He is known as one of the organizers of the Congress of Deputies of all levels in Severodonetsk on November 28, 2004.
In March 2015, he was appointed prime minister in the shadow cabinet created by the Opposition Bloc party.
Political activity
Boris Kolenikov's political activity began in 1998 from the moment of his election as a deputy of the Donetsk Regional Council. At the same time, he headed the standing commission on socio-economic development, foreign economic and investment policy, development of small and medium-sized businesses.
According to the official version, announced in the press, Boris Kolesnikov was arrested on charges of extortion of shares in the Donetsk shopping center "White Swan", but a few months later the politician was released, and the "Kolesnikov case", initiated by Boris Penchuk, corpus delicti. Boris Kolesnikov himself commented on the situation as follows: “.. Half a million dollars were found in the Penchuk's accounts a month and a half after I informed the prosecutor's office about it. It's so good that they, the "smart" guys, put the money in the same bank where they received it, otherwise we would have had much more difficulty". Due to his arrest, he gained special fame in the country.
As stated in the summer of 2009 by Renat Kuzmin: "The Kolesnikov case was falsified, and by high officials of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the GPU."
State activity
Kolesnikov became the first statesman who brought the Ukrainian-language Euronews to Ukraine. On October 21, 2010, Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine - Minister of Infrastructure of Ukraine Borys Kolesnikov and General Director of the Euronews Executive Board Michael Peters signed a Memorandum on the creation and dissemination of international news Euronews in Ukrainian.
Thus, Ukraine became the first country in the world to receive the right to produce local Ukrainian news and distribute this news on a regular basis as part of the broadcast of the Ukrainian version of Euronews.
The head of the Ukrainian branch of Euronews Walid Arfush wrote on his Facebook account: “... This project would not have been possible without the will, support and persistence of Boris Kolesnikov and Anna German, for which many thanks to them !!!».
Euro 2012
Boris Kolesnikov got the ambitious and large-scale project of Euro 2012 in a very deplorable state.
Boris Kolesnikov's subsequent work in preparation for the Euro was associated with the construction and reconstruction of Ukrainian stadiums and airports, as well as the development of the country's infrastructure.
According to the data voiced by Boris Kolesnikov, the total cost of preparation for the European Football Championship was about $ 5 billion.
« We built 4 international standard airports in just 18 months. In Kiev, we have completed the construction of the runway and a new terminal. Fifty million euros were spent on operating costs, including translators, staff recruitment and training", - said B. Kolesnikov in an interview with the Italian edition Ilsole24ore.
Assessing the work of organizing for Euro 2012, UEFA COO Martin Kallen said: “ It was a great tournament that set new standards for the future of the organization.» .
According to the French edition Lecercle.lesechos, a huge number of tourists visited Ukraine during the tournament, who were satisfied with the organization of Euro 2012. The championship made it possible to attract the attention of foreigners to a previously unknown country, which will allow developing the tourism business in the future.
According to a survey by the Research & Branding Group, almost two-thirds of Ukrainians received a positive impression of the championship. Three-quarters of Ukrainians believe that Euro 2012 was organized at a high level in their country, and only 12 percent think otherwise.
Opinions:
« When I go to Boris Kolesnikov's office, I see that he has all the construction sites displayed on his computer, and he is monitoring them online", - said Mr. Tigipko, adding that he highly appreciates the efforts of Mr. Kolesnikov in preparing Ukraine for the European Championship. " It is very good that we are included in the UEFA schedules, and now we are fulfilling our obligations, the implementation of which previously had serious concerns. I believe that this is the personal merit of Boris Kolesnikov, since it is he who is actively involved in the issues of Euro 2012", - notes Serhiy Tigipko.
For the rapid pace of construction and renovation of stadiums and airports, UEFA Secretary General Gianni Infantino nicknamed him Super Boris.
According to the newspaper "Comments" " After Euro 2012 Kolesnikov may become the most popular "blue-white" politician. The assessment of all activities of Deputy Prime Minister - Minister of Infrastructure Boris Kolesnikov for the entire period of his work in the Cabinet of Ministers will depend on how successful Euro 2012 will be in Ukraine.».
Ministry of Infrastructure of Ukraine
The ban on filming at railway stations and airports has been lifted.
Railway
To implement the planned plans - to unite Kiev and the Ukrainian cities hosting Euro 2012 by high-speed trains, at the end of December 2010 a contract was signed with the Hyundai Corporation for Ukrzaliznytsia to receive 10 new interregional electric trains.
Moreover, the first six trains will make it possible to organize high-speed travel between Kiev, Donetsk, Kharkov and Lvov. For example, it will be possible to get to Kharkov in 3.5 hours, to Lviv - in 4.5 hours, to Donetsk - in 5.5-6 hours.
High-speed trains purchased from the South Korean company Hyundai do not withstand the freezing winter, break down and stand idle for hours.
Former Infrastructure Minister Boris Kolesnikov calls the problems with high-speed trains a technical misunderstanding, which makes him ashamed and unpleasant.
The total turnover of "Konti" and "APK-Invest" in the past year exceeded 4 billion UAH. And the state of Boris Kolesnikov himself is estimated at $ 810 million.
