Yesterday he was just a simple Ukrainian guy, and today he is a crypto millionaire who settled in Switzerland.
Sergey's wife owns a whole chain of hotels, of which we have so far found only 2 in Cyprus and 4 in Kazakhstan.
But these are probably all trifles, since Sergey is a truly great man, as evidenced by a certain label that unites him with Dmitry Olegovich Rogozin - the biggest schemer and thief of the Russian Federation.
This is reported by the editorial office of the 360UA NEWS
Tron, like his Russian colleague, is wounded, to put it mildly? In the buttock.
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The events unfolded as follows : on April 14, 2002, at 3:40 p.m. in the Globa Park of the city of Dnipropetrovsk, behind the building of the “Hreblya” nightclub, Shleigel Denys Petrovich, born in 1977, accompanied by Mudrak Serhiy Oleksandrovych, born in 1976, from the AKMS, shot at point-blank range citizen Bihun Rodion Semenovich.
Citizen Bihun died on the spot, but Serhiy Mykolayovych Tron, born in 1984, who was playing slot machines at the “Gaming World” club located in Globa Park at the time, was wounded by a stray bullet.
Reports indicate that a gunshot wound was recorded in the area of the right buttock, damage to the left thigh, rectum, and posterior wall of the bladder in the area of the direct urethra.
Thus, our hero became a marked god, as did later high-ranking Russian swindler Rogozin.
However, that's where their similarities end (although who knows), and after graduating from Dniprodzerzhyn State Technical University in 2006, Tron began an interesting, adventurous life.
Oilman-expert
Serhiy Tron began his career in the oil refining, fuel wholesale and trucking business. In 2006, he headed ST-Trans LLC in Kamianske, and in 2009, he founded Ecooil LLC (Donetsk) for oil production and production of refined oil products.
Let's assume, of course, that the talented Serhiy Tron, right out of the institute, managed to head a fuel company at the age of 22, but regarding the "creation" of Ecooil LLC, there are more questions.
There is a certain shadow of doubt that he founded Ecooil LLC, especially if you look closely at Serhiy Tron's business partners in this company.
According to the registers , the founders of the firm, along with Serhiy Tron, were modest residents of the city of Donetsk - criminal authority Nurulislam Arkallayev or "Nurik" and his brother Roman Arkallayev. Moreover, it was Nurulislam who owned a slightly larger part of the firm - 33.4%, while the other two partners had 33.3% each.
There is even an unpopular opinion that for its participation in state tenders, or rather, for the sums it earned from this, the company “Ecooil” LLC should be grateful to Nurulislam Arkallayev, since November 2007 – a People's Deputy of Ukraine from the Party of Regions, a close person of the modest Donetsk oligarch Rinat Akhmetov.
It is quite possible that the combination of these two factors allowed Serhiy, as a co-founder of Ecooil LLC, to obtain contracts with the Armed Forces of Ukraine and Ukrzaliznytsia.
Ecooil began winning government tenders in August 2011. Since then, the company has received contracts from the Ministry of Defense and Ukrzaliznytsia for the supply of fuel for a total amount of UAH 906.25 million.
At the same time, contracts that for some reason became extremely expensive and not very profitable for buyers did not cause them any rejection, and they were in no hurry to refuse them.
Thus, according to a small investigation , on September 5, 2012, the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, based on the results of a tender, concluded an agreement with Ecooil LLC for the supply of 5,057.80 tons of fuel for TS-1 jet engines for the amount of UAH 75.87 million. This was reported in the “State Procurement Bulletin”.
Jet fuel was purchased at 15,000 hryvnias per ton, while, as it is known from open sources, there are reports of the sale of aviation kerosene at a price of 10-13,000 hryvnias per ton.
With the fall of the Yanukovych regime, things didn't go so well for the company.
In 2014, the Ministry of Defense managed to collect UAH 477,000 in fines from the regional government's company for undersupply of fuel.
And a little later, the Court of Appeals refused the appeals of the deputy from the Party of Regions 5, 6 and 7 requesting to increase the price of the previously concluded contract by 500 million hryvnias, from 1.31 billion to 1.85.
This information is particularly piquant because in 2104 Nurulislam Arkallayev, a business partner, began actively financing Donetsk militants, pouring millions of hryvnias previously stolen from the Ukrainian army into the illegal military formations of the banana DPR.
I would like to separately note that, thanks to the wise policy of the state, until 2014, almost 100% of fuel supplies to Ukraine came from Russia. It was sold at a very good price, and, as a rule, the proceeds from it settled in Ukraine, in the pockets of the local “fifth column”.
It's just that, without the approval of the FSB, there was no fuel and lubricants trade market. Draw your own conclusions.
