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Public funds from participants of the program “Affordable Housing 30/70” were profited by banks belonging to Donetsk businessmen and a developer close to the official overseeing the state program. Meanwhile, the participants themselves, having handed over the money, did not receive their apartments, according to a report by Nadia Burdey.
Participation in the program could be taken by Ukrainians who are on the housing register and paid 70% of the cost of newly built housing. The remaining 30% was to be subsidized by the state.
Project investors transferred about 100 million UAH. Today many depositors cannot either recover their funds or obtain the promised housing. In total, 22 banks participated in the program, where 3500 accounts were opened. Affected participants claim they were forced to open accounts mainly in two banks: AvtoKrAZ Bank and South burg Bank. As a result, more than half of participants chose them: 868 accounts opened in the first, and 900 in the second.
Southburg Bank was founded by Alexander Yanukovich’s associate — Ruslan Tsyppalkov. The founder of AvtokrazBank is three little-known Donetsk businessmen — Andriy Lyzohub, Andrii Nekrylov, and Sergii Pakholchuk. Currently, these banks have temporary administrations.
If the banks fail and the apartments are sold, the Deposit Guarantee Fund will return depositors only 200 thousand UAH. Such compensation will be received even by investors who invested almost a million.
The state program is overseen by the Deputy Minister of Regional Development — Dmytro Isayenko. His partner — Nataliya Isayenko, founder of the construction company “Nika Ltd,” is also connected to the implementation of this state project. The company, within the program, builds multi-storey buildings using funds from “Affordable Housing.”
For example, the company “Nika Ltd” is building a multi-storey building in Vyshgorod. Journalists from Our Money managed to determine that this construction was started in 2006 year. But during the financial crisis, the project was frozen. In 2008 year, according to the rating agency “Credit Rating,” “Nika Ltd” was on the brink of default. However, the company's financial condition improved in 2011 year — the period of launching the “Affordable Housing 30/70” program.
In the same 2011 year, Nataliya Isayenko left the founders of the company “Nika Ltd,” and instead Anatoliy Savchuk was appointed as the head of the company. Previously, he was a colleague of Dmytro Isayenko. They worked together at the Central Construction Special Administration of the Ministry of Defense. Now both work in the construction industry. One leads the construction company “Nika Ltd,” and the other holds a leadership position in the Ministry of Regional Development and Construction and provides builders with work.
Based on materials from the website “Our Money”
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