Charity
Prior to this, charitable activities were carried out in the form of personal donations. So, since 2004, on his initiative, the best students were rewarded with trips to Disneyland Paris, foreign trips for veterans were organized, and the reconstruction of the Olympic Sports Complex in Donetsk was carried out. Significant funds were invested in improving the health of children in need, supporting the country's cultural heritage.
According to the press service of the Foundation, today the organization's activities are carried out within the framework of programs aimed at developing education, identifying and supporting talented and active youth, promoting a healthy lifestyle, preserving the country's cultural and historical heritage and creating new historical, cultural, scientific values. ...
Boris Kolesnikov speaks very modestly about his contribution of the patron: “ I think that the activities of the fund will be useful for Ukrainians. It will be public, understandable and hopefully effective. But I won't speak for myself. I want people to appreciate my work».
In 2014, the foundation's activities are focused on the implementation of charitable projects and competitions for students. The main goal of these projects is to support talented, active youth, develop the intellectual potential of society through the implementation of educational programs, and revive the interest in engineering in the Ukrainian society.
Thus, all-Ukrainian charitable contests are held for future aviators, students of architecture and construction universities, as well as future specialists of the railway industry.
The winners annually go abroad to the best industry exhibitions, where they get acquainted with advanced technologies and industry novelties, meet with experts, communicate with students from other countries of the world, attend master classes, etc.
According to the organizers, such competitions stimulate children to acquire new knowledge and career growth.
In addition, in 2014, the program for the restoration of Donbass became a priority for the Boris Kolesnikov Foundation. The program provides support for students in secondary schools in the Donetsk region; restoration of the ice arena and the organization of hockey and figure skating sections for children 5-12 years old (together with HC Donbass); provision of material assistance to residents who suffered during the ATO.
On December 16, 2015, Borys Kolesnikov posted a bail of 2.5 million hryvnias for the former Deputy Minister of Justice of Ukraine Yuriy Ivashchenko, who is the lawyer of the ex-Minister of Justice of Ukraine Elena Lukash. "Today, Boris Kolesnikov posted a deposit for my friend and defender Yuri Ivashchenko. I express my deepest gratitude to him for that. Thank you!" Lukash wrote on the Facebook social network. She noted that she herself asked Kolesnikov to post bail for her lawyer. Thus, Ivaschenko will not be placed in jail.
Hockey club "Donbass"
In 2010, Boris Kolesnikov became the owner of the Donbass hockey club, which allowed the Donetsk region to become the real hockey capital of Ukraine. In the very first season, headed by Boris Kolesnikov, Donbass won the gold medals of the championship for the first time in its history, having issued a record winning streak for the country in 27 matches in a row in the regular stage, and then beat the capital's Sokol in the final (1: 0 and 3 : 2). Subsequently, Donbass twice in a row confirmed their title of champion of the country, lifting the FHU Cup over their heads in the seasons 2011/12 and 2012/13. In the summer of May 31, 2011 in Moscow, at the general meeting of the Higher Hockey League, HC "Donbass" was unanimously adopted as a member of the non-profit partnership "VHL". For the first time in the history of independent Ukraine, a domestic club went to Canada to prepare for a performance in the Higher Hockey League. And upon his return to Ukraine, he organized and held at the highest level the first international tournament "Open Cup of Donbass", in which three clubs of the Continental Hockey League also took part - SKA (St. Petersburg), "Dynamo" (Minsk) and "Dynamo" (Riga ). The Donetsk team finished the 2011/12 season in the VHL just a step away from the Bratina Cup final, losing to the future champion - Toros from Neftekamsk. In July 2012, by the decision of the leadership of the Continental Hockey League, HC "Donbass" was admitted to the list of the strongest hockey league in Europe. At the end of their first regular season in the KHL, the club finished 9th in the Western Conference and failed to make it to the playoffs, losing only one point to Atlant.
In January 2013 Donetsk “Donbass” became the first and so far the only Ukrainian club to win the prestigious European tournament under the auspices of the IIHF - the 2012/13 Continental Cup. In the Superfinal, the matches of which were held at the Donetsk Druzhba Arena from January 11 to 13, at that time he was still a two-time champion of Ukraine, defeated Metallurg Belarus (1: 0), Italian Bolzano (3: 0) and French "Rouen Dragons" (7: 1), gaining the maximum possible 9 points.
Donbass managed to improve its results in the KHL already in the next season. Having played 54 matches, the Donetsk team finished the first part of the championship in fourth place in the Western Conference, becoming the record holder for the minimum number of goals conceded per season - 99. As a result, on March 7, 2014, the Druzhba Arena hosted the playoffs of the KHL round for the first time in the history of Ukrainian hockey. ... At the quarter-finals stage, the Donetsk team knocked out Dynamo Riga from the further struggle, but in the semifinals of the conference, as a result of a six-match series, they missed the Prague Lev. It is noteworthy that then Donbass was able to play at home only once - due to the tense political situation in Ukraine, the KHL board banned the games at the Druzhba Arena in Donetsk.
Donbass set another KHL record already in the playoffs, having played the longest match against Prague Lion, which lasted 126 minutes and 14 seconds. Then the decisive goal was scored by Donbass defender Andrey Konev, and the game itself went down in history as the Prague Marathon.
