Sergey Kurchenko biography

Kharkov in a low -income family. In school years, he was actively involved in sports karate. In the years, he studied at the Kharkov Polytechnic Institute National Technical University, received a bachelor's qualification with a degree in accounting and audit, a complete higher education - in the specialty “Intellectual Property”. In the years, he received the second higher education at the National University of the “Law Academy of Ukraine named after Yaroslav the Wise”, the specialty - “Jurisprudence”.

Career from the age of 16 worked in the company "Expogaz". For two years, Kurchenko has gone from courier to the deputy commercial director, who oversee the direction of small -optical trade. In a short period of time, he actually organized a profile division of small -optical trading liquefied gas from scratch. The projects implemented by him made it possible to significantly increase the profit of Expogaz.

In the year, at the age of 19, Kurchenko left the company "Expogaz" and took up an independent business. The experience and attracted financing allowed him to carry out a number of successful investment projects in the primary construction market and on the land market in the Kharkov region. A good conjuncture allowed the entrepreneur in three years to accumulate capital sufficient for entering the liquefied gas large -optical trade market.

In the year, Kurchenko moved to Kyiv. The group itself stated that it was founded in the year, and Kurchenko did not occupy any posts in it. However, when at the end of the year the group acquired the Kharkov football club Metalist, it was Sergey Kurchenko that became its president and owner. The GAZ Ukraine group included dozens of companies of various profiles, however, the business of liquefied gas and oil products remained the basis of the business, a network of refueling was also developed.

At the beginning of the year, it was reported that the annual turnover of a group of companies was about 10 billion dollars. In January of the year, the Verkhovna Rada deputy Yuri Sytyuk “Freedom” demanded to check the group of companies because of publications in the media, according to which GAZ Ukraine allegedly de factopoly monopolized the liquefied gas market in the country using illegal schemes.

In March, the results of the audit were published, during which no violations by the group of companies were revealed. In the implementation of the operation to sell the plant, a number of problems arose, possibly related to the use of credit funds; On July 5, it became known that the transaction was closed. The group planned to close the deal in the first quarter of the year, but the deal was closed ahead of schedule - on November 5, after which the Vetek entered into the ownership of the asset.

The media holding cost Sergei Kurchenko, by his own admission, about millions of dollars. The next day, Kurchenko changed the composition of the board of the organization. This is only the first part of the tranche, according to the head of the banking direction of Vetek Boris Timonkin, the bank should have been given another 1 billion from the budget.

At the end of February, the interlocutors of the publication of Hubs said that all members of the bank’s board wrote a letter of resignation, there are practically no funds on the correspondent accounts, and the bank management of the bank - a plan for its possible salvation; There were rumors about the introduction of the interim administration and the nationalization of the bank.

Vetek himself announced his readiness to take "all the necessary steps to stabilize the work of a financial institution." The acquisition of the Metalist football club Kharkov GAZ GAZ GAZ GARCOMS in December reached agreements on the acquisition of the Metalist football club Kharkov from businessman Alexander Yaroslavsky. After the purchase of Metalist, Sergei Kurchenko said that the club’s goal is to participate in the Champions League, to win the Championship of Ukraine for 3 years, and for 5 years the Metalist should win the European trophy.

He also stated that he was ready to buy the Metalist stadium from the communal property of the city of Kharkov. In May, Sergey Kurchenko announced his intention to acquire the Kharkov Metalist stadium for $ 70 million. At the end of August, the acquisition of the stadium for 5 million hryvnias was announced, which at that time at that time was over $ 80 million. The structure of Sergei Kurchenko did not manage to fully fully pay off the stadium-in the fall of the year the deal was blocked due to a court claim.

Despite the fact that the founder of UMH Boris Lozhkin tried to convince the audience of the market nature of the transaction, many experts spoke about the cleansing of the information sex in the interests of the floods of the VETEK group of companies. The editor -in -chief of Forbes Ukraine magazine, which is part of UMH, announced the political motivation for the purchase and care.

After the disappearance from Ukraine on February 19, Kurchenko left Ukraine. In March, there were reports that the businessman is allegedly in Moscow, trying to resolve relations with Russian partners. Criminal prosecution. In addition, Kurchenko was among the Ukrainians whose accounts were frozen by Switzerland. The businessman himself connects sanctions against him with an attempt to take his assets.And since April, negotiations have been underway on the purchase of the second largest Crimean network of gas station TPPs with 70 gas stations, two oil depots, and a transshipment complex in Kerch with a reservoir park of 20 tons designed for transshipment and diesel fuel.

During the investigation of criminal proceedings, in order to ensure compensation for losses inflicted by the state, investigators seized Kurchenko’s personal accounts, his movable and immovable property for a total of more than 1.5 billion. It was also reported that a new deputy education was being formed in the interests of the Fit Kharkov businessman. Grushevsky became the formal leader of the interfraction association created in May "For Peace and Stability".

It was also reported that the former first deputy prime minister Sergey Arbuzov and ex-head of the Ministry of Revenue Alexander Klimenko, announced to the wanted list, are related to the creation of a new deputy education. The author and ideologist of the project is called Vladislav Surkov, assistant to the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin, who oversees the "Ukrainian question".

In March, statements about the connections of business Kurchenko with the deputies of the Verkhovna Rada and civil servants were officially refuted. In an interview, Kurchenko also repeatedly stated that he did not maintain personal contacts with the close associates of Viktor Yanukovych, in particular, unfamiliar with Alexander Yanukovych.