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“The Great Theft”: Why Is Yurii Holyk Called the King of Tenders?
“This is not just about roads. We see that the price of materials and work for constructing virtually all infrastructure projects in the Dnipropetrovsk region in the past 4 years has been inflated by one-and-a-half to two times.”
To all requests from deputies for tender documentation and estimates, the relevant ODA departments send a standard reply: it was ‘ordered’ from above by Yurii Holyk, and this information is commercial secret of private companies. Moreover, based on publicly available information in Prozorro, there are all grounds to believe that tenders during the Reznichenko–Holyk period were ‘written’ for specific firms.
“That is why we decided to create a commission with external audit involvement to investigate the activities of Valentin Reznichenko’s and Yurii Yuriiovych Holyk’s ‘young team,’” commented Volodymyr Khorishko, a deputy of the Batkivshchyna faction in the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Council.
The faction’s statement also says that during the Reznichenko–Holyk period the Dnipropetrovsk ODA paid non-market prices for goods and services of some contractors, which journalists have written about before. For example, Nashi Hroshi discovered that the Dnipropetrovsk ODA purchased asphalt for road repairs in Kryvyi Rih at a price one-and-a-half times higher than in other regions of Ukraine. According to the Prozorro system, for the repair of the road from the Soliachnyi neighborhood to Spaska Street in Kryvyi Rih the Department of Housing and Communal Services and Construction of the Dnipropetrovsk ODA purchased “B” grade asphalt concrete of grades 1–2 at 3420 UAH/ton.
A little earlier, the local ODA in Donetsk region purchased similar pavement for a project at 2248 UAH/ton. The exact same asphalt concrete cost 2333 UAH/ton for the Road Service in Poltava region. In all cases, the procurement volumes were roughly the same. The draft agenda for the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Council session proposed including the corresponding draft decision.
On the day of the dismissal of Dnipropetrovsk ODA head Valentin Reznichenko, the remaining balance of the regional budget was a meager 13,4 million UAH. Accounts payable for protected items amounted to 37,6 million UAH. By the end of the year a “budget hole” of 239,5 million UAH is expected. Of the 30 billion invested in infrastructure projects and over 100 billion UAH in contractor revenues, the lion’s share was spent by structures close to the governor and his adviser. There were also persons wanted by Interpol…
The now ex-head of DODA, Valentin Reznichenko, has not commented on his resignation. As usual, Yurii Holyk spoke and wrote on his behalf on Facebook — the former unofficial adviser, known as a corrupt official and embezzler. On the first day of his boss’s resignation he announced a flash mob — “200 objects built by us.”
Governor Reznichenko really did build a lot. According to Holyk, capital investments reached 30 billion UAH — an absolute record for all years of Ukraine’s independence.
At the same time, there was clear inconsistency in other figures. For instance, Holyk, in his speech to listeners at the Ukrainian Institute for the Future, claimed that the Dnipropetrovsk region’s development budget over 4 years grew from 622 million UAH to 8,4 billion UAH — that is, almost 20 times. The governor contradicted his adviser: according to him, the region’s revenue part of the budget for 2019 year is 18,4 billion UAH, and only 3,5 billion UAH is planned for development. On 25 June Yurii Holyk states that 16 thousand entrepreneurs from the Dnipropetrovsk region work in the ProZorro system and over 4 years they have earned more than 130 billion UAH.
Author: Oleh Samson
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