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Reconstruction of Oleksandrivska Hospital Will “Eat Up” Another 38,5 Million Budget Hryvnias
Oleksandrivska Clinical Hospital of Kyiv ordered continuation of the reconstruction of the emergency department and several other wards (which ones are unknown) for 38,5 million hryvnias, as well as landscaping of the grounds and anti-landslide work, which over the past four years have already absorbed more than 100 million budget hryvnias.
This time the contract went to Kyiv-based Agranbud LLC, which had previously been generously awarded contracts by this hospital for repair work in various buildings, and is also closely linked to the company that started the reconstruction of Oleksandrivska Hospital in October 2019. Prior to Agranbud, this reconstruction was handled by Nidkom LLC, which was associated with the first deputy head of the Kyiv City State Administration Mykola Povoroznyk.
As KV learned from an announcement in the electronic ProZorro system, on 17 November 2022 the municipal non-profit enterprise "Oleksandrivska Clinical Hospital of Kyiv"* signed a contract with Agranbud LLC** for the reconstruction of the emergency department and specialized departments (which ones were not specified) on the seventh floor of Oleksandrivska Clinical Hospital, as well as landscaping of the grounds and anti-landslide works at ��� Shovkovychna, 39/1. The contract price amounted to 38,5 million hryvnias.
According to the contract, the contractor must by 21 December 2022 perform electrical installation work; installation of water supply, sewerage, heating, ventilation, communications, video surveillance, access control, radio systems, medical gas supply, security, fire and ward signaling systems.
Agranbud LLC faced competition in the tender from Ukrspetsstroy LLC and BK KBR LLC, which proposed lower prices, but their bids were rejected. According to the procurement committee of the enterprise, Ukrspetsstroy LLC did not provide 8 documents, including the tender price calculation, draft contract and charter, while BK KBR LLC did not provide a calculation of general production and administrative costs for performing the specified reconstruction.
Notably, according to ProZorro, for the reconstruction of the emergency department and specialized departments of Oleksandrivska Hospital, as well as landscaping of the grounds and anti-landslide works at ��� Shovkovychna, 39/1, a total of 4 contracts were signed for 140,05 million hryvnias (including the current one). Project work, consulting services, technical and author supervision added another 18,52 million hryvnias.
The first contract for the reconstruction works was signed by "Oleksandrivska Clinical Hospital of Kyiv" in October 2019 with BK Anta LLC***. The contract price was 60,2 million hryvnias, but later, due to a reduction in the scope of work, it was reduced and the contractor was ultimately paid 58,71 million hryvnias. Under that agreement, BK Anta Company was to perform general construction and electrical installation works; installation of heating, ventilation, water supply, sewerage, signaling, communications and medical gas supply systems.
The second contract (price – 36,04 million hryvnias, payment under the contract – 35,77 million hryvnias) was signed with Nidkom LLC**** in June 2020. The contractor undertook to replace windows and doors, renovate interior wall and ceiling finishes, lay cables, install heating, ventilation, air conditioning, sewerage systems, install sanitary-technical equipment, distribution panels and light fixtures. On 29 December 2020 the parties signed another contract worth nearly 6,8 million hryvnias for additional works within the reconstruction, namely installation of ventilation on the sixth (cardiology department) and seventh (neurology department) floors, as well as air conditioning on the sixth floor. The contractor was supposed to complete these works in three days.
According to the YouControl analytical system, Agranbud LLC was registered in 2018 in Kyiv. The founder, ultimate beneficiary and director is Volodymyr Shkurenko, who is registered in the town of Petropavlivka in Luhansk region.
According to Clarity Project data, as a result of participation in public procurements Agranbud LLC signed 27 contracts worth 169,83 million hryvnias. The largest amount of funds – 157,88 million hryvnias – this firm received in contracts from the municipal enterprise “Oleksandrivska Clinical Hospital of Kyiv.” Besides the current contract, this year the hospital commissioned Agranbud for routine repairs of premises of building No. 7; in 2021 it ordered routine repairs of premises on the 1 and 2 floors of building No. 4; in 2019 it ordered restoration of premises of building No. 3; and in 2018 it ordered major repairs of premises of building No. 7.
Two contracts for repair works in the premises of building No. 7, for which Agranbud LLC was paid 23,5 million hryvnias, came under the scrutiny of law enforcement. On 7 March 2019 the Kyiv City Prosecutor’s Office No. 5 added information to the Unified Register of Pre-Trial Investigations about a criminal proceeding (No. 42019101050000063) under signs of embezzlement, misappropriation or seizure of another's property. According to the case materials, Agranbud LLC engaged subcontracting organizations with signs of “fictitiousness” to perform construction and installation works.
BK Anta LLC was registered in 2018 in Kyiv. The founder and director is Serhiy Novozhen, who is registered at BK Anta LLC’s registered address in a Kyiv apartment on Tupoleva Street.
As a result of participation in public procurements BK Anta LLC signed 34 contracts totaling 356,44 million hryvnias. The largest customer was the city utility Engineering Center, which awarded this firm 15 contracts worth 218,43 million hryvnias.
