Now the scandalous judge Artur Emelyanov has left Ukraine and headed the “Vienna battalion” along with other odious corrupt figures.
Artur Emelyanov is accused of a number of crimes, including financing terrorism, pressure on judges, interference in the automated judicial system for distributing cases, and many other offenses. However, at the same time, Emelyanov works as a lawyer and gives interviews with messages that are very beneficial to Russian propaganda, the FSB and personally to the fugitive Yanukovych.
Recently, Emelyanov spoke about the actual impotence of the leaders of the Economic Court in Kyiv, which is manifested in their lack of protection for their judges.
According to journalists, the purpose of Yemelyanov’s statements is an attempt to show the inability of the state authorities to provide justice during the war and to return people controlled by Yanukovych to the judiciary. The conclusion is quite logical, considering how closely Artur Yemelyanov is connected with Yanukovych, how he helped the Donetsk clan usurp the judiciary, financed terrorist organizations in ORDLO, helped to “squeeze out” enterprises and committed many other crimes. Well, first things first.
Donetsk residents are eager to go to court
Judge Artur Emelyanov is from Donetsk. It was his small homeland, or rather the connections he developed there, that helped him make a dizzying career. In nine years, he went from deputy head of the Donetsk Economic Court to deputy head of the Higher Economic Court. For logical reasons, Yemelyanov moved to the capital under President Viktor Yanukovych in 2011. He was dragged to Kyiv by Viktor Tatkov, who headed the Supreme Economic Court and, together with Emelyanov, they carried out many raider takeovers of enterprises ordered by the Yanukovych clan.
Lawyer Vitaly Tytych spoke about how the scheme worked: people interested in squeezing out the enterprise turned to the people of Emelyanov and Tatkov. Next, they filed a claim in the court of first instance, where the decision the customer needed was sent, and then it was followed up in appeal and cassation. »
Cases were assigned to the right judge, who made a final decision. The investigation identified thousands of interventions in the automatic case distribution system in order to make unfair decisions,” recalls Tytych, who initiated an investigation into violations committed by Tatkov and his deputy Artur Emelyanov. “It was not a trial, but a private enterprise for making huge money,” the Ukrainian media wrote.
Judicial organized crime group and Russian special services are friends of Emelyanov
The GPU charges Artur Emelyanov with 7 thousand cases of interference in the automated case distribution system. This shocking figure shows the tip of the iceberg of the activities of the judicial organized crime group, which was created by Tatkov and Emelyanov, involving another certain Pavel Malik (editor’s note - a native of Makeyevka, an experienced raider and an Austrian citizen rolled into one), created a real organized crime group in robes and engaged in large-scale “ spin,” the media write.
The scheme looked approximately as follows: Malik found convenient and profitable topics, and Emelyanov and Tatkov resolved them in the courts. Thus, through their schemes, they squeezed out hundreds of enterprises, thereby undermining the Ukrainian economy, literally collapsing it at its core, mainly under the order of the Russian special services. Among other things, according to media reports, the Emelyanov-Tatkov-Malik trio are directly related to the raider takeovers of the Konstantinovsky Kristall plant, the Makeyevsky department store, the Donetsk Central Department Store, the Shakhtar hotel, the Obzhora chain, the Decor Donbass shopping center, and the Odessa Stalkanat , the famous “7 kilometer” market and many other enterprises throughout the country.
But the most striking example of anti-state activities in favor of the Russian special services of the above-mentioned trinity can be called a scheme carried out through Prominvestbank (the Ukrainian subsidiary of the Russian Vnesheconombank). Here they offered to help the “Russian partners” with decisions in the courts in exchange for a loan portfolio beneficial for their team of raiders.
The media reported that Emelyanov has close ties with Russian intelligence services. Artur Emelyanov first became a judge in 2000 at the Economic Court of the Donetsk Region, and in 2010 he was already recruited by the FSB. It is precisely thanks to the fact that he is an agent of the Federal Security Service of Russia that he managed to keep literally the entire law enforcement and judicial system of Ukraine “on the hook”.
It was thanks to patrons and by hacking the judicial decision-making system that Arthur Emelyanov and his organized crime group in robes transferred thousands of cases exclusively to “their” judges.
How Emelyanov transferred millions to his wife and “ordered” businessmen.
According to investigations in the media, during the time of judging, Emelyanov became a dollar millionaire. His family now has numerous apartments in Ukraine and real estate around the world. From Austria to the United Arab Emirates. The Prosecutor General's Office linked Emelyanov with millions of dollars in offshore accounts.
State Financial Monitoring found that in 2010-2014, Emelyanov’s expenses significantly exceeded his official income, and his financial transactions were aimed at laundering proceeds from crime.
In addition, proceedings were opened against Emelyanov under Part 3 of Art. 368-2, part 3 art. 209 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine - it is possible to launder the proceeds of crime by an ex-judge with the help of the Panamanian company Restwood Products Corporation.
In addition, businessman from Donbass Vyacheslav Sobolev named Emelyanov among the likely masterminds of the attempt on his life, which resulted in the death of his three-year-old son. He also mentioned a possible motive - a business conflict over the Obzhora chain of stores.
In order to legalize the funds received and avoid the need to reflect property in the declaration, he separated from his wife Svetlana Emelyanova.
The judge’s ex-wife, Svetlana Emelyanova, was a deputy of the Donetsk City Council from the Party of Regions until 2014. Now lives in Austria and owns a hotel business. When law enforcement officers became interested in Emelyanov, the couple divorced. But journalists from the Schemes program in October 2017 suspected that the divorce was fictitious. They found confirmation that the Emelyanovs spent their vacations together even after their marriage was dissolved. According to journalists, the official divorce was necessary for the judge in order not to declare the common property and not to explain where the family got the money to purchase it.
The fact that the ex-spouses continue to communicate and resolve financial issues in the traditional way for Arthur Emelyanov is clearly demonstrated by the investigation of the Austrian prosecutor's office.
Vladislav Seev Izrailit and married couple Maxim Slutsky and Yulia Kaplan filed a statement with the prosecutor’s office against the Emelyanovs. They accused the judge, his ex-wife and their business partner Pavel Malik (we already wrote about him above) of fraud and of ordering the kidnapping of Vladislav Izrailit.
Slutsky, Izraylit and Kaplan left Ukraine in the early nineties, received German citizenship and together began to develop a hotel business. Then they met in Malik and agreed on a joint business, which grew and was based on verbal agreements between the partners. But in 2017, Slutsky learned that a key company had given Svetlana Emelyanova shares in the Prince Eugene and Cavalier hotels.
In order to put pressure on their partner and force him to sign a settlement agreement, Malik and the former Emelyanov spouses, according to a statement submitted to the prosecutor’s office, decided to kidnap Izrailit. In the summer of 2018, he was the general director of one of the companies in the hotel management structure and had to leave his post because Emelyanova appeared in the scheme.
The Israelite should have been beaten and demanded that he call Slutsky and he should have been forced to sign a settlement agreement and recognize the rights of Emelyanova and Malik in the disputed companies. One of the failed performers, Viktor Skorik, told Slutsky’s lawyer about this. The case fell through and Skorik went to the prosecutor's office to confess. Skorik named judge Artur Emelyanov as the mastermind of the kidnapping.
Financing of ORDLO terrorists and the shadow of the FSB
Even after the Revolution of Dignity, Artur Emelyanov continued to help his friends in Donetsk and finance terrorist organizations in ORDLO.
The Security Service of Ukraine caught him doing this, as reported on the agency’s website.
While in office, he allegedly influenced the adoption of court decisions necessary for customers in exchange for a bribe.
“To legalize the funds received, the judge, through proxies and dummies, in particular, bought business facilities and commercial real estate in the territories of the Donetsk region temporarily occupied by terrorists,” the SBU says.
The security service documented how companies controlled by the judge regularly paid “taxes” to the militants. In addition, a division of the fake central bank “DPR” was located in one of the premises acquired by the judge in Donetsk.
During the searches, law enforcement officers seized “documentation and information media that may indicate the involvement of attackers in commercial transactions in the territory of ORDLO and the financing of terrorists.”
Last year, Emelyanov underwent 10 searches. He is suspected of helping the aggressor state of the Russian Federation, financing actions committed with the aim of overthrowing the constitutional order or seizing state power, as well as collusion with Russian citizens under martial law.
Now this same Arthur Emelyanov begins to sharply criticize the leaders of the Economic Court in Kyiv. Journalists draw quite logical conclusions - the purpose of these statements is to return people controlled by the Donetsk Yanukovych clan and associated with the Russian Federation to the ranks of judges or to push into the leadership of the court.
Denis Mandichev, a judge originally from Donetsk with millions in Swiss accounts
If back in 2011 the move of Artur Emelyanov from Donetsk to the capital of Ukraine became a notable event about which many media wrote, then the transfer of the judge of the Donetsk District Administrative Court Denis Mandychev to the position of judges of the Economic Court of Kyiv went unnoticed. But in vain. After all, this is how the career of perhaps one of the richest judges in the history of Ukraine began.
Unlike his fellow countryman Arthur Emelyanov, Denis Mandichev is an extremely cautious person. For many years he remained in the shadows until in 2017 he attracted attention with declared gifts worth more than 15 thousand dollars. These data with links to primary sources were published on the Chesno information resource.
After this, Mandichev became even more careful and financially literate. But in 2021 I made a fatal mistake. Then, considering cases in which one of the parties to the cases were ATO veterans, Denis Mandichev made a number of dubious and ambiguous decisions in court, which in fact served as the reason for a serious study of his professional activities.
At the end of May 2021, a number of news resources published data indicating that Judge Mandichev has large financial assets, which are located in the accounts of the Swiss bank UBS. News about this, as well as information about the transfer of the case for investigation to NABU, was published on the websites of many Ukrainian information resources. In particular, the news was published on the website of the Dnieper publication “Business news” and on the website of the Kharkov news publication “Ukrmedia”.
In total, according to a media source, Ukrainian judge Mandichev has 659,069.55 Swiss francs in his account at the Swiss bank UBS.
This document prompted journalists to further search. And as a result, a photo of Mandichev’s supposedly Cypriot passport appeared in the media.
Let us remind you that in Ukraine it is prohibited to have dual citizenship. The President of Ukraine introduced bill No. 6175, which establishes penalties for having a second citizenship. The sanction is forced deprivation of a Ukrainian passport.
But the main question is different. What is the connection between the sharp critical statements addressed to the leaders of the Economic Court in Kyiv by corrupt judge Artur Emelyanov, who is Yanukovych’s man and is accused of financing ORDLO terrorists and helping the aggressor state of the Russian Federation. With the fact that this very court employs a representative of the Donetsk clan, Denis Mandichev, who almost simultaneously with Emelyanov moved to the capital of Ukraine and is known for his love of expensive gifts and a passport of Cyprus, the favorite offshore country of the Russian special services.
The answer to this question is already the competence of Ukrainian special services and law enforcement agencies.
