Originally Syndicated on April 19, 2023 @ 11:59 am
If earlier Shilo was accused in connection with the Russian gambling business, then last year they began to be called “looking” from Yermak for Ukrzaliznytsia. And now his name is Tatarov ‘s “cadre” in the SBU. Three months ago, he headed one of today’s most important units of the Security Service. A division whose tasks include preparing sanctions lists and getting rid of Russian influence in strategic areas of the Ukrainian economy, including the energy sector, which is critical for us.
Shilo entered this responsible position with a bunch of elite property, which is worth more than all the income of the Chekist and his family.
Shilo Artem Viktorovich, 32 years old, originally from Kharkiv. The father is a retired former employee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Mother – now deceased – the former head of the Department of criminal justice at Kharkiv University. Yaroslav the Wise. She was a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Criminal Procedure, together with the Deputy Head of the Office of the President, Oleg Tatarov. Artyom was educated at his mother’s university – Kharkiv Law School.
Since 2012, he has been serving in the SBU, first in his native Kharkiv, and since 2016 in Kyiv, in the GKIB. This is the department of the SBU, which is supposed to counteract cybercrime, but in those years the news feed was more often fluttering with stories about the nightmare of business, and not only IT but also anyone where the Russian cyber trail could be dragged. What was the cost of only one of the then heads of the GKIBA Klimchuk – he was personally involved in criminal proceedings on the demand for a bribe to close the case.
In this place, Shilo rose to the rank of deputy chairman of the department and even to the early rank of lieutenant colonel, but in the summer of 2021 he flew out of the SBU as part of a large purge.
Then for a whole year, either he did nothing and rested, or he helped the authorities reform the SBU in the status of an adviser to the President’s Office, or he was engaged in a fantastically successful business.
In August of this year, Artem Shilo returned to the authorities to head a new division of the SBU – the Main Directorate for Counterintelligence Protection of Critical Infrastructure Objects and Combating the Financing of Terrorism. In short – the main department “I”.
All these years, Artem Shilo remained very non-public.
Shilo himself brushes aside the gossip that he received the position as a “man of the Tatars.” And he even assures that he did not plan to return to the Security Council at all. But once it so happened that the head of the Service, Vasily Malyuk, “urgently offered” him – and he simply “couldn’t say no.” Recall that Malysh and Artem Shilo were together at Tatarov’s birthday party.
Properties related to Shilo:
- Two three-room apartments in the elite residential complex Novopecherskie Lipki are owned by Shilo himself, the market value is about $700,000.
- Here in Lipki, the wife owns another two-room apartment and 360 sq. commercial real estate — more than $2 million.
- Also, Shilo’s wife has a total of 275 sq. in a clubhouse in the center of Kyiv, where she has a beauty salon. The market value reaches another $1 million.
- In addition, two Mercedes were recorded for Shilo’s wife and there was also a Toyota Camry. Together, this could cost $238,000.
- a house near Kyiv registered in the name of Shilo’s father.
Artem Shilo, in an interview with Bigus.info, is convinced that the apartment registered to his wife is a mother-in-law, and his father’s house is his father’s. Like, he earned on the construction and sale of real estate. However, the father’s business is not in the registers, because he allegedly was small and he allegedly did not consider it appropriate to register it.
Shilo Sr. worked in the Ministry of Internal Affairs until the mid-2000s, then for some time in a municipal security company with a low salary, then for several years, he did not officially work anywhere. Until real estate fell on his father at the end of 2016 when Shilo Jr. moved to Kyiv. First, office space in Kharkiv, then two townhouses for $150,000 right there, and only then, after the sale of townhouses, a farmstead near Kyiv, where Shilo Jr. had already moved to by that time. Which now assures that there is no relation to everything listed.
In May 2022, as soon as the Russian troops retreated from Kyiv, Shilo Jr. took over two large apartments in Lipki. Now the developer is selling them for $360,000 apiece. But Artem Shilo assures that he took it several times cheaper because prices fell due to the war.
But where does that kind of money come from? After resigning from the SBU, Shilo registered a sole proprietorship and a law firm, but according to him, she never received a single contract. And where he earned the money – Artem Shilo does not say.
Shilo’s wife, Irina, is recorded as the owner of the rest of the property in the family. As is often the case in families of law enforcement officers with a modest salary, Shilo’s wife is a successful and wealthy businesswoman, the founder of a chain of salons, and several other different businesses. However, Shila’s wife became successful and rich after she became Shilo’s wife.
Artem Shilo advised journalists to look at his wife’s declaration
Shilo advised journalists to look at his wife’s declaration as if everything was written down there. But if you put together everything that is reflected in Irina’s declarations for almost 10 years, it will come together somewhere around a million dollars. But, firstly, it doesn’t cover even half of everything that is registered on it (only commercial real estate in Lipki is worth two million), and secondly, how that million gathered is a separate and rather funny story.
