The leaders of the Ternopil financial pyramid "Helix" feel great in Monaco.
Among the parked cars on the Monte Carlo square in Monaco, the "TSN" investigators found a luxurious Bentley Continental, which belongs to a resident of Ternopil, Artur Karpyuk.
Such a used car costs 200 thousand dollars. Registration - Kiev region. This is reported by NAVIGATOR
Journalists notice this car near the most expensive hotel in Monaco.
"We saw this car twice - in the evening and in the morning in the same place. There is no number in the front, but there is in the back. Journalists learned that the car is registered to Artur Karpyuk - he is 39 years old and he is the managing co-owner of a publishing and printing group of companies (in Ternopil he owns Zaza Print LLC. - author), as well as a co-founder of a charitable foundation.
2015 ran for the Ternopil City Council, but lost the election"
In social networks, Artur publishes messages mainly about helping the army.
Journalists called Karpyuk to find out if he had been to Monaco. He says that his godmother drives the car, and he himself is at home in Ternopil, and is ready to prove this via video link.
“I am in Ternopil, unfortunately, de facto the car is not mine, de jure it is mine. Due to military difficulties, it is difficult to re-register it. This car is now driven by my godmother. My godmother leads a richer life than I can afford, they have an overseas business. This car has been abroad since the summer of 2021, I personally drove it,” says Artur Karpyuk.
Because of this car, two years ago he had a conversation with the State Bureau of Investigation, which, after an investigation by Ukrainska Pravda called "Battalion Monaco", checked all the defendants.
"In In 2022, I was a little bit pleasantly and unpleasantly surprised to find myself on the list of the "Monaco Battalion," he says.
In principle, Artur Karpyuk did not lie. But he did not finish the story.
The husband of his godmother (Irina Novomlinskaya), who drives a Bentley, is none other than one of the notorious directors of the financial pyramid "Helix", which cheated participants out of millions of hryvnias (at the beginning of 2017, the amount of damage caused by this criminal group amounted to more than 40 million hryvnias), Roman Felik.
Of course, directors Roman Felik, Dmitry Naguta, Bogdan Vorontsov and others involved in the scams of "Helix" eight years ago, when the investigation and trials were "on everyone’s lips", are not behind bars.
According to journalists, several years ago Roman Felik and Co. started and launched a new financial scheme. Therefore, Artur Karpyuk, who from this company remained in Ternopil, could still tell a lot.