In 2013, HC Donbass created the largest school fan sector in the KHL, which consisted of more than 1,500 fans from 22 schools in Donetsk and Luhansk regions. The members of the fan association, together with the Donetsk club, visited different cities of six countries - Russia, France, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Latvia and Croatia.
In the summer of 2014, due to the complicated political situation in Donetsk, the club was forced to refuse to participate in the seventh season of the KHL, and the main team of the club was sent on “academic leave”. The same fate awaited the Molodaya Gvardiya team, which took part in the Youth Hockey League, and Donbass-98.
In the same summer, Boris Kolesnikov made a decision to preserve the Ice Children and Youth Sports School, moving it to the city of Druzhkovka for training at the Altair Ice Arena. Since September 1, 2014, more than 900 children from Slavyansk, Kramatorsk, Konstantinovka and Druzhkovka have been attracted to the Donbass Youth Sports School, who began to play hockey and figure skating free of charge. The club provided each young athlete with the necessary equipment, qualified coaching staff, as well as comfortable club buses that bring and take children to the Altair aircraft and back to their settlements. The enrollment of children continued in 2015.
In the 2015/16 season, three teams of the Donbass Youth Sports School were transported to the Terminal aircraft base in the city of Brovary. Such a change in the permanent training place was due to the participation of the teams "Donbass 2003", "Donbass 2004" and "Donbass 2005" in the championships of Belarus and a corresponding reduction in the time spent on visiting the tournament away matches. Most of the Ice School continued its activities in Druzhkovka, adding more than 300 pupils in the hockey and figure skating section to its ranks with the new season. Today, the Donbass Youth Sports School is the largest in Ukraine, with more than 1,100 pupils. In the summer of 2015, it was decided to revive the first team of HC "Donbass", which applied to participate in the Ukrainian Championship of the 2015/16 season. In a short time, the club's management managed to assemble a team that took the second “gold” for itself at the traditional pre-season Donbass Open Cup tournament, adding to the triumph in 2013 also a victory in 2015, and then won the fourth set of Donbass gold medals in national championship.
In addition to the sports component, the Donbass hockey club participates in various social and charitable projects. Since 2014, together with the Boris Kolesnikov Charitable Foundation, the club has been implementing a social project dedicated to the World Knowledge Day. In 2014, first-graders from Slavyansk, Nikolaevka, Kramatorsk, Druzhkovka, Konstantinovka received 2,500 gift backpacks. A year later, 2,400 first-graders from schools in Konstantinovskiy and Krasnoarmeyskiy districts, as well as in Druzhkovka and Konstantinovka, received branded backpacks of HC Donbass. Also, every year, new backpacks and educational supplies are received by the pupils of the Children's and Youth Sports School of the HC Donbass
Every year on St. Nicholas Day and on New Year's Eve, the Donbass hockey club, together with the Boris Kolesnikov Charitable Foundation, congratulates pupils and teachers of schools and boarding schools in Donetsk region on the winter holidays. This tradition dates back to 2013, when Donetsk HC Donbass began to congratulate its fan clubs throughout the city and beyond (Artemovsk, Druzhkovka, Zugres, Konstantinovka, Torez and Yasinovataya).
In 2014, despite the fact that the main team of HC Donbass; missed the sports season, this did not affect the project in any way. On the eve of St. Nicholas Day, ex-players; Young Guard "Ruslan Romashchenko, Vladimir Cherdak and Maxim Martyshko congratulated the students and teachers of 11 educational institutions of Druzhkovka, Konstantinovka, Kramatorsk, Krasnoarmeisk, Nikolaevka, Svyatogorsk, Slavyansk, as well as Konstantinovsky and Krasnoarmeysky districts, thus, more than 55,000 New Year's sweet gifts and souvenirs.
In 2015, the scale of the project increased, and 60,000 children and teachers of schools, boarding schools and lyceums of the Donetsk region received New Year gifts from HC Donbass and the Fund. The players of the first team of the Donetsk club took part in the project, including the repeated champions of Ukraine, hockey players of the national team, ex-players of the NHL, KHL and VHL. Official delegations of HC Donbass and the Fund personally visited 43 educational institutions of Druzhkovka, Konstantinovka, Krasnoarmeysk, Kramatorsk, Svyatogorsk, Slavyansk, as well as settlements of Konstantinovsky and Krasnoarmeisky districts.
Family
Kolesnikov is married (wife Svetlana Kolesnikova), has two children - daughter Ekaterina (born in 2004) and son Konstantin (1992).
Awards and titles
Notes
- League: Dossier, biography (unspecified) ... Archived December 4, 2012.
- Correspondent, biography (unspecified) ... Archived December 4, 2012.
- Opposition Bloc Appoints Kolesnikov as Shadow Premier of LB.ua, 28.03.2015
- Sergey Rudenko's website (unspecified) ... Archived December 4, 2012.
- League: Dossier (unspecified) ... Archived December 4, 2012.
- (unspecified) ... Archived December 4, 2012.
