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Fugitive figures in a high-profile case about kickbacks in road repairs in Poltava have become known.
The names of officials, deputies, and contractors whom NABU detectives and SAP prosecutors announced anew just prior with new suspicions in a large corruption case involving kickbacks from Poltava road repairs.
As previously reported, anti-corruption bodies announced suspicions for five more individuals. According to Poltavshchyna, in addition to sitting regional council deputy Oleksii Chepurka, the list of new defendants included:
Yevhen Dikan’ — deputy of Poltava City Council;
Taras Panasenko — deputy mayor of Poltava for housing and communal services.
Representative of the contracting company “Budivelnyk 2016”;
likely contractor of LLC “Avtoshlyakh 2020”
According to the investigation, the defendants established a system of demanding unlawful benefits from entrepreneurs with whom UZhKG entered into contracts for repairs of street and road networks, sidewalks, and adjacent territories. The size of the bribe was 10% of the contract value. In this episode alone, 29,9 million UAH in cash were documented as having been handed over, laundered through exchange points.
From April denials to an official suspicion
It should be noted that earlier this year the head of UZhKG Taras Panasenko publicly disavowed involvement in the corruption scandal. 24 in April, during a meeting of the specialized deputy commission, reacting to public accusations by deputy Serhiy Kaplyn, Panasenko officially stated that he had no suspicions from NABU. At that time, unofficially in the city hall there were assurances that there were no grounds to suspend the management. However, within a few months the head of UZhKG officially joined the list of suspects.
The full list of all 9 suspects in the case.
With the addition of new defendants, the total number of suspects in the criminal proceeding rose to nine. Currently, official suspicions (depending on the role under part 4 of article 368 and part 3 of article 369 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine) have been issued to:
Yurii Brazhnyk — deputy of Poltava City Council from “Servant of the People” (according to investigators — organizer of the scheme; currently in custody with bail of 33 million UAH).
Maksym Tieslenko — deputy head of UZhKG of Poltava City Council (trusted person who interacted with contractors and passed digital codes for exchangers).
Viktor Pryadka — representative of the contracting company, actual owner of LLC “DRSU Poltava” (released from pretrial detention on bail of nearly 6 million UAH).
Representative of the company “Budivelnyk 2016” (long-time contractor for the city housing and communal services department).
Volodymyr Tuzenko — representative of the contracting company LLC “Transdorkom.”
Likely contractor LLC “Avtoshlyakh 2020.”
Oleksii Chepurka — deputy of Poltava Regional Council (former deputy head of the Polyvash regional council, ex-deputy mayor for housing and communal services).
Yevhen Dikan’ — deputy of Poltava City Council, head of the “Za Maybutnye” faction.
Taras Panasenko — deputy mayor for housing and communal services.
Investigative actions by the National Anti-Corruption Bureau continue.
As previously reported by the ANTI-COR portal, anti-corruption bodies announced new suspicions in a case of corruption in road repairs in the Poltava region.
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