Serhiy Novozhen is also a co-founder (99,9%) of Goodberry LLC, which specializes in growing vegetables, melons, root and tuber crops. Until 2019 Goodberry LLC had a single phone number (+380674070271) shared with Agranbud LLC. In addition, the second founder of Goodberry LLC, Ivan Shevchenko, until March 2020 was the ultimate beneficiary of Agranbud LLC.
BK Anta LLC and Agranbud LLC are linked by a joint criminal proceeding No. 42020100000000188, which since May 2020 has been investigated by investigators of the Shevchenkivskyi Police Department of the National Police in Kyiv on suspicion of embezzlement of budget funds by officials of the municipal enterprise Engineering Center. Law enforcement found that during 2018–2020 this municipal enterprise of the Kyiv City State Administration (KSDA) concluded contracts with a number of firms, including Agranbud LLC and BK Anta LLC, for construction and repair works funded by the local budget, but the works were of poor quality, and in some cases not carried out at all.
Nidkom LLC was registered in 2017 in Kyiv and is now registered in Boryspil. Authorized capital – 430 thousand hryvnias. Main activity – construction of residential and non-residential buildings. Founders – Oleksandr Shyshkin (66%) and Leonid Dorosh (34%). Director – Maksym Lazarenko.
Leonid Dorosh is also co-owner of Armabud LTD Company LLC, Dereviana Oselia LLC and Sapsan Rest LLC. Notably, one of Leonid Dorosh’s business partners at Sapsan Rest is Oleksandr Chuniak. A person with the same full name is an aide to Member of Parliament Oleg Seminsky (Servant of the People faction).
Until the end of 2019, one of Nidkom LLC’s co-founders was Oleksandra Rynk, who, according to former adviser to the mayor of Kyiv Maksym Bakhmatov, at that time was a journalist and the fiancée of the first deputy head of the KSDA Mykola Povoroznyk’s son, Yurii. Since the beginning of 2020 Oleksandra Rynk left Nidkom; Bakhmatov noted this happened after her marriage to Yurii Povoroznyk, whose surname she took. Immediately after Bakhmatov published this information, Mykola Povoroznyk said he would sue him for “spreading false information.” Povoroznyk also reported that he appealed to the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) demanding a prompt, full and impartial check of the information circulated on social networks and in the media regarding members of his family. In early August this year Maksym Bakhmatov reported that no lawsuit by Mykola Povoroznyk or his representatives had been filed in court.
Nidkom LLC began winning public procurements in May 2019. Since then the company has received 44 contracts worth 731,19 million hryvnias. The largest customers are Kyiv healthcare institutions. In particular, with Kyiv City Clinical Hospital No. 1 it signed 7 contracts for 256,33 million hryvnias; with Kyiv City Clinical Hospital No. 7 – 4 contracts for 105,80 million hryvnias; with Oleksandrivska Clinical Hospital – 3 contracts for 64,68 million hryvnias.
The municipal non-profit enterprise “Oleksandrivska Clinical Hospital of Kyiv” was established by the Kyiv City Council in 1995. The hospital is headed by Liudmyla Antonenko.
In March 2022 the founder of the human rights center “Diia,” Oleksandra Dvoretska, stated that Liudmyla Antonenko forbids hospital staff from receiving humanitarian aid without her approval and only through the Vadym Stolar Foundation — a Member of Parliament from the banned OPZZh party and, incidentally, her cousin. In September this year Kyiv blogger Oleksandr Baraboshko clarified that Liudmyla Antonenko forbids staff from accepting humanitarian aid from volunteers except from the Vadym Stolar Foundation, which, incidentally, is abroad during the war.
“Oleksandrivska Clinical Hospital of Kyiv” is subordinated to the Kyiv City State Administration’s Department of Health, headed since October 2017 by Valentyna Hinzburg (center in the collage). The activities of this department are coordinated by the deputy head of the KSDA Hanna Starostenko (right in the collage).
From 21 December 2017 until 31 December 2020 the work of the KSDA Department of Health was coordinated and controlled, and then until 10 February 2022 was only coordinated by the first deputy head of the KSDA Mykola Povoroznyk (left in the collage).
Earlier KV reported that in April 2020 Mykola Povoroznyk became involved in a corruption scandal and on 18 April 2020 he was removed from his duties in connection with an investigation into a bribery case. According to investigators, through an intermediary Mykola Povoroznyk demanded an undue benefit of 125 thousand US dollars from a representative of a developer company, for which he allegedly promised to influence the decision on approval of urban planning conditions and restrictions for design (UPCR).
In September 2020 journalist and blogger Oleksandr Zubchenko reported that the situation around the criminal case allegedly involving Mykola Povoroznyk is being exploited by “the overseer” Denys Komarnytskyi to “keep him on the hook.”
On 7 March 2021 Mykola Povoroznyk suddenly announced on his Facebook page that the pre-trial investigation of the bribery case associated with his name had been completed and sent to court. He added that neither he nor any other KSDA employees are parties or participants in that criminal proceeding.
* MNE "Oleksandrivska Clinical Hospital of Kyiv" (EDRPOU code: 01994095)
** Agranbud LLC (EDRPOU code: 42143944)
*** BK Anta LLC (EDRPOU code: 42126756)
**** Nidkom LLC (EDRPOU code: 41564138)
Source: KyivVlada
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