The Washington Times: who buys assets in Ukraine in the interests of Yanukovych

Viktor Yanukovych ex-president of Ukraine. Photo: unian.net

Viktor Yanukovych’s entourage uses separate elements inside Ukraine to buy strategic assets to further advance Moscow’s interests.

This function is performed by a Ukrainian businessman named Pavel or Pavlo Fuchs, who uses Russian money to buy out promising Ukrainian gas and oil fields, energy companies and other tactical assets for his Russian friends.

Ukraine is obviously a very unstable country. Corruption is still omnipresent. Car explosions are becoming more frequent. The war continues in the East. Authoritarian leaders control the branches of government. Criminal investigations and operations, legal and corrupt, are escalating in all directions.

Ukraine was even able to strongly influence the United States against the background of the accelerating investigation of Muller, during which there were put forward charges against Paul Manafort in money laundering, received in the previous decade from advising the government of Yanukovych. At the same time, in Washington, Ukrainian politicians and agents are trying to establish contacts with our State Department and political leaders, tripping over each other and sometimes causing controversy, such as the recent fake “Congressional hearing” on the issue of the National Bank in Ukraine, organized by unwitting American lobbyists , deceived by the Eastern European "consultants" who hired them.

Perhaps the most fascinating aspect of Ukraine's ongoing political and economic death spiral is the continuing influence of the former regime, the Yanukovych presidency. This regime has stolen billions from the Ukrainian people. This money is now safely hidden in offshore areas, inaccessible without prolonged judicial red tape, and possibly out of reach.. The Ukrainian government, of course, is trying to recover assets. However, a more interesting fact is the use of the criminal elements inside Ukraine by the gang of Yanukovich, exiled to Moscow, to buy strategic assets to further advance the interests of Moscow and instability in Kiev.

In recent months, a Russian (and now Ukrainian) businessman named Pavel Fuks has raised his status, provoking interest from the Western media and resuming investigations by law enforcement agencies in many countries, including the United States. One of the recent requests from law enforcement agencies, in particular, says, I quote: Mr. Fuchs supports criminal figures in Ukraine and the laundering of Yanukovych’s assets in the country. The request also states that several criminal cases were opened against Mr. Fuchs.

Vitali Klitschko and Pavel Fuchs. March 2017. Photo: wikipedia.org

This fact is interesting because many people in the Ukrainian media accuse Pavel Fuks of buying up strategic assets for Yanukovych and his associates hiding in Russia and controlled by the Russian government. The Russian-language publication Obozrevatel writes: “Ukraine is Fuchs’ main business area. His mission is to use Russian crime money to buy out promising Ukrainian gas and oil fields, energy companies and other tactical assets for his Russian friends.” Apparently, Pavel Fuchs created a safety net for himself in Ukraine after he left Moscow, as he recently received many licenses for activities related to gas in Ukraine, started a PR campaign in Ukraine and the United States and secured the closure of all criminal investigations and withdrawing charges against his companies and himself. During a recent visit by the former mayor of New York, Rudy Giuliani to the city of Kharkov, Pavel Fuchs even managed to take a picture with the famous US mayor.

Pavel Fuchs with ex-mayor of New York Rudolph Giuliani. New York, July 2017. Photo: wikipedia.org

Mr. Fuchs, a native of Kharkov, participated in the initial financing and development of the acclaimed construction project “Moscow City ” in the Russian capital, occupying the post of Chairman of the Board of Directors MosCityGroup. Mr. Fuchs allegedly borrowed money from Russian criminal syndicates to finance the planned mega-construction. However, after the financial crisis of 2008, the project experienced difficulties, and Fuchs was unable to pay the debt, which prompted him to flee to Ukraine, where he returned as a low-level frontman for the cursory office of Yanukovych. Perhaps, Russian influential people allowed him to flee and prosper in Ukraine due to the fact that he may be useful to them or their curators from the FSB, while in this country.

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