Denisova Lyudmila Leontievna
Biography
Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights
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Education.
She was born in Arkhangelsk (Russia). In 1978, she graduated from the Arkhangelsk Pedagogical College with a degree in kindergarten education. In 1989, she received a diploma from Leningrad State University with a degree in law. In 1995, she graduated from the Tauride Institute of Business and Law (Faculty of Economics, Accounting and Audit).
Family.
She is married. Her husband Denysov Oleksandr Ivanovych (1961) is the director of Olivier. Denisova has two daughters, Olena (1985) and Oleksandra (1987). The eldest daughter Olena is 32 years old and is the Deputy Head of the Department of the Executive Directorate of the Social Insurance Fund for Occupational Diseases and Industrial Accidents of Ukraine in the ARC.
Career
- From 1979 to 1989. Denisova worked as a kindergarten teacher, courtroom clerk, head of the office, and consultant to the Arkhangelsk Regional Court.
- 1990-1991 — legal adviser to the Crimean regional center of the Komsomol. 1991-1993 — personnel inspector, deputy head of the department of receipts and commercial activities, acting head of the Crimean Republican Department of the Pension Fund of Ukraine. 1993-1998 — Head of the Pension Fund of Ukraine in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea.
- In May 1998, she was appointed Minister of Economy of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea. From July 1998 to July 2001 — Minister of Finance of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea. 2001-2002 — Head of the State Treasury Department in the AR of Crimea.
- 2003-2005 — Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Humatex Corporation, LLC, specializing in the production of textiles for technological needs. 2005-2006 — Head of the Humatex Corporation.
- She was elected to the Verkhovna Rada of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea (2000-2002). Member of Parliament of Ukraine of the V and VI convocations from the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc. In the Parliament of the fifth convocation, she was the Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Social Policy and Labor. Since 2005, she has been a member of the Batkivshchyna party.
- On December 18, 2007, shortly after the formation of the parliamentary coalition consisting of the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc and the Our Ukraine — People’s Self-Defense bloc, Denisova was appointed Minister of Labor and Social Policy in Yulia Tymoshenko’s government. She replaced Mykhailo Papiyev, who worked in Viktor Yanukovych’s Cabinet under the Party of Regions quota. She lost her position in March 2010 due to the resignation of Tymoshenko’s Cabinet after Yanukovych won the presidential election.
- Since December 2012, she has been a Member of Parliament of the VII convocation from the Batkivshchyna party (No. 38 on the list). Chairman of the Subcommittee on State Social Insurance, Development of Social Dialogue and Activities of Citizens’ Associations of the Parties to Social Dialogue of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Social Policy and Labor.
- From February 27 to December 2, 2014, she was the Minister of Social Policy in the government of Arseniy Yatsenyuk. In this position, Denisova replaced Natalia Korolevska.
- In 2014, during the early elections to the Verkhovna Rada, Lyudmyla Denisova was elected as a Member of Parliament of Ukraine of the 8th convocation on the party list (No. 15) from the People’s Front.
- Head of the Permanent Delegation of Ukraine to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation.
- On March 15, 2018, the Verkhovna Rada appointed Liudmyla Denysova as the Parliamentary Commissioner for Human Rights. This decision was supported by 280 MPs.
The dirt
As soon as Denysova was appointed Minister of Labor and Social Policy in Tymoshenko’s government, she managed to scandalize the whole country more than once in just two years of work.
Soon, people began to call her Lyudochka the cannibal. The woman received this nickname because she did not hesitate to “make money” on pensioners, the disabled, and the unemployed.
The most notorious scandal was the one involving wheelchairs, which the MP bought at fabulous prices. Moreover, in 2008, the SBU even opened a criminal case. After all, a huge amount of budget funds was stolen during the purchase of eighteen and a half thousand wheelchairs.
At the time, the head of the SBU, V. Nalyvaichenko, said that the scammers had embezzled UAH 2,000 from each wheelchair. And if you multiply this figure by the total number of wheelchairs purchased, the amount is decent: thirty-seven million UAH.
