Boyko is a shortcoming of Yanukovych, Medvedchuk and Putin
Yuriy Boyko has a unique ability: to remain his own under any government in Ukraine – from Kuchma to Zelenskyi’s time.
Neither the criminal cases brought against him, nor the machinations in which he took part, nor his stay in the enemy’s police station and the outright policing of the Russians, as it turned out, were not able to dislodge Boyk from the Ukrainian political express.
On the one hand, he is a former associate of Yanukovych, Medvedchuk, Rabinovych, godfather of Firtash, who ate his teeth on gas devices and schemes.
On the other hand, a person who still influences Ukrainian politics, has access to state secrets, votes in the Council for the laws by which we all live, and has a share in oblenergo.
Why Boyko, who flew to Moscow in 2019 and received a blessing for the presidential elections (in which, by the way, he took 4th place), has not yet been suspected of treason remains a mystery to me.
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Let me remind you of 10 facts from the life of Yuri Boyko
1. From February 2002 to March 2005, he was the chairman of Naftogaz of Ukraine. Yuri Boyko says that he was recommended for this position by the then Deputy Prime Minister Oleg Dubina. Since August 2003, he has been the first deputy minister of fuel and energy in Yanukovych’s government. He was the Minister of Fuel and Energy twice. In the last government of Mykola Azarov, he was the deputy prime minister for the fuel and energy complex and the coal industry.Play Video
2. In 2004, President Kuchma awarded Yuriy Boyk with the title “Hero of Ukraine”. A golden star shines on his lapel, as it did during Kuchma’s time. But what the hell he is a hero. Against the background of real heroes, Boyko is a political moth.
3. He was a member of the Trudova Ukraine party, which was headed by Serhiy Tihipko. In the parliamentary elections of 2006, Yuriy Boyko ran for the Verkhovna Rada on the list of the opposition bloc “Not so! ” (#5). This is the same bloc that led Medvedchuk’s associates to power. He was twice elected to the Verkhovna Rada on the list of the Party of Regions. In the early parliamentary elections of 2014, he was at the head of the “Opposition Bloc” list (#1). In the 2019 elections, he is one of the leaders of “OPZZH”.
4. In November 2018, Yuriy Boyko together with Vadym Rabinovych announced the intention to create the party “Opposition Platform “For Life”. This union marked the beginning of a split in “Opobloka” into two camps – those who support Rinat Akhmetov and those who support Firtash-Lyovochkin. Yuri Boyko belongs to the last group.
5. In 2005, the head of the SBU at the time, Oleksandr Turchynov, stated that his department was investigating a criminal case on the fact that Ukraine had suffered billions in damages due to a fraudulent scheme for the supply of Turkmen gas through the fictitious company EURAL TG, coordinated with Naftogaz of Ukraine and Gazprom. At the same time Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko accused the former management of “Naftogaz of Ukraine” of being involved in the story of the “disappearance” of 8 billion cubic meters. m of gas to Gazprom in the winter of 2004-2005.
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Yuri Boyko immediately denied his involvement in this scheme. At the same time, his fellow party members said that in this way the authorities are trying to return to the market structures that previously worked with Pavlo Lazarenko.
After the resignation of Turchynov from the position of head of the SBU, this case was no longer publicly mentioned.
6. In May 2005 The US Department of Justice has completed its investigation into RosUkrEnergo. Among its owners, the Americans named Yuri Boyko and Russian businessman Semyon Mogilevich. In October 2006, Yulia Tymoshenko on the air of “1 + 1” showed documents that allegedly testify to Boyko’s involvement in the creation of RosUkrEnergo AG, an intermediary that sold Russian gas in Ukraine.
7. In April 2011, Chornomornaftogaz, a subsidiary of NJSC Naftogaz of Ukraine, purchased an offshore drilling rig from the British “gasket” company for $400 million. Only two companies participated in the tender. Their nominal owners were a Latvian bogus lawyer and a Latvian homeless person. The overpayment amounted to about $ 150 million. Six months later, “ChNF” purchased a second installation. Also for $ 400 million and with the same overpayment. This time, the seller was the company “Ryzhka Shipyard”.
This scam was called “Boyk’s towers” in the media. However, the GPU never managed to prove the involvement of Yuriy Boyko in this area. Yuriy Lutsenko’s office accused the ex-head of Naftogaz of Ukraine Pavlo Bakulin, fugitive president Viktor Yanukovych and his entourage of involvement in this case.
8. He is a big supporter of the Russian Orthodox Church in Ukraine. On July 29, 2018, he was one of the leaders of the “procession” of the clergy of the Russian Church in Kyiv, dedicated to the 1030th anniversary of the Baptism of Russia.
9. In the spring of 2019, on the eve of the presidential elections, Boyko flew to Moscow with the support of the Kremlin. 5 years ago, he took fourth place in the presidential elections.
In the summer of the same year, the leaders of the “Opposition Platform – For Life” party Yuri Boyko, Viktor Medvedchuk and Rabinovych visited Moscow againwhere they met with the Prime Minister of Russia Dmitry Medvedev and the management of the Russian oil and gas company Gazprom.
10. On April 21, 2022, after the dissolution of the OPZZ faction in the Council, he became the head of the formed deputy group “Platform for Life and Peace”, created from former members of the OPZZ.
About the author. Serhiy Rudenko, journalist, TV presenter