- Newly made People's Deputy Olga Gerasimyuk drives only with a driver, and her colleague in ... - Newspaper "FACTS and Comments"
- Renat Kuzmin: "Akhmetov could become poorer by $ 2 billion." - A criminal group was operating in the GPU and the Ministry of Internal Affairs, engaged in falsification of a criminal case - LB.ua
- Euronews starts broadcasting in Ukrainian (unspecified) ... Archived December 4, 2012.
- Euronews to start broadcasting in Ukrainian (unspecified) ... Archived December 20, 2012.
- Uateka.com (unspecified) ... Archived December 4, 2012.
- Focus (unspecified) ... Archived December 4, 2012.
- Nestor Shufrich: We are already starting to repeat Yushchenko's mistakes
- Vіkіpedіya Euro-2012 (unspecified) ... Archived December 4, 2012.
- (unspecified) ... Archived December 4, 2012.
- Ilsole24ore, interview "Euro 2012: in Ucraina 700mila biglietti venduti, quasi due milioni di visitatori e investimenti per 5 miliardi $" (unspecified) .
The father of the former deputy chief of the GUEB and PC Boris Kolesnikov does not believe in the official version that his son committed suicide. In an interview, the site Ivan Kolesnikov told who he considers guilty of the death of his son
Former Deputy Chief of the GUEBiPK of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, Major General of Police Boris Kolesnikov. Photo: ITAR-TASS
Many are now trying to get to the bottom of the reasons for the death of Boris Kolesnikov. TFR reported suicide. But your son has stated more than once that he fears for his life.
Ivan Kolesnikov: They wanted to kill him even earlier, when he was hospitalized with a fractured skull. Then there was another attempt. And now they begin to engage in nonsense and say that it was a suicide. He has three small children!
Tell me, since the arrest of your son, which took place on February 27, have you managed to meet him at least once in the pre-trial detention center?
Ivan Kolesnikov: No. Together with his wife, we asked and demanded many times. But we were never given a date.
And how did the investigation motivate the refusal?
Ivan Kolesnikov: They said that we would harm the investigation, that we would incorrectly set up him to give not such testimony. In general, they categorically refused.
Did the investigator Sergey Novikov refuse?
Ivan Kolesnikov: Yes he. Lieutenant colonel. Both he and the judges (they made the decision on the arrest, extended it, and also considered the complaints of Kolesnikov's defenders - site) acted as the FSB ordered them. This is real murder. In extreme cases, driving to suicide. No, he was not thrown out himself! They say that he threw the convoy. Yes, this is nonsense, there were such bogies guarding him.
Lawyer Anna Stavitskaya, who managed to talk after the incident with another lawyer of Boris Kolesnikov, Sergei Chizhikov, who was present at the interrogation, told a different version. According to Chizhikov, she knows that Boris Kolesnikov went to smoke with investigator Sergei Novikov on the balcony, and then the investigator ran into the office shouting that the accused had thrown himself out ... Did you manage to talk to a lawyer?
Ivan Kolesnikov: No, I still haven't got through to Chizhikov ...
Did you manage to see your son in court?
Ivan Kolesnikov: Yes, on June 11 in the Basmanny Court, when the complaint of his lawyer Georgy Antonov about his suspension from participation in the case was considered. Boris lost 30 kg. He looked terrible - he was skin and bones. When his skull was broken for the first time in the pre-trial detention center, that's for sure - his family was intimidated, they said that the family would suffer. Therefore, the son said that he allegedly washed the window and fell. When he was hospitalized, the lawyers were presented with medical documents. It followed from them: how many times did you have to fall to get such injuries and break the skull? The doctors of Hospital No. 5 gave a preliminary conclusion that the blows had been inflicted with a blunt hard object on the motionless head. So he was lying and he was swept away ...
Despite the severity of his injuries, Boris Kolesnikov did not stay in the hospital for long?
Ivan Kolesnikov: He was quickly transferred from there, they said that he would run away from the hospital. He had skull fractures in front and behind. What are these non-serious injuries? And the second time, according to lawyers, he had bruises and bruises on his face. So, the second time he was swept aside .. Well, now they finished it off.
His wife, after her husband's arrest, left for Bulgaria with the children. Was Boris afraid of something?
Ivan Kolesnikov: Sure. But it's better to ask his lawyers about this.
The newspaper "Moskovsky Komsomolets" wrote that your son allegedly used cocaine ...
Ivan Kolesnikov: Yes it is nonsense. When Boris's arrest was extended on April 10, his wife saw that he was wearing torn shoes. She also asked investigator Novikov for permission to buy him sneakers: “Well, you have a general sitting here like that”? He allowed. She ran, bought, and immediately threw these old ones into the trash. And when Boris was brought back to Lefortovo, the employees saw the new shoes and took them away to the warehouse. She was lying there for over a month. And in these sneakers, the sole with cavities and, behold, they began to scold, they came up with the idea that the wife allegedly transferred cocaine (in shoes). What cocaine is there? The shoes were straight from the store. Boris simply adored children, he constantly rested with them. Which drugs?!
The TFR posted an official message yesterday that Kolesnikov tried to commit suicide twice in the pre-trial detention center ...
