Advokatu.info help system, he is engaged in legal practice in Kyiv on Khreshchatyk Street.
However, having 20 years of experience as a lawyer, as evidenced by the same registry, the state registries of Ukraine relating to court cases do not contain any information about Igor Stakovichenko’s official participation in court proceedings as a lawyer, which indicates that he most likely is not actually engaged in the activity by specialty.
According to media reports, as of January 2020, Stakovichenko worked as a lawyer at Business Initiative 2004 LLC (33151478), which since 2019 has been headed by his wife Elena Stakovichenko.
However, this matter is not only family, but one might even say family. After all, the main beneficiary and director of the company is Valentina Ponomarenko, the mother of Elena Stakovichenko. In the Unified State Register, this company is registered as a legal entity that provides legal addresses to other business entities on the basis of concluded cooperation agreements. During its existence, the company changed its main activity several times: starting in 2004 - leasing real estate, since 2016 - providing legal services, and since 2017 - gas trading (after obtaining the appropriate licenses). However, the company does not have significant assets and is not engaged in active business activities, which is confirmed by a small number of employees (4 people) and financial indicators.
It is very interesting that with great wealth, Igor Stakovichenko is registered on Chokolovsky Boulevard, and this is an old house that was built in Soviet times. And exactly the place where Igor Stavichenko’s parents lived.
What does a businessman who gives financial advice own?
Igor Stakovichenko is the owner of two land plots in the Obukhovsky district of the Kyiv region in the elite area of the urban village of Kozin (Koncha-Zaspa tract) with a total area of more than 0.5 hectares and an elite house with an area of more than 800 square meters.
Based on research by journalists about the activities and financial situation of Igor Stakovichenko, it was discovered that he is also the owner of the Villa Riviera restaurant near the yacht club in Osokorki on the banks of the Dnieper.
In addition, he has a Leopard 51 Powercat yacht worth about a million dollars.
Family business Stakovichenko-Ponomarenko
So, Igor Stakovichenko’s wife Elena is engaged in entrepreneurial and charitable activities. Since December 6, 2011, she has been one of the founders of the housing construction cooperative “Gorodok” in the Kyiv region.
The co-founder of this company is also Elena Stakovichenko’s father, Vasily Ponomarenko. And another 515 legal entities are registered at this address.
Starting in 2019, Elena Stakovichenko became the head of Business Initiative 2004 LLC. This is the company where her husband worked. And as of July 13, 2021, Elena registered as an individual entrepreneur. Its main type of activity is “Restaurant activities, provision of mobile food services.” Registered individual entrepreneur in the city of Kyiv on Pokatila Vladimir Street. And this is the official registration address of her parents. So, since 2020 (Stakovichenko comes to the position of lawyer), this company has been showing losses in its financial statements.
According to the communication graph generated by the YouControl information and analytical system, Business Initiative 2004 LLC may have a common contact telephone number with a number of other companies engaged in financial, grain and real estate activities, and this area of interest is related to the activities of Igor Stokovichenko.
According to registers, Elena Stakovichenko owns a significant amount of real estate and land. For example, she personally owns three apartments in the prestigious Delmar residential complex in Kyiv, located in the elite Pechersky district. In addition, she is the owner of three apartments in townhouses in the village of Vita-Pochtovaya, Kyiv region, which are being built by the Gorodok housing construction cooperative, of which she is a co-owner. Elena also has two land plots - one with an area of 0.12 hectares in Kyiv on the left bank of the Dnieper in the elite Riviera tract and the other in the village of Vita-Pochtovaya, Kyiv region, where development is carried out by the housing construction cooperative "Gorodok".
Where is the opacity of Stakovichenko’s activities?
And now about “opacity”. Data from the OpenDataBot information and reference system indicate that during the period from 02/17/2016 to 02/04/2020, Igor Stakovichenko submitted reports to the tax service on the activities of fast food restaurants “Puzata Khata” and “Pesto Cafe”, although he has nothing to do with ownership or operational management of the legal entities that own these restaurant chains.
Let us recall that for five months Igor Stakovichenko was the official founder, beneficiary and director of only one company in Ukraine - Sigma Invest Group LLC (44005154). Since December 2020, he became the main founder of Sigma Invest Group LLC with a share of 11%, together with Igor Stakovichenko, within the framework of the public joint stock company “Closed non-diversified venture corporate investment fund “DK - Investment” (36177661),
registered in 2008 with an authorized capital of 250 million hryvnia. During 2021-2023, after Igor Stavichenko left the company, beneficial owners and managers were changed three times. However, during all this time, DK-Investment remained a participant in Sigma Invest Group LLC with a share of 11%.
Beneficial owner of Sigma Invest Group LLC Artem Pakhalyuk, who also has a lawyer’s license,
previously called Rashid Toshov, changed his last name. By the way, this is not so difficult to establish; when you enter the identification code into the search system, it displays the given last name and first name.
But when establishing connections and enforcement proceedings, the system already indicates another name - Pakhalyuk Artem Balievich.
Artem Pakhalyuk (Rashid Toshov) has a brother, Rustam Toshov, born in 1986. According to Rivne media reports in 2021, he was accused of committing murder using an automatic firearm, but was found guilty by the Dubensky Interdistrict Court of the Rivne region and sentenced to serve a sentence with a probationary period of 3 years. In addition, Rustam Toshov is under judicial investigation in connection with other criminal cases related to hooliganism.
We study this information for a reason. After all, Rustam Toshov is the owner and director of the security company Alfa (39921459), registered in 2015 in Kyiv, which provides security services (transportation of funds) to Igor Stakovichenko.
So, our own sources in law enforcement agencies say that the father of Artem Pakhalyuk (Rashid Toshov) and Rustam Toshov, Toshov Bali Safarovich, known as “Bali” or “Uzbek,” is quite famous in the criminal world. His “specialization” lies in smuggling (currency, drugs, vehicles, etc.) and drug trafficking.
However, this is not all the interesting aspects of Igor Stakovichenko’s activities. When registering Sigma Invest Group, the contact number +380993778949 was indicated. However, despite the fact that Igor Stakovichenko is no longer the director or founder of this company since 04/05/2001, its registration address and contact telephone number remain unchanged. According to the Getcontact system, the phone number +380993778949 is listed in the address books of other users as “Ekaterina Dk Investment”.
According to the registration data of the DK-Investment fund, this fund has been managed by Ekaterina Aleksandrovna Sviridova since 09/09/2019. The telephone number is listed as the official contact number in the registration documents of the DK-Investment fund and on their website. The legal address of the company is registered in the city of Kyiv on Melnikova Street, where 2,278 companies already operate.
And now we remember that this particular company is the owner of Sigma Invest Group LLC, where Stakovichenko worked as a manager. Ekaterina Aleksandrovna Sviridova, who is from Zaporozhye herself, has low-value real estate in Russian-occupied Donetsk, Starobelsk, Lugansk region, as well as in Zaporozhye and Sumy.
State registration forms list Ekaterina Sviridova as a director or chief accountant in companies with which DK-Investment is associated. In addition, Ekaterina Sviridova heads JSC Deos (44488076) with a registered authorized capital of 20 million hryvnia, which was registered on 09/07/2021. So, the owner of JSC Deos is the Limited Liability Company Integrum Capital Partners.
and Alexander Kirimov. In turn, Alexander Kirimov is the ultimate beneficial owner of the Bonum Group Asset Management Company LLC (33889111), which has been managing the DK-Investment fund since 2020.
Asset Management Company Bonum Group LLC also manages the assets of the DEOS fund. Also, Ekaterina Sviridova was related to Ukrgazimpex LLC (41400947). Here she worked as secretary to the head of the company from 2017 to 2020. In 2018, Alexander Kirimov headed Ukrgazimpex LLC. According to information published in the media in 2017, the Ukrgazimpex company, under the leadership of Alexander Kirimov, began its activities in the liquefied gas market. This period coincides with the receipt of licenses to carry out activities for the sale of liquefied gas by Business Initiative 2004 LLC, a company owned and managed by Igor Stakovichenko’s wife.
Of course, Igor Stakovichenko himself probably would not have been able to carry out any schemes with funds. And therefore, I wonder who the influential people are who gave the opportunity to develop the business of “Glass” in such a way. There is a version in the media that it was the First Deputy Prime Minister - Minister of Economy Alexei Lyubchenko who covered up the schemer with twists from law enforcement agencies. resigned, so the schemes ended? Perhaps not, because all the companies are still working, and last year’s scandal with unfinished housing in Odessa, where for some reason investments worth about 68 million hryvnia disappeared from accounts. The co-owner of the development company “SPS Realt” is Anastasia Zhalkovskaya
By a strange coincidence, she is a co-owner of the Children for Children charity foundation, where Elena Stakovichenko has a share.
Therefore, you can draw your own conclusion regarding such activities of the Stakovichenko family.
StopCor analysts turned to Igor Stakovichenko himself for comments, sending a request to his registration address, as a lawyer and his wife Elena through her charitable foundation. A separate request was sent to Ms. Sviridova. We are waiting for a response and will report the results.
