Alexander Belyaev

Official biography

Now Alexander Belyaev is an official adviser to the chairman of the SBU. Also, for unknown reasons, he was granted state protection and included in the so-called stop-lists in the registers. This means that everyone who is interested in Mr. Belyaev falls under the monitoring of the SBU. That’s how it is, a true friendship.

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Compromat

Who is Mr. Belyaev, who surfaced in the case of state treason

At the end of October it became known that the brother-in-law of former SBU head Ivan Bakanov Alexander Belyaev during 2019-2020 was preparing for negotiations with the rf leadership, up to the level of meetings with rf Defense Minister Shoigu.

An analytical note about this was made public by Oleg Kulinich, accused of state treason. This is part of the materials contained on the flash drive, which became evidence against Kulinich in the episode of state treason, where he is accused of cooperation with Vladimir Sivkovich and the FSB.

The accused Kulinich noted in court that if the flash drive was to be believed, then the materials on other defendants should also be believed. And he was the first to surrender his brother-in-law Ivan Bakanov Belyaev, who was authorized to negotiate allegedly by President Vladimir Zelenski himself. According to the readout, the president allegedly wanted to make Belyaev his oligarch and sent him to Moscow for negotiations. In particular, and regarding the release of the sailors in 2019.

Kulinich also said that he would insist on questioning Belyaev in court. After that, Kulinich’s trial was closed for journalists on November 16.

During the last open court session Kulinich could not explain to Censor.NET why out of all the figurants of the flash drive — there were files about the President, former head of the SBU, Prime Minister Shmygal, head of the OP Andriy Yermak — he chose exactly the unknown relative of the head of the SBU. Why did he draw attention to this particular person?

Although, it seems, it was not accidental at all. After all, if you pull any available thread from the biography of this man, at least the skeleton of the corrupt system that has been operating in Ukraine for years is exposed. And if you go further, some of the threads are pulling to Moscow.

Vacation without underwear and millions for Zelensky

Very little information about Belyaev can be found on the Internet. Before Kulinich’s statements, he was mentioned, it seems, only in three cases.

The media mentioned that he was a relative of Bakanov (they are married with siblings) and that he was an adviser to the SBU chairman. 2 years ago, MP Geo Leros made public a video shot on a hidden camera, where Belyaev’s partner Hennadiy Lazutin describes how Belyaev “abuses on schemes in the SBU”.

«I have a partner. Sasha Belyaev. He’s already ‘fleeced’ the SBU for a certain amount of money. Vanya decides only through the First. No matter who you are. The First and Serhiy Shefir decide,» says Lazutin.

Lazutin and Belyaev are longtime partners.

Both Lazutin and Belyaev come from Krivoy Rog. And they like to call themselves the first sponsors of “Kvartal”. If you listen to the same video, you will hear how Lazutin brought the first half a million dollars from “Donetsk” for “Kvartal 95”.

Lazutin, Belyaev and Bakanov were also caught trying to raid a hydroelectric power plant from businessman Igor Tynny.

The third mention of the surname Belyaev concerns a drunken party of naked men atLake Svityaz, to which the police were called. Among the participants, the local press at the time identified the son of former Deputy Coal Industry Minister Viktor Shaitan, the chairman of the board of Naftokhimik Prykarpattya PJSC Oleksandr Shilyaev, the son of former SBU head Viktor Radchenko and Oleksandr Belyaev

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The party took place in 2017, and in 2019 not only Belyaev, but also Radchenko began to be remembered in the context of the so-called backoffice of the head of the SBU.

By the way, there is an opinion that it was thanks to the connections of Viktor Radchenko that Belyaev, Lazutin and Bakanov managed to avoid responsibility in the case of the SBU about Bohuslavskaya and Dibinetskaya HPP, which the businessmen received from the State Property Fund for nothing.

According to the version of Kulinich, who is accused of state treason, he met Belyaev in the election headquarters of Volodymyr Zelenskyy. The latter worked there “as one of the organizers of the presidential campaign, who participated in key negotiations. Both on the territory of Ukraine and abroad.”

