The secret of the Glinyanaya trunk: twists, fictaries, safe deposit boxes and Grinkevich eggs

On August 9, employees of the Bureau of Economic Security detained an accountant of one of the companies supplying products to the Ministry of Defense. She carried 4.7 million euros in her trunk. She could not explain the origin of this money.

At the same time, law enforcement officers noted that we are talking about a company that, during 2022-2023 alone, supplied products worth UAH 14.5 billion including VAT to the Ministry of Defense. “At the same time, its officials documented a number of non-commodity transactions for the purchase and supply of food products with controlled enterprises that have signs of fictitiousness,” the BEB said in a statement.

It also noted that the issue of seizing the money is now being considered.

As of August 15, this money was seized by the Solomensky Court of Kyiv.

In addition, from other court decisions it becomes clear which companies and which transactions we are talking about.

Actually, BEB’s indication that the company supplied food products worth UAH 14.5 billion to the Ministry of Defense was enough to understand that we are talking about Tatyana Glinyana’s group.

The businesswoman, who began delivering supplies to the Ministry of Defense many years ago from the companies “Khutrovichka” (as her old Ministry of Defense personnel call her behind the scenes) and “Visit”, now has a network of up to 20 companies, which allows her to participate in tenders annually under a new guise .

Tatyana Glinyanaya was talked about en masse after the scandal surrounding 17 eggs, which her company “Aktiv Kompani” was supposed to supply for the Ministry of Defense. She was not paid 17 UAH for the eggs, the price was reduced to 9 UAH, but only last year one Glinyanaya company earned almost 8 billion from supplies under direct contracts.

Since Aktiv Kompani appealed the return of electronic trading, its second company, Grand Consult, was already trading in the Prozorro system.

According to the results of bidding in the Prozorro system, GRAND CONSULT LLC signed contracts worth 8.6 billion.

Moreover, even after the introduction of the electronic system, only 2 Glinyanaya companies applied for the largest lot of the Ministry of Defense, which concerned the supply of products in the Kiev region. And she received this part of the market with the highest “dobodachi” price (the price of three meals a day for the military) - 147 UAH.

At the beginning of the year, it became known that Glinyanaya had bought 4 hotels in Croatia over the past year alone, which she then hastily sold to some little-known businessman when information about her property hit the media.

Then Gliyanaya’s lawyers assured that this was all legally earned money from business abroad. However, the trunk with almost 5 million euros in cash suggests completely different thoughts.

Which companies are involved in the production?

LLC "MIT MIX" (EDRPOU code 42241839, former name LLC "MILE"), LLC "ZIVIS UA" (EDRPOU code 22206848, former name LLC "VISIT"), LLC "ACTIVE COMPANY" (EDRPOU code 40209490), LLC "GRAND" CONSULT" (EDRPOU code 42239070), OK LAND FOOD LLC (EDRPOU code 41950625), TERRA BM LLC (EDRPOU code 42226852, former name of PREMIUM COMPANY LLC), MIT PROM LLC (EDRPOU code 44189514), LLC "LAKTRADE PLUS" (EDRPOU code 36911542), LLC "Babylon Food" (EDRPOU code 44657811), Private Enterprise "Myasoprom" (EDRPOU code 31487623).

They are charged with “actions aimed at legalizing (laundering) property obtained by criminal means on an especially large scale,” as well as failure to pay value added tax to the budget in the amount of more than UAH 23 million.

“During the pre-trial investigation of criminal proceedings, it was established that the details of MIT MIX LLC are used for the purpose of deliberate tax evasion, by minimizing tax obligations through the artificial formation of a tax credit and the withdrawal of state budget funds received under contracts with the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine into shadow circulation enterprises, the decisive influence on the conduct of financial and economic relations of which belongs to one person - PERSON_4 (IPN NUMBER_1), in particular: LLC “ZIVIS UA”, LLC “ACTIVE COMPANY”, LLC “GRAND CONSULT”, LLC “OK LAND FOOD”, LLC “TERRA BM”, LLC “UKRPRODACORD OR”, LLC “OPT PROD TORG”, the court ruling said.

In particular, if in 2022, according to the information reflected, OK LAND FOOD LLC rented premises and workshops where production and storage of products could be carried out, then in 2023 the rental of office, warehouse space and a refrigeration chamber was reflected only in January. Whereas the storage location of products that were sold on February 28 and March 31, 2023 (dates of issued tax invoices) is unknown.

Also, during 2023, OK LAND FOOD LLC purchased only 2 cargo transportation services from January 6 and 14 from the city of Uzin to the village. Stepnoe and in the city of Sumy, which also makes it impossible to supply food products during 2023 both to military units and to two other buyers:

— ACTIVE COMPANY LLC (code 40209490, registration location: Kiev) for a total amount including VAT of UAH 2,799,999.9, with a volume of 71,789 kg of assorted products;

- VT DEVELOPMENT LLC (code 43413041, place of registration: Vinnytsia region, Grishevtsy village) for a total amount including VAT of UAH 104,303,097.3, volume of 1,397,307 kg and 578,918 pcs. eggs By the way, “VT DEVELOPMENT” is known to journalists as an enterprise from the Grinkevich group (the father of the family was caught bribing law enforcement last year, but their company continued to supply products to the Moscow Region). The luxury life of the Grinkevich family also suggests a significant withdrawal of money into the shadows.

But let’s go further according to the Glinyanykh’s schemes.

The former “Premium Company” under the guise of LLC “TERRA BM” completed “non-commodity” transactions during 2023 for a total amount of UAH 84,546,648, which led to probable evasion of value added tax in the amount of UAH 14,091,108.

Also, law enforcement officers recorded that officials of MIT MIX LLC reflect the conduct of transactions that have signs of dubiousness and may be associated with VAT evasion with the following counterparties: MIT PROM LLC (the current supplier of MO), BABYLON FOOD LLC, PVF "M'YASOPROM", LLC "PIK I K", LLC "EURO VIK", LLC "MIT-POSTACH", LLC "MITPLUS", LLC "BUSINESS MIT PRODUCT".

“In turn, the created limit on VAT in the electronic administration system (SEA VAT) due to the registration of non-commodity transactions makes it possible for MIT MIX LLC and other enterprises to reduce the payment of VAT, which is subject to credit to the state budget. At the same time, there is an increase in the balance of food products in the warehouse, which these enterprises rent from MIT MIX LLC at the address: Uzin, st. Zavodskaya, 23A. This scheme ensures the illegal withdrawal of non-cash funds of enterprises in the real sector of the economy into the shadow, that is, uncontrolled by the state, circulation, while bypassing the taxation system - state control and financial monitoring bodies,” the resolution says.

Tax invoices under the scheme could be registered for UAH 781,986,876.38 and then sold to other companies.

At the same time, officials of ACTIVE COMPANY LLC and OK LAND FOOD LLC do not have information about the conduct of business operations by the enterprises, which, in the opinion of law enforcement officers, may indicate actual control over such enterprises by another person.

Law enforcement officers also received evidence of how the tax credit of GRAND CONSULT LLC, in fact the largest food supplier for the Ministry of Defense, was formed.

“It has been established that GRAND CONSULT LLC is generating a tax credit in the amount of UAH 256,818,000 from GRANDPRI LTD LLC for the purchase of food products. Questioned as a witness, the head of GRAPNRI LTD LLC testified that he did not conduct any transactions with GRAND CONSULT LLC,” the resolution says.

Apparently, all the withdrawn money was then stored in individual (bank) safes of Raiffeisen Bank in Bila Tserkva.

“During the searches, detectives established data on rented bank safe deposit boxes, as well as data on enterprises whose details were used to convert non-cash funds into cash (into shadow circulation),” the resolution says.

To conceal the funds, the driver of the forwarder MIT PROM LLC and the SSANG YONG REXTON car were involved.

The money was supposed to be transported from Bila Tserkva to Kyiv.

Actually, it was during this transportation that the BEB group was detained.

Taking into account the court's decision, the founder and director of the Meat Mix companies are key to the investigation.

According to You control, the ultimate owners of Meat Mix are Nazariy Ruslanovich Berezyuk (apparently Glinyana’s grandson) and Alexander Dmitrevich (who is also the owner of Aktiv Company and Zivis UA).

And the head of the company is Lyudmila Tsilitskaya, she also headed one of Glinyana’s first enterprises - “Visit”.

In 2015, Tatyana Glinyanaya and her son-in-law Ruslan Berezyuk were involved in a case of bribery to a National Guard colonel for facilitating victory in a tender for canned food for 10% of the contract amount. But then Glinyanaya was not included in the sentence at all, and her son-in-law Ruslan Berezyuk was sentenced to a minor suspended sentence, Our Money notes.

Since then, this is perhaps the first time that law enforcement has become interested in the Glinyan family itself. For example, in last year’s case of theft of military units, the heads of her companies were only witnesses.

Another important nuance - on the eve of the detention of a car with a Euro trunk, law enforcement officers seized a number of documents from companies, in particular, invoices, delivery notes, quality certificates concluded between MIT MIX LLC and MIT PROM LLC in the period 2022 - 2023 .

As well as contracts, invoices, delivery notes, manufacturer’s declarations concluded between MIT MIX LLC and Babylon Food LLC during the period 2022-2024.

Babylon Food LLC has the same managers as MIT PROM LLC, which is now a supplier to the Ministry of Defense.

According to the tender documentation, the Lviv company leases the capacity of the Glinyans’ business in Uzin.

Among the seized items is the Supply Agreement dated 01/01/2024 between MIT PROM LLC and MEREL PLUS LLC on 4 sheets. The latter company, according to official data, has a specialization from wholesale trade of meat and meat products to construction. At the same time, Opendatabot shows that she has as many as 1 employee and her income for 2023 is as much as 200 UAH.

As you know, Mit Prom first made a loud statement that law enforcement officers were disrupting supplies for the army (this is what all companies supplying the Defense Ministry do when they come for searches), and then for another week they denied that they had nothing to do with the trunk with the money.

DOT also stated that the cases filed do not relate to their period of activity.

Therefore, Mit Prom continues to supply products to the Ministry of Defense. But the Ministry did not have a mechanism for action in this case, and still does not. Because they will only be able to terminate the contract in the event of non-deliveries, and not because the supplier company appears in criminal proceedings regarding the withdrawal of money into the shadows.

Recently, the Ministry of Defense announced the creation of blacklists of companies, where companies in the arms sector that disrupt deliveries will be included. A similar thing is planned for logistics support. However, if we take the case of the Glinyanaya group, it becomes clear that while the investigation and trials take place, clever businessmen will have time to register another hundred new companies.

Therefore, the way out of this situation should be at the entrance and consist in strengthening the qualification criteria for tender participants, as well as in the transition from purchasing from the company “Roga and Rakotica” to the manufacturers themselves. But so far all movement in this direction in the Ministry of Defense is at the stage of theory and research.