The Ministry of Internal Affairs is showing interest in the restoration activities in Kyiv.
The National Police investigators are examining potential misuse of money during the repair of certain buildings in the capital that were damaged by Russian rockets last year. There are suspicions of misconduct in the restoration of four schools in the Obolonsky district and two apartment buildings, which used around 187 million hryvnias.
The investigation suggests that funds were misappropriated through familiar schemes, such as inflating the cost of work by as much as 2.5 times. No officials from the contractor companies or the customers of the work have been charged yet, but this could change once the full extent of the damage is determined. It's possible that other affected establishments and residential buildings will also be included in the investigation, as the city authorities planned to spend over 1 billion hryvnias on repairs last year.
As became known KVlaw enforcement officers are investigating the facts of possible budgetary abuses by the capital’s officials in the restoration of buildings damaged in Kyiv during the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation.
The investigation is part of a criminal case. No. 12022100000000595was initiated by the Main Directorate of the National Police of Kyiv on August 10, 2022. The crimes in this case are provisionally classified as Part 1 of Art. 15 and part 4 of Art. 191 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine, involving attempted misappropriation or embezzlement of property by abusing official position on a large scale or under martial law or a state of emergency.
Throughout the investigation, the police found that contractor representatives purposely included false information in the work reports to misappropriate and misuse the allocated funds. The crimes were committed in collusion with the work customers. establishedIt's worth noting that Vyacheslav Nepop, the former head of the Zhilinveststroy-UKB utility company and deputy chairman of the Kiev City State Administration (KSCA), is responsible for the restoration of the buildings affected by rocket attacks in the capital. Nepop has a history of being accused of systemic corruption and misuse of budget funds for construction projects, so he is familiar with such investigations. informationPolice investigators looked into the repairs at four educational institutions in the Obolonsky district, which were carried out by three contractors – BK Mega Style LLC, Tsentra-Bud LLC, and Kiev Mechanization Department LLC.
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Conventional Approach
Investigators were interested in the repair work at four educational institutions in the Obolonsky district – school No. 168, school No. 256, sanatorium boarding school No. 21, and school number 4. The works were commissioned by the department of education of the Obolonskaya district state administration in the city of Kyiv (RGA). Three contractors – BK Mega Style LLC, Tsentra-Bud LLC, and Kiev Mechanization Department LLC – carried out the restoration in 2022.this company completed the renovation of the last two schools. Repair work was done as part of 23 contracts totaling about UAH 43.2 million. Each educational institution, except for school No. 4, was restored through several agreements for different work areas.).
As discovered investigatorand, while doing repairs in the first three schools, the contractors included in the work reports information about purchasing low-quality metal-plastic structures with lower heat transfer coefficients, which does not match the technical requirements and building codes. At the same time, contractors bought these structures from the manufacturer (Metall-Plast Production Company LLC) at lower prices than those indicated in the completion certificates.
Regarding school No. 4 law enforcement officers establishedthat the actual need for its repair was significantly less than the indicated restoration volumes. For example, not all the windows needed to be changed in this educational institution, only a part, as some of them were intact. Investigators tentatively concluded that the repair volume was overestimated by more than 2.5 times in this case.
Also, as part of this investigation, law enforcement officers paid attention to for possible violations in the restoration work of apartment buildings on the street. Solomiya Krushelnitskaya, 3-A in the Darnytskyi district (the building was damaged on March 17, 2022 from debris from a downed rocket. – KV) and st. Chernobylskaya, 9-A in the Svyatoshinsky district (this high-rise building was damaged under similar circumstances on March 15 last year. – KV).
Restoration of these buildings during 2022 was done by two contractors – BK Askon LLC and Komandor Company LLC respectively. The work was carried out under agreements totaling UAH 144 million (UAH 80 million for the first house and UAH 64 million for the second). The National Police found that inaccurate information was entered into the work reports, and “extra” budget funds were misappropriated.
It should be noted that, unlike the school repair contracts, there is no information in open sources about the number of contract transactions concluded for the restoration of these residential buildings. The reason is that, according to information management of KP “Zhilinveststroy-UKB”, these works were carried out without an open tender, and contractors were chosen based on lower price and experience.
Screenshot of one of the definitions in criminal proceedings
On October 3, 2022 as part of the investigation was appointed judicial construction and technical expertise, within which the real volumes of repair work in the mentioned schools of the Obolonsky district should be established. Later, on December 26, 2022, the same examination was appointed for the restoration work in the house on the street. Chernobylskaya, 9-A (information about the examination of work in a high-rise building on Solomiya Krushelnitskaya Street, 3-A is not in the state register of court decisions. – KV). The conduct of these examinations will help determine the exact amount of budget damage caused by the mentioned abuses in the future. It is likely that because of the lack of such data, law enforcement officers still classify these crimes as “attempted appropriation.”