Even though the SBU provided facts and evidence, Denisova was outraged and even tried to file a counterclaim against Nalyvaichenko.
When Tymoshenko lost her ministerial post at the age of fifty and was imprisoned, Denisova protested along with Kuzhel and Slyuz. Their action was called “Free Yulia!” But over time, the official found other associates in the person of A. Avakov and A. Yatsenyuk.
In 2014-2015, after the annexation of Crimea, it re-registered a number of its companies located there under Russian law. Now she pays taxes to the Russian budget and makes a good profit.
If you look at her most recent declarations for 2016 or, for example, 2018, the list of listed companies includes Crimean ones with their old Ukrainian registration numbers.
And the lists of co-owners include the same partners, Andriy Vilenovych Senchenko, Serhiy Konstantinovych Velizhansky and Vasyl Ivanovych Setkov. The Russian register of enterprises contains the same organizations. Well, you can’t forbid living a good life!
Meanwhile, you can pretend to be a patriot and write on social media about how Sentsov is feeling. To help speed up the consideration of Oleg Sentsov’s petition for pardon by the competent state authorities of the Russian Federation. And celebrate the results of their successful activities.
“Dead souls”
Another rather piquant situation involving a female politician: in the summer of 2009, residents of Yevpatoria were shocked by an unusual protest. At that time, the road was blocked by disabled people in wheelchairs. They were protesting against the transfer of them from the Burdenko Specialized Sanatorium to the military Pisnyk. They were transferred from the Burdenko hospital to the Pirogovo military hospital (where the rehabilitation conditions are worse).
It turns out that disabled people used to receive state-funded vouchers to several sanatoriums that were adapted for wheelchair users. But since 2009, all the tenders for such vouchers have suddenly been won by the Pirogovo sanatorium, which, incidentally, is affiliated with her husband.
The head of the ministry also managed to earn extra money on the benefits. The media have repeatedly covered entire schemes of fraud regarding their accrual. For example, the most famous of them is the so-called “dead souls”. There have also been scams in the allocation of subsidies for small businesses. “How did the scammers operate?” — you may ask. It’s very simple! The money was issued to fictitious persons.
Money for a website
Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights Lyudmyla Denisova asked the Cabinet of Ministers to allocate UAH 14.5 million from the COVID-19 Fund. Of this amount, UAH 3.5 million will be used to create a new website, UAH 10 million — to repair the administrative building and another UAH 1 million — for business trips, according to the non-governmental organization StateWatch.
Denisova writes that the current website is developed on a “morally outdated” platform, has technical limitations and cannot be updated. Denisova also writes that the site has a weak security system, which is why it is constantly subject to cyberattacks and is blocked.
They propose to allocate UAH 3.5 million as follows:
- Creation of a technical task — 525 thousand UAH.
- Development of a web portal prototype — UAH 700 thousand.
- Development, testing and commissioning — UAH 2.2 million.
Now the website really looks old-fashioned. It was created in 2013, and one of its unusual features is the ability to change the theme and font size. Both features of 2020 look a little intimidating.
Serhiy Kravtsov, co-founder of the IT company Evergreen.IT, believes that for almost €120,000, it is possible to create an information service for receiving incidents of human rights violations in Ukraine from scratch, with chatbots and an interactive voice menu for vulnerable people, with the ability to use them as a “panic button.”
It will also include automated legal advice, integration with law enforcement agencies, the generation of applications to local authorities, reports on the consideration of these applications, and much more.
Dmytro Fedorenko, founder of Seventeam, a web design studio, believes that the amount of UAH 3.5 million cannot be criticized until there is a preliminary technical specification.
“High-quality IT products can never be cheap and are never cheap. Have you seen the salaries of IT specialists? It’s the same! And the figure of $130 thousand is not space at all. We at Seventeam have worked with much bigger budgets — development does not end with the signing of acts after the site is launched,” Fedorenko writes.
In the comments, however, opinions are divided. Many point out that this price for a website is quite high.
