The vile sanitizer Pavel Bartkovsky: criminal cases, disappearance of partners and connections with the State Bureau of Investigation

Pavel Bartkovsky is a Ukrainian entrepreneur and owner of 4 companies, which generally have good income and profit. However, as we learned, not everything is so transparent in the activities of Bartkovsky and his business.

The entire empire of the entrepreneur is built on bribery, revenge and nepotism, as evidenced by people close to the entrepreneur who had the (un)fortune of collaborating with him. As it turned out, Bartkovsky does not shun any schemes in order to reach Olympus in his business activities. Often he violates not only the basic rules of a market economy, but even goes so far as to “order” criminal proceedings against his former employees, although the tax authorities caught him cheating and, as a result, blocked his ability to create tax invoices.

In the story of a businessman whose main activities are manufacturing companies of sanitizers, antiseptics and other chemicals

"Not a very good person"

We recently mentioned that Pavel Bartkovsky’s business history began with a scam. In short, the situation is as follows. Until the mid-2000s, he worked at one of the enterprises that produced antiseptics. Things were going well, but Bartkovsky himself did not catch stars, being a middle manager. Such circumstances did not suit him, so he decided to commit a commercial crime - steal the database of the main buyers, lure the main sales managers to his “startup” and do everything he did at his previous job, but promote it as “ business rebranding."

Surprisingly, the scheme worked: Bartkovsky managed to quit without losses, take away key clients from his previous place of work and promise “mountains of gold” to his former colleagues, who eventually became the businessman’s subordinates.

Thus, the entrepreneurial path of Pavel Bartkovsky began on July 7, 2006 - it was then that his first legal entity was launched - the limited liability company "Ukrkhimtekh LTD", which to this day is the most profitable and advertised among all the businesses of the “king of antiseptics”.

Our readers probably noticed the title of this section of the article. These are not the words of the ANTIKOR editorial team, but the opinion of those people who have worked with Bartkovsky since the creation of his first enterprise. The fact is, as sources close to the businessman explained to our publication, the “mountains of gold” that he promised to the managers he lured with him were not seen by anyone except him. And the owner of the enterprise quickly became infected with “star fever” and began to treat people, to put it mildly, not very fairly.

One example is enough, which was hinted at and which was confirmed in the Unified Register of Pre-trial Investigations. So, 3 weeks before the start of a full-scale invasion, Pavel Bartkovsky, as the director of Ukrkhimtekh LTD, contacts the police with a statement that his then former employees, who participated in the technological process of developing substances and their production, allegedly stole the technology and sold it their unknown company. The police immediately begin a pre-trial investigation, which is included in the ERDR under No. 12022100040000348 dated February 2, 2022, on the grounds of a criminal offense under Part 2 of Art. 190 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (fraud committed by an organized group of persons).

Surprisingly, the investigation, despite the absence of any significant evidence that such a fact existed at all, actively began a pre-trial investigation, but military operations became an obstacle. The consideration of the case resumed in the fall of 2022 and, with no less activity from law enforcement officers, continued for 2 months.

As evidenced by one of the court decisions, which was made at the stage of pre-trial investigation in criminal proceedings, searches were even carried out at the defendants’ premises, but they yielded nothing. Investigators were unable to establish the existence of a criminal offense, but the proceedings have not yet been closed.

Extract from the court ruling on criminal proceedings No. 12022100040000348

Based on the essence of the criminal proceedings, one might think that this is some kind of small domestic conflict, which simply was not confirmed. However, as we were told by sources familiar with the situation, Bartkovsky is thus putting pressure on his highly qualified employees, who no longer want to work with him. They have little choice: either play by his rules or have problems with the law. Apparently, people choose the first option.

What struck us was that similar situations in Bartkovsky’s companies are not isolated. Another company in which the “king of antiseptics” is the representative and owner, Khimtime LLC, went even further. Bartkovsky wrote a statement to the police against the current director of the company (the statement was written in May 2023, and as of October 2024, Rassokha Roman Sergeevich is still listed as the head of Himtime). Thus, according to the data that Bartkovsky provided to the police, the director of his company stole 8 tons of various chemicals with a total value of 668 thousand hryvnia from February 2022 to February 2023. Attention! No one noticed this for a year, although the company was operating at full capacity, judging by the financial statements, and then the director of the company simply disappeared in an unknown direction.

In August 2024, in the newspaper “Uryadovy Kuryer” Roman Rassokha was even summoned to court, but he did not appear.

Announcement of the summons of Roman Rassokha to a meeting of the Dneprovsky District Court of Kyiv

The trial took place without Rassokha, but from the ruling of the investigating judge it also became known that at the time a preventive measure was chosen for the director of Himtime LLC, he was already on the international wanted list. Therefore, at a meeting of the Dneprovsky District Court of the city of Kyiv, a preventive measure was chosen for him in the form of detention without the right to post bail.

Extract from the ruling of the investigating judge on the selection of a preventive measure for Roman Rassokha

It is unknown where the director of Himtime LLC, owned by Pavel Bartkovsky, disappeared. But the circumstances of the criminal proceedings and the disappearance of the company’s head indicate that not everything is so pure. Whether he is alive or not is in question.