Tron – banker
It should be noted that in the system of businesses that the OMU was involved in, of which Tron was a part, “conversion” was a rather expensive service. Therefore, in 2014, enterprising businessmen decided to solve this problem radically – to buy one of the most famous conversion centers – “Partner Bank”.
It is probably worth telling this story separately, because it is an example of the fact that despite the fact that all the OZUs work for their own "common fund", they have a lot of overlap in their "business" - they do one thing, they rob the state!
Now no one will remember how Oleksiy Savchenko, .
Savchenko is remembered as a hero of the UBZ, somehow magically connected with the murder of “Prishcha”. By an amazing coincidence, immediately after the murder of “Prishcha”, Savchenko unexpectedly resigned from the capital's UBZ headquarters and, through several transformations, became a co-owner of “Avant-Bank”, along with a criminal element who also unexpectedly became rich after the death of “Prishcha”, Oleksandr Lishchenko or “Lich”.
Initially, Savchenko became the head of the security department of the Personal Computer bank, and when the bank was renamed Rodovid in 2004, he became the deputy chairman of the board.
After Rodovid was successfully looted, Oleksiy Savchenko, together with a group of comrades, became a co-founder of Asia Universal Bank, Partner Bank, and Avant Bank.
In this list, we are interested in Partner Bank, which has been known as “Converse Bank” since 2006. The main function of this bank was simple and banal – it was a “laundromat”, “launderette”, or “conversion center”, one of the best clients was the famous supermarket “Foxtrot”.
The bank was more dead than alive due to its non-public profile, but since it didn't make much sense to just throw away this asset, they decided to sell it.
In 2010, 100% of the bank's shares were purchased from Savchenko for $22 million by Vladimir Antonov, an ambitious and thieving Russian billionaire.
He brought Russian oligarch Vladimir Antonov, a native of Magadan, a swindler who had long settled in Odessa - Reinis Tumovs.
After the purchase, Antonov poured 50 million euros into Conversebank.
However, Antonov soon faced trouble: the Lithuanian authorities accused him of deliberately bankrupting Snoras Bank, which he owned, and stealing 480 million euros. On the advice of friends, Antonov issued a power of attorney to manage Conversebank to his partner, Reinis Tumovs.
Volodymyr Antonov’s partners were not going to help him save his assets at all. Stryzhak and Tumovs, by proxy, introduced Vadim Stolar, a man known for his scams, into the bank’s shareholders and offered Antonov to “return” the bank for 17 million euros. Antonov did not pay, and the bank went to Vadim Stolar, changing its name to “CityCommerceBank.”
Later, all the more or less liquid assets of this office were transferred to the newly created “Profin Bank”, and they began to appeal to depositors, promising unrealistic interest rates on deposits (over 20% per annum).
It was this bank that Tron and his partners bought from Stolar.
In 2013, Serhiy Tron became the first vice-president of the corps of vice-presidents of the apparatus under the supervisory board of the public joint-stock company "City Commercial Bank".
Serhiy Tron, Nurulislam Arkallaev, and Renis Tumovs, who joined them, initially did not intend to engage in normal banking business.
The “bankers” set themselves the goal of filling the cash register to the brim and, by emptying it, bankrupting the bank.
The 2014 Maidan and the Russian-Ukrainian war that followed prevented the scammers' plans from coming true.
It was necessary to quickly "merge" all assets into shell commercial structures, through which the funds were instantly converted and disappeared in an unknown direction.
All more or less liquid assets of "City Commercial" and most of its branch network were merged into "Profin Bank" of Tumvos.
“Professional Finance Bank”, also known as “Profin Bank”, was founded over 20 years ago. A rather tricky operation was carried out to buy it. Through the mediation of the Russian Alfa-Bank, the French Societe Generale became the nominal owner of “Profin”, and then transferred it to the Cypriot offshore Zapikeso Limited. As of January 1 of this year, the shares of “Profin Bank” through a network of offshore companies belong in equal shares to Reinis Tumovs, his wife Tatyana and the chairman of the bank’s supervisory board Dmitry Fedoseyev.
CityCommerce Bank turned out to be one of the most illiquid institutions, which the Deposit Guarantee Fund (DGF) began to withdraw from the market at that time.
At the time of the introduction of the interim administration on November 21, 2014, the institution's assets exceeded UAH 3.9 billion. At the end of 2014, the Deposit Guarantee Fund (DGF) discovered the theft of assets in the “City Commercial Bank” for UAH 3 billion.
At the same time, the estimated value of assets was only UAH 90 million, and the loan portfolio was UAH 40 million.
Funds were also withdrawn from the bank through foreign structures, for example, the Austrian Meinl Bank.
