Yesterday, the media reported on a fight near the elite Fenix restaurant in the capital. As it turned out, the fight was organized by former MP from the Petro Poroshenko Bloc, Vitaliy Gudzenko, together with his sons. After that, the idea arose to learn more about this character.
Vitaliy Gudzenko is a co-founder of the company “Agro-leader-Ukraine”. As of 2014, its assets included 3.5 thousand hectares of land for growing agricultural crops. In 2007, “Agro-leader-Ukraine” purchased its first processing asset from Kyiv City Council deputy Dmytro Andrievsky – the country’s largest oatmeal cookie production enterprise, OJSC “Bohuslav Food Plant”.
Majoritarian Vitaliy Gudzenko, who in the 2012 elections ran as a self-nominated candidate under the patronage of Serhiy Tigipko’s Strong Ukraine party, which dissolved itself after the elections, and its members joined the Party of Regions. After the revolution, Vitaliy Gudzenko is running from another party – the Petro Poroshenko Bloc.
With this political move, he also avoided lustration: when President Petro Poroshenko signed the law "On the Purification of Power", and public activists are already proposing entire lists of people who should be subject to lustration.
The organization “Patriots of Kyiv Region” nominated a hidden member of the Party of Regions, Vitaliy Gudzenko, as a candidate for this “honorable” procedure, who is running for the Verkhovna Rada in district No. 92. 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 his election, he gathered them in his estate to convey: he has already won the elections, and whoever does not support him - will be left without positions the very next day. At the same time, the “wolf in sheep's clothing” in the best traditions of the Party of Regions promised each of the visitors a reward-gift: $5 thousand for district heads and $1 thousand for village heads.
And the icing on the cake. The current People's Deputy from the BPP actively supported the “Anti-Maidan”, supplied them with aid in the form of products from his own farms and tents for activists, and also organized “encouragement parties” for the “field commanders” of the “Anti-Maidan” at his recreation center in the Bila Tserkva district.
Here are just a few quotes from Gudzenko'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 don't regret working with the Party of Regions and personally with Viktor Yanukovych."
(On helping the anti-Maidan): “It would be dishonest and unjust to leave some in trouble and help others. I supported both sides in a purely human way.”
(On negotiations with terrorists in Donbas): “Supporting the anti-terrorist operation is a rather controversial point. For example, I believe that the Donbas militias also have the right to self-determination. It was necessary to first enter into peace negotiations with them, and not 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 Hudzenko and the head of the Bila Tserkva District Council Vitaliy Grinchuk, who were previously best friends, quarreled over financial and political disputes in 2017.
Grinchuk wanted to remove Hudzenko from his native 92nd district and is preparing another godfather for this position – former "regional" Mykola Starichenko, but, apparently, the godfathers decided everything peacefully.
In this story, we cannot do without Vitaliy Hudenko’s son, Yevhen, who leads an openly “major” lifestyle. Now all legal business is recorded on him. 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 also unable to apply to the Kyiv Regional Council and is now listed as an assistant to his father’s deputy. It is worth noting that Yevhen previously had experience working as an assistant to a people’s deputy. Thus, in the seventh convocation of the Verkhovna Rada, he was listed as an assistant to the people’s deputy from the Party of Regions, Volodymyr Dudka.
