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Ukraine’s capital National Police continue to record possible corruption offenses by officials of the municipal enterprise KP “Informatika” and the specialized municipal enterprise SKP “Kyivteleservis,” as well as their contractors and suppliers.
Thus, in one of the cases previously reported, the director of LLC “Security Hub” — the company that supplied equipment for the municipal video surveillance system to “Informatika” — has been notified of suspicion. According to the investigation, this individual may be involved in causing losses to Kyiv’s budget totaling 1,6 million hryvnias by inflating the cost of goods. Similar circumstances are being investigated by law enforcement in another case involving a different supplier; in that case, no suspicions have yet been served. In addition, the National Police became interested in the execution of 21 contracts with a total value of 692,8 million hryvnias that “Kyivteleservis” concluded with 7 companies — concerning the now-familiar “overpriced” equipment, some of which, moreover, was received by suppliers as international charitable aid.
City law enforcement are examining further facts of possible corruption offenses by officials of KP “Informatika” and the specialized KP “Kyivteleservis”.
The relevant circumstances are being investigated within criminal proceedings No. ¹42025102040000061 dated 4 September 2025, No. ¹42026102100000003 dated 8 January 2026, and No. ¹12026000000000345 dated 5 February 2026. The first case was opened by the Dnipro police department of the Kyiv National Police, the second by the Obolon department, and the third by the Main Investigative Department of the National Police of Ukraine.
The subjects of these three proceedings are preliminarily accused under part 5 of article 191 of the Criminal Code (CC) of Ukraine — embezzlement, misappropriation of property, or seizure of property by abusing official position, committed in particularly large amounts or by an organized group. The sanctions under this article provide for a penalty of imprisonment for up to twelve years with deprivation of the right to hold certain positions for up to three years and with confiscation of property.
Recall that within case No. ¹42025102040000061, investigators are looking into possible “budget skimming” in the procurement of equipment for the capital’s integrated video surveillance system, specifically radio signal transmission equipment with receiving devices. KP “Informatika” purchased these technical means from LLC “Security Hub” under a contract dated 22 May 2025. According to that agreement, the company was to supply the municipal enterprise with 174 kits of the specified equipment with a total value of 13,4 million hryvnias. However, as a result, LLC “Security Hub” received less money from “Informatika” — 12,6 million hryvnias.
During that investigation, law enforcement learned that the expected cost of that procurement had been inflated. According to the National Police, at the instruction of one of the deputy directors of KP “Informatika,” two officials of that municipal enterprise sent requests to five companies that supply such equipment asking for commercial proposals that should have indicated the price of this equipment. Among those companies was LLC “Security Hub.” Later, the “desired” price was determined based on the responses (that is, the commercial proposals). According to the investigation’s version, this violated the procedure prescribed by law for determining the procurement cost — it should be more comprehensive and include monitoring of open sources.
Moreover, as a result of forensic commodity and forensic economic examinations conducted in this proceeding, investigators found that the price of the Pelco IP cameras SRXP4-5V29-EBT-IR delivered to “Informatika” under that contract was higher than the market price for such equipment at the time of purchase. Because of this, as established by the National Police, Kyiv’s city budget suffered losses in the amount of 1,6 million hryvnias.
On 19 June 2026 investigators notified the aforementioned deputy director of KP “Informatika” (his surname is not specified in court rulings on the case due to the presumption of innocence; no information on the deputy directors of this enterprise is available in open sources) and the head of LLC “Security Hub” (apparently referring to Pavlo Poliak) of suspicion in this case. Both were charged with committing a crime under the aforementioned part 5 of article 191 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.
At the same time, law enforcement allege that the supplier’s director is accused not only of signing documents for the procurement (the contract, delivery notes, etc.). According to the investigation’s version, this official also ensured that, in addition to LLC “Security Hub,” two other companies — LLC “Engineering-Analytics” and LLC “Infrastructure of Security” — sent “appropriate” commercial proposals to KP “Informatika.” It is alleged that these business entities are linked to LLC “Security Hub,” and their commercial proposals contained substantially inflated prices.