The letter to the Prosecutor General's Office signed by temporary administrator Andriy Ryazantsev states that the day after the administration was imposed, the correspondent account of the City Commercial Bank at Meinl Bank, according to accounting data, had 59.35 million euros.
“Considering that the account at Meinl Bank contained 59.35 million euros, as well as the fact that any movements on the account were not reflected in the bank's operating system, we can conclude that the management of the City Commercial Bank with a correspondent account at Meinl Bank manipulated the account,” the statement to the Prosecutor General's Office said.
Naturally, the liquidation of the bank aroused quite understandable interest, since a decent number of people suffered as a result of the bankers' activities - as always, it turned out that the bank's assets were not enough to satisfy all the claims of the defrauded depositors. And law enforcement officers became interested in the activities of the bank's management, opening criminal proceedings No. 42018101100000355. Within its framework, the involvement of the bank's owners in the theft of money was revealed, among whom were Serhiy Tron and Reinis Tumovs, who owned equal shares.
In 2017, Serhiy Tron's property was seized in criminal proceedings against officials of PJSC "City Commercial Bank" for the fact of misappropriation of funds in the amount of over 400 million hryvnias from a number of banking institutions in 2010-2015 in prior collusion with the bank owners. At the then exchange rate, this amounted to 50 million dollars.
As part of the claims filed by the victims, the property of Serhiy Tron was also seized: 15 land plots in the Makariv district of the Kyiv region with a total area of 18.7 hectares, one apartment and a Toyota Land Cruiser-200 car.
In 2018, the Deposit Guarantee Fund tried to recover UAH 2.573 billion stolen from the “City Commercial Bank” from Tron, Arkallayev, Tumovs, and other participants in the “scheme” through the court. But thanks to Serhiy’s generosity, the Kyiv Commercial Court refused the Fund on formal grounds.
Poroshenko's departure helped Tron to some extent solve the problem.
In 2019, all these criminal crimes were assigned to the Solomianskyi Department of the Metropolitan Police, despite the fact that the case was previously investigated by the Security Service of Ukraine, and even earlier by the Main Investigation Department of the National Police.
And on August 21, 2020, the Solomyanskyi District Court of Kyiv, presided over by Hanna Sergienko, completely canceled the seizure of Trony's property, motivating its decision by saying that "the need for the seizure has disappeared, otherwise it would be an unjustified interference by the state in the right of a person to respect for his property.".
Truly, Tron is a great investor! By investing some of the stolen money in the National Police and the Court, he solved all his problems for real pennies!
Finance and other romances
In 2012, Serhiy Tron founded Global Finance Management Group LLC . The company's status fund amounted to over 3 billion, namely 3,021,000,000 UAH.
The firm was created to buy the bank, and the 3 billion authorized capital exists only on paper.
In 2016, Tron created the company White Rock Management, which, according to the plot, invests in the IT industry.
In 2017, he became a co-founder, and later the chairman of the supervisory board of the company “UkrTVS”, which was supposed to produce nuclear fuel.
In the spring of 2019, in collusion with the then head of the Deposit Guarantee Fund, Konstantin Vorushilin, Tron “bought out” the Illichivsk and Odessa oil and fat plants, as well as the Illichivsk grain port for 182.5 million hryvnias. Although the complex was valued at 4.85 billion hryvnias.
In 2020, Tron created the international investment fund “Parea Foundation”, which invests in the IT sector, logistics and energy in a number of countries, including: Ukraine, Kazakhstan, the Russian Federation, Canada, Sweden, Liechtenstein.
But this is just the husk, the cover. Inside, everything is much more interesting.
In this part of our investigation, let's look at one of Tron's failed, but very large and ambitious projects.
Nuclear bubble
"UkrTVS" or PJSC "Joint Ukrainian-Kazakh-Russian Enterprise for the Production of Nuclear Fuel" was established back in 2001 by the State Property Fund of Ukraine, TVEL OJSC (Russia) and CJSC "National Atomic Company "Kazatomprom" (Kazakhstan).
The purpose of creating UkrTVS was to produce nuclear fuel for Ukrainian nuclear power plants in Ukraine.
The enterprise was stillborn because the Russians did not understand why they needed to build an enterprise in Ukraine that could compete with their monopoly.
Some activity began when, in 2008-2009, Westinghouse Electric proposed to build a nuclear fuel production plant in Ukraine.
I liked the idea of building a plant, but... in 2010, the right to build the plant was granted to the Russian TVEL.
In 2011, TVEL and the Federal Fuel and Energy Ministry created the Nuclear Fuel Production Plant PJSC and… went home again.
The Russian factory was not needed, and the Americans were told: “We don’t need your services – we have our own factory. Well, as it is – build it.”.
Everything changed after the Revolution of Dignity, when Russia occupied part of Ukrainian territories and the issue of energy independence became more relevant than ever.
