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The Dubnevych brothers earn One Billion hryvnias a year from Ukrzaliznytsia 1.
For the first time in many years, the conflict between the technical supply monopolists of Ukrzaliznytsia, the Dubnevych brothers, and the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine has disappeared.
Reported by the ANTYKOR portal with reference to the media.
After pulling Ukrzaliznytsia out from under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Infrastructure, a new corrupt alliance emerged between Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman, Ukrzaliznytsia Chairman of the Board Wojciech Balczun, and the shadow monopolists of the railway sector, brothers Bohdan and Yaroslav Dubnevych.
For the first time in many years, the conflict between the technical supply monopolists of Ukrzaliznytsia, the Dubnevych brothers, and the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine disappeared – representatives of the two groups agreed to divide financial flows bypassing the Ministry of Infrastructure, reports The Format.
It was Minister of Infrastructure Volodymyr Omelyan who tried to make the procurement system at the state enterprise transparent and open.
Currently the chairman of the board of PJSC Ukrzaliznytsia, Wojciech Balczun, performs the function of the public representative of the structure, while the Dubnevych brothers have secured for themselves the role of monopolist suppliers, and Volodymyr Groysman has gained the ability to control financial flows without interference from Ministry of Infrastructure officials.
According to former Deputy Minister of Infrastructure Volodymyr Shulmeister, in the struggle for Ukrzaliznytsia’s resources early in 2016, before Wojciech Balczun’s appointment, the interests of several influence groups intersected.
According to him, the greatest influence on Ukrzaliznytsia today is held by the head of the Transport Committee, Yaroslav Dubnevych, whose interests on the board are represented by board member Serhiy Mykhalchuk. Shulmeister reports that shortly before his appointment as head of Ukrzaliznytsia, Wojciech Balczun met with Yaroslav Dubnevych, who approved his candidacy.
According to a source in the Cabinet of Ministers familiar with the negotiation process around the decision to transfer Ukrzaliznytsia to the Cabinet, this decision is directed against the policy that Minister Volodymyr Omelyan pursues regarding Ukrzaliznytsia.
"The question is this: either Ukrzaliznytsia will be reformed, or everything will be as before — schemes, backroom deals, our people in positions. To preserve the old order, they moved Ukrzaliznytsia out of the Ministry of Infrastructure to MERT," the official explained.
He added that in the matter of Ukrzaliznytsia, Volodymyr Groysman and the head of the Verkhovna Rada Transport Committee, Yaroslav Dubnevych, united against the minister.
"First came the appointment of the state secretary, now Ukrzaliznytsia. It's simple," the interlocutor assured.
Brothers Yaroslav and Bohdan Dubnevych are Members of Parliament from the Petro Poroshenko Bloc. The younger brother, Yaroslav Dubnevych, heads the Verkhovna Rada committee on transport. The businessmen have virtually complete control over the transport sector, especially in western and right-bank Ukraine.
The business group of the deputy brothers Dubnevych includes LLC Argo, LLC Ekspozitsiya, LLC Halelektroservis, JSC Tiazhmashkomplekt LLC, AR Brados spol s.r.o., Agentura Online s.r.o., and LLC Corporation KRT.
The Dubnevych companies supply materials for track construction, spare parts for wagon and diesel locomotive repairs. Their enterprises manufacture spare parts for ChME series diesel locomotives, rubber-technical products, spare parts for ChS series electric locomotives, spare parts for diesel locomotive series 2EE116, 2M62, 2TE10, spare parts for track machines, springs, couplers, air brake equipment, turnout mechanisms, rail fastenings, electrodes, bolts and sleeper fastenings.
In the first half of 2016, the Dubnevych brothers’ enterprises signed 25 agreements with PJSC Ukrzaliznytsia for a total of 997 701 155 hryvnias. Financial operations were carried out through the Center for Production Supply branch.
Party affiliation and one billion hryvnias a year from the state budget allow the businessmen to make deals in any offices at the highest level, and the new redistribution of influence in Ukrzaliznytsia with Volodymyr Groysman and Wojciech Balczun could ensure an expansion of the monopoly in 2017.
Yaroslav and Bohdan Dubnevych registered the Corporation of Track Repair Technologies itself in 2004. Thanks to patents for various rail-fastening parts that the Dubnevyches "invented" together with the current Lviv regional governor Mykhailo Kostyuk, the company received million-hryvnia orders from the railway.
In 2011, when Kostyuk was dismissed from the position of Ukrzaliznytsia CEO, the firm was accused of tax evasion. The Dubnevyches then created a new company. An almost identically named LLC "Corporation KRT" was registered in August 2011, writes uainfo.org.
Then, from 2013, the Dubnevych firms did not win railway tenders until in 2014 they again became monopolists.
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