Pozniak Sergiy Stanislavovich

Official biography

Financial and investment expert with 20 years of experience. He is an ATO veteran. Owner and CEO of FGK Financial Group, which includes Finstream and Cronvest, leaders in the segment of alternative financial institutions with experience in impact investing.

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Education.

Born on May 10, 1974 in Kyiv. In 2005, he graduated from KROK University with a degree in Finance and Stock Exchange Activities. In 2021, he received an MBA President degree from Kyiv-Mohyla Business School [kmbs].

Family.

Father of four children.

Disclosures.

Some time ago, the name of a well-known moneylender, owner of the Kashtan 2000 car pawnshop and blogger at https://sergey-pozniak.livejournal.com/, was reintroduced in the Ukrainian media . Thanks to the exposé, the public learned about eloquent information that the character had been trying to keep quiet for a long time. But, according to the law of physics, the strength limit of his “seven seals” hiding the dirty secret of the Poznyak business was reached.

Thus, all the shit that had accumulated over more than 18 years of his active illegal activity came out.

As a result, thanks to a number of published materials about Sergey Poznyak, his partners, colleagues and “grateful” clients of Kashtan 2000 pawnshop were plunged into the abyss of exciting passions raging in the life of this fraudster. Stories about his: brutal relationships with former employees, whom he persistently terrorized and sometimes even forced to emigrate from Ukraine; dirty gossip about divorces from wives and girlfriends; archives of litigation with partners, clients, and banks, from which Pozniak took money to promote his pawnshop and purchase personal housing and, traditionally for a fraudster, refused to return it, were made public.

Journalists wrote about his collaborative ties with representatives of the Russian Patriarchate in Ukraine. The same priests, Metropolitan Onufriy, who last Friday staged a famous procession through the central streets of the capital, armed with portraits of Emperor Nicholas II and Kirill Gundyaev and waving enemy paraphernalia (sticks with double-headed eagles and Russian flags).

But, until now, the most “fried” facts from his brilliant biography have been omitted for a number of reasons. Therefore, we will with great pleasure try to fill in the gaps and break another rusty “seal” from the “Pandora’s box” of the businessman Pozniak.

Pozniak buys advertising on Russian information resources

As it turned out, in pursuit of profit and additional injections into his pawnshop business and the FGK Financial Group fund built on its basis, Serhiy Stanislavovych Pozniak, who proudly calls himself a soldier of the Ukrainian Army Guard and an ATO veteran, does not disdain to conduct his business on the other side of the front despite the war with Russia. And, accordingly, he spends a lot of money on an advertising campaign for the services of the Kashtan 2000 pawnshop on Russian information resources.

Information about this is quite difficult to trace in Ukrainian Internet content, as since the beginning of Russia’s armed intervention in our territory, most of the hostile content has become unavailable. As a reminder, on April 28, 2017, the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine (NSDC) enacted a decision that imposed sanctions on a number of Russian legal entities and individuals (468 companies and more than 1,200 individuals were subject to restrictions).

We managed to scroll through the pages of the Russian Internet and found a number of categorical proofs of the above:

There are hundreds of similar advertising ads posted on the Russian Internet between 2015 and 2018. They feature the entire list of services provided by Kashtan 2000, as well as videos with lectures by Poznyak himself about the quality of loans secured by cars and real estate provided by his company.

As a result, Poznyak and his structure have even received positive feedback on lending at Kashtan 2000 from grateful Russian citizens

In addition, according to Linkedin, Poznyak has a calculator in Moscow who probably calculates and accepts orders for loans.

Poznyak also recruits new employees to his Moscow team from time to time.

Unfortunately, we were unable to locate the address of the Russian office of Kashtan 2000. Apparently, its office there is based on the “insider” Tatka Aliyeva in Moscow.

But thanks to the activity of Sergei Stanislavovich himself in the media space, we have learned quite a bit of “wonderful” information, at first glance.

First, in his comments he often mentions tourists from the city of Samara who, despite the war, continue to visit Ukraine.

Secondly, Pozniak’s personal memories of this city, located in the Rostov region of the Russian Federation, are also related to his Facebook page and his livejournal. A photo report is also presented there.

And thirdly, judging by the accumulation of Kashtan 2000 advertisements on Samara’s resources, its business preferences in this region of the Russian Federation clearly have deep secrets and roots….. As a result, through our insiders in the enemy state, we were able to obtain a very valuable document, which we are pleased to present to your attention…. But the next article will be dedicated to the businessman Serhiy Pozniak.

In the meantime, in the context of the above, I would like to ask a question to the comrades-in-arms of the Guard, soldier Serhiy Pozniak, with whom he allegedly joined the Golden Gate Battalion in 2014, after leaving his consulting business, the FGK Financial Group (ed. — Pozniak first presented this structure in early 2017 (!)), and bravely served the people of Ukraine for the next 2 years: “Dear soldiers, defenders of Ukraine, are you not embarrassed by the fact that your fellow soldier not only prays to Russian priests, but also actively conducts his chestnut business on enemy territory? Do you continue to believe his wild tales of patriotism and his homeland Ukraine in spite of everything?

