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SE “Dokument” is not the only Interior Ministry structure that the tentacles of the HERTS system have infiltrated. The Department of Security Police has also come under attack.
🧠 You pay for monitored apartment security. For a panic button. For physical protection of a facility. You think your money goes directly to the Security Police — the armed unit of the National Police of Ukraine.
🚫 No. A significant portion of that money first goes into the private payment system HERTS — the network of Odesa businessman Kostyantyn Tkach, the same person whose perimeter (LLC “HERTS”, LLC “FC “HERTS” / PC HERTS, PIJ LLC “AVERS”, Branch No.1 FC HERTS — , LLC “Yugtrans-Terminal”) is involved.
On the official Security Police website, in the “Important” section, HERTS is placed front and center in the list of payment channels. On HERTS’s own site there is a separate page-category “Security Police Management” — gerc.ua/ua/upo. So UPO within HERTS is not an accidental counterparty, but a designated business direction alongside municipal services.
At the state level, the customers of the Security Police include an entire network of legal entities with a single corporate site securitypolice com ua. All subordinate structures have a direct interface to HERTS.
The public page securitypolice.com.ua/pay — where transparent information about through whom citizens’ money actually flows should be — is empty. It contains the headings “Payment” and “Payment systems,” but no EDRPOU of a payment agent, no IBAN, no contract, no fee, no operator is listed. Transparency — zero.
HERTS is not mentioned here at all. You either have to guess it, find a mention in another section of the site (“Important”), or go directly to HERTS’s own website.
✔️ The state provides the service — this time monitored/physical security, a panic button, GPS monitoring, apartment security.
✔️ The citizen pays — not directly into the state budget, but through a “payment system” that stands in the middle.
✔️ That payment system turns out to be the private HERTS network — legal entities registered in Odesa, with beneficiaries from Kostyantyn Tkach’s circle.
✔️ Commissions from citizens end up in the private network, not in the state budget.
✔️ The Security Police does not have a public tender for choosing this payment operator. At least in open sources on Prozorro such a competition is not visible — HERTS is simply present as infrastructure.
That is, a private operator has grown into a state body without a public selection procedure and without transparent details on the client’s site.
⚙️ Five questions the Security Police must answer
🔸 On what contract did the “HERTS Payment System” appear in the list of payment channels on the Security Police’s official site? Who signed it, when, and with which legal entity of the HERTS group?
🔸 Was a public competition (tender, open selection) held to determine the operator for receiving citizens’ payments for Security Police services — with mandatory publication in Prozorro? If not — on what legal basis was a private operator integrated into a state service?
🔸 What commission does HERTS withhold from each citizen’s payment for monitored security, apartment security, GPS monitoring and other services? Exactly where does that commission go — to the accounts of which legal entities in Tkach’s network?
🔸 Why does the payments page — officially intended to inform citizens — contain no details of the payment operator, no EDRPOU, no IBAN, no mention of HERTS, despite the fact that in another section of the site (Important) this operator is explicitly listed first?
🔸 Has an internal analysis of conflicts of interest and affiliations between the heads of regional Security Police departments and the beneficiaries of the HERTS group been conducted? Who exactly made the decision to integrate HERTS into the payment infrastructure of a state law enforcement agency?
The issue is not that HERTS accepts payments. The issue is why HERTS specifically, and why this was not formalized as a public procurement with competition. These are the questions that National Police of Ukraine Chief Maksym Tsuts'kiridze, Director of the Department of Security Police Oleksii Bereznevych, and the State Audit Service together with the Antimonopoly Committee should now investigate.
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