“If the purpose of the site is to post news and be mentioned in a release, then, in my opinion, it is unreasonably expensive. Seeing what the article appeals to (the old system, poor security and inconvenience), and noting that there is not a single word about functionality or any innovation that solves the problem, I think it is still about something painfully banal,” writes Irina Mushtina, founder of the CF.Digital advertising agency.
Andriy Pogulialiev, the founder of Odesa web design studio, compared the cost of the website to the cost of three apartments in Kyiv. At the same time, business analyst Olena Sohatska writes that she has developed and maintained two government portals.
“The budget may be bloated, but official government websites are regularly “checked for vulnerability” by both pro-Russian pests and our cyber activists, so there are special requirements for security,” Olena writes.
According to her, there are also many additional requirements for such sites, for example, for users with special needs and visual problems.
JUSTICE IS TRADED IN THE DISTRICT ADMINISTRATIVE COURT OF KYIV: WHO WAS ON VOVK’S TAPES
Pavlo Vovk, Ihor Pohribnichenko, and Yevhen Ablov were served with suspicions of committing crimes. The key role in Vovk’s plan was played by Human Rights Commissioner Lyudmyla Denisova and Head of the State Judicial Administration Zinoviy Kholodnyuk. The investigation believes that it was they who artificially created vacancies in the Qualification Commission, appointed fake competitions, which were won by pre-agreed candidates — Mykola Sirosh, Serhiy Ostapets and Andriy Solodkov.
Ombudsman Denisova accused of corruption-related criminal acts
The National Agency for the Prevention of Corruption (NAPC) has decided to send conclusions to law enforcement agencies on the detection of signs of corruption crimes against former MP and current Ukrainian Parliamentary Commissioner for Human Rights Lyudmyla Denisova and Kyiv City Council member Maksym Konobas.
«For example, MP Liudmyla Denysova did not comply with the law when submitting her declarations.
In her 2015 declaration, she failed to declare income of UAH 23 million 840 thousand 268 received from a financial company and misstated the amount of her contributions to the authorized capital of four companies, which differs from the true amount of UAH 5 million 454 thousand 248,» the NACP press service reports.
The report emphasizes that information on contributions is also inaccurately reflected in Denisova’s 2016 and 2017 declarations.
MPS TRANSFERRED MANAGEMENT OF THEIR COMPANIES TO FAMILY MEMBERS, DESPITE THE PROHIBITION OF THE LAW
Lyudmyla Denysova transferred corporate rights to her business to Oleksandra Kvitko, most likely to her daughter. According to the declaration, the MP and Oleksandra Kvitko are not related to each other.
FOR SEVERAL YEARS, THE MINISTRY OF SOCIAL POLICY HAS BEEN COORDINATING CATERING TENDERS AT INFLATED PRICES AND WITH FICTITIOUS COMPETITION
According to the website Nashi Hroshi, on January 10, 2013, the Ministry of Social Policy of Ukraine, with the permission of the head of the tender commission, Viktoriia Slipenko (head of the department for public procurement at the Ministry of Social Policy), concluded a number of agreements worth UAH 484 million for catering services in 2013 for children affected by the Chernobyl disaster.
The tender is questionable, as most of the firms had previously supplied food to prisoners or soldiers.
According to Slidstvo Info, some of the companies acted as intermediaries without providing any services, while others supplied goods of inadequate quality.
A tender for food for children in Bereznovsky district of Rivne region was won by Donetsk-based Syntezprodservice LLC with a bid that was UAH 3,500,000 higher than the bid from the Bereznovsky district consumer union. Immediately after the tender, Donetsk officials hired the Bereznovsky District Consumer Union as a contractor.
The school in the village of Zhukyn, Vyshhorod district, Kyiv region, was serviced by Vizit LLC.
The phone numbers and director of this company were the same as Statpostach LLC, which was a competitor of Visit in tenders. The school management accused Vizit LLC of low quality products and high prices. In addition, according to journalists, Vizit LLC is associated with the entourage of former President Yanukovych.
