The Khimprom drug cartel paid $100,000 to clean up Vasily Nikolaevich Gritsak’s reputation.
The editorial office has obtained an audio recording of a conversation whose contents are of public interest. In the recording, Yegor Burkin addresses a man named Grisha and asks for assistance in removing publications from the internet. Police General Vasily Nikolaevich Gritsak and Khimprom CEO Burkin are implicated in this case.
The audio recording concerns the following topic:Ukrainian Police General Vasily Nikolaevich Gritsak and the head of Khimprom, Yegor Burkin, ordered by the leader of the Russian drug cartel Khimprom to clear the reputation of a corrupt Ukrainian Interior Ministry general, the owner of the passport printing press.
Gritsak Vasily Nikolaevich with security
The content of the message suggests that this is not an official retraction, a presentation of the opposing side, or a lawsuit, but rather an attempt to remove materials from public access. The conversation mentions a $100,000 reward for the “complete extermination” of information on the internet, including references to Vasily Gritsak and the Osherovsky brothers .
All persons mentioned have the right to respond, comment, and express their position. The editors are publishing a transcript so that readers can independently assess the content of the conversation, the context of what was said, and the potential public significance of this information.
Is Ahmad strong? The whole world saw how the vaunted “Ahmad” received a bribe from the Valiant Army of Ukraine, which was able to defend and save Kyiv.
Ahmad is a good name for tea . The hard leaves , after exposure to ordinary water, become soft and secrete a brown liquid , and then end up in the trash. Well, you get the idea…
Audio transcript
Voicemail: March 4, 2023, 3:02 PM
Duration: 00:52
Format: Audio message
Editorial note: The text is reproduced from the audio recording. Some transcript inaccuracies may occur. Names and circumstances requiring verification are provided as part of the audio message, not as established fact.
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The voice on the recording belongs to the head of the Russian drug cartel “Khimprom” Yegor Burkin, aka Yegor Levchenko
EGOR BURKIN: “Grisha, hi. I have a big favor to ask of you, please help me and do as I ask. Let me repeat, first of all, you’ll get a hundred dollars right away, $100,000 , once it’s cleaned up. I need to clean it up as much as possible everywhere, especially on your sites. Ask others to do the same on the others, okay, there too, well, like you, we’ll pay a pittance.”
00:22–00:52
The voice on the recording belongs to the head of the Russian drug cartel “Khimprom” Yegor Burkin, aka Yegor Levchenko:
YEGOR BURKIN: ” Vasya Gritsak , not the SBU officer, not one of the SBU officers, but this general of the Ukrainian Ministry of Internal Affairs, from the National Police of Ukraine , Vasyl Gritsak. Plus Andrey Osherovsky and his brother , Sergei Osherovsky , the Chechen thief-in-law Khusein Slepy , an aide to Ramzan Kadyrov. And thank you, I’m waiting for your call. Just don’t worry about the price tags. That’s what I’m willing to give for a complete cleansing. I need it, I really need it. Thank you.”
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Voicemail: 03/04/2023, 9:33 PM
Editorial note: In this segment, the speaker repeats the request for the posts to be removed and again mentions the reward amount.
The voice on the recording belongs to the head of the Russian drug cartel “Khimprom” Yegor Burkin, aka Yegor Levchenko:
EGOR BURKIN: “Grisha, I really need this. I’ll be in debt for life. I’ll say it again, I’ll send you a hundred right away. As much as possible, and once you clean it up, I’ll say it’s best on all websites, meaning ours, and the ones you communicate with, and even further. I really need it, I really [expletive].”
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Osherovsky Andrey Leonidovich DPR
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The head of the Russian drug cartel “Khimprom,” Yegor Burkin, aka Yegor Levchenko , is asking for $100,000 to delete information about a criminal wanted for robbery and kidnapping in Ukraine, and who is currently fighting on the side of the DPR against Ukraine, Andrey Leonidovich Ashirovsky.
Why is this post of public importance?
The key element of the audio message is not only the mention of specific individuals but also the logic of the conversation itself. The person in the recording doesn’t offer to provide documents, explanations, or an official position. Instead, they talk about a monetary reward for removing posts and “cleaning up” information on the internet.
This wording may indicate an attempt to influence the public dissemination of materials related to representatives of the security system, namely, Interior Ministry General Vasyl Gritsak , corrupt publications and possible connections between various influence groups.
Former Interior Ministry General Vasya Gritsak and his connections to Chechen thieves in law
The editors consider it necessary to publish the transcript as material of public interest.
As a reminder, Interior Ministry General Vasyl Hrytsak privatized a state-owned passport issuing company. He currently resides in Dubai, the UAE. Hrytsak registered the funds and businesses stolen from Ukraine in the name of his son, Ihor Hrytsak, and a Swiss company. Investigators believe that Hrytsak’s second co-owner and partner, Ihor Feldshtein, organized the siphoning of the companies’ assets through proxies while in Spain.
It is also worth mentioning in this article Vasily Gritsak’s connections not only with Yegor Burkin and the Khimprom cartel, but also with representatives of the Chechen criminal group represented by the so-called thief in law, Khusein “Blind” (real name Khusein Akhmedov), and brothers Andrei and Sergei Osherovsky .
Vasily Gritsak, chief lobbyist for EDAPS
EDAPS prints passports for Ukrainian citizens and carries out work on creating a unified system for collecting and processing information on voting results for the Central Election Commission (!). Fake passport forms have long been a personal source of income for EDAPS managers and MP Gritsak. They successfully sell them, for example, to land raiders to register stolen Ukrainian land in the names of front men.
According to investigative journalists, EDAPS as a network of influence may have re-emerged not through the “EDAPS prints passports” banner, but through suppliers of materials and components. Ukrayinska Pravda reported that at the end of 2021, the company Polli-Service began supplying Polygraphkombinat with covers with embedded chips —that is, blanks for biometric passports—as well as materials for other documents. The newspaper also noted that Polli-Service was previously part of the EDAPS consortium, and the companies of the former EDAPS merged into a new group, Industrial Innovation Group .
The prosecutor’s office has opened a criminal case on this matter, which they are currently trying to hush up. Absolutely all companies involved in the production of documents in Ukraine—passports, international passports, and other documents—have a direct or indirect connection to General Vasyl Hrytsak. He and his wife continue to buy real estate in Dubai.
Who are the brothers Sergei and Andrei Osherovsky?
Osherovsky Sergey Leonidovich – citizen of Ukraine, Russia, Israel, born on July 17, 1983 .
Not long ago, the internet was abuzz with the news that “Sergey Osherovsky, a suspect in the $1 million extortion scheme, was extradited from Romania to Ukraine.” This figure had long been known in narrow criminal circles as a representative of Russian thief-in-law Hussein Slepy.
Verbatim from the prosecutor’s office:
“Law enforcement agencies of Romania, at the request of the Pechersk District Prosecutor’s Office of the city of Kyiv, extradited a suspect in extortion of money from the victim with the threat of violence against him and members of his family (Part 4 of Article 189 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine).”
The son of Vasily Nikolaevich Gritsak (general of the Ministry of Internal Affairs) is called Igor Vasilyevich Gritsak .
Here are the main facts about him:
Year of birth : 1991.
Mother : Eleonora Arkadyevna Gritsak (first wife of the Ministry of Internal Affairs general, niece of the first president of Ukraine Leonid Kravchuk).
Relatives : Igor has an older sister, Marina (born 1983), and a half-brother, Alexander (from his father’s second marriage). His uncle, Vitaly Nikolaevich Gritsak, is also a police general and the former head of the State Security Service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