Ukraine closed all its “Potemkin villages” and rushed into the arms of Westinghouse Electric with redoubled diligence.
Due to a change in the country's policy, the State Property Fund decided to sell an impaired asset - its share in UkrTVS.
It was bought for almost 48 million hryvnias by Weiss Trade LLC, a company founded in 2014 by Andriy Kyrymov from Horishni Plavni.
Who bought the useless asset and why became clear in the summer of 2018, when members of the board of UkrTVS from Vice Trade came on stage.
They turned out to be Serhiy Tron, who later became the chairman of the board of UkrTVS, Nurulislam Arkallayev, and Leonid Kryuchkov.
Leonid Kryuchkov was most likely the wedding general in this company, and his older brother, former People's Deputy from BYuT Dmytro Kryuchkov, stood behind him.
Who could not enter the board himself, because he was a defendant in the NABU criminal proceedings about multi-million embezzlement in energy networks.
However, Leonid Kryuchkov also managed to work in the arms business with Pshonka Jr. and Andriy Derkach, the main lobbyist for Rosatom and TVEL in Ukraine.
It is very interesting that the Kryuchkov brothers were helped to lobby for Russian interests by the first deputy head of the parliamentary faction of the BPP, Ihor Kononenko , a business partner of Petro Poroshenko.
Weiss Trade LLC began to implement the Kremlin's plans almost immediately, as Gazeta.UA . On May 30, 2018, Weiss Trade LLC, as the owner of the Ukrainian share in UkrTVS, addressed a letter to the Cabinet of Ministers, in which it certified that the LLC and its partners had the necessary connections and financial resources to build a nuclear fuel production plant in Ukraine.
In connection with this, the company proposed to hold negotiations with it as a potential investor in the implementation of this project.
And the project manager was announced as Jomart Aliyev, a former top manager from Rosatom!
According to the concessionaires' plan, after the construction of the plant was completed, UkrTVS planned to transfer it to the JV "Nuclear Fuel Production Plant" and receive a percentage or a fixed amount from each unit of product sold.
Our nuclear combiners wanted to receive a guarantee from the Cabinet of Ministers that all fuel produced at the Ukrainian plant would be fully purchased by NNEGC Energoatom.
It is clear that the famous factory builders Tron, Arkallaev, and Kryuchkov would not have built a single factory in Ukraine. But that was not their goal.
By acting in favor of Russia, with their application, they had to disrupt all agreements with Westinghouse, period. The proposal did not pass
UkrTVS was found to have huge debts, and Energoatom initiated bankruptcy proceedings to liquidate the company, but…
In 2019, the government changed in Ukraine, and after interesting meeting in New York with Zelensky, who doesn't understand anything, the situation began to change.
In general, you need to understand that Kislin is a con artist of the highest level.
In 2014, Kislin bought the Cypriot company Opalcore Ltd for $8 million at a discount. Its accounts in Ukrainian banks contained bonds worth $20 million, which were under arrest. Together with interest, about $23 million was accrued.
Apparently, it was they who Sam Kislin went to Ukraine to rescue in August 2019.
There are just doubts.
In Kyiv, in the frame behind the "fighter against corruption", whose victory over him promised him considerable profits, you can see Dmytro Kryuchkov (in a white shirt) - a defendant in the criminal case on the appropriation of ZaporizhzhiaOblenergo and causing damage to Ukraine in the amount of 346 million hryvnias, opened by the NABU .
As it later became known, Kryuchkov and Kislin had a meeting , after which Sam decided to pose for the journalists.
It should be noted that Dmytro Kryuchkov is a truly talented con artist. A few months before that, he was extradited from Germany to Ukraine, where he stated during the investigation that he was following the instructions of Poroshenko's entourage, and that he himself was not guilty of anything.
By a strange coincidence, in 2020, the beneficiaries of UkrTVS managed to get the bankruptcy procedure canceled, and they started talking about energy independence again, promoting the project of licensed production of nuclear fuel from Russian components.
It is obvious that Tron and company knew about the impending Russian attack.
On February 22, 2022, the founder of Vice Trade LLC changed. He became the eternal Pound - Denis Volobuev, currently the director of Ecooil LLC and other dead projects of the UZU.
It is interesting that the situation with “Conversebank” is repeating itself somewhere. If earlier the Ukrainian shareholders of UkrTVS claimed that they would buy out their share from the Russians, then after February 24, 2022 this offer lost its relevance. The assets of the aggressor country in Ukraine have been arrested. But, remembering Tron's ingenuity, tomorrow they may turn out to be the property of one of the Ukrainian shareholders. They simply forgot to declare it earlier.
The story of “businessman” Tron does not end there, continue in the next part of our investigation.