Note that at the early stages of the investigation, in 2025, law enforcement examined a larger number of possible violations, not only by officials of KP “Informatika” but also by officials of SKP “Kyivteleservis” and KP “Main Information and Computing Center” — two other enterprises subordinate to the Department of Information and Communication Technologies of Kyiv City State Administration (ICT KSCA).
At that time, investigators suspected that these municipal officials may have carried out alleged “schemes” in procurements of equipment and services at inflated prices from controlled companies. In total, 37 contracts with a total value of 918 million hryvnias came under scrutiny. First of all, the National Police were interested in the work on implementing the much-troubled video surveillance system, carried out by LLC “Ukrainian Infosystems,” LLC “Tekhkom-Service,” and the aforementioned LLC “Security Hub.” However, later either law enforcement did not find sufficient evidence for some of their versions, or they decided to concentrate on those possible violations that are easier to prove. That is likely why only two people have received suspicions so far, and only “for one contract.”
The procurement of equipment for the video surveillance system is also being examined by investigators within case No. ¹42026102100000003. This concerns a contract dated 24 September 2024 between KP “Informatika” and the aforementioned LLC “Tekhkom-Service.” Under that agreement, the company was to supply the municipal enterprise with network cameras, memory cards, brackets, connector mounts, and other components, as well as services related to delivering the set of these items, for 25,7 million hryvnias. Court rulings in that proceeding do not yet specify what exact crimes were committed by officials of “Informatika” and/or “Tekhkom-Service.” However, it is known that investigators have “information that may indicate a significant overstatement of the cost of certain items of the procurement subject compared to the purchase price of the corresponding nomenclature of goods.”
As for proceeding No. ¹12026000000000345, investigators became interested in alleged violations in procurements by the specialized KP “Kyivteleservis” of network equipment, software, and various services.
In total, investigators focused on 21 such contracts with a total value of 692,8 million hryvnias, which were concluded during 2024–2025 with seven companies, namely: LLC “Bilintech Ukraine” (5 contracts worth 238,1 million), LLC “Ukrainian Infosystems” (4 contracts worth 213,9 million), LLC “Ukrinformsystems” (1 contract worth 68,3 million), LLC “V M G” (5 contracts worth 62,2 million), LLC “Softnet Group” (3 contracts worth 54,5 million), LLC “VM Construction” (2 contracts worth 39,9 million), and LLC “Technologies for Business” (1 contract worth 15,6 million).
According to the National Police, all of these business entities purchased the equipment they supplied to “Kyivteleservis” from controlled companies that show signs of being fictitious. Investigators also preliminarily established that such purchases were made at inflated prices, and the “extra” funds were subsequently transferred to the accounts of business entities exhibiting signs of fictitiousness — for the purpose of converting them to cash and further disposition. Law enforcement also established that part of the equipment and software was received by the above-mentioned suppliers as international charitable aid and was sold to “Kyivteleservis” for budget funds. In addition, investigators discovered another notable detail: according to their data, officials of LLC “Bilintech Ukraine,” to obtain undue benefit for themselves, carry out fictitious employee bookings that allow those employees to receive deferments from military conscription during mobilization.
Note that in the last two cases, law enforcement do not name even approximate amounts of losses — apparently, investigators will disclose any figures only after conducting the relevant forensic examinations.
What is known about the suspects
All of the above-mentioned contractors and suppliers are active participants in tenders held by various municipal and state bodies in Ukraine. Most of them primarily cooperate with enterprises subordinate to the Department of Information and Communication Technologies of the Kyiv City State Administration (KSCA) — namely the same KP “Informatika,” SKP “Kyivteleservis,” and KP “Main Information and Computing Center” (“MICC”). The largest “portfolio” of such cooperation belongs to LLC “Bilintech Ukraine” — the company concluded a total of 132 contracts worth 2,65 billion hryvnias, of which 42 contracts worth 1,3 billion were signed with “Kyivteleservis” and 13 contracts worth 129,4 million — with “Informatika.”