At the same time, the author talked to more than one of the representatives of Zelensky’s headquarters. And no one could not remember either Kulinich or Belyaev. “Maybe they were doing something, but not what we were doing. I’ll tell you that we didn’t see much of the head of staff Bakanov either,” said one of the interlocutors of the publication.

“About Belyaev I heard already after the victory of Zelensky and in a very specific way — people in shoulder straps came to us and showed us a certificate about flights to Moscow and about traveling there in cars, on license plates that are not beaten. Moreover, they got this information from Western sources,” the confidant told Censor.net.

According to him, Belyaev was close to the President because of previous business history. “They scattered their money there, then in fish, then in restaurants. Belyaev, I understand, helped when they were working in Moscow,” the interlocutor said.

A business partner of the president and the Russians

Belyayev, or rather his family, was indeed involved in the president’s business. But not through restaurants. But directly.

Since Belyaev has closed access to his social networks, you can learn about him mainly by analyzing his business connections.

There are 14 companies registered to him in Ukraine. Most of them are now in a state of discontinuance.

Another similar number of companies are linked to Belyaev’s wife Svetlana, a Russian citizen, born Lazarenko, whose own sister is the wife of Ivan Bakanov.

Some of the Belyaevs’ companies youcontrol refers to the group “95th quarter”. There are some well-known personalities among their business partners. For example, former soccer player Vladyslav Vashchuk and former head of the Football Federation of Ukraine Andriy Pavelko.

Among Belyayev’s partners were also citizens of russia, in particular, Vyatchin Sergey Vasilyevich and Elena Lesnova in Yamato Ukraine LLC.

But that’s not all. Belyayev had for some time quite close ties with a certain Eduard Prutnik — a member of Yanukovych’s team, Sergei Lyovochkin’s cousin, and a man who had quite extensive business connections in Russia. Prutnik wrote out powers of attorney for Belyayev.

And also mentioned at the beginning of the article in the context of resting without underwear was a certain Alexander Shaitan, who during 2017-2018 held the position of deputy director of the State Enterprise “Gosuglepostach” and was subordinate to Fedotov — Prutnik’s confidant.

Part of the Belyaevs’ business in Ukraine was related to hydroelectric power plants, part — to trade, another part — to the construction business.

Among the companies, there are two with rather exotic names — Altai, Project Development Company LLC and Baikal-Invest LLC (with KVED for oil production and public opinion research). This is just to make you realize that it was not only his Russian wife that connected Belyaev with the aggressor country.

2 of these companies — Energotec and PKF Ekoenerji LLC — were involved in a conflict with businessman Igor Tynny, where Ivan Bakanov acted as Belyaev ‘s lawyer.

At the same time, both companies were offshore in 2011-2012. Let’s be honest — this also characterizes the owner. Thus, the company Energotec was registered with NewBridge Technologies in the United States, Beverly Hills (where Belyaev’s sister lives), and Ecoinvest LLC was registered with Carat Consulting & Trading Limited from the UK.

According to the UK Trade Register, the director of Carat Consulting & Trading Limited since 21.07.2016 was Zhurbenko Viktor Alexandrovich — a native of Donetsk, a former citizen of Ukraine and now a citizen of the Russian Federation. And the most interesting thing is that before becoming the director of the energy company, the man, judging by the job search site, claimed to be a restaurant administrator… restaurant administrator.

In addition to business in Ukraine, Belyaev also had companies abroad. For example, since 2009 he is the founder of the Spanish company “Berit Euroinversiones”. There his partner is none other than the former deputy head of the Office of the President Kirill Timoshenko.

But this is not the most interesting connection of the Belyaevs. Svetlana Belyaeva is one of the founders of Fish House LLC(now Rethin LLC), a stake in which Vladimir Zelensky owned until 2019.

Besides Belyaeva, the business partners of the future president in Fish House LLC were the Shefira brothers, as well as Natalia Lazutina and Alexander Pikalov, an actor of the Studio Kvartal-95.