Ivan Kolesnikov: They are now trying to present those two cases of beating as attempted suicide. During interrogation in the ICR, I asked to show evidence on what basis the people - my son and other employees of the GUEB and the PK - are sitting. They say, "We have proof." And I say: "You have nothing!" This is revenge on the part of the FSB, one hundred percent. I myself worked as an investigator in my youth and I know this system from the inside. She's all rotten.
When is your son's funeral scheduled?
Ivan Kolesnikov: My daughter-in-law and two of my other sons went today on this matter. But they are not even allowed into the morgue. They didn't even see the body. It is necessary for the Investigative Committee to issue some certificates, but the Investigative Committee does not give them for some reason. I asked when we would bury. But nobody knows anything. Need help. What they want, they do, the chaos is complete.
In the Investigative Committee of Russia website to the question of what the reasons for the delay in issuing documents to Kolesnikov's relatives were connected with, they asked to send an official request in this regard. The request was sent, but at the time of preparation of the material, no response was received.
It is worth noting that Kolesnikov himself and most of the defendants detained with him, including his boss, the ex-head of the GUEB and the PC, Lieutenant General Denis Sugrobov, deny the existence of a criminal community within the police structure. They reject accusations that in order to increase the quantitative performance indicators, employees of the anti-corruption department exceeded their official powers and with the help of agents provoked suspects into mating. The GUEB officers explain their criminal prosecution by the conflict with another powerful structure - the FSB, whose employee they began to develop. Currently, 10 employees of the GUEB and PC are under investigation - ex-head of the department Denis Sugrobov, several mid-level managers of the department and their subordinates, as well as three agents of the head office. Police officers are arrested.
Boris Viktorovich Kolesnikov was born in Donetsk region in Mariupol, October 25, 1962.
Education.
In 1991 he graduated from the Donetsk College of Soviet Trade (specializing in commodity science). 1997 - Donetsk Academy of Management (specialty - industrial management).
Career:
- 1980-1985 - the seller of the Kuibyshevsky department of working supply of PO Donetskugol. 1985-1986 - the seller of the Donetsk wholesale and retail plant. 1986 - carpenter of Donetsk metalworking equipment maintenance center. 1986-1992 - purveyor, seller of the Donetsk city association of collective farm markets.
- 1992-1993 - Deputy head, head of the trade and procurement enterprise in Donetsk. 1993-1996 - General Director of the Collective Trading Firm Yug.
- 1996-1999 - General Director, Chairman of the Board of CJSC Firma Yug. At the same time, Kolesnikov held the post of Chairman of the CJSC PO Kiev-Konti, which belongs to him, specializing in the production of confectionery products (since 2006, the company has been called KONTI; today it controls significant shares of the Ukrainian and Russian confectionery market, including three factories with a staff of 9 thousand. person).
- In 1999, businessman Kolesnikov came to power. Until May 2001, he was the deputy chairman of the Donetsk Regional Council. Then another five years - the chairman of the regional council.
- In 2006 and 2007. becomes a People's Deputy of Ukraine from the Party of Regions. He worked in the BP Committee on Economic Policy.
- Since March 2010 - Deputy Prime Minister for Euro 2012 in the government of Mykola Azarov. On December 9, 2010, as a result of the administrative reform that began, he became Deputy Prime Minister - Minister of Infrastructure of Ukraine.
- Since December 2012 - People's Deputy of Ukraine of the VII convocation from the Party of Regions (No. 8 in the list). Head of the VR Committee on Transport and Communications.
About person:
Among the hobbies of Boris Viktorovich is his passion for hockey and football. During a certain period of his career, he was seriously involved in the management of FC Shakhtar Donetsk. And in 2010 he acquired the Donetsk ice hockey club Donbass.
Family:
Svetlana's wife.
Son Constantine (born 1992)
Daughter Ekaterina (born in 2004)
Compromising evidence and rumors:
On May 9, 2016 it became known that Kolesnikov and his wife took the Conti confectionery company offshore. The confectionery company "Konti", whose beneficiaries are Rinat Akhmetov's brother Igor and an ex-deputy, a member of the opposition bloc, which they call "opposition prime minister" Boris Kolesnikov, was taken offshore. She was registered in December 2014 in the British Virgin Islands.
On July 28, 2016 it became known that the ex-Deputy Prime Minister Kolesnikov probably joined the ranks of the Ukrainian "diaspora" in Moscow. And it is likely that he has very good reasons for emigrating. Some media outlets write that Kolesnikov simply broke his leg and allegedly this happened a month ago. If so, the trouble happens to him for the second time, the first time Boris Kolesnikov already had such an adventure in 2007, while skiing. However, as it became known from a trusted source, the former Deputy Prime Minister has been absent from Ukraine for almost two months, so he left for Moscow. And he has no desire to return to his homeland. The expert of the European Council on Foreign Relations, Andrew Wilson, in his blog on the website of the Financial Times, argued that “kickbacks” reached 40% only for the execution of work for Euro 2012. Domestic media called other figures - from 60 to 80%. "White" flows are also impressive: the National Agency for the preparation of Euro 2012, controlled by Kolesnikov, in 2011-2012 approved 304 purchases carried out according to a non-competitive procedure "from one participant", for a total of 18.8 billion hryvnia. According to one version, Kolesnikov himself “rolled back” only a part of the promised pie. Therefore, someone probably asked a simple question: where are the others? There is no money, and therefore Boris Viktorovich is selling his business. The source claims that in the friendly environment of the ex-Deputy Prime Minister, they reacted with understanding to the unpleasant turn in his fate. Someone, perhaps, felt sorry for him, but did not dare to intercede. In addition, the positions of the business group, to which Kolesnikov belongs, have been preserved. Assets are even growing - recently Akhmetov bought Ukrtelecom.
