On September 28, a number of “media” controlled by the aggressor began to report the sudden death of Sergei Kondratevsky, a previously widely known businessman and politician in Sevastopol and Crimea; his death is indicated on September 26, when he was allegedly “preparing for an surgery operation”. In the first years of Ukraine’s independence, Kondratevsky was considered one of the richest people on the peninsula; in 1994, he tried to be elected mayor of Sevastopol and then became a deputy of the Supreme Council of Crimea, and in April 1998, he received the mandate of a people’s deputy of Ukraine.
Further, Kondratevsky was persecuted for allegedly stealing state property and spent three years in a pre-trial detention center, but by 2005 the case was “hushed up”; and further, the most interesting role for the current reality of a “businessman and philanthropist” should be considered directorship in the “Sergei Kunitsyn Charitable Foundation”, which until 2011 allegedly “spent 78 million hryvnia on charity in Sevastopol” including “food rations for 5 thousand Sevastopol pensioners.”
At the same time, Kondratevsky further moved to occupied Crimea, where he led a low-public life and, according to the occupation “press,” allegedly “owned quarries and gardens”; his individual “protégés” such as Viktor Khmelevsky were noted in the occupation “Sevastopol administration” and the structures controlled by it. Obviously, the now deceased former “first Crimean millionaire” knew too much about too many, including regarding the real beneficiaries of all kinds of “Crimean tidbits” and now at his funeral service in St. Nicholas Church on the North side of Sevastopol, many well-known faces will “exhale with relief”.