On February 27, 2014, Lyudmyla Denysova was appointed Minister of Social Policy, who refused to sign the results of the bidding process conducted by the previous government. According to media reports, since the beginning of March, educational institutions have been receiving telegrams about the possible temporary suspension of meals for children who have the status of victims of the Chernobyl accident.
However, already on May 19, 2014, Nashi Hroshi published information that Denysova had again entered into an agreement with Visit LLC worth UAH 109 million.
Tender fraud: tender with fictitious competition
On July 9, 2013, the Office of the Executive Directorate of the Social Insurance Fund for Occupational Accidents and Diseases of Ukraine in the AR of Crimea, with the permission of the head of the tender committee (deputy head of the department) Olga Tatevosyan, concluded an agreement for UAH 10920000 with LLC Investment and Construction Group Bosporus for the reconstruction of non-residential premises in Simferopol.
According to the Nashi Hroshi website, the tender is questionable because a number of cheap bids were rejected, there was a connection between the winning firm and the only competitor, and the contract was ultimately awarded to the bidder who did not offer the lowest price. According to journalists, the founders of Bosporus at the time of the tender were the Technokhimkomplekt association and the Agrobudproekt company, with the latter being co-founded by Ivan Ishmanov, a deputy of the Central District Council in Simferopol (through Agrobudproekt he indirectly controlled 25% of Bosporus).
The same Ishmanov owned 30% of the shares of Krymzalizobeton, the only one of the six companies whose proposal was not rejected by the tender committee. It is also suspicious that first the offer of Krymzhelezobeton was accepted, and then the offer of Bosporus, which was 1 million UAH more expensive, was accepted without explanation. The head of Krymzhelezobeton at the time of the tender was Valeriy Gerasymov.
The Anti-Corruption Action Center, with the help of MP Orobets, forwarded the facts to the regulatory authorities. As a result of inspections by the AMCU and the State Fiscal Inspection, it was confirmed that the tender was held with violations, and Hovhannisyan was reprimanded and the contract was recommended to be terminated.
Raider seizure
In March 2009, the company Liga-M 2006, a member of the Denisova-Senchenko-Velizhansky group, attempted to privatize the Semashko specialized anti-tuberculosis sanatorium. Semashko, with the support of the Ministry of Social Policy. A little earlier, the same trio, through Technokhimkomplekt LLC and with the support of the revived Saylem organized crime group, tried to raid the Balaklava Shipyard. On April 30 and May 1, 2009, Sevastopolmarinerservis LLC, acting through Wilinkt and RATIBOR, tried to seize the building of the Metalista complex located in Balaklava Bay, which is adjacent to the Golden Symbol yacht club. As it turned out, the founder of this yacht club is Sevastopolmarinerservis, and Velizhansky and Denisova are the owners of this LLC.
The cost of plastic
In the summer of 2014, Lyudmyla Denysova left the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc and, together with Yatsenyuk and Avakov, joined the People’s Front, on whose list she was elected to the Verkhovna Rada, where she headed the Committee on Social Policy and Pension Reform for three years. Apparently, she was doing very well, because during this time Denisova had very high-quality and very expensive “plastic surgery” that rejuvenated her by 30 years. Many people were sincerely jealous!
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A gift from Avakov Lyudmyla Denisova’s name can be found on the lists of those awarded firearms — in July 2015, Interior Minister Arsen Avakov presented her with a Fort 9 pistol.
Representative of the Ukrainian Parliamentary Ombudsman in Donbas Lysyansky fired over a fight in a restaurant
On the night of December 5-6, Pavlo Lysyansky, a representative of the Ukrainian Parliamentary Commissioner for Human Rights, started a fight in a restaurant in Donbas. It was filmed and posted online. Due to the incident, Human Rights Commissioner Lyudmyla Denisova dismissed Lysyansky from his post.
Law enforcement officials opened a criminal case. The press service of the Sloviansk police reported that the fight took place at 1 a.m. on December 6. A 56-year-old security guard was injured in the fight. He sought medical assistance.
The police opened a criminal investigation into the incident in the cafe under the article “Intentional light bodily harm”.