In 2011, journalist Sergei Leshchenko published information about Kolesnikov's involvement in non-transparent construction tenders in preparation for Euro 2012.
At the end of December 2010, a contract was signed with Hyundai Corporation for Ukrzaliznytsia to receive 10 new interregional electric trains. High-speed trains purchased from a South Korean company do not withstand the freezing winter, break down and stand idle for hours. Kolesnikov calls the problems with high-speed trains a technical misunderstanding.
In October 2010, in Lviv, 49 buses with tournament symbols were handed over to the first host cities of Euro 2012. During the ceremony, a high official initiated an accident - Kolesnikov suggested that representatives of city administrations get behind the wheel of buses painted with Euro 2012 symbols and make a circle of honor around the plant. The Deputy Prime Minister himself got behind the wheel of a bus intended for Donetsk and, having traveled several tens of meters, at the turn, crashed into a traffic police escort car that was standing on the side of the road.
In August 2005, the head of the Donetsk Regional Council promised to put the "orange" people behind bars, who set the law enforcement officers on him (first of all, the ex-Interior Minister Yuriy Lutsenko). Nevertheless, having come to power in the 2006 parliamentary elections, the Party of Regions did not jail any of its high-ranking “orange” competitors. And Kolesnikov himself was not against the creation of a "broad coalition" with pro-Yushchenko's Our Ukraine.
Since 2005, Boris Viktorovich has been an ardent opponent of Yuri Lutsenko. One of the reasons is that Kolesnikov considers the Minister of Internal Affairs to be the initiator of his arrest, therefore he is not shy in his expressions: “Lutsenko is a cynical bastard. In the summer of 2007, before the early parliamentary elections, we met with him in Viktor Baloga's office. The head of the secretariat asked our headquarters not to destroy Lutsenko in the elections. The minister, out of fear, drank a bottle of cognac in the president's break room and cried for forty minutes, asking to forgive him. He asked for forgiveness from me and my wife. I then asked him about only one thing: once to apologize publicly. He replied: "Then how will politics come to an end to me." I said: “Yuriy Vitalievich, you will come to an end one way or another” (“Ukrainska Pravda”, March 4, 2009). Yuri Vitalievich refutes what Boris Viktorovich said: “The scenes described by Kolesnikov did not exist and could not exist in principle. I knew that Kolesnikov was a six, but I did not know that he was also a fraudulent six ”(Focus, March 20, 2009).
After the 2004 presidential elections and the Orange Revolution, Kolesnikov fell under the gun of political opponents who had come to power. Within the framework of the implementation of Viktor Yushchenko's pre-election slogan "Prisons for Bandits!" law enforcement agencies opened a criminal case against the chairman of the Donetsk regional council. In particular, he was charged with taking possession with extortion of shares in the fashionable Donetsk shopping center "White Swan". The politician spent several months in jail. Eminent foreign and domestic lawyers, with the support of authoritative regional politicians, have achieved the release of Kolesnikov from custody and the closure of the criminal case "in the absence of corpus delicti." And later the victim in the "Kolesnikov case", the former co-owner of "White Swan", himself came under investigation - "for perjury."
Since a young age, Kolesnikov has been friends with Rinat Akhmetov, the richest Ukrainian, the owner of SCM, and one of the few heaviest figures in the Party of Regions. It is no coincidence that the oligarch entrusted Kolesnikov with the post of vice-president of the Shakhtar Football Club - not the most profitable, but one of his favorite business projects.
In 1991 he graduated from the Donetsk College of Soviet Trade (specializing in commodity science). 1997 - Donetsk Academy of Management (specialty - industrial management).
Career.1980-1985 - the seller of the Kuibyshevsky department of working supply of PO Donetskugol. 1985-1986 - the seller of the Donetsk wholesale and retail plant. 1986 - carpenter of Donetsk metalworking equipment maintenance center. 1986-1992 - purveyor, seller of the Donetsk city association of collective farm markets.
1992-1993 - Deputy head, head of the trade and procurement enterprise in Donetsk. 1993-1996 - General Director of the Collective Trading Firm Yug.
1996-1999 - General Director, Chairman of the Board of CJSC Firma Yug. At the same time, Kolesnikov holds the post of CEO of the Kiev-Konti CJSC, which he owns, specializing in the production of confectionery products (the company has been called since 2006; today it controls significant shares of the Ukrainian and Russian confectionery market, including three factories with a staff of 9 thousand ).
In 1999, businessman Kolesnikov came to power. Until May 2001, he was the deputy chairman of the Donetsk Regional Council. Then another five years - the chairman of the regional council.
In 2006 and 2007. becomes a people's deputy of Ukraine from. He worked in the BP Committee on Economic Policy.
