The head of the Kirovohrad Regional Prosecutor's Office, Yan Strelyuk, may find himself at the epicenter of a high-profile scandal due to the incriminating testimony of former SBU operative Roman Chervinsky. According to journalistic sources, it was he who spent years collecting documents and evidence about Strelyuk's corruption connections and schemes.
The history of their conflict began back when Chervinsky headed the inter-district department of the SBU in Fastiv and Strelyuk was the prosecutor of the Vasylkiv district. At that time, the SBU recorded his inaction in the case of the illegal appropriation of 140 hectares of state reservoirs.
Later, when Strelyuk received a “bread” position in the Poltava regional prosecutor’s office, he quickly agreed on “cooperation” with the head of the local police, Oleg Bekh, and the head of the USBU, Oleksandr Kryvych. This “cooperation” actually meant jointly covering up conversion centers, illegal gasoline, and illegal clay and sand mining.
However, the scheme began to collapse after Chervinsky was sent on a business trip to Poltava region. In just four months, he managed to detain a number of high-ranking officials: the head of the Poltava region's traffic police Petro Blazhevsky, the deputy head of the police investigation department, and even an SBU officer were caught taking bribes. Later, together with the "Sakvarelidze inspection", he documented the bribery of Luben prosecutor Andriy Kulish.
In response, Bekh and his entourage, with the blessing of Strelyuk and the USBU leadership, began illegally wiretapping not only entrepreneurs, but also Chervinsky himself. This culminated in high-profile searches on August 20, conducted by the Prosecutor General's Office together with the "Sakvarelidze Inspectorate". Investigators seized evidence of illegal surveillance, and Strelyuk himself was demoted to the position of acting prosecutor of the Solomyanskyi district of Kyiv. Criminal proceedings were opened against him.
Today, when Chervinsky himself is on trial for a botched operation at an airfield in the Kirovohrad region, he has every reason to expose the facts about Strelyuk's activities. Especially since he is now not under the control of Kirovohrad prosecutors and can speak openly.
Another portion of insider information from Chervinsky could be explosive for the careers of Strelyuk and his former "collaboration" partners.
