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A sensational story is unfolding at JSC "Ukrainian Distribution Networks" (UDN) about a possible market redistribution in favor of private companies with multi-million turnovers.
The new head of UDN, to whom 8 regional power distribution companies report, is Oleksiy Bilotsky. If you trace his connections with contractors, it gets interesting. The main supplier to the affiliated distribution companies over recent years is LLC "Energy-Group" (EDRPOU 40169080, registered in December 2015).
🔸Under the nominal director Maksym Desyatkov, the company participated in more than 900 tenders.
🔸It won over 700 procurements totaling about 4 billion UAH with seven state joint-stock companies "Oblenergo."
Maksym Desyatkov is a co-founder of the Kharkiv LLC "Estate Energy" together with Viktoriya Bilotska (the wife of Oleksiy Bilotsky) and the wife of another notorious figure — Andriy Harmash.
Oleksiy Bilotsky's career in public service — from head of Krasnokutsk District State Administration to director of the Capital Construction Department of Kharkiv Regional State Administration — was accompanied by noticeable enrichment.
By conservative estimates, Bilotsky's assets exceed 500 million hryvnias. He owns an elite estate valued at about 1 million dollars in the village of Lisne in Kharkiv region, and he currently lives in high-end real estate in Kyiv. Despite these indicators, the National Agency on Corruption Prevention (NACP) somehow consistently "does not notice" discrepancies between declarations and actual lifestyle.
Now, through UDN's control over the transformer market for all regional distribution companies in Ukraine, "Energy-Group" is effectively gaining a monopolistic position. Schemes developed over years are now being legitimized at the highest state level.
Particular attention is drawn to Bilotsky's partnership with Andriy Harmash. In the period 2015-2021 he was in the leadership of "Kharkivoblenergo." During that time, according to investigators, Kharkiv's municipal enterprises, due to arrangements with the then-city leadership, were driven into debt of over 2 billion hryvnias.
The scheme worked simply: funds that residents officially paid for utilities were, instead of settling with "Kharkivoblenergo," siphoned off to offshore accounts. The result was billion-hryvnia holes in the company's budget, which caused outrage in other regions of the country because of the threat of replicating this "successful experience" across all of Ukraine.
Despite this, today UDN's new head Bilotsky is actively lobbying for the appointment of his long-time business partner Andriy Harmash as head of "Kharkivoblenergo."
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