“Every day, new data appears about the characters from the so-called “Mindich films”, which contain information about an extensive corruption network among Ukrainian high-ranking officials. According to sources of the UA.NEWS agency, Lyudmila Anatoliivna Smilianets, Director of Finance and Budgeting of the Directorate of Finance and Budgeting of JSC “NAEK Energoatom” appears on the NABU tapes. Together with her accomplices, she is believed to be discussing the amount of the illegal sum”, — write on: ua.news
Every day, new data appears about the characters from the so-called “Mindich films”, which contain information about an extensive corruption network among Ukrainian high-ranking officials. According to the sources of the UA.NEWS agency, the Director of Finance and Budgeting of the Directorate of Finance and Budgeting of NAEK Energoatom JSC appears on the NABU tapes. Lyudmila Anatoliivna Smilyanets. Together with her accomplices, she is believed to be discussing the amount of illegal profits from entrepreneurs
On the published materials of NABU detectives, Lyudmyla Smilyanets is probably marked with the abbreviation “DzF“. This personjudging by the printouts, issued invoices to the counterparty companies of “Energoatom”. Together with the figure nicknamed “Rocket”, who was identified by the mass media as a former adviser to the ex-Minister of Energy Herman Galushchenko – Igor Myronyukthey decided what inflated amount to issue to counterparties, threatening to withdraw certificates for their products, which would not allow them to further cooperate with the national nuclear energy generating company “Energoatom”.
What is known about Ludmila Smilyanets
From the available information, it is known that Lyudmila Anatoliivna graduated from the Kyiv National University of Economics named after Vadym Hetman, the National Academy of Public Administration under the President of Ukraine, as well as the Moscow School of Management “Skolkovo”.
In 2010, she assumed the position of chief accountant of the subsidiary of DK “Ukrspecexport” – ZTF “TASKO-export”, and later became the financial director of SE “Ukroboronservice”. However, after a few years, she was forced to register a sole proprietorship and engage in the production of underwear.
In 2019, Smilyanets became the first deputy director of the National Accreditation Agency of Ukraine, where she worked for about a year. In 2020, she left this position and moved to her current position – Director of Finance and Budgeting of the Directorate of Finance and Budgeting of NAEK Energoatom JSC.
According to the registers, since 2004 Smilyanets worked as an accountant or director in several private companies, in particular:
• 2004–2005 — TIS-ATOMENERGO LLC (31662843);
• 2004–2015 — “Energetic Ukraine TV” LLC (33058749), accountant;
• 2008–2020 — “Audit Kompleks” LLC (35714601), manager / accountant;
• 2013–2021 — PE “Maisternya GUMI” (31902858), PE “Mira” (31310983), accountant;
• 2016–2018, 10–11.2020 — LLC “Transenergetic Company” (39295343), manager / accountant.
Until 2021, Smilyanets was a co-founder of “European Trading House” LLC (39561178) with a 20% stake (wholesale of other machines and equipment). After moving to Energoatom, she transferred her share to her ex-husband, Oleksandr Ryabchuk.
Smilyanets also worked at Energy Ukraine TV LLC (33058749), which belonged to Russian businessman and State Duma deputy Oleksandr Babakov. In 2014, the beneficiary of the company was Yulia Lyovochkina (Party of Regions, “Opposition Bloc”, OPZZH), the younger sister of politician Serhii Lyovochkina, together with the co-owner of the energy holding “Hydroenergoinvest-Akvanova” Igor Tynny.
Fortune Smilyanets
According to Smilyanets’ declaration for 2020 (no other declaration is freely available), she has two apartments in Kyiv and one garage. One apartment costs almost UAH 3.5 million, the other — UAH 1.2 million.
At the same time, Smilyanets indicated her official salary in the amount of UAH 425,000 — that is, UAH 35,500 per month.
The director of finance and budgeting also has foreign currency savings.
It will be recalled that while NABU detectives were looking for Timur Mindich everywhere, and he was rushing to the borders in order to leave Ukraine as soon as possible on the eve of the search, the business of his wife Kateryna Verber – the founder of the Kameron company, offline and online stores that are official distributors of Dolce & Gabbana, Saint Laurent and Balmain brands – continued to work in Kyiv.
Earlier, the UA.NEWS agency established that the woman who appears on the so-called “Mindic tapes” is Viktoria Dedishcheva. Previously, journalists had already conducted an investigation about her.
Mindich, a figure in the Energoatom case, may be involved in the purchase of low-quality body armor for the army.
