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Yuriy Golyk and hundreds of millions in losses: new facts of thefts during road repairs
121 million UAH in losses from road repairs in Kyiv and Zhytomyr regions—an contractor who worked for Yuriy Golyk has been exposed; he already has criminal proceedings and fled to the EU.
A director of a private enterprise has been charged with embezzling budget funds allocated for the repair of automobile roads, committed by prior conspiracy of a group of persons in especially large sizes (part 5 of article 191 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine).
According to investigative materials, in the period 2018–2020 years, the private enterprise, in fulfillment of contracts concluded with the Road Service administrations in Kyiv and Zhytomyr regions, carried out repair works on sections of automobile roads in Zhytomyr and Kyiv regions.
Experts established that the cost of repair works that cannot be accepted for operation amounts to more than 121 million UAH, and the enterprise unlawfully received this amount from the budget.
02.03.2023, at the prosecutor's request, the investigative judge of the Holosiivskyi district court of Kyiv chose a preventive measure for the suspect in the form of detention with an alternative of bail in the amount of 6 million hryvnias.
The investigation in the criminal case continues. All participants in the unlawful scheme are being identified.
Who is Yuriy Golyk?
Laureate of treasuries Yuriy Golyk, Oleksiy Chernyshov, and Kyrylo Tymoshenko have become heroes of memes, as well as receiving well-deserved stickers in one of the Telegram channels.
It was developed by the Telegram channel "Transmissia." The channel author said that he wrote many posts about “splitting” in the “Great Construction,” including about the schematics of the head of the Ministry of Community and Territories Oleksiy Chernyshov, the deputy head of the Office of the President Kyrylo Tymoshenko, his adviser Yuriy Golyk, and the head of Ukravtodor Oleksandr Kubrakov.
And I am pleased that you watched my longreads so closely. Therefore, I have a surprise for you—a sticker pack about the “schematics” of this trio! Use it and have fun,” says the message.
How the Great Construction works: Yuriy Golyk, Oleksiy Chernyshov, Kubrakov, and Kyrylo Tymoshenko
Recall that the presidential program “Great Construction,” despite its global plan for modernization, renovation of Ukraine's infrastructure, may become monuments of corruption. The revelations by former adviser to the head of the Office of the President Ihor Umanets about theft from the “covid fund” and “splitting” of funds in the “Great Construction” cast a shadow on many people in the president's circle responsible for the program.
Wars over the “splitting” of streams in the president's innermost circle undermine his rating.
The scandal around the theft of funds from the “Great Construction” shows that the head of the Ministry of Communities and Territories Oleksiy Chernyshov misleads not only the public but also the president Volodymyr Zelensky himself.
This was written in a blog on the Regionews.ua site by expert Yuriy Havrylyetsko, commenting on the scandalous statement by former adviser to the head of the Office of the President Ihor Umanets about schemes in the “Great Construction.”
According to him, the ruling vertical that controls the “Great Construction” is known to everyone. In June this year, a Coordinating Council for the “Great Construction” was created, headed by deputy head of the Office of the President Kyrylo Tymoshenko. Among others who joined him were: Minister of Development of Communities and Territories Oleksiy Chernyshov, Minister of Infrastructure Volodymyr Krykliy, Tymoshenko’s aide Yuriy Golyk, adviser to the head of the Office of the President Andriy Yermak’s advisor Mykhailo Podolyak.
Meanwhile, Havrylyetsko believes, unofficial curators of the “Great Construction” became Tymoshenko and Podolyak, directly subordinate to Yermak.
“Obviously, this intensified, let’s say, the “mutual disapproval” between Yermak/Podolyak and Tymoshenko,” writes the expert.
This situation clearly benefited Chernyshov, who de facto became the main spokesperson of the “Great Construction” project and one of its main beneficiaries. Chernyshov is responsible for social facilities (schools, kindergartens, hospitals), which gives him influence over regional elites. And this is while the project for him is close to a failure. The Ministry of Communities reports 89% readiness of the “Great Construction” facilities, but media analyzed data from the program’s official website and report that total readiness is only 64%.
Havrylyetsko also added that “Oleksiy Chernyshov, who reports directly to Yermak, wants to turn his failure with the “Great Construction” into access to even more streams. After all, the scandal revealed is a war inside the vertical, where Yermak, Podolyak, Chernyshov and company strive to reduce Tymoshenko, Golyk, and Kubrakov’s influence.”
All these wars over schemes and splitting streams among groups of influence in the president's inner circle not only bury the “Great Construction” project and funds from the Covid Fund in asphalt, but mislead the President and undermine his rating. It will be interesting what conclusions the president will make, especially considering Chernyshov has effectively blocked another presidential initiative, namely the urban planning reform… We are awaiting a quick vote in the Parliament on the interpellation bill?
Recall that earlier the former adviser to the head of the Office of the President Ihor Umanets stated that 40% of the money allocated for the “Great Construction” project was stolen. The amount stolen, he said, is almost equal to 35 billion UAH allocated for road construction from the “Covid Fund.”
Author: Oleksandr Bondar
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