This episode is not the last in “strange” criminal proceedings in which Bartkovsky is an applicant. As we learned from sources in law enforcement agencies, on August 17, 2018, the entrepreneur filed a statement with the police about alleged fraud against him. From the contents of Bartkovsky’s statement, it became known that two persons – Maria Sergeevna Voskoboinik and Sergey Anatolyevich Lamash “swindled” him out of 1 million 292 thousand hryvnia. Despite the fact that the application was submitted more than 6 years ago, there is no decision in production to this day. Moreover, given that Lamash and Voskoboinik, within the framework of criminal proceedings under Part 4 of Art. 190 (fraud on an especially large scale), suspicion was reported, but the case still did not go to court with an indictment, there is reason to believe that it is on the verge of termination. That is, this is already the third case in which Bartkovsky (his company) is the victim, “sewn with white threads,” which may indicate the entrepreneur’s deliberate influence on law enforcement agencies to put pressure on people.

Perhaps the “godfather from the State Bureau of Investigation” helps with this. As the media wrote, Bartkovsky always states that he can do anything, since his godfather works in the State Bureau of Investigation. As established by online media, the entrepreneur hides behind the name of a high-ranking law enforcement agency - Deputy Head of the Main Investigation Department of the State Bureau of Investigation, Alexander Artyukh.

Business on twists and tenders

In total, Bartkovsky is the owner of 4 companies (in two of them he holds the post of part-time director). We are talking about Ukrkhimtekh LTD, Himtime, Mirex Group and Barox. Bartkowski's enterprises have significant income. The most profitable legal entity of the businessman is Ukrhimtech LTD, whose income amounted to UAH 182 million and net profit - UAH 22.5 million. “Himtime” received income in the amount of UAH 35 million, but the company’s profit is not very good - only a little more than UAH 1 million for 2023. Mirex Group and Barox have minimal income from their activities and even less profit - the total amount for 2023 is UAH 55 thousand.

In fact, the profit of these enterprises may be much higher, but it is probably hidden under the “gray cache”. The tax and customs officers have already “caught” Bartkovsky’s enterprises violating the norms of current legislation.

In 2020, Himtime received from the State Customs Service a decision on adjusting the customs value dated October 7, 2020 No. 100050/2020/000049/2. It said that customs officers were able to establish that the cost of goods that the company brought to Ukraine on paper and in real life was different. Bartkowski's company went to court to overturn this decision, but the case ended without results. Then, despite the fact that all procedural deadlines were violated, Khimtime went to court again to overturn the decision; at the moment, the proceedings have not yet been completed.

The entrepreneur’s largest company, Ukrhimtech LTD, had other problems. The State Tax Service suspected the company of fraud. In the summer of 2022, by decisions of the Commission on stopping the registration of a tax invoice, the Main Directorate of the State Tax Service in Kyiv refused to register a tax invoice, which essentially suspended the company’s ability to operate. As the fiscal officials explained such actions, they saw “risk factors” in the company’s operations and asked Ukrhimtech LTD to provide additional documents that would confirm the legality of payment for these funds.

However, Bartkovsky’s company went to court against the State Tax Service and won. The strangest thing in this situation is that the tax authorities did not even provide an objection to the statement of claim, which is extremely atypical for them. Therefore, there are suspicions that the issue was simply “resolved” so that the entrepreneur’s company would continue to operate and use public money.

And there really is something to master. The company received the lion's share of its profits through participation in government procurement. And recently, a real breakthrough occurred in the activities of Ukrhimtech LTD - the company signed 4 “trial” contracts for the supply of detergents, antiseptics and other products to the canteen of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.

Purchases of the Office of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine from Ukrhimtech LTD LLC

Of course, the amount of the contracts is extremely low - together they amount to only 53 thousand hryvnia, but it looks like this is just a “test of the pen”. That is, in the future the volume of orders will increase, and the amounts of contracts will multiply several or several dozen times.

It will not be a secret to anyone that in the Administration of the Administration of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine there is a head, without whose permission nothing happens in the buildings on Bankovskaya, Grushevsky, Sadovaya, Lipskaya, Institutskaya and other central streets of Kyiv. Since 2021, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine has been headed for the second time by Vyacheslav Shtuchny, who was considered his close friend even before Zelensky’s election as President of Ukraine.

Thus, we can note that about 2.5 weeks ago Bartkovsky entered the “supplier pool” of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, which is certainly a “golden barrel” for entrepreneurs.

But his companies are no strangers to winning government procurement. The same company “Ukrhimtech LTD” won tenders for a total of 578 thousand hryvnia in less than 2024. And Bartkovsky’s Mirex Group received 400 thousand hryvnia from one purchase of the Dneprovsky District Education Department in the city of Kyiv of the state administration. Before this, the company had never taken part in government tenders.

In one year, the income of Bartkovsky’s companies from government procurement increased immediately by 25 times, which suggests that the entrepreneur met someone very serious or that a “godfather from the State Bureau of Investigation” helped him.