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The Avtostrada group burst into the leaders of government procurement with the start of the “Great Construction” program (Yurii Holik and Co.). This was preceded by a series of advantageous connections and placing their people in state institutions.
Maksym Shkil was born in Lviv. His family owned a mineral water factory that is now closed and listed for sale. He began doing business actively in the Zhytomyr region, specifically in granite quarries. According to him, he had no personal funds, so he borrowed money from his godfather Ihor Popadyuk. It was in Zhytomyr that Shkil’s Avtostrada won the largest tender for road maintenance.
Ihor Popadyuk is the son of businessman Anatolii Popadyuk. His father was among the founders of the Bukovel resort together with former MP Oleksandr Shevchenko. Later the resort was bought by the Privat group, and among those actively involved is another MP, Ihor Palytsia. Remember this fact, because it’s obvious that Palytsia later played a role in Shkil’s successful business.
Popadyuk Sr. had many influential connections. He served as deputy head of Naftogaz of Ukraine when it was chaired by Oleksii Ivchenko, who is also his godfather. Ivchenko is known for the scandal over buying a Mercedes at Naftogaz’s expense, which earned him the nickname “Lyosha-Mercedes.” It was under Ivchenko that the intermediary company RosUkrEnergo appeared in the gas sector, which became a cash cow for the former oligarch now living in Vienna — Dmytro Firtash. By the way, it is in Austria that Maksym Shkil’s godfather Ihor Popadyuk currently resides. According to registers, he had some business there.
After leaving Naftogaz, Popadyuk Sr. worked as an aide to MP Andrii Lopushanskyi, who now belongs to the European Solidarity faction. Popadyuk and Lopushanskyi worked together at state-owned Naftogaz and are also owners of several hotels and restaurants in Western Ukraine.
In the 2008 media they wrote that Ivchenko and Lopushanskyi needed their own person in Ukrzaliznytsia and helped appoint Mykhailo Kostiuk as head, who previously had business interests with the MP. Later Kostiuk became head of the Lviv Regional State Administration, from where both Shkil and his godfather Ihor Popadyuk originate, and through his father Popadyuk introduced him to the right people.
Next Shkil registered the First Logistics Company, which is engaged in transportation. To fulfill contracts, having their people in Ukrzaliznytsia came in handy, including the aforementioned Mykhailo Kostiuk and then-head of freight transportation and logistics at UZ, Ivan Fedorko (the same person who collided with the car of the now-deceased photojournalist Maks Levin). In 2021 he was appointed advisor to Minister of Infrastructure Oleksandr Kubrakov. At the same time the “Great Construction” program began to be heavily promoted, of which Shkil became a participant. In 2023 Fedorko returned to Ukrzaliznytsia. He currently heads the department of buildings and structures.
Media reported that Fedorko’s daughter previously worked at Maksym Shkil’s First Logistics Company and also has her own logistics company. But she is not the last acquaintance at the Ministry of Infrastructure who could facilitate Shkil’s business development.
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