The deputy head of the National Police, Dmytro Tyshlek, has «business» with the Rostov criminal mastermind Half-Beast, and his wife did not hand over her Russian passport even after the outbreak of war.
This was reported by Bihus.Info journalists.
Dmytro Tyshlek has been working in law enforcement all his life. He was appointed deputy to the current head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Ihor Klymenko, in the spring of 2023. Prior to that, he headed the Kyiv Department of Strategic Investigations of the National Police, headed the Department of Economic Protection in Dnipro and Zhytomyr, and before the Russian invasion of 2014, he worked for about 10 years in his native Donbas. At the same time, the family of Tyshlek’s wife, Oleksandra Balakai, moved to Rostov Oblast in 2000 and received Russian citizenship. At the same time, Oleksandra Balakai’s Russian passport was valid at least for the summer of this year.
Before the war, Tyshlek’s mother-in-law, Maria Balakay, visited her daughter and son-in-law in Ukraine. During one of these visits in the summer of 2018, she was registered for a two-bedroom apartment in the Kyiv residential complex Novopecherski Lypky. Immediately after the registration, the mother-in-law issued a power of attorney to her daughter, transferring the right to dispose of the property, and left for Russia.
At the same time, after moving to the capital in 2019, Tyshlek used other real estate. He lived for free in a 140-square-meter apartment in the elite French Quarter residential complex in the center of Kyiv. The apartment belonged to Yuriy Golik, a personality in the President’s Office known as the ideologist of the Big Construction project. However, he himself began to deny this status as soon as the project began to be overgrown with public scandals and criminal charges against one of the major contractors. Namely, a company from Dnipro, registered as a fitness trainer and part-time companion of the then head of the OVA Reznichenko, for whom Holyk was an advisor. In general, the company began to receive large budget contracts back in the years when Tyshlek headed the Department of Economic Protection in the region. According to Golik, that’s when they met. He now denies having a close relationship with Tyshlek: he says that they simply played soccer together in Dnipro, and he gave the law enforcement officer his apartment in Kyiv because he allegedly did not need it.
However, Tyshlek has now changed his place of residence again. In September-October of this year, he was repeatedly spotted in one of the elite cottage communities near Kyiv. In the morning, he would leave a 300-square-meter house registered to a woman named Natalia Nechyporenko. According to journalists’ sources, last spring Tyshlek traveled abroad in the car of Natalia Nechyporenko’s husband Vitaliy, and this spring Nechyporenko issued a power of attorney to Tyshlek. Six months later, the house was registered in Natalia’s name.
Interestingly, Vitaliy Nechyporenko owns two small construction firms that, according to the financial statements available on YouControl, are not profitable and therefore do not pay him dividends. He and his wife receive salaries at these companies, but the level of salaries is such that it would be difficult for them to buy such houses, or even rent them. At the same time, it is known that Vitaly Nechyporenko has a stake in another business: he owns 25% of Elit Lotto LLC, where Andrian Rodin, aka Andrey Imanali, aka Half-Beast, a Rostov criminal mastermind who has a very long and very complicated relationship with the police, has the same share. Imanali became famous in the early 00s as one of the leaders of the Rostov-based Selmash organized crime group. Then he was put on the wanted list, first federally and then internationally, on suspicion of kidnapping. He was found in Kyiv and deported back to Russia, where he was sentenced to 7 years in prison.
In 2019, the head of the criminal police, Vyacheslav Abroskin, said that the «Half-Beast» was found in Kyiv again — at a meeting in a restaurant in the capital. At the time, Abroskin promised to expel Imanali from the country, but for some reason deleted his post about it from Facebook. In 2021, before the National Security and Defense Council approved sanctions against more than five hundred people in the criminal world, the media published a preliminary list, which included Imanali’s name among others. However, when the final version was published on the President’s website, Imanali was no longer there. It is worth noting that this list was one of the few prepared by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, in whose structures Tyshlek has worked all his life.
Journalists tried to get a comment from Dmytro Tyshlek. At first, he agreed to the recording, set the day and time himself — but on the night of the scheduled date, he canceled the meeting and stopped answering the phone. He sent a text message saying that he was renting an apartment, living in the house temporarily, the Nechyporenkos were his close friends, his wife had a passport, and he did not interfere in his mother-in-law’s affairs.
In late September of this year, it was reported that the wife of another deputy interior minister, Vasyl Teteri, was exporting 13 million hryvnias through the Transcarpathian customs office. The Ministry of Internal Affairs called the information fake and hostile to the PIU.