The authorities are actively investigating the production. For instance, on February 2, law enforcement received permission to inspect a house on Chernobyl Street in Kyiv. It's possible that the police will also look into the restoration of other buildings in the city as more than 1 billion hryvnias were allocated for such work in 2022. The city received 511.5 million hryvnias from the state and another 600 million hryvnias from the budget reserve. There were plenty of funds to spend. data As of December 2022, around 700 houses and infrastructure facilities in Kyiv were damaged by rocket attacks.
Reviving Kyiv. Those responsible and the customers
According to the public procurement analytics database Clarity-Project, all five companies involved in this criminal case are actively collaborating with various state and municipal structures of Ukraine.
The top company among them is BK Mega Style LLC. This company has about 1,800 contractor agreements totaling more than 1.4 billion hryvnias. The main customers of this LLC are the Department of Housing and Communal Services of the Desnyansk Regional State Administration, the Construction Department of the Dnipro Regional State Administration, and the Department of Education of the Obolonska Regional State Administration. more At the same time, LLC
Kiev Department of Mechanization» has more than 150 contract agreements totaling more than 373 million hryvnias, LLC was a contractor under 33 contracts worth more than 123 million hryvnias, and LLC BC “Ascon” during its existence, it has concluded 146 contracts with various “budgetary structures” for a total amount of just over 95 million hryvnias. Center-Bud LTD has the least experience in the implementation of infrastructure projects.
Komandor Company”- it only once became the winner of the tender for a total of 125.2 million hryvnias. It is noteworthy that these auctions were held by the aforementioned KP Zhilinveststroy-UKB. As part of the relevant contract, Komandor Company LLC carried out the reconstruction of a non-residential building in per. Field, 7 in the Solomensky district of Kyiv.In October 2019, the capital’s prosecutor’s office initiated criminal proceedings regarding possible embezzlement of budget funds during the reconstruction of the Kiev zoo (Prospekt Pobedy, 32), carried out by several companies at the order of KP Zhilinveststroy-UKB. Investigators found that one of the contractors (Lyunet LLC) may have misappropriated about 10 million hryvnias during the project implementation, while one of the subcontractors (Podolzhilstroy LLC) transferred the received budget funds to suspicious companies.
Recall that in October 2019, the capital’s prosecutor’s office opened criminal proceedings on the facts of possible embezzlement of budget funds during the reconstruction of the Kiev zoo (Prospekt Pobedy, 32), which was carried out by several companies at the order of KP Zhilinveststroy-UKB. As part of the investigation, law enforcement officers, in particular, found that one of the contractors for these works (Lyunet LLC) could appropriate about UAH 10 million during the implementation of this project, and one of the zoo reconstruction subcontractors (Podolzhilstroy LLC) transferred the received budget funds ” suspicious companies.
We also recall that the deputies of the Kyiv City Council, various experts and social activists regularly criticize the officials of the Kyiv City State Administration (KSCA) for their work during martial law. In particular, officials “got nuts” for absence comprehensive solutions for the arrangement of shelters for civil protection (including in educational institutions), as well as for the implementation of projects that, under the current circumstances in the country and due to a shortage of budgetary funds, “can wait”. Also, in September 2022, the Deputy Director of the Department of Culture of the KSCA Gennady Yavorovsky accused his fellow officials of the fact that at the beginning of a full-scale war, in March last year, for dubious reasons, they received their wages in full and in advance, and not in two payments (Advance payment and salary).
Since November 2013, the Department of Education of the Obolonskaya Regional State Administration has been headed by Natalia Vakhnyuk. The Obolon Regional State Administration has been in charge since May 18, 2020 Kirill Fesik (in the collage on the left). Since February 2022, the activities of this district state administration have been coordinated by the Deputy Chairman of the Kyiv City State Administration for the implementation of self-governing powers Petr Olenich.
In addition, the education department of the Obolonskaya RSA, in accordance with its Regulation also accountable and controlled by the Department of Education and Science of the KSCA, which since April 29, 2014 has been headed by Elena Fidanyan. Since 2018, the activities of this Department have been controlled by the Deputy Chairman of the Kyiv City State Administration Valentin Mondrievskiy.
KP “Zhitloinveststroy-UKS” since January 2, 2020 heads Alexander Akimov. This enterprise is subordinate to the Department of Construction and Housing of the Kyiv City State Administration, which has been headed by Boris Worker.
Since 2018, the work of this department has been controlled by the Deputy Chairman of the Kyiv City State Administration Vyacheslav Nepop. The latter headed KP “Zhitloinveststroy-UKB” from 2002 to 2018. According to the testimony various sources, after which he retained an important influence on the work of this enterprise. Also, Vyacheslav Nepop is a deputy of the current IX convocation of the Kyiv City Council (elected from the party of the capital’s mayor UDAR, previously he was also a deputy of the IV, V, VII and VIII convocations of the City Council).
Ivan Kulik, translation Skeleton.Info
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