Then, please, ask citizen Serhiy Stanislavovych Pozniak what exactly, what texts he was typing on a Russian resource, under the Russian flag, from February to March 2016. At the same time, according to him, he was a member of the National Guard of Ukraine in the combat zone in the Luhansk region…

Pozniak is trying to infiltrate the business environment

In addition, thanks to his cunning and extraordinary ingenuity, Pozniak manages to infiltrate other events aimed at small and medium-sized businesses. There, the moneylender and owner of a network of car pawnshops, who has been granted the status of an investment expert by patron Chepov, is able to broadcast about the exciting programs of the FGK Financial Group and the Kashtan 2000 car pawnshop, analyze the domestic investment climate and make economic forecasts of universal proportions. Sometimes Poznyak’s participation in such events is limited to taking pictures with top managers and owners of large companies. But this is enough for the bubble-blowing specialist to build a PR case for a successful businessman.

For example, recently Pozniak was honored to be photographed in an embrace with businessman Vasyl Khmelnytsky at the Small and Medium Enterprise Forum, which the loan shark traditionally announced on his public Facebook platform. I wonder if Khmelnytsky knows who he was hugging so tenderly and to whom, according to Pozniak, he promised to “build a bridge of trust”?

This is what we would like to talk about here, the trust that Ukrainian businessmen and our media colleagues have in people like Pozniak. We believe that focusing on this issue is more relevant than ever. Especially given the tendency for journalists to engage all sorts of ignorant people as experts and analysts, who irresponsibly comment and analyze issues that are extremely far from their competence.

“Who is” Sergiy Poznyak on the map of the domestic investment business and what kind of services he really provides.

The Kashtan 2000 pawnshop chain operates in five cities of Ukraine. Over the 19 years of its existence, the company has managed to earn a strong negative reputation. And it is not surprising. Traditionally, the business of moneylenders who master the segment of services aimed at the poor was considered, let’s say, unclean. This is evidenced by numerous negative references to the activities of Poznyak’s pawnshop, primarily comments from consumers of his services published on the Internet.

In addition, as already reported in the media, in pursuit of profit and additional injections into his business, Sergey Stanislavovich, who proudly calls himself «a soldier of the Ukrainian army guard and a veteran of the ATO,» continues to conduct his dubious business on the other side of the front despite the war with Russia. And, accordingly, he spends a lot of money on an advertising campaign for the services of the Kashtan 2000 pawnshop on Russian information resources.

Apparently, it was from Russia that businessman Pozniak received additional financial injections into his business in 2017, which allowed him to create a promising investment project called Finstream. The essence of the project, according to the information posted on the website, is the same usury. In fact, from April 2017 to April 2019, an investor provided Serhii Stanislavovych with the opportunity to transfer funds to Ukrainian small businesses in the range of UAH 300 to 600 thousand for use with interest for a period of up to two years on average. A certain investor, relying on Pozniak’s “business hack,” clearly expected to return his investment with interest — over a period of two years, he invested in about twenty projects out of more than thirty posted on the structure’s website. Unfortunately, Finstrim’s ingenious idea was not successful, and the investor retired from the business, allowing Serhiy Pozniak to register the company in his name.

As a result, despite Pozniak’s large-scale bubble PR campaign, including publications about his successful career on the “friendly” Business website since 2019, he has not invested in a single project since the registration of Finstrim LLC with a registered capital of UAH 100 thousand. By the way, according to information from open state registers, the legal address of Pozniak’s investment monster is registered at the address of his apartment in Kyiv’s Khrushchev building on Buslovska Street, house number 20. Perhaps it is in this “office” that Mr. Pozniak holds meetings with his potential business partners.

And apparently, even the search for an investment manager for Finstrim on the Work.UA website with the prospect of receiving as much as UAH 15 thousand per month was unsuccessful and did not help save the project from regression.

Surprisingly, while studying the projects invested by a mysterious donor in Pozniak’s Finstrim, we came across a very interesting discovery. Namely, at the end of 2017, his structure invested in a chain of eco-products stores, one of which is located at 33/2 Povitroflotskyi Avenue, Kyiv.

This is the building that belonged to the well-known book producer Olena Lazutkina until the end of 2017. As the media has repeatedly reported, in December 2017, the Literary Salon bookstore, located at 33/2 Povitroflotskyi Avenue, was raided by the Donetsk factoring company Wright Partner, which was later sold to Iryna Trykoz, an employee of the Kashtan 2000 pawnshop.

A strange thing, don’t you think?

After all, over the past two years, since the seizure of the premises where the Literary Salon was located, dozens of media publications about this story, the initiation of court proceedings, and the initiation of a criminal case against Irina Trykoz for illegal actions related to the theft of the personal property of the owner of the premises, Elena Lazutkina, Sergiy Poznyak has stubbornly denied any connection with the above events. As well as any connection with Iryna Trykoz, in whose name the raided premises were registered.

Although, to all appearances, the issue of distancing himself from the “toxic” Trykoz has recently faded into the background for Poznyak. The loan shark began actively involving his client in the Finstrim project and posting joint photos of his accomplice in the seizure of other people’s property on social media. We hope that this information will reach the valiant national law enforcement agencies, and their representatives will enthusiastically complete the pre-trial investigation into the case: “Pozniak & Tricoz criminal case”. We can only ask a rhetorical question once again — isn’t Poznyak’s investment in the facility he raided another bubble?

To summarize the above, I would like to address my fellow journalists who seek comments from the “expert on all matters” Serhiy Pozniak and individuals like him with a proposal to analyze the day-to-day activities of their respondents, to analyze the information obtained in this way more carefully before broadcasting such meaningless chatter and thereby lowering the rating of their own media outlet, discrediting the profession of journalism as such.