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"Themes" by Oleksandr Hustielev
A list of stories related to Kyiv's road infrastructure during the period when Kyivavtodor was headed by Oleksandr Hustielev and the city government was led by Vitali Klitschko.
The most high-profile financial episode is the case of the Shuliavsky overpass. The Supreme Court 22 September rejected the cassation appeal in the dispute over recovering 1,12 billion from the contractor. The contract's initial value was 598,5 million hryvnias, but after additional agreements it exceeded a billion.
The Antimonopoly Committee found collusion in the tenders between the companies “Pivnichno-Ukrainian Construction Alliance” and “Specbud-Plus.” Signs of coordinated actions included shared IP addresses, employees, and banking documents. The companies were fined a total of 56 million hryvnias.
A particularly telling detail: the invalidity of the contract was disputed by the municipal enterprise that acted as the client for the works. Now it is necessary to achieve actual recovery of more than 1,1 billion hryvnias from the contractor, who, according to court materials, is undergoing pre-trial reorganization. A court decision is not yet money returned to the budget. And the actual execution of the decision will show whether the community will get the money back.
Oleksandr Hustielev headed the Kyivavtodor corporation since April 2015. In February 2020 Klitschko appointed him deputy head of the Kyiv City State Administration.
Already in March 2017 the SBU and the Prosecutor General's Office investigated the alleged embezzlement of almost 300 million hryvnias. During searches of the suspects, about 4 million hryvnias of unaccounted cash were reportedly seized. Separately, the State Audit Service found over 11 million hryvnias of inflated expenditures and violations in contracts worth 418 million hryvnias. Hustielev himself denied that cash was found directly at the corporation.
In municipal enterprise No. 12017000000001327 the investigation described an alleged scheme for siphoning 11,4 out of 37 million hryvnias allocated for road markings. In the period from June to August 2017 the funds were transferred to the company “DORBUDREZERV-UKRAINA.” At the same time, the investigation asserted that the actual work was carried out by municipal workers, while private companies handled paperwork and created the appearance of competition. The materials also named “KOLOR S.I.M.,” “UKRDORPLAST,” and “AVTOMAHISTRAL.”
In the case concerning the procurement of technical salt, the investigation checked for possible inflated pricing and sham competition. In case materials No. 755/1645/17 there were 40 798 tons of salt with a total value of 36,45 million hryvnias, supplied by the company “KOSTANZA” at a price from 828 to 909,6 hryvnias per ton. The competitor in the tender was the company “UKRSOLINVEST.” The materials emphasized that the authorized capital of both companies was one thousand hryvnias.
Another major tender scandal is linked to the construction of the Podilskyi-Voskresenskyi bridge crossing. The Antimonopoly Committee found collusion between “ECO-BUD-TRADE” and “FORMA” during bidding for an expected value of 6,103 billion hryvnias.
Among the evidence of coordinated actions, the committee cited shared IP addresses, banking devices, and other circumstances indicating participant coordination. The companies were fined 182,6 million hryvnias. The total cost of the bridge construction approached 20 billion hryvnias. Journalists linked the contractor to the circle of former Kyiv City Council deputy Denys Komarnytskyi.
In November 2021 Klitschko dismissed Hustielev from the position of deputy head of the Kyiv City State Administration after problems with the bridge's construction timelines.
An audit of the municipal enterprise "Kyivavtoshliakhmist" for 2017–2019 years found financial violations totaling 32,2 million hryvnias. Of these, 4,94 million were losses, and another 6,6 million were inefficient expenditures.
At that time, the enterprise was headed by Dmytro Kotlubei, who later became an advisor to Oleksandr Hustielev. His former deputy, Valentyn Osipov, in February 2020 became head of the transport department of the Kyiv City State Administration.
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