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🔈 Uzbek “saves” firms with criminal ties: millions from Kyivpastrans and customs schemes with cars
Problematic companies that for years received contracts from the municipal enterprise Kyivpastrans and imported luxury cars at smartphone prices suddenly ended up owned by a resident of Margilan, Uzbekistan. The scheme is classic: after searches and criminal proceedings, the asset is dumped onto a foreign “nominee.”
The new formal owner is Tursunkhodzhiev Abduraufkhon Bohodrion Ogly. Two toxic businesses were transferred to him this summer.
Un Karro: spare parts for Kyivpastrans
Until 1 July, Un Karro belonged to Svitlana Topko. Under her management the firm had close ties with the KP’s top management. The investigation believes the company’s advancement was aided by Kyivpastrans’s then production director Pavlo Kyryliuk. The scheme looked like this:
✔️12 September 2023 tender for 4,3 million UAH. In the documentation, in the authorities’ view, the technical specifications were deliberately omitted — so “outsiders” wouldn’t enter;
✔️ the open bidding failed, and the enterprise signed a direct contract with Un Karro — allegedly because of wartime conditions;
✔️ a few months later the contract amount was increased by another 800 thousand UAH.
Money was transferred for goods that were not actually delivered. An expert review estimated the damage to the Kyiv community at at least 146 thousand UAH. That is just one episode.
Over 2020–2025 years Un Karro received more than 189,5 million UAH from Kyivpastrans. The nomenclature ranged from bearings and brake pads to electrical equipment for MAZ buses. The company’s immunity is striking. 19 March 2025 year the police opened a criminal case regarding abuses. The KP did not stop cooperation:
✔️ in March 2025-year Un Karro won three tenders worth 23,1 million UAH;
✔️ in April — two more procurements worth 7,97 million UAH;
✔️ in May — deals of over 10 million UAH.
A telling May tender (UA-2025-05-20-005645-a): competitors Promaviapidshipnyk and Avtoshiny-Prozoro cut the price from 6,7 million to about 3,9 million UAH. Un Karro won by a margin of 1 hryvnia. At the same time the company did not submit the mandatory expert opinion from the Chamber of Commerce or Derzhzovnishinformu on price levels. Kyivpastrans did not disqualify the participant, allowed them to later supply the certificate, and recognized them the winner.
Since mid-2025 new contracts stopped — the investigation moved. Kyryliuk left his position in 2024 and was charged in early 2026. In July 2026 the firm was “cleaned up”: Topko was replaced by an Uzbek, and the legal address changed from a Kyiv one to a Zaporizhzhia one.
Avtotato → Mechanical Trade: cars at the price of a phone
The second asset of Tursunkhodzhiev is LLC Mechanical Trade. He received it on 18 June. Before that the company was called Avtotato and belonged to the Savchuk family group. The founder and beneficiary is Stanislav Savchuk, son of Serhiy Savchuk, who is called the “gray cardinal” of Zhytomyr region. Savchuk Sr. built a network of firms registered to relatives: agribusiness, fuel (Oil-Resource), dairy business (Biskvito-Milk), construction. Avtotato was the group’s vehicle-and-fuel platform — and it became toxic.
The State Bureau of Economic Security and customs investigated falsifying documents when importing used cars from Europe. For Ukrainian customs they underdeclared customs value by 2–3 times:
✔️Skoda Octavia — declared 600 euros, Swedish data show the real price 2302 euros;
✔️Volkswagen Touran — 500 euros “like a smartphone,” Dutch data show — 1717 euros;
✔️Mazda CX-5 — 3000 euros instead of 7762 euros.
A separate episode — Volvo XC60: declared 15 thousand euros, a Polish invoice showed 25,8 thousand euros. The budget lost more than 141 thousand UAH in customs duty and VAT. Bohunsky District Court fined the manager 527,2 thousand UAH (four times the company’s profit) and confiscated the car in favor of the state.
As of June the court consolidated 27 administrative protocols on customs violations regarding Avtotato. Appeals routinely overturned ordinary fines and forwarded materials to the SBES. A criminal proceeding was opened under part 1 of article 201-4 of the Criminal Code (smuggling). After that the firm was renamed Mechanical Trade, “moved” from the village of Veresy in Zhytomyr region to Kyiv (Bohdan Havrylyshyn St., 7) and hung on to the Uzbek — along with debts to the budget and court problems.
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