Honorary President of Dnipro-1 Yuriy Bereza spoke about the consequences of managing the club in his absence.
Yuriy Bereza. Photo by O. Kozin- What is the situation with Dnipro-1 today?
- Until I take off my shoulder straps, I can't comment on anything in particular, although there are a lot of emotions. I have hired a company of lawyers to clean up what Kolomoisky's stablemates have done at Dnipro-1. I have a rough idea of what the problem is, but not yet. That's why I'm refraining from making specific accusations and appeals to the football authorities and law enforcement agencies for now.
My son Maksym and I volunteered for the war in February 2022, so since then we have not been able to follow the events at the club.
- Could you elaborate on what kind of check the lawyers are conducting? Is it to check whether funds have been withdrawn from the club?
- Yes. Why, for example, in 2021, the club's budget was 70 million, and in 2022, when there was a war, it was 260? And in 2023, it was 600. Where did the money come from? Who approved the budget, who took the money, what was the purpose of the money, and the main question is: from whom was the money taken and on what terms?
Such questions should be asked not to me, but to Kolomoisky's stable boy, Friedman. Sooner or later, he will have to answer. What was the money taken for? For what achievements? Did they win the Champions League or something like that? I didn't see that, but I did see hotel bills where they charged more than 100,000 hryvnias for whiskey.
There's also the "great general director of the Carpathians" Rusol, ask him too. Where was the money and what was it used for? 260 and 600 million in a country at war. Ask these two, not me, because I spent three years at war.
- Yes, and what about Dnipro-1?
- It so happened that during the three years of full-scale war, the management turned Dnipro-1 into either a scam or stole the money and ran away. This is my personal opinion.
- Did it start back in 2022?
- Yes, when Krasnikov and Kucher, this Kharkiv gang, came to the club. The question is, who were the officials of Dnipro-1? Rusol and Friedman. Friedman, the commercial director, is responsible for financial matters. Why in 2022, once a week during international games, did the club pay the coaching staff whiskey bills for more than 100,000 hryvnias? What kind of coaches are these?
Ask Friedman, because Bereza was in Bakhmut, Sievierodonetsk, Lysychansk at the time, participating in the Kharkiv operation. How and from where could I see who was paying for what? So the question is not for me.
Ivan Sharov