Lazutina is the wife of the very Lazutina who was mentioned at the beginning of the article. He is Belyaev’s business partner in HPP.

In the profile of Belyaev’s wife you can find joint photos with the wives of Kvartal and Elena Zelenskaya, as well as congratulations to the first lady on the birthdays of their children. Which is another proof of Belyaev’s closeness to the president.

However, it is not known whether this person remains in the president’s entourage.

Censor.NET sent a request to the presidential press service about Bialiaieu more than a month ago. But neither from it, nor after an informal appeal to Mikhail Podolyak, did it receive a response.

Therefore, we had to be satisfied with the response of other structures.

“We checked Belyaev. He was indeed prepared for negotiations with Shoigu, but they did not take place. I think it was realized that he was a swindler. Now the President does not communicate with him,” — said the interlocutor of the publication in law enforcement agencies.

Belyaev and the SBU

The history of relations between Belyaev and the SBU is quite interesting. Several times in the media he is mentioned as an advisor to Bakanov.

When the author released a text about Kulinich, then one of the high-ranking law enforcers of that time sent this message: “I learned Belyaev’s surname in 2019. He and Radchenko Jr. sat in the backoffice and recruited SBU for lieutenant. One was interested in kompromat, the other in dough.”

Later, these two were joined by Andriy Naumov, who, according to one version, was also brought by Belyaev.

Former SBU employees say that it was almost impossible to get to an interview with the head of the SBU Bakanov without his brother-in-law Belyaev’s approval.

For this, he allegedly had the nickname “probir-dama” (by analogy with Praskovia Brus at the court of Catherine II).

The author had to hear the version that because of Belyayev, Major-General Oleksiy Petrov, later head of the Transcarpathian Regional State Administration and now head of Ukrspetstekhnoexport, was removed from the post of the director of the SBU’s DKR and from the central apparatus of the security service in general.

Petrov himself denied this version of the dismissal in a comment to Censor.NET, and said that he left the post himself.

Another source in the authorities described Belyaev a little more lightly.

“According to my information, Belyaev was not an official staff adviser to former SBU chief Bakanov. He was more trying to influence personnel policy than actually influencing it. Belyaev wanted to benefit from his acquaintance with Bakanov and influence various processes, tried to independently solve some issues, hiding behind his acquaintance with him,” the interlocutor said.

“But it was more his personal desire as a swindler — to get profit here and now. For example, he took money for assistance in appointment to one of the state positions, but it did not work out. When Bakanov learned about such schemes, he “blew off” Belyaev. He is unlikely to have anything to do with Naumov’s appointment,” — said the law enforcement officer.

Bakanov himself responded to the question Censor.NET that Belyaev was not his advisor and that he has not communicated with this person for several years.

“As far as I understand, you are asking about Belyaev Alexander Vladimirovich? If some other, please clarify. One, such a person is known to me as the husband of my wife’s sister, with whom I have not communicated for several years. Second, he has never been my full-time or freelance advisor, so you will not find documents in the SBU that could testify to this,” Bakanov wrote.

“Accordingly, the mentioned Belyaev never worked in the SBU office and did not have a mandate or any assignments from me. I have no idea about any of his possible movements to Moscow and their purpose,” he added.

At the same time, as it became known to the author of the material, from 2015 to 2020 Belyaev made 13 such trips. Including a trip to Crimea, where Belyaev has property.

Given the disclosure by Kulinich about negotiations with the participation of Belyaev in Moscow, such voyages do not seem strange. The question is what exactly he negotiated there. After all, he could perform business assignments there, which were very interesting to the Russians.

To make money on gas and blood — who are Bialiaev’s Czech partners?

Now, as Censor.net sources indicate, Belyaev lives abroad — in the Czech Republic. When he left — it is unknown. In Rudiki, where he has a house, he was last seen in August 2022. There’s also the question of how he left. Despite the fact that Belyaev has three children, he does not fall under the permit for parents with many children, because his daughters have long since come of age.