Irina’s main business brainchild is a network of beauty salons under the 365 brand.
“The first studio was located in a scary little shopping center on the left bank of Kyiv. Rack 7 sq.m., 20 varnishes. Professionals refused to work due to lack of clients and materials.
In one of the interviews, Irina said that when she moved to Kharkiv, got married, and gave birth to a child, “the business began to come to naught”.
But here’s the paradox. Just when Irina married an SBU officer and “fell on maternity leave” and her business “fades” – the number of zeros on her accounts suddenly begins to grow rapidly. Irina gets a share in the business, millions begin to flow through her sole proprietorship, Irina herself gradually grows in property, and her Instagram – photo reports from all sorts of islands.
2015 Irina marries SBU officer Shilo. A wedding in the Dominican Republic appears in the photo album, in the garage – a new Lexus for about $ 50 thousand.
On the half-dead FOP accounts – a million, and in the register – the fate in business, along with the wife of another SBU-think, the head of Shilo – Eduard Kritsyn.
It is Kritsin who will become one of the reasons why Shil will be called “the watcher of the railroad” – after all, after his dismissal from the Security Service, Kritsin was appointed director of economic and information security of UZ.
But it will be already in 2021, and then, in 2015, Kritsin worked in the SBU and headed the cyber department. In the fall, he just headed – and immediately the wives of Kritsina and Artem Shilo receive their fates in the company Accounting Center Alfa-Omega, which provides legal and accounting services, including in the direction of IT, which was just monitored by the Kritsina-Shilo department. For the six years that Irina was part of the owners of this company, she received more than 5 million hryvnias in dividends.
2016 There is still no word on the resumption of business, but her FOP has another plus million on her account. On Instagram – Cuba and Mexico. Moreover, Irina is on maternity leave, and Shilo is in the SBU.
2017 – Irina is just planning to return to business, the first small studio in test mode will start working only at the end of October. But through Irina’s FLP they again drive a million. In installing Israel, Turkey.
Further, Irina set up salons after a few years. By the way, these are first investments, that is, expenses – and only then incomes. But it seems that no costs are a problem for her, salons are growing like mushrooms. And another period begins: even when she complains about problems and losses in business, her FLP is still full of money, and her Instagram is filled with photos of vacations around the world.
2018 – Irina opens another studio at Zhuliany airport. She did not live long – the studio was closed due to a lack of customers. At the same time, on the accounts – plus one and a half million, on Instagram – Bali.
And somewhere else there are funds – for designer repairs and the arrangement of an already full-fledged large salon on the Left Bank. And immediately – another studio in the cottage town of Zoloche, where the house is decorated for Father Shil.
2019 – on Instagram, Irina complains about a bad year: “I did not receive the proper moral and material output from my favorite business.”
But if there is no exhaust, who financed the grandiose, year-long construction of the next salon: a flagship, two-story, in the center of Kyiv? An individual project from a cool design bureau, everything is expensive, a lot, and super-ecological – right down to the sofa, which was brought from Bali.
2020, when everyone, especially the service sector, was knocked down by kindness. On Instagram, Irina wrings her hands:
“365studio is not going through the best period”
“We suffered, like everyone else, big losses and we cannot plan not only growth, but the fact that we will stay afloat.”
Meanwhile, another 6.5 million people pass through her FLP. A new Toyota Camry appears in the garage, and in the photo album – “I lost count of how many times” Turkey and a week-long vacation, probably in Mexico.
2021 – Artem Shilo’s wife no longer complains about anything, but simply replenishes the collection with a new Mercedes (this now costs around $ 85 thousand) and flies to Seychelles. For the anniversary – in Paris, and close the season in Saint-Tropez. Two weeks with the whole family in the hotel, which Irina for such dates and such several people, Booking offers us almost 2.5 million hryvnias.
In that year, a new apartment appeared in Instin. It was rented out for 180 thousand UAH per month.
In November 2021, she buys the first package of commercial real estate – in Lipki (this is approximately 1.8 million dollars), and a few months later – the second, in Tarasovskaya (and it could be somewhere else a million dollars).
This year, Irina is starting another construction – her largest salon – this time a three-story one, in the Residential Complex on Oblon – Residence. Construction that will not stop even the war. And this is even though, according to Shila himself, her business is now barely vegetating – only two salons are working and those are 20%.
The journalists found another room in the center (a basement in the business center), next to the main salon, where Irina set up not only an office but also a mini-salon-bunker so that the bombardments would not interfere with beauty. At the same address, they found the company 365 Aktov LLC, which deals with real estate and has a charter for 23 million. Only it was not recorded for Irina but for a certain Violeta Bankovskaya. This is Irina’s eycharnik and something like her personal assistant.