Pavel Lysyansky was fired. The next day after the fight in the cafe, the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights reported that Lysyansky himself had reported the incident to her in the morning. She added that the ombudsman’s office had launched an internal investigation, which will last until December 21. For now, Lysyansky has been suspended from his post.
But less than a week later, Denisova said that the internal investigation was over. As a result, it was decided to fire Lysiansky on December 11. Denisova has not yet appointed a new representative.
The election of the Ombudsman was a collective violation of the Constitution
Deputies from the “Vidrodzhennia” party massively voted for the appointment of Lyudmyla Denisova as the Ukrainian Parliamentary Commissioner for Human Rights.
During the roll-call vote at the plenary session on Thursday, March 15, on the appointment of Lyudmyla Denisova as the Ukrainian Parliamentary Commissioner for Human Rights, MPs from the Revival party — Vitaliy Khomutynnik, Yevhen Heller, Anton Yatsenko, Anton Kisse and Vasyl Huliayev — violated the procedure of personal voting.
Під час поіменного голосування на пленарному засіданні у четвер, 15 березня, щодо призначення Людмили Денісової Уповноваженим Верховної Ради України з прав людини народні депутати від групи «Відродження» — Віталій Хомутиннік, Євген Геллер, Антон Яценко, Антон Кіссе та Василь Гуляєв — порушили процедуру особистого голосування.
Olena Duma believes that the board’s decision to suspend her is the result of a monitoring visit by the Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights.
She also says that the report of the monitoring visit is illegal and based entirely on fabricated facts. It was conducted on the basis of an anonymous complaint with significant violations committed by the Ombudsman’s Secretariat staff and was challenged in court.
The Duma emphasized that monitoring of the Social Insurance Fund is not within the competence of the Ombudsman. Therefore, the monitoring of the Fund was carried out in violation of the regulations of the Ombudsman’s Secretariat. Olena Duma believes that the actions of the Ombudsman’s Secretariat employees show signs of abuse of power and official position. And in the case of Denisova, according to Duma, these violations were carried out in order to benefit themselves and their family.
The Ombudsman said that a report had been sent to the Director of the Fund’s Executive Directorate to eliminate the violations within a month. In addition, she intended to ask the Accounting Chamber to conduct a financial audit of the effectiveness of the Fund’s use of funds, and the State Labor Service of Ukraine to conduct inspections of the observance of labor rights of employees of the Executive Directorate of the SPFU.
Then Lyudmyla Denysova began to check the social trust hotline.
The media suspected that the Commissioner wanted to conceal the involvement of her daughter, who had been in charge of the Fund’s financial direction since 2017. Her activities resulted in an unformed reserve, which would have guaranteed social benefits to ordinary citizens during the quarantine period.
In April, at an extraordinary meeting of the Foundation, it was decided to create a temporary commission to check the legality of the work of the Foundation’s head, Olena Duma. Duma was suspended for the duration of the temporary commission’s work.
Declaration
In June 2020, Lyudmyla Denisova published an electronic declaration of her income for the previous year.
The Ukrainian ombudsman owns two apartments: one in Kyiv with an area of 203 square meters and one in Sevastopol with an area of 119 square meters, as well as a 13.5 square meter garage. Denisova jointly owns five non-residential properties in Crimea, mainly in Sevastopol and Yalta, and one 196.8-square-meter apartment in Simferopol.
Lyudmyla listed seven sets of jewelry, a Swiss Ulysse Nardin watch and shares in Krymzhelezobeton OJSC as valuable movable property.
In 2019, Denisova’s total income amounted to UAH 793.6 thousand. She has 124 thousand hryvnias, 345 dollars, and 147 euros in banks. The official keeps more than 582 thousand hryvnias and 45 thousand euros in cash.
Conclusion.
Lyudmyla Denysova is a vivid image of an odious, shameless politician. She takes advantage of the vulnerability of the weakest segments of society to make a lot of money. And while the disabled, the unemployed and students are left with reduced benefits, Denisova buys herself branded handbags and attends her daughter’s wedding for fabulous sums of money.