Belyaev is anonymous on social media. Even his Alex Bronco profile is closed. His wife’s profile shows that at least not so long ago they lived in the Czech Republic. The profiles of his daughters were opened on December 25, and they show that they are very active in traveling the world — they live in Paris, Switzerland, or on the seaside.

At the same time, it is striking to see who is liking their daughters’ pages. There are not only the Kvartal members and Vashchuk, but also Vadym Alperin, the main figure on the presidential list of smugglers. And Yevhen Larin, the former head of Spetstechnoexport, who was fired for inflating ammunition prices and fled to the Czech Republic. Since these are not the pages of public figures, where you can see rather random likes, one gets the impression of a certain circle of acquaintances.

In January 2024, Belyaev’s daughters suddenly closed their Facebook profiles.

However, it is much more interesting with whom Belyayev himself does business in Europe.

In the Czech Republic, Belyaev is the owner of two companies — LEO INTERNATIONAL GRUPP and ILS INVESTMENT GROUP.

Belyaev entered ILS INVESTMENT GROUP only this year. Among his partners is Melnichuk Alexander. There is only one mention about this person in publications (about him later). And here is the second partner — Klishchar Vladislav Leonidovich, a former assistant of the deputy-regionalist Alexander Yedin and a proxy in the elections of the president Serhiy Taruta.

Apart from Belyaev and Klishchar Vladislav, Bezzubets Oleksandr and Leonid Klishchar (son of Vladislav Klishchar) are also involved in the management of LEO INTERNATIONAL GRUPP.

In addition to the joint business with Belyaev, Klishchar is the owner of two other companies — EPI Group s.r.o. and Belanto.

These are the same companies through which 118 million was stolen by understating the price of ilmenite, which was sold to these companies by the state-owned United Mining and Chemical Company.

The companies appear in the investigation against former FGI chairman Dmytro Sennichenko.

According to the materials of the NABU investigation, the acting director of JSC “United Mining and Chemical Company”, in fulfillment of Sennichenko’s instructions in 2020-2021, deliberately concluded four contracts for the sale of ilmenite concentrate with the Czech company EPI Group s.r.o., controlled by Sennichenko’s advisor Pavlo Prysyazhnyuk, at underestimated prices. And then the goods were resold at market prices.

Prysyazhnyuk was Sennichenko’s advisor, who, according to the investigation materials, was advised to him by Serhiy Shefir. Censor.net sources named Prysyazhnyukas an informal supervisor of the former head of the State Property Fund Sennichenko whenorganizing schemes for OGKhK.

According to the investigation, ilmenite concentrate was then supplied to Russian enterprises and the territory of temporarily occupied Crimea. Ilmenite is used, among other things, in the production of missiles. That is, the businessmen were not just robbing the state, they were doing business on the future blood of Ukrainians, spilled since 2022 in a full-scale war.

It is not known whether NABU and SBU are still working on these deals with ilmenite. But the story has caught the interest of the Czech Republic’s national organized crime police agency, which has opened a preliminary criminal investigation because of violations of international sanctions on trade with Russia.

Belyayev’s partner Klishchar also has business in Ukraine. His partner in several companies there is Volodymyr Kolot, who is also the founder of Agro Gas Trading, another company that was a defendant in the NABU case that robbed Odessa Port. And whose managers were suspected in the same NABU case. However, all of them at that time surprisingly managed to escape abroad.

There is another partner in Belyaev’s Czech companies — a certain Alexander Bezzubets. A few years ago, when BELANTO wanted to participate in the privatization of OGHK, Bezzubets represented this company at a press conference as a lawyer.

Previously, he was the director of the company OOO Target Group, which was founded by Gmyrin’s son-in-law Vladimir Kolot.

Therefore, the Czech business history of Alexander Belyaev is very closely intertwined with the activities of Gmyrin’s group.