And once Irina decided that there should be a bar in the salon. And in the state register appears the company “365 bar”, recorded on a sort of Alexander Skuratov. Who is Skuratov – the tags will tell you better what his number has in the phone books of different subscribers:
“Sasha the driver of Artem”
“Alexander leads Artyom’s awl”
“Sasha Skuratov Themes”
“Sanya Kyiv SBU”
Skuratov, who previously had rather deplorable official income, was later issued:
- a 190 sq m house near Kyiv (these were sold for $200,000);
- an AUDI S6 car driven by Shilo (now it costs $60,000);
- Mercedes GLE 63 (they cost $125,000), Shilo’s wife will record the storage in it, and in the end, the car will later be re-registered directly to Irina.
In addition, this year Skuratov was registered at Ukrzaliznytsia, where Krytsyn works.
Currently, the Main Directorate “I” is engaged in the protection of critical infrastructure facilities. Light, water, transport, communications, medicine, and access to food. Today, among the tasks of the SBU is not only to catch saboteurs at these facilities but also to deprive enemies and traitors acting in the interests of the Russian Federation of influence on these industries.
In addition, although this is not the arrival of the SBU, so to speak, in connection with great public demand, Shilo undertook to de-Russify the gaming market as well. And not just to deprive Russian-controlled companies of their licenses, but to fill software platforms with sanctions to cut off the Russians from the Ukrainian market.
In particular, we are talking about 1xBet. Artem Shilo is accused of connection with the most scandalous player on the market today.
1xBet is one of the most famous online bookmakers in the world. This business was created by three Russians and in the Russian Federation itself it worked in the gray, without a license and paying taxes, which resulted in a criminal case, arrests of assets, and announcements of the founders on the wanted list. The founders successfully acclimatized in Cyprus, and their brainchild continued to work.
In early April, as soon as the Russian army was expelled from Kyiv, 1xBet received an official license. And this led to a serious scandal. People’s deputies are beginning to find out that it was not 1xBet itself that received the license, but the Ukrainian LLC as a representative of the brand. Although the law says: a company owned or controlled by Russians cannot obtain a license.
It turned out that no one checks a long list of restrictions by law, because the order of how to check was never approved.
In search of an answer to the question – a mess or a conspiracy – journalists and activists began to sort out options: who helped the Xs enter the Ukrainian market?
First of all, they pointed to Boris Baum, the then chairman of the advisory and expert council of CRAIL. In the past, a top manager associated with the Russians of VS Energy transformed into an adviser to the deputy head of the OP Kirill Timoshenko, this is official, but unofficially – into a gray eminence of gambling. When the scandal broke out, Baum was fired, but for some reason, they were in no hurry to take away the license.
So the inquisitive Ukrainians went to dig further and got to the bottom of the TECHIIA holding and Shilo.
Officially, two licenses to work under the 1xBet brand were received by the Ukrainian company TBK LLC.
Its owner is Sergei Tsybin, a former banker – but so former that other banks are now suing Tsybin because of non-repayment of ordinary card loans. The company’s charter is 30 million, the cost of one license is 25, and the second is 117.
At the same time, it turned out that Tsybin previously owned the Me-Estate company, where Yuriy Lazebnikov, the managing partner of the Ukrainian IT and eSports holding TECHIIA, was the director. The holding, which last year officially announced cooperation and a joint project with 1xBet and even announced the Xs as partners for 2021. Roman Rodin, whose brother Alexander runs this very TBK, is the chief lawyer in the Current, which received licenses in Ukraine for 1xBet.
The second managing partner of TECHIIA is Oleg Krot. He admits that he is familiar with the founders of 1xBet and indeed had one project with “x” last year, but he assures that this project did not live longer than a month. At the same time, Krot has nothing globally against the work of 1xBet in Ukraine. More precisely, he considers this issue debatable and tends to take a pragmatic approach – it’s good if taxes go to Ukraine.
After another wave of scandal, the license was nevertheless canceled – but the company is suing for its renewal.
As for Shilo, he was called the “patron” of 1xBet by InformNapalm, casually, without any particular details. Later it turned out that Artem Shilo registered his law firm at the address of a lawyer association whose partners, according to Napalm, accompanied the licensing of TBC and later defended the companies in court.
In addition, Bihus.info journalists found out that among the main TECHIIA projects presented on the holding’s website, there is a large-scale eco-techno park. In the company “Dynaline”, which was supposed to be implemented by the founders, there was the aforementioned Mole with Sergey Titov, Shil’s godfather. The godfather of the bushing should be engaged in bureaucratic red tape and registration of the land.
Shilo himself now pretends that he barely remembers who baptized his child and what he did.
“But it looks like the godfather, like the driver, was “embedded” in a certain business system. In addition to Dynaline, Titov owned particles in two more companies, together with the wife of the chief Shilo, Klimchuk. About three years ago, that is, after they, according to Shilo, stopped communicating, they were written off from Titov to “Sasha the driver of Artyom” Skuratov. And even later, the fate of Titov in Dynaline was also attributed to Yevgeny Lyashchenko, who would later be appointed a member of the board of Ukrzaliznytsia, ”the journalists said