Since March 2010 - Deputy Prime Minister for Euro 2012 in the government. On December 9, 2010, as a result of the administrative reform that began, he became Deputy Prime Minister - Minister of Infrastructure of Ukraine.
From December 2012 to November 2014 - People's Deputy of Ukraine of the VII convocation from the Party of Regions (No. 8 in the list). Head of the VR Committee on Transport and Communications.
On May 27, 2016, at the congress of the Opposition Bloc, Boris Kolesnikov and the head of the Opposition Bloc faction in parliament were elected as party co-chairs.
On early parliamentary elections 2019 ran in the 49th majoritarian district (Donetsk region). Lost in the constituency following the voting resultslosing to party candidate Valery Gnatenko.
Positions and ratings. For a long time Kolesnikov has been one of the most famous and respected businessmen and politicians of the Donetsk region. Recently, he has been an inhabitant of the political Olympus of Ukraine. He is one of the most influential members of the Party of Regions. In the early parliamentary elections of 2007, he was held under the same 10th number on the electoral list as in 2006, although, according to observers, this place does not reflect his real weight in the party. He headed the pre-election headquarters of the PR. Deputy head of the party and the faction of the regionals in the parliament. Member of the Presidium of the Political Council of the PR.
Scandals. After the 2004 presidential elections and the Orange Revolution, Kolesnikov fell under the gun of political opponents who had come to power. As part of the implementation of the pre-election slogan "Prison for the Bandits!" law enforcement agencies opened a criminal case against the chairman of the Donetsk regional council. In particular, he was charged with taking possession with extortion of shares in the fashionable Donetsk shopping center "White Swan". The politician spent several months in jail. Eminent foreign and domestic lawyers, with the support of authoritative regional politicians, have achieved the release of Kolesnikov from custody and the closure of the criminal case "in the absence of corpus delicti." And later the victim in the "Kolesnikov case", the former co-owner of "White Swan", himself came under investigation - "for perjury."
Coming out of the prison in August 2005, the head of the Donetsk regional council promised to put the "orange" people behind bars, who set the law enforcement officers on him (first of all, the ex-head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs). Nevertheless, having come to power in the 2006 parliamentary elections, the Party of Regions did not jail any of its high-ranking “orange” competitors. And Kolesnikov himself was not against the creation of a "broad coalition" with pro-Yushchenko's Our Ukraine.
However, after the victory in the 2010 presidential elections of the leader of the regionals Yanukovych, some opponents of the "white-blue" still ended up behind bars - in particular, ex-prime minister and ex-head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Lutsenko.
At the end of December 2010, a contract was signed with Hyundai Corporation for Ukrzaliznytsia to receive 10 new interregional electric trains. High-speed trains purchased from a South Korean company do not withstand the freezing winter, break down and stand idle for hours. Kolesnikov calls the problems with high-speed trains a technical misunderstanding.
In 2011, journalist Sergei Leshchenko published information about Kolesnikov's involvement in non-transparent construction tenders in preparation for Euro 2012.
Condition.According to the Focus magazine, published in February 2008, Kolesnikov's fortune reached $ 470 million, an increase of $ 250 million over the previous year. In the ranking of the 130 richest Ukrainians, the co-founder of KONTI took 56th place. A few months later, experts from the Korrespondent magazine counted his assets worth $ 271 million, assigning 50th place in their rating of the richest compatriots.
Regalia. Honored Economist of Ukraine. Winner of the silver medal "Independence of Ukraine" and the insignia of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine "Law and Honor". Awarded the Order of Merit, II and III degrees.
Family, social circle.The politician is married. He has a son (born 1992) and a daughter (born 2004).
From a young age Kolesnikov has been friends with - the richest Ukrainian, the owner of the company, and one of the few heaviest figures in the Party of Regions. It is no coincidence that the oligarch entrusted Kolesnikov with the post of vice-president of the Shakhtar Football Club - not the most profitable, but one of his favorite business projects.
General Boris Kolesnikov is a well-known person involved in a scandalous criminal case. From 2012 to 2014, he served as Deputy Head of the Main Directorate for Economic Security and Anti-Corruption under the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation.
Biography of the security officer
General Boris Kolesnikov was born in Moscow in 1977. He began working in the police together with Denis Sugrobov, who later also became a general and Kolesnikov's immediate superior. Together they served in the department for combating organized crime of the Department of Internal Affairs of the Northern Administrative District of the capital.
Their work in the 90s was noticed and appreciated by the direct management. As a result, in 1999 both Sugrobov and Kolesnikov were transferred to the central regional administration, which was involved in the fight against organized crime.
Up the career ladder
In 2001, the future general Boris Kolesnikov became an operational officer of the main department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, in charge of the Central Federal District.
Over time, Kolesnikov moved to the post of department head of the tenth operational-search bureau. He was directly involved in the fight against organized crime. The bureau was part of the Department of Economic Security of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation.
In the summer of 2011, a large-scale reorganization of the Ministry of Internal Affairs took place, after which the hero of our article became the head of department "B". His field of activity included the investigation of crimes committed in the public sector. The work was directly related to the detection of crimes among officials, including those holding very high positions, for example, mayors of cities. Kolesnikov joined the new department. It was named the Main Directorate for Economic Security and Anti-Corruption of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
In 2012, he was promoted to colonel and became deputy head of this department. He began to supervise, in addition to department "B", also department "K", which was engaged in the fight against corruption, and department "M" (which investigates crimes in the field of metallurgy and machine building).