In the NABU case, Gmyrin appears as the organizer of a criminal group. Gmyrin actually brought Sennichenko the scheme of Agro Gas Trading’s tolling scheme in OPZ, and on the other hand, he managed to organize a “cover” for this process on Bankova. At the same time, Gmyrin deployed his network not only in Ukraine, but also in the Czech Republic. Apparently, through Kliszczar and Prysyazhnyuk.

As far as the author knows, Belyaev also appears in the NSDC materials on the Sennichenko case. Except that neither he nor Klishchar received suspicion.

There is another nuance — it is impossible to steal from state enterprises without the knowledge of the SBU. And if this department did not stop this scheme 3 years ago, it means that someone in it was in on it.

Therefore, the version that Belyaev had no influence on the work of the SBU is a bit lame.

And a few more cherries on the cake, so that you don’t think that the mention of Belyaev in the context of the SPF and the OPP is a coincidence.

According to information from the publication’s sources, in February 2020, Belyaev was accompanied by a certain Yevhen Astashev on one of his trips to Russia. The latter is a former military officer who worked in senior positions at the Radian plant and the Concern Voenpromservice association. In 2017-2019, he was deputy chairman of the State Property Fund and was in charge of corporate governance of state-owned enterprises. But the most interesting thing is that from May 2017 to July 2019, Astashev chaired the Supervisory Board of the OPP.

The publication also has Sennichenko’s power of attorney for Gennadiy Lazutin, Belyaev‘s longtime business partner.

After all, Belyaev and Lazutin have long been members of the SPF, having received the Boguslavska and Dybynetska hydroelectric power plants for nothing.

Similarly, it is hardly a coincidence that Belyaev’s presence in two firms with Hmyryn’s associates in the schemes with the OPP and the sale of ilmenite is a coincidence. In firms that do not even have their own websites. And they do not publish job vacancies. And they are located at the same address.

But the SPF case is not the only one. A month ago, Censor.NET published a story about how Belyaev’s partner Klishchar ended up on the supervisory board of a Slovak company that was used to withdraw money for weapons that the Ministry of Defense paid to the Lviv Arsenal company. As part of the money transfers between intermediary companies, 4 million euros disappeared somewhere. And the weapons were never delivered to Ukraine.

Almost on the same days, another story about Klishchar, Belyaev, and Bezzubets was published. A website called blackboxosint, which has only two articles, posted that these businessmen wanted to buy a share of Parimatch from its founder, Eduard Schwindlerman. As you know, sanctions were imposed against this company in March in Ukraine.

“They introduced themselves to Parimatch employees as CIA officers and European intelligence officers. At the same time, they were presented to Parimatch’s shareholders as investors with connections in the governments of the United States, Europe and Ukraine. There is virtually no publicly available information about Oleksandr Melnychuk, and an analysis of open state registers suggests that this person leads a very secretive lifestyle. Since 2015, there has been no information about Oleksandr Melnychuk’s official employment in Ukraine, but according to some reports, he is introduced as an employee of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine,” the article says.

So, what do we have?

Since 2019, Bankova Street has had information about Belyaev’s strange movements in Moscow. But if they reacted to it, it was not immediately.

For many years, Belyaev’s business has been associated with dubious schemes.

His Czech partners are involved in at least 2 criminal proceedings in Ukraine, which, in particular, involve the supply of goods for the manufacture of Russian weapons. The same people are involved in companies that have disrupted contracts for the supply of weapons to Ukraine. As part of this, millions of euros disappeared. And the same people may be trying to get shares in one of the largest gambling operators, which has been sanctioned for its ties to Russia.

However, according to the publication’s interlocutors, there are currently no criminal proceedings against Belyaev on issues that fall under the SBU’s jurisdiction.

“In the materials on Kulinich’s case, he appears in the context of possible participation in negotiations on the release of Ukrainian sailors. But in the end, when it became clear who Belyaev really is, he was removed from this process,” the source added.

However, the way Ukrainian law enforcement officers turn a blind eye to the activities of Belyaev’s partner companies raises many questions. Why is this and who helped all these people to get into Bankova Street in the first place?

But it is quite logical why the Russian agents pulled out this particular card.