Yesterday, the news about a fight near the elite Fenix restaurant in the capital, as it turned out, was arranged by ex-People's Deputy from the "Petro Poroshenko Bloc" Vitaly Gudzenko together with his sons. After that, the idea appeared to learn more about this character.
Vitaly Gudzenko is the co-founder of Agro-leader-Ukraine. As of 2014, its assets included 3.5 thousand hectares of land for growing agricultural crops. In 2007, "Agro-leader-Ukraine" acquired the first processing asset - the country's largest oat biscuit production company "Bohuslavskii zavod prodtovariv" from Kyiv City Council member Dmytro Andrievskyi.
Majoritarian Vitaly Gudzenko, who ran as a self-nominated candidate in the 2012 elections under the patronage of Serhii Tihipko's Strong Ukraine party, which dissolved itself after the elections, and its members joined the Party of Regions. After the revolution, Vitaly Gudzenkona ran from another party - Petro Poroshenko's Bloc.
With such a political move, he also avoided lustration: when President Petro Poroshenko signed the law "On Purification of Power", and public activists are already proposing whole lists of people who should be subjected to lustration.
The organization "Patriots of the Kyiv region" nominated a hidden member of the Party of Regions, Vitaly Hudzenka, who is running for the Verkhovna Rada in district #92, as a candidate for this "honorary" procedure. However, Gudzenko bought the position for $500,000.
It is interesting that Gudzenko actively flaunts his status in front of local princes - heads of districts and villages. For example , even before the election, he gathered them in his estate to convey: he has already won the election, and those who do not support him will be left without positions the very next day. At the same time, in the best traditions of the Party of Regions, the "wolf in sheep's clothing" promised each of the visitors a reward: $5,000 for district heads and $1,000 for village heads.
And a berry on the cake. The current People's Deputy from the BPP actively supported "Antimaidan", supplied them with help in the form of products from his own farms and tents for activists, and also organized "encouragement parties" for "field commanders" of "Antimaidan" at his recreation base in the Belotserki district.
Here are just a few quotes from Hudzenka's interview with the Censor publication, the original of which (I wonder why?) has already been deleted, on the eve of the 2014 Verkhovna Rada elections.
(about working as a deputy governor during Yanukovych's time): "By and large, I didn't care who I worked with. I do not regret that I worked with the Party of Regions and Viktor Yanukovych personally"
(On helping the Anti-Maidan): "It would be dishonest and unfair to leave some in trouble and help others. In a purely human way, he supported both sides
(On negotiations with terrorists in Donbas): "Supporting the anti-terrorist operation is quite a controversial point. I, for example, believe that the militias of Donbas also have the right to self-determination. It was necessary to enter into peace negotiations with them first, and not to get involved in this fratricidal war"
Already during his reign, Gudzenko organized a redistribution of power in the Kyiv region
People's deputy from the BPP Vitaliy Gudzenko and the head of the Belotserki district council Vitaliy Grynchuk, who used to be best men, quarreled over money and political disputes in 2017.
Grynchuk wanted to remove Gudzenko from his native 92nd district and is preparing another godfather for this place - ex-"regional" Mykola Starychenko, but apparently the godfathers resolved everything peacefully.
In this story, one cannot help but do without Vitaly Gudenko's son - Yevgeny, who leads a frankly "Majorian" lifestyle. Currently, all legal business is recorded on it. At the age of 20, he decided to become a deputy of the Kyiv City Council, but he failed to win. In 2015, he was unable to apply to the Kyiv Regional Council, and now he is listed as an assistant to his father's deputy. It is worth noting that Yevhen previously had experience working as an assistant to the People's Deputy. Thus, in the seventh convocation of the Verkhovna Rada, he was listed as an assistant to Volodymyr Dudka, a People's Deputy from the Party of Regions.