Kolesnikov received the rank of Major General of Police in the fall of 2013.
Among colleagues and acquaintances, he was characterized positively, was married, had three minor children.
Service successes
General Boris Kolesnikov's track record includes many successful investigations, major corruption crimes, in the solution of which he took part.
In particular, the hero of our article participated in the disclosure of major frauds of officials in Kabardino-Balkaria, the investigation of the chief physician of polyclinic No. 2 in the management of the affairs of Russian President Anatoly Brontwein, who was accused of receiving the so-called kickback, which he got for concluding a major state contract with contractor.
High-profile cases
Interior Ministry General Boris Kolesnikov investigated scams related to the purchase of tomographs by medical institutions, this case was under the control of Dmitry Medvedev, who at that time was the President of Russia. Investigated a criminal case against the acting department of the Rossreestr Olga Zhdanova, who was suspected of taking a large bribe for registering real estate, dealt with a case against one of the heads of the South Russian State University of Economics and Service in Shakhty, who was suspected of taking a bribe for appointment to the position ...
General Boris Kolesnikov was investigating the Oboronservis case and was dealing with the case of Sergei Bezyaev, the deputy director of the Herzen Oncological Center. He was also suspected of fraudulent government contracts. He also collected evidence against the director of the department of the Accounts Chamber, Alexander Mikhailik. He was accused of accepting a bribe for organizing an unscheduled inspection of the federal state institution "Sport Engineering".
Case against FSB officers
The loudest case of General Boris Kolesnikov, whose biography is in this article, was the investigation into the actions of employees of the Federal Security Service. It was initiated at the very end of 2013, when the department subordinate to the hero of our article began development against Valery Alexandrovich and Igor Leonidovich. Who these specific employees are, what their ranks and positions are, was not specified.
The media have expressed the version that we are talking about the head of the public fund of former FSB officers, who was named Valery Alexandrovich. According to unconfirmed reports, Igor Leonidovich is the deputy head of the sixth service of the ninth department of the FSB by the name of Demin.
According to law enforcement officials, one of the intermediaries who was involved in the development of the FSB officers handed in operational information, with the help of which the Federal Security Service was able to initiate a retaliatory investigation. Soon, General Kolesnikov's subordinates were arrested, and in February he himself received a summons demanding to appear for interrogation at the Investigative Committee. Initially, he was given the status of a witness. True, very soon he became a suspect and was arrested.
Under investigation
The hero of our article was himself under investigation, by a court decision he was taken into custody. In the spring of 2014, the president stripped Kolesnikov of his general post.
In April, already ex-general Boris Kolesnikov addressed an open letter to the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation Yuri Chaika and Chairman of the Investigative Committee Alexander Bastrykin, in which he outlined his own version of events. In May, the situation worsened due to the fact that in the remand prison where the suspect was kept, he began to regularly receive craniocerebral injuries, which the administration of the institution characterized as domestic. His defenders filed a complaint with the European Court of Human Rights, claiming that their client is in danger, he may even lose his life.
Suicide of Kolesnikov
On June 16, 2014, a tragedy occurred, to which many still have questions. Once again, ex-Interior Ministry general Boris Kolesnikov was taken for interrogation to the Investigative Committee. While talking with law enforcement officers, for an unknown reason, Kolesnikov fell out of the balcony located on the sixth floor.
As a result of the fall, he crashed to death. According to the official version, the former officer seized the opportunity and committed suicide.
Death versions
The death of General Boris Kolesnikov amazed many. Almost immediately after his death, various versions of what happened began to be put forward.
Some media began to present Kolesnikov as a high-ranking official who tried to fabricate a bribe case, and after his arrest smashed his head against the wall in a pre-trial detention center, after throwing himself from the sixth floor of the Investigative Committee.
Other publications portrayed Kolesnikov as an anti-corruption fighter who was arrested after he managed to expose a high-ranking bribe-taker from the Federal Security Service, who held the rank of general. After that, they punched him in the head in the detention center, and after another interrogation at the Investigative Committee, they simply threw him from the sixth floor.
There is also a version according to which this confrontation between the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the FSB arose due to the redistribution of the so-called cash market, which oversaw the cash payment terminals. If you believe this hypothesis, then the market was supervised by representatives of the Ministry of the Interior, including Kolesnikov and his associate Sugrobov.
Sugrobov's fate
Kolesnikov's associate Denis Sugrobov also became a defendant in a criminal case of abuse of office. It was the loudest corruption scandal in the Ministry of Internal Affairs in recent years.
According to the official version, which was adhered to by the investigation, Sugrobov and Kolesnikov tried to provoke an FSB officer to commit a crime. Under the guise of businessmen, they asked for general patronage for a solid reward - $ 10,000 a month.
An additional resonance to this case was given by the fact that Sugrobov was one of the youngest generals in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, promising and promising. He received a major general at the age of 36.
In April 2017, he was sentenced to 22 years in prison, and also stripped of all his titles. The Supreme Court later commuted the sentence by 10 years.