Felix Borisovich Chertok
Official biography
Born on August 29, 1974 in Dnipro.
Member of the Board of Trustees of the Jewish community of Dnipro, a wealthy businessman.
He was the CEO of Alef-Vinal, one of the largest wine, vodka, and cognac producers in Ukraine.
Education.
Married, has four children. He has a university degree.
Compromising evidence
Felix’s father, Borys Chertok, made a wrong move in his life — he turned down the wrong path of lawbreakers. When he was released from prison, he joined the brigade of the most famous Dnipro authority figure at the time and the founding father of the local racket, Oleksandr Milchenko, or Sailor.
Borys Arkadiyovych, better known in narrow circles as “Savyi,” became one of the founders and shareholders as the owner of the gangster’s share in Alef-Vinal CJSC. He also brought his son together with the owner of the Alef company, Dnipro businessman Vadym Iermolaiev, who was gaining momentum in the early nineties and with whom Felix Chertok later engaged in the production and importation of alcoholic beverages. And together with Yermolaiev, with the most active participation of Matros, Alef-Vinal was created. To understand who we’re talking about, Yermolaiev is now called the criminal king of thieves, cognacs and smuggling in Dnipro.
Today, the said share belongs to Borys Arkadievich’s son, Felix. However, if anyone tries to find Alef-Vinal in the registers, they will be disappointed. “Alef-Vinal has been renamed.
A scam in Kazakhstan
While preparing a story about Felix Chortko, we found an excerpt of an interesting document from the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Kazakhstan, dated 2019.
It is unlikely that this is a simple coincidence of names — apart from the fact that Felix Chertok is a rather rare combination, we are talking about a citizen of Ukraine. It is anyone’s guess what kind of scam Felix Chertok got involved in in Kazakhstan in 2019. But, judging by the context, it is about tax evasion, and it is a small-scale one. Which is simply shameful for such a notorious swindler.
Felix Chertok: what is known about his multimillion-dollar companies, in which of them he is a beneficiary, and what is known about the litigation
So, Felix Chertok is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Jewish community of Dnipro, as well as a very, very wealthy businessman. There is very little information about him in the media, especially recently.
He was the general director of Alef-Vinal, one of the largest wine, vodka, and cognac producers in our country. Among the well-known brands are Golden Amphora, Klynkov, Jean-Jacques, Helsinki, etc.
According to the OpenData website, Felix Chertok is listed as the owner of one company and a sole proprietorship, and is the former owner of another company.
According to the YouControl information registry, this company is listed in more than 100 court registry documents.
- ADAMAN TRADE LLC — we wrote about this company above, but according to the Clarity-project, Chertok is also listed as a beneficiary. The authorized capital of the company is over UAH 140.6 million.
According to YouControl, Chertok is not listed as a beneficiary, but according to the Clarity Project, he is. Where is the truth?
Let’s add to this court proceedings, including criminal ones. 33 documents in the register. Plus a bonus of 7 documents in the court register.
At the same time, if you go and search directly in the country’s court register, you will see 23 documents in relation to this company, not 7.
According to YouControl, the firm is listed in 40 court documents.
And in the court register itself, we already count 191 documents on her account, including many criminal cases.
This company also periodically has tax debts to the local budget. In 2020, the debt amounted to almost UAH 100 thousand.
This company is listed in six documents of the court register.
Yermolaiev and Chertok: how an international corrupt alcohol empire works
As you know, due to the sanctions of the European Union and the United States, exports and imports from Crimea are prohibited, but using this division, or rather a cunningly thought-out scheme, the company easily circumvents sanctions restrictions
Among the owners of the corporation are European companies, which are backed by the odious Dnipro businessman Vadym Iermolaiev.
About offshore schemes and sanctions
This enterprise also accounts for more than 90 percent of Alef-Vinal’s Russian companies.
The authorized capital of Burlyuk PJSC is UAH 4 million. 12 documents in the court register.
But the founder of this Burlyuk PJSC is the Ukrainian Alef-Vinal PJSC with a status fund of UAH 40.55 million. It is owned by Austrian and Cypriot companies.
And here is a very interesting visualization of the connections in this story…
Until 2018, the owner of half of the shares in the Ukrainian part of Alef-Vinal was the Austrian company Alef Investment Holding GmbH, and the director was Vadym Iermolaiev.
One of the companies in Cyprus, AD Vinal Invest Limited, has a stake in both Ukrainian and Russian Vinal and Bulyuk.
And here’s an interesting point: according to an investigation by the Nashe Vremya website and the Municipal Scanner anti-corruption project, Alef-Vinal’s schemes also involved the LLC Trading House AV, whose founder and beneficiary is Felix Chertok. It is worth reminding that this LLC is listed in 191 documents in the court register of Ukraine. We wrote about this in detail above.
Summary
Felix Chertok carefully conceals his business affairs. There is something to hide. The court registry contains a lot of interesting documents showing the real state of affairs, corruption schemes and tax evasion. In addition, Felix has not yet paid for his criminal schemes because he is under the protection of Rabbi Shmuel Kaminsky.