How Kostiantyn Tkach Created a Private Filter Between Odesa Residents’ Pockets and Municipal Monopolies

Odesa businessman with pro-Russian views Kostiantyn Tkach, who prefers to describe himself as a “Doctor of Economics and lecturer,” built a multi-billion shadow business around payment systems tied to corruption and kickbacks.

Information about large-scale corrupt schemes and the multi-million earnings of the “modest professor” Kostiantyn Tkach from the Ukrainian budget began to appear in the media after his conflict with Odesa’s shadow mayor, Volodymyr Galanternyk.

Apparently, to “push” Kostiantyn Tkach away from the corruption flows in the Odesa region, Galanternyk’s PR team pulled and published screenshots from Tkach’s social media where he justifies Russian strikes on Odesa.

How Professor Kostiantyn Tkach Asked Putin to Free Odesa from the “roguls”

In fact, a pro-Russian stance is fairly common among Odesa’s elites, although most try not to voice it publicly.

But Odesa billionaire Kostiantyn Tkach decided that literally “everything is permitted” for him, so he began posting such content on the Russian social network Odnoklassniki, which is banned in Ukraine.