As for the other business entities, LLC “Technologies for Business” has 1,5 thousand contracts worth 1,5 billion hryvnias (including 2 contracts with “Kyivteleservis” worth 137,1 million and 1 contract with “MICC” worth 6,8 million), LLC “VM Construction” — 72 contracts worth 1,1 billion (24 contracts with “Kyivteleservis” worth 737,4 million and 6 contracts with “Informatika” worth 36,4 million), LLC “Ukrainian Infosystems” — 298 contracts worth 1,1 billion (31 contract worth 612,6 million with “Informatika” and 25 contracts worth 472,8 million with “Kyivteleservis”), LLC “V M G” — 132 contracts worth 803,4 million (23 contracts with “Kyivteleservis” worth 219,7 million, 5 contracts with “MICC” worth 45,5 million and 4 contracts with “Informatika” worth 8,4 million), LLC “Ukrinformsystems” — 226 contracts worth 779,1 million (144 contracts with “Kyivteleservis” worth 361,6 million and 17 contracts with “Informatika” worth 325,9 million), LLC “Security Hub” — 86 contracts worth 363,5 million (49 contracts with “Informatika” worth 258,2 million), LLC “Softnet Group” — 46 contracts worth 361,3 million (22 contracts with “Kyivteleservis” worth 305 million and 2 contracts with “Informatika” worth 19,6 million), and LLC “Tekhkom-Service” — 118 contracts worth 222,8 million (44 contracts with “Informatika” worth 205,8 million and 1 contract with “Kyivteleservis” worth 939,9 thousand).
SKP “Kyivteleservis” and KP “Informatika” have regularly appeared in various law enforcement investigations in recent years concerning possible embezzlement of the city budget’s financial resources.
Since 2023 the National Police have been investigating facts of embezzlement by officials of KP “Informatika” in procurements of equipment for video surveillance systems and street lighting control. Investigators are convinced that such procurements are not of critical necessity in wartime and therefore threaten the national security of the state. In addition, according to them, at least 1,29 million budget hryvnias may have been misappropriated in the implementation of just one of many such contracts — since 12 April 2024 the abuse of office has been officially charged to the former head of the procurement department of “Informatika.” Thus, the “collection” of cases regarding “skimming” during the implementation of the aforementioned systems, which in recent years “consumed” more than 1 billion budget hryvnias and, moreover, operate with dubious effectiveness, continues to grow.
However, to date none of the possible suspects in the mentioned cases has yet been officially notified of suspicion.
In addition, an indictment is currently under consideration by the Shevchenkivskyi District Court of Kyiv against the former general director and the acting deputy head of KP “Informatika,” Veronika Malkova (it was during her term that the contracts with “Ukrainian Infosystems” that drew the attention of the State Bureau of Economic Security were concluded). She is now officially accused of disseminating data from those same street surveillance cameras. For this crime, the official faces up to 5 years in prison, but what the ultimate verdict of the Shevchenkivskyi District Court will be remains to be seen.
Investigators established that Malkova, together with two other persons, one of whom was her subordinate, helped citizens, in particular, track vehicle movement routes across the city. They called this process a “search,” and the then-head of “Informatika” allegedly had a callsign — “Auntie.” At the same time, neither the KSCA nor the Kyiv City Council “sounded the alarm” — Malkova returned to work after being suspended in March 2023, and the deputies’ initiative to create a special commission to investigate such incidents was never officially implemented.
Scandals in the capital’s digitalization sphere also occurred in the summer of 2025. In July, law enforcement notified a SKP “Kyivteleservis” official of suspicion for official negligence, through which the city treasury could have lost nearly