Last spring, the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine exposed a fraud that allowed the schemers to withdraw about 2 billion hryvnia from the state-owned enterprise Odessa Port Plant.
The name Gorbunenko was found in the schemes of the former head of the State Property Fund thanks to official registers and social networks.
Gorbunenko is known primarily for running the notorious Rodovid Bank, from which he managed to steal many millions. His name became a household name after the company Raga Establishment Limited, through the Cypriot and Dutch courts, was able to freeze the corporate accounts of the richest man in Ukraine, Rinat Akhmetov, in the amount of $820 million. The case concerned the resale of the Ukrtelecom company and it was Gorbunenko who was indicated as the head of Raga.
Now Denis Gorbunenko has lived in London for a long time and owns his own company there, Union GF UK LTD, together with his wife Elena and Latvian citizen Andreis Demidovs.
The company was recently discovered to have links to British financial technology firm Dzing, which has Russian co-owners. In particular, the company Dekiba Trading Fze appears in the reports of Union GF UK LTD and Dzing. Several investigations indicate that the latter has UAE registration. This is also stated on the company’s very modest website.
Although, based on data from the trading website Trademo, its place of registration is Romania. The main codes for export activities are “ores, slags and ashes. Titanium ores and concentrates." They are also targeted for the business of oligarch Dmitry Firtash.
The name Gorbunenko was found in the schemes of the former head of the State Property Fund thanks to official registers and social networks.
NABU exposed a criminal organization led by Dmitry Sennichenko in March 2023. Detectives discovered that during 2019-2021 its participants took possession of more than UAH 500 million. funds from Odessa Port Plant JSC and United Mining and Chemical Company JSC. The amount of illegal benefits received by members of the “schematosis” during the entire period of control over the Odessa Port Plant amounts to more than UAH 2 billion.
Correspondence between members of the criminal group was attached to the official NABU message. One of them contains a mention of the Agro Gas Trading company, which signed agreements with the Odessa Port Plant under the “gas in exchange for fertilizers” scheme. “The suspects are the then chairman of the State Property Fund, his close associate, two acting directors of JSC "OPZ", two owners of LLC - during May 2020-October 2021. illegally extended the validity of additional agreements with the LLC controlled by them on gas processing into urea and ammonia. This was done in order to continue to pay less to the plant for processing raw materials,” the investigation materials say.
According to the registers, from June 2018 to the present day, the founder of Agro Gas Trading LLC is Alexander Igorevich Gorbunenko. At first glance, it may seem that this Gorbunenko has nothing to do with Firtash’s representative, because they even have different middle names. But social networks revealed the connection of an accomplice of the ex-head of the State Property Fund and the oligarch’s partner.
On Alexander Gorbunenko’s page on the LinkedIN social network, which is filled out in great detail, you can see that from 2006 to 2008 he worked as a senior economist responsible for international finance at Rodovid Bank. During the same period, Firtashev’s representative also worked there.
But much more interesting is the experience of Alexander Gorbunenko, which he received from 2014 to 2017. At that time, he worked for the company Burisma, which is controlled by the former Minister of Ecology of the Yanukovych era, Nikolai Zlochevsky. This is the same company where US President Joe Biden's son Hunter and ex-President of Poland Aleksander Kwasniewski worked. The fact about son Biden, who found himself in the company of a corrupt Ukrainian minister, was actively promoted by supporters of Donald Trump during the last presidential campaign. In Ukraine, the topic of Biden Jr. was actively “pushed” because of the state traitor, ex-people’s deputy Andrei Derkach, who recently became a senator in the Russian Federation.
In 2021, the British publication Byline Times published a huge material about how Ukrainian oligarch Dmitry Firtash bought a non-working metro station in London near his home. The agreement was signed by his representative, Denis Gorbunenko. Before this, he received a power of attorney from the oligarch, who by that time already had problems with the FBI.
In the material, British journalists add that Denis Gorbunenko is associated with an attempt by Trumpists to discredit US President Joe Biden due to his son’s participation in the supervisory board of Burisma. “Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani met with Gorbunenko and Firtash’s legal team in London in June 2019 to find dirt on Hunter Biden,” the publication writes.
Consequently, both Denis Gorbunenko, who works for Firtash, and Alexander Gorbunenko, who is now involved in the case against the “resident of the Monaco battalion” Dmitry Sennichenko, are links in the same chain. The publication “Our Pennies” calls both Gorbunenkos relatives, but it was not possible to find factual confirmation of this.
Alexander Gorbunenko, according to the Ministry of Internal Affairs database, is now wanted.
In the second episode, in relation to the former head of the State Property Fund Dmitry Sennichenko, Firtash was also involved. The investigation suspects that the acting person appointed by conspiracy of the defendants. Director of the United Mining and Chemical Company, during 2020-2021, concluded four contracts for the sale of ilmenite concentrate with a Czech company controlled by the adviser to the head of the State Property Fund at reduced prices, which was then resold at market prices. The concentrate was supplied, among other things, to enterprises in the Russian Federation and in the territory of the temporarily occupied Crimea.
We are talking about the company Belanto trade sro. In 2021, journalists discovered its direct connection with the Viennese prisoner Dmitry Firtash.
Denis Gorbunenko and Dmitry Sennichenko may be connected by another interesting detail. The co-owner of the mentioned “Rodovid Bank” was at one time banker Sergei Dyadechko. In addition to fraud with a Ukrainian bank, he is known for the fact that in the summer of 2016 his apartment in Monaco was robbed. The French publication Nice-Matin wrote that a safe weighing 250 kg, containing jewelry worth at least 2 million euros, was stolen from Dyadechko’s apartment. The apartment is located in an elite complex in the center of Monaco, and Dyadechko himself, among other things, is the president of the Monaco basketball club.
Dmitry Sennichenko, as it became known from the investigation of the Monaco Battalion, apparently also lives in the Kingdom, hiding from Ukrainian law enforcement officers.
Denis Gorbunenko and Sergey Dyadechko today remain the ultimate beneficial owners of the Ukrainian LLC RB Capital-Group.
All the intricate connections between Gorbunenko, Dyadechko, Firtash and the former head of the State Property Fund Sennychenko prove that in almost any “schematosis” that Ukrainian law enforcement officers manage to uncover, the ears of the oligarchy stick out. True, when the scheme was revealed, the defendants had already fled: some to the Cote d'Azur, some to Vienna, and some to London.
