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Volodymyr Zelensky stated that he does not know Denys Komarnitsky, whom people call the “shtrooshiy” for Kyiv from the Office of the President. That was Zelensky’s reply to Bihus.Info journalists’ questions.
At the same time, the president outright denied the existence of such a concept as the “shtrooshiy from the Office”:
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“I simply do not know who Mr. Komarnitsky is, honestly, frankly. Furthermore, if I do not know, then he cannot be the “shtrooshiy” from the Office, firstly. Secondly, there are no “shtrooshiy” for Kyiv from the Office – there are none. There are no “shtrooshiy” for any city from the Office,” said Volodymyr Zelensky.
Denys Komarnitsky began to be called the “new shtrooshiy” for Kyiv in the autumn of 2019 after the elections to the Verkhovna Rada. A number of journalists, activists and experts stated that Komarnytsky’s team worked with the MP from the “Servant of the People” and the well-known restaurateur Mykola Tyshchenko during the parliamentary campaign.
Subsequently, the surnames Komarnitsky, Tyshchenko, and at that time the president’s assistant Andriy Yermak were mentioned in the context of the so-called “war for Kyiv,” when the then head of the Office of the President Andriy Bohdan tried to redistribute influence in the city at the expense of weakening the position of Kyiv’s mayor Vitali Klitschko and introducing another, one might suppose, “own” person to the post of head of the Kyiv City State Administration. The probable alliance of Klitschko and Yermak in opposing these Bohdan’s intentions ended with Bohdan’s resignation. According to our sources, this could have led to increased influence of Denys Komarnitsky in Kyiv, who allegedly is now involved in Tyshchenko’s active mayoral pre-election campaign. The latter is considered a creature of Yermak and “flashed” in the scandalous story with the Vel’ur restaurant.
Member of Parliament Geo Leross handed Bihus.Info a flash drive containing copied contents from one of the working computers in Komarnitsky’s Kyiv office. It was seized during the autumn 2019 search conducted by SBU officers. The computer contains a number of official documents as well as so-called “conceptual” notes relating to the functioning of Kyiv’s construction market, Kyiv tenders, and the cooperation of certain businessmen and officials. For example, companies with ties to Komarnitsky over the last four years have received about 13 billion hryvnias from Kyiv municipal enterprises for construction and reconstruction of major and symbolic city objects — the Podilskyi – Voskresensky Bridge, Volodymyrska Hill, etc. These companies are so-called “bridging” entities, created not for construction but solely to obtain funds and pass them on to other structures.
The documents obtained by journalists may also indicate cooperation between Komarnitsky and his people with Tyshchenko’s entourage and with the orbit of another mayoral candidate, already from “Batkivshchyna,” Vitaliy Nestor. More about this in the full version of the material.
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