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Duplicate firms won VyshneveTeploenergo tenders for more than 188 million hryvnias: Mayor Illia Dikov is involved in the procurements
The municipal enterprise VyshneveTeploenergo awarded contracts totaling 188,9 million hryvnias to two companies — Municipal Construction Group (MBG) and Municipal Construction Technologies (MBT). According to the investigation, numerous links can be traced between these entities, and one of the companies was effectively replaced by a firm with a similar name after AMCU sanctions.
This is reported in a Telegraf article.
In Vyshneve — near Kyiv — five streets were destroyed after an attack on an ammunition depot in July 2026, and hundreds of locals lost their homes. While residents continue to suffer from Russian UAV attacks, Vyshneve’s authorities stand out for their ability to circumvent oversight bodies during procurement.
A striking example is the municipal enterprise "VyshneveTeploenergo." Journalists analyzed the enterprise’s procurements and noticed a powerful contractor tandem. Together, Municipal Construction Technologies (MBT) and Municipal Construction Group (MBG) won tenders worth 188,9 million hryvnias.
Thanks to that figure, both firms confidently broke into the list of VyshneveTeploenergo’s largest suppliers. Who might be behind these firms and why AMCU has already banned one of them from participating in all tenders for three years (spoiler: the ban didn’t help).
Key points:
The municipal enterprise VyshneveTeploenergo awarded contracts totaling 188,9 million hryvnias to two closely related companies — Municipal Construction Group (MBG) and Municipal Construction Technologies (MBT).
After AMCU fined the first company (MBG) 5,2 million hryvnias and banned it from participating in tenders for collusion and using the same IP address, the twin company (MBT) with a similar name and the same founders continued to win procurements.
Both contracting firms were later re-registered to nominal persons to hide the real beneficiaries.
The State Audit Service found violations in MBT tenders amounting to tens of millions of hryvnias and demanded contract terminations, but the municipal enterprise ignored that request.
The enterprise’s leadership and the scandalous procurements take place under the unchanged leadership of Vyshneve’s mayor, Illia Dikov, who has previously appeared in high-profile corruption scandals involving bribes.
VyshneveTeploenergo’s favorite was put on the "blacklist"
VyshneveTeploenergo supplies hot water and heating in Vyshneve. It is one of the city’s largest municipal enterprises, through which tens of millions of hryvnias pass. As with many municipal enterprises, it has favorites that regularly win the most coveted tenders.
Previously, Municipal Construction Group was such a "favorite" at the enterprise. MBG won tenders worth 128 million hryvnias in just a few years (2023 and 2024). The LLC was engaged in heat network reconstruction. But later it turned out that MBG was cheating.
The company ended up on AMCU’s blacklist due to violations in a tender: it was fined 5,2 million hryvnias and banned from participating in tenders for three years. This happened in procurement by the same VyshneveTeploenergo. Several companies participated in that tender, including KM Bud and MBG. They used the same IP address, coordinated their tender prices, and carried out the works together (this concerned heat network reconstruction).
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Duplicate firms won VyshneveTeploenergo tenders for more than 188 million hryvnias: Mayor Illia Dikov is involved in the procurements
Instead of competitive bidding, the tenders featured typical collusion. MBG’s victories resulted from competitors’ coordinated actions — and of course there was no price reduction from real competition.
The old favorite was replaced by a new one with a similar name and the same owners
Last year, following AMCU’s decision, MBG lost the ability to participate in tenders. But that did not help remove the scheme’s organizers.
Thus, Municipal Construction Technologies replaced Municipal Construction Group as the winner of the network reconstruction tenders. LLC Municipal Construction Technologies received over 60,9 million hryvnias from VyshneveTeploenergo. MBT has existed less than three years and changed its director four times in the past year alone. According to the latest report, it employs four people, and a few months ago the company "moved" (changed its legal address) from Kyiv to Zhytomyr.
Duplicate firms won VyshneveTeploenergo tenders for more than 188 million hryvnias: Mayor Illia Dikov is involved in the procurements
Interestingly, after signing contracts with VyshneveTeploenergo the address, director, and even the LLC’s owner changed. At least some of the tenders were conducted with violations. For example, in June 2025 the firm won a tender for the reconstruction of a heat network in Vyshneve for 26,2 million hryvnias. VyshneveTeploenergo held an open tender, and the contract on behalf of the enterprise was signed on 18 July by acting director Serhii Mazur. The works were supposed to be completed last year, but along the way three additional agreements were signed, and the schedule was extended to 2026.
Duplicate firms won VyshneveTeploenergo tenders for more than 188 million hryvnias: Mayor Illia Dikov is involved in the procurements
Among a number of tenders between the municipal enterprise and the LLC, this one drew particular attention from oversight bodies. The State Audit Service found a series of violations in the tender and ordered the contract to be terminated. There is no information that the enterprise terminated the contract. We will separately ask the auditors how the State Audit Service will respond.
The State Audit Service does not publicly disclose the substance of the violation. They usually withhold inspection materials because they pass them to law enforcement and they become part of a pre-trial investigation. But since officials indicated a violation of subparagraph 2 of paragraph 44 of CMU resolution No.1178, the enterprise likely had legal grounds to reject LLC Municipal Construction Technologies’ proposal (for example, due to non-compliance with the technical specification or absence of mandatory documents) but did not do so.
A few weeks after signing that contract, on 5 August 2025, the municipal enterprise and Municipal Construction Technologies signed a new one — almost for 15 million hryvnias — for the reconstruction of the heat network on Kyivska Street in Vyshneve. The tender had a single participant. The municipal enterprise continues to procure from MBT this year as well.
Who owns MBG and MBT: names revealed
Municipal Construction Technologies was founded in September 2023 by Kyiv resident Liudmyla Denysiuk together with her Vinnytsia partner Serhii Korinets. In April 2025, on the eve of receiving its first tenders in Vyshneve, two new owners appeared in the company: Anton Maksymovych and Dmytro Usanov. Four months later, Usanov’s share transferred to Kyiv resident Larysa Partakeli. After that the company was re-registered to Serhii Smirnov, and later to Kyiv resident Tetyana Kuzub, who also officially serves as the company’s director.
Most likely, Tetyana Kuzub is a nominal owner, since more than 300 companies across the country have already been registered to the 52-year-old woman. In addition, she has dozens of administrative cases opened against her because she does not keep tax records in her LLCs.
However, the first owner of Municipal Construction Technologies, Liudmyla Denysiuk, is likely not an accidental person. In 2022 she also founded the aforementioned Municipal Construction Group.
Now Municipal Construction Group, like Municipal Construction Technologies, is registered to a front person. At the end of 2025, after the AMCU decision, the firm was registered to Mykolaiv resident Dmytro Zakhoda, who is listed as the owner of over 150 companies.
So one company was illegally profiting from VyshneveTeploenergo tenders, and when AMCU stopped it, the twin company with the same founder and a similar name began winning those same tenders. And that twin has also been caught violating rules — this time by the State Audit Service.
Who is really responsible for the scandalous tenders?
Both firms are already registered to front persons, although at different times the same people appeared as directors or founders here: Kyiv residents Liudmyla Denysiuk, Serhii Smirnov, and Dmytro Usanov.
If firms can successfully hide real owners behind front people, the municipal enterprise has a director whose appointment is decided by local authorities and who reports to the mayor. From April 2023 to August 2026, VyshneveTeploenergo was led by Serhii Mazur, and last month the enterprise’s head became Rita Kholodenko. The mayor of Vyshneve has remained unchanged since 2011 — former police colonel Illia Dikov.
Duplicate firms won VyshneveTeploenergo tenders for more than 188 million hryvnias: Mayor Illia Dikov is involved in the procurements
Dikov is a true political long-timer who has survived multiple scandals. In 2018 he appeared on recordings where he offered a bribe to then acting Minister of Health Uliana Suprun. For hospital equipment he promised her an apartment in Vyshneve. Suprun contacted law enforcement and recorded all conversations.
On one of the recordings Dikov says: "How you declare it is your question, whether you bought it or not… But there are certain funds, my personal ones." He planned to register an apartment in the Aquarelle-2 residential complex to his fund.
Dikov’s case was "buried." Initially the bribe was investigated by SAP, which at the time was headed by Nazar Kholodnytskyi (who worked with Dikov in law enforcement for four years). On the recordings, Kholodnytskyi was heard giving instructions to the Aquarelle-2 developer Serhii Kafty on how to behave during an interrogation and warning about possible searches.
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