Deputy of the Kyiv City Council from the European Solidarity party Sergei Artemenko indicated in his declarations that his family has no housing in Kyiv, but only an apartment in occupied Lugansk. Accordingly, the conclusion suggests itself that the politician’s family, consisting of five people, lived on the street. In addition, Artemenko’s wife, according to sources, may be directly connected with Russia.
Read the details of the official’s mysterious life in our editorial investigation.
Fraud during parliamentary elections or Viktor Chumak’s man
Scandals began to haunt Artemenko back in 2012. Thus, during the parliamentary elections, he headed the district election commission in district No. 214 under the quota of Lytvyn’s “People’s Party”. Then the candidate for people's deputy from UDAR, Viktor Chumak, said that the OIC was falsifying the election results in favor of Oles Dovgy (another former member of Chernovetsky's team).
It turned out that Artemenko, as the head of the commission, has a conflict of interest. The fact is that Dovgy’s father, people’s deputy Stanislav Dovgy, was a member of the People’s Party faction.
Representative of the UDAR party Viktor Chumak, in turn, stated that “all protocols where Dovgy wins are accepted. Other protocols are sent for revision. And during revision, something happens to them. They take out ballots right on the stairs of the district committee.”
In his biography, Artemenko does not mention this situation, but speaks only of honorable gratitude from the Central Election Commission (by the way, there is no mention of connections with the Chernovetsky bloc in his biography).
It is interesting that two years later Viktor Chumak “forgot about this misunderstanding”, since he took Artemenko as his assistant to the people’s deputy of the eighth convocation.
The state of the Kiev City Council deputy’s family, the probable connection of the deputy’s wife with the Russian Federation and property
Many questions are raised by these declarations of the Kyiv City Council deputy. Artemenko does not list real estate in Kyiv and lives on the minimum average monthly income.
According to the declarations, the family of Sergei Artemenko, consisting of five people, lives unknown where, because the Kiev deputy declared only one apartment of seventy-three square meters, which is located in occupied Lugansk and is the property of his wife. The average monthly official family income for 2017 was 2.7 thousand UAH, for 2016 – 1.4 thousand UAH.
By the way, Sergei Artemenko is married to Natalya Eremina. She is a native of the Lugansk region. The couple has three children: daughter Anastasia and sons Vadim and Mikhail.
In 2018, according to the declaration, Sergei Artemenko and his wife had no monetary assets. The deputy’s total income for 2017 amounted to four hundred eighty-nine thousand hryvnia and all this together: salary, income from the alienation of movable property and payments to the deposit guarantee fund of individuals. Natalya Eremina received twelve thousand hryvnia as a salary.
Interestingly, the wife of Kiev City Council deputy Sergei Artemenko, Natalya Eremina, has probably had a Russian passport since 2002. StopCora journalists learned about this from their own insider sources.
The deputy’s wife also owned a 2017 Kia Sportage car (the cost of the car was four hundred and fifty-four thousand hryvnia), a Finval 475 EVO motor boat and two boat trailers.
The deputy himself had a Mitsubishi Pajero Sport car, he owns 3,060 shares of PJSC Ukrtelecom and a 100% stake in the company NVM-Legal Consulting.
It should also be noted that during his political career, Sergei Artemenko changed four political forces, collaborated with Leonid Chernovetsky, Dmitry Tabachnyk, Vladimir Lytvyn and Petro Poroshenko.
In 2006, he became a deputy and later deputy chairman of the Dnieper District Council of Kyiv. He entered the council as a candidate from the Leonid Chernovetsky Bloc. He was the leader of the faction of the same name in the district council.
Artemenko managed to work for the Party of Regions. In 2010, he was an official observer for Ukrainian presidential candidate Viktor Yanukovych.
In 2014, he ran for the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on the list of the Petro Poroshenko Bloc. However, his number one hundred and ninety-five turned out to be impassable. But a year later, Artemenko won the forty-third majority district (Dneprovsky district) of Kyiv and became a deputy of the city council.
In 2019, he ran for parliament a second time. This time Artemenko ran in the majoritarian district as a candidate from European Solidarity. For the elections, he chose the two hundred and fifteenth district (part of the Desnyansky and Dnieper districts of Kyiv).
15.33% or 11,131 voters cast their votes for Artemenko. This turned out to be the third result. The BPP candidate passed ahead of Svoboda member Andrei Ilyenko (21.06% or 15,290), as well as the winner, representative of the Servant of the People party Bogdan Yakimenko (37.51% or 27,223).
Active social activities of Sergei Artemenko
From 2006 to 2010, Sergei Artemenko was a deputy and deputy chairman of the Dneprovsky district council in the city of Kyiv. He headed the Leonid Chernovetsky Bloc faction. In 2012, he served as head of the election commission for the capital’s district No. 214 under the quota of the People’s Party of Vladimir Lytvyn.
During 2014-2015, he worked as an assistant-consultant to the people's deputy of the 8th convocation Viktor Chumak on a voluntary basis, and was also the chairman of the Dnieper regional organization of the party “Petro Poroshenko Solidarity Bloc”.
In 2014, he became one of the co-founders of the Dnieper Power charity foundation. In addition, Sergei Artemenko is a co-founder of the public organization “Rainbow of the City of Kyiv”.
The deputy also previously worked as an assistant at the Department of Legal Regulation of Economics at his native university. Then he was an employee of Ukrtelecom for six years. He worked the same amount of time at United Networks of Ukraine LLC, which deals with connecting to the Internet.
Since 2012, Artemenko has worked at IP&CConsult LLC. Three years later he took up the position of deputy general director of this company. IP&CConsult LLC is known for having previously collaborated with companies close to Dmitry Tabachnyk, the Minister of Education of the Azarov government. In particular, this is the Direx-Telecom company, which was involved in the creation of a unified information base of the Ministry of Education and Science, as well as the Tiko gas station network.
According to the declaration for 2018, Sergey Artemenko is the director of NVM-Legal Consulting LLC.
So, we see that Sergei Artemenko, the secretary of the permanent commission of the Kyiv City Council, does not lead a public life and hides his biography. In addition, he submits dubious declarations. Moreover, he believes that thanks to his connections he can influence the results of parliamentary elections, winning himself a victory, which is confirmed by the data presented. To find out all the data, StopCor journalists sent inquiries to Artemenko asking him to confirm or refute the information about his wife having a Russian passport, but they never received a response. The KSCA deputy stubbornly ignores the journalists’ request.
