The name of vodka tycoon Yevgeny Chernyak has been on the front pages of the mass media in recent weeks. After all, it is not every day that a businessman of this level is accused of being suspected of working for an aggressor state.
Some of Chernyak's colleagues stood up for him and talked about the pressure on business, while others agreed that the sale of Ukrainian goods in the Russian Federation sounds like complete game, given the military aggression . The further the investigation goes, the more details appear in this case. And one of them, his son Oleksandr Chernyak, also does not shy away from working with the occupiers.
Oleksandr is the first-born son of Yevhen Chernyak and is involved in the family business through the Zaporizhia Non-ferrous Metals Plant, in which he is the chairman of the supervisory board. His grandfather, Oleksandr Chernyak Sr., manages the company. The plant in Zaporizhzhia produces copper cable and is one of the leaders in this segment. With the beginning of the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation into Ukraine, the plant's capacities began to be transported to the Ivano-Frankivsk region, because Zaporizhzhia is under constant enemy fire. It would seem that in such a situation there is no question that any person in the management of this enterprise has any connection with the aggressor country. Nevertheless, journalists found evidence that Oleksandr Chernyak Jr. has had business and partners in Russia for a long time.
January 2020. Two years before the beginning of the great war of the Russian Federation against Ukraine and six years since the occupation of Crimea and hostilities on the territory of Donbas. The Russian press reports that the Russian Direct Investment Fund intends to invest in several Internet companies. Among them is Carprice, an online service for the sale of used cars, founded in 2014. "The largest owners of the main company Carprice, Vendebita Trading Ltd - Baring Vostok funds (27.2%), AE37 Holdings Ltd (17.1%, beneficiary - Oleksandr Chernyak), Oskar Hartmann (11.9%), Almaz Capital Fund II ( 11.4%), Artem Bolshakov (7.1%), it follows from the data of the Cypriot registry as of mid-2019," writes the Russian publication "Vedomosti".
See a familiar name? Yes, Yevhen Chernyak's son Oleksandr is listed among the owners of the Russian car sales service.
According to the registers, Victoria Kobzar was the director of Vendebita Trading Ltd in Cyprus from October 2022 to the end of January 2023.
In 2020, she managed the Cypriot company Global Spirits AMG Trading LTD, which in turn is the founder of Evgeny Chernyak's main alcohol company - Global Spirits.
That is, the Chernyaks, through intermediaries, continued to influence the Russian car sales service Carprice at least until January 2023.
Russian registers provide even more comprehensive information.
It turns out that the Cypriot company of Chernyak Jr. is the founder of three companies registered in Moscow at once - Selanykar LLC (the legal entity of Carprice mentioned above - Ed.), Kartech LLC and Avtograf LLC (liquidated in May 2022 - Ed. .). It is interesting that Chernyak Jr. is also involved in the case of his father, whom the Ukrainian special services suspect of working for the aggressor. On the website of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, it is noted that he is wanted as a person hiding from the investigation.
It will obviously take a long time to trace him, although he usually does not even hide where he is. The problem is that it is extremely difficult to catch him in any one country, because traveling is a real hobby of Oleksandr Chernyak.
Through the Instagram of his wife - Diana Evdokimova, you can find out, for example, that the couple celebrated the New Year 2024 in warm places near the sea.
In December 2023, Chernyak Jr.'s wife and son managed to visit Austria and Venice.
In general, last year turned out to be surprisingly rich in trips for the Chernyak-Yevdokymova family. The geography is impressive - from Kenya to Iceland. Well, of course, where can we go without Dubai?
Here, Chernyak's wife is photographed most often and mostly in expensive places - the artificial island of Palm Jumeirah, a hotel on another Dubai island, Bluewaters, where the largest Ferris wheel in the world stands. On the eve of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Chernyak and his wife celebrated Valentine's Day on a yacht in the Persian Gulf overlooking the famous Burj Al Arab hotel. But the most impressive thing about this incredible luxury is that Chernyak and his wife fly to all these luxurious places on a private plane. Diana Yevdokymova is not ashamed to show the private jet both from the outside and, of course, from the inside.
There is also something to say about Oleksandr Chernyak's wife, and, unfortunately, there is no Russian influence here either.
Diana's father is police general Volodymyr Yevdokimov. He worked for a long time in law enforcement agencies and reached the peak of his career under the chairmanship of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Yuri Lutsenko, and later Arsen Avakov. From December 2005 to March 2014, he alternately held the positions of Deputy and First Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs. But there is an interesting detail - in 2004-2005, Yevdokimov worked as an adviser at the Embassy of Ukraine in Russia. Actually, from that moment, experts and public organizations began to suspect that Volodymyr Yevdokimov was recruited by the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation. In 2014, the Right Sector organization called on the then president to immediately fire Yevdokimov from the Ministry of Internal Affairs because of his pro-Russian views and even his friendship with some Donbas separatists. He was also accused of allegedly shooting a member of the "Right Sector" Oleksandr Muzychko nicknamed Sashko Bily on his direct instructions. After Yevdokimov's resignation, the Ministry of Internal Affairs even conducted an official verification of these facts. Of course, no one announced the results publicly, although it would be nice.
At that time, the mass media wrote a lot about Oleksandr Chernyak's wife's father. Yevdokymov was associated with the criminal world of Donbas and the crushing of banditry in the Luhansk region, where he worked for some time. At the same time, information appeared that the crime branch awarded Eurokimov with a 23-meter yacht "Marquis 690", which was moored in Crimea. However, after the annexation, the elite gift remained on the peninsula.
Volodymyr Yevdokymov and his dark past were mentioned again in 2020. And strangely enough, he was again prophesied a place in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, where the late minister Denys Monastyrskyi was just appointed. Maksym Buzhanskyi, a deputy from "Servant of the People", did not hide that Yevdokymov's reputation was "stained". "And it would be nothing if it weren't for "dangerous connections". The fact is that in the 1990s, as the head of the department for fighting organized crime in the Luhansk region, Volodymyr Yevdokymov "was seen" in friendly relations with local crime. "Obkom" with reference to an article in "Granyi+" dated April 26, 2004, even wrote that the Minister of Internal Affairs, Mykola Bilokon, fired Yevdokymov from the authorities at the time for his "dubious reputation," Buzhansky said in a media commentary.
The funniest thing in this story is that the newspaper "Grani+" was edited at one time by Yurii Lutsenko, whose first deputy later became the same Yevdokimov with a "dubious reputation".
Oleksandr Chernyak's wife doesn't show her dad on her Instagram. Zate brags about his mother, with whom they fly around Europe together with the most expensive Birkin bags in the world. Here, for example, is Diana with her mother at the Nice airport two months after her father, Volodymyr Yevdokymov, was dismissed from the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
It is difficult to understand how, being a policeman all your life, even in high positions, you can earn money for a private plane, yachts, constant trips for your wife and daughter?
And most importantly, why did the SBU not check Volodymyr Yevdokimov for recruitment by the Russian special services, if in 2020 it was about his possible return to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine? There are a lot of questions and, unfortunately, they are related to the Russian trail. As in the story with the son of Yevgeny Chernyak - Oleksandr, so with the family of Diana Yevdokimova, who in 2020 gave birth to the son of a vodka magnate.
