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🔈 Former stevedores leased state berths in Chornomorsk and turned them into a private empire.
At the center are three people who left AMPU and state enterprises and remained on the same water area as a private business.
✔️ Oleksii Zakharov — former assistant to the director of SE “MP “Chornomorsk” and former head of the fifth terminal.
Oleksandr Ilyin — until June 2020 he was deputy chief for finance of the Illichivsk branch of AMPU, now 25% in LLC “Tek-Trans Group “Forward” and an indirect stake in “Klyn Cargo.”
✔️ Kostiantyn Voloshchuk — former acting director of SE “Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi Sea Commercial Port,” holding leadership positions in both companies.
The companies share an office in Chornomorsk, Transportna, 3. In the same place is the charitable foundation “Awakening of Strength,” where Zakharov is director and signatory.
Whale one. The line in the humanitarian corridor
According to the publication, shipowners pay for fast passage through the Ukrainian maritime corridor or to avoid waiting in line. The money is disguised as stevedoring services from “Forward,” then routed through shell companies. Part of it ends up in Odesa region tax offices — so the scheme won’t be touched.
Whale two. Investments on paper
In 2019, “Forward” and “Klyn Cargo” rented berth warehouses and lots in Chornomorsk port. They promised to invest 1 and 2 million dollars in modernization. According to the investigation materials, there were no funds. Old iron hangars — the auditor AKF “YUGT Plus,” controlled by the same group, with a staff of 12 people and million-dollar turnovers — recorded them as new. Documents were prepared by a private cost-estimate engineer.
Whale three. Reserving for forwarders
Men of conscription age were registered as forwarders for “Forward,” booked through “Diia,” and issued one-way travel orders abroad. This is no longer logistics but an exit channel.
Separately, the publication mentions repairs of the Chornomorsk branch infrastructure of AMPU through LLC “Ankor”: suspicions of document forgery and discriminatory tenders for berth reconstruction.
People from the same port
Acting deputy director of SE “MP “Chornomorsk” Oleksandr Patryk and deputy director Pavlo Podoliana, who joined the port team in 15 April 2025, appear alongside this story in the article. During investigative actions, a red flash drive was seized from the apartment of the captain of the Chornomorsk and Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi ports. At customs — a deputy head of the department who closes the checkpoint “Sea Port “Chornomorsk.”
Where the money went out of the state
When Voloshchuk left the state port in 2020, the salary there was 40 thousand UAH; in “Klyn Cargo” that same year — 36,5 thousand. Before resigning, he reportedly had 125 thousand dollars in cash. Ilyin had 55 thousand dollars in cash at the time he left AMPU.
The headline of the piece directly raises the question of illicit enrichment and trafficking people abroad. The Chornomorsk District Prosecutor’s Office is mentioned in the text as the address where these facts should land.
The state berths remained state-owned. The line, the “investment” paperwork, and the forwarders’ reservations, if the investigation is to be believed, are run by a private office on Transportna. “Forward,” “Klyn Cargo,” and the port did not publicly respond to the publication.
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