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👀The tender to supply vegetables and fruits to Poltava schools was won by the scandalous LLC linked to a local businessman
The municipal enterprise “Dobrobut of the Poltava community” signed another multi-million contract to purchase food for the city’s educational institutions. Two companies participated in the auction: Kremenchuk LLC “Shchedra Poltavshchyna” and Horol LLC “SM-Kaskad.” The Kremenchuk company’s offer turned out to be more than 200 thousand hryvnias more expensive, so the victory was awarded to the firm from Horol.
Already on 25 August the parties officially signed the contract; the total contract amount was 6 024 600 hryvnias.
Although formally the winning company is managed by Anna Kulyk, LLC “SM-Kaskad” is part of a network of firms connected to Poltava businessman Volodymyr Serhiienko. His “food empire” for years won tenders during the mayoralty of Oleksandr Mamai. After the change of power and the leadership of KP “Dobrobut,” Serhiienko’s companies were forced to lower prices to market levels through Prozorro.Market, yet they still receive a substantial share of food-service orders in Poltava.
Last year the State Bureau of Economic Security and the Office of the Prosecutor General began investigating Serhiienko’s companies for evading payment of more than 100 million hryvnias in taxes while supplying food to the military, penal colonies, and educational institutions in 2022–2023 years. During searches, seals of more than a dozen firms run from a single center were seized, including LLC “SM-Kaskad.” Serhiienko himself is also an accused in the case concerning the supply of substandard canned meat to the National Guard, and in 2023 the Supreme Court finally confirmed a fine of 100 million hryvnias for anti-competitive collusion in tenders.
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