The media named Tetyana Krupa’s business partner: what is known about him (photo)
29 October 2024 16:29
Journalists have learned about another accomplice of the head of the Khmelnytsky MSEC, Tetiana Krupa, who is suspected of bribery. This was reported by "Komersant Ukrainian" with reference to Glavkom.
tetiana Krupa’s “business partner” turned out to be a former official of the State Property Fund of Ukraine , Oleksandr Vizir. He is currently known as the executive director of the Public Union “Smart Grids of Ukraine”.
Vizir, as the media found out, has owned companies that produce, distribute and trade electricity for several years in a row. All of them have the same beneficiaries as the energy companies of the Krupa family.
In particular, Energia-Aktiv 2018 LLC is owned by Vizir and Tetiana Hrebeniuk. The latter also owns the Khmelnytsky company Energia Plus-KhM, which is part of the holding company Energia Podillya, owned by the Krupa family’s Solar-Invest LLC.
In addition, Oleksandr Vizir owns Vibe Assets LLC. It owns the corporate rights of Yetr-Spectrum LLC, where the aforementioned Tetiana Hrebeniuk, affiliated with Krupa, is listed as a director and owner together with Vizir.
What we know about Oleksandr Vizir
Oleksandr Vizir was born in the city of Dnipro. In 2009, Vizir graduated from the Faculty of International Relations of the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv. He is married to Natalia Vizir. She is a methodologist at the Epoch Foreign Language Training Center and a language coach. The couple has two children: son Yaroslav and daughter Anna.
After graduating from the university in the summer of 2009, Vizir became a legal advisor at the investment and construction company Stolitsa. A year and a half later, Oleksandr joined Sayenko Kharenko Law Firm.
From November 2010 to July 2011, he worked on projects in the construction industry, dealt with mergers and acquisitions, legal due diligence of real estate and related assets, worked on IPO and Eurobond projects, and worked on the implementation of agricultural projects.
Oleksandr’s next job was with the Reikartz Hotels and Resorts hotel chain. For a year, from July 2011 to July 2012, he held the position of General Counsel.
In April 2015, Vizir became Deputy Head of the Legal Support Department of the Kyiv City Council. In March of the following year, he moved to the State Property Fund. Until November 2019, Oleksandr held the positions of Deputy Director of the Department – Head of the Corporate Rights Department and Director of the Department for Management of State-Owned Enterprises and Corporate Rights of the State.
In September 2016, Oleksandr joined the Board of Odesa Port Plant and Centrenergo. On a paid basis, he was an assistant to the MP of the VIII convocation of the Verkhovna Rada, Ihor Kononenko of the Petro Poroshenko Bloc.
In March 2020, Vizir became the executive director of the Smart Grids of Ukraine public union.
From April to December 2023, he was listed as the deputy head of the Central Service of Metering and Metrology at Cherkasyoblenergo. At the beginning of 2024, Vizir became the head of the NGO Association of Energy Efficiency and Energy Saving.
The last time Oleksandr Vizir filed an electronic income declaration was in December 2020. At that time, he held the position of Deputy Head of the Legal Support Department of the Kyiv City Council.
According to the declaration, Vizir owns a 56.7 square meter apartment and a 4.3 square meter non-residential building in Vyshhorod, Kyiv region. He has accounts with Ukrgasbank.
What is known about the case of Tetiana Krupa
on October 4, it became known that law enforcement officers exposed the head of the Khmelnytsky Regional Center for Medical and Social Expertise (MSEC) and her son, who holds a senior position in the regional department of the Pension Fund, for illegal enrichment. During the searches, almost $6 million in cash in various currencies was found on their person.
In Tetiana Krupa’s office, law enforcement officers found $100,000, a number of forged medical documents, and lists of tax evaders with fake names and fake diagnoses. By the way, during the investigation, the official tried to get rid of some of the money by throwing two bags with half a million dollars out the window.
It has been established that Tetiana Krupa and her son Oleksandr did not include all this money in their annual declarations of persons authorized to perform state functions.
The officials are being served suspicion notices of fraud committed on a particularly large scale or by an organized group, legalization of the proceeds of crime by prior conspiracy on a large scale, declaration of false information and illicit enrichment (Part 5 of Article 190, Part 2 of Article 209, Part 2 of Article 366-2, Article 368-5 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine). The sanction of the articles provides for imprisonment for up to 12 years with confiscation of all property.
Moreover, during the search of Tatiana Krupa’s house, not only a large amount of cash was found, but also valuable jewelry. In particular, a Rolex watch and Dior earrings.
It should be noted that recently new details in the case of Tetiana Krupa have become known. The text of the Pechersk District Court’s ruling on Krupa’s arrest (the officials chose a preventive measure in the form of detention with the possibility of bail in the amount of UAH 500 million) refers to the substantial savings of the official’s family, which were kept in foreign banks and were not reflected in the electronic declaration for 2023.
It is about $590 thousand (or UAH 21.5 million at the NBU exchange rate at the time of the transaction) that Tetiana Krupa transferred to the account of the Polish bank Pekao (Bank Polska Kasa Opieki).
In addition, the official’s husband Volodymyr Krupa kept funds in Polish banks. In total, he accrued 11.3 thousand euros and $1.2 million. He also did not include the listed funds in his wife’s declaration.
As a reminder, law enforcement officers detained and served a notice of suspicion of illicit enrichment to the head of the Khmelnytskyi Regional Center for Medical and Social Expertise, from whom almost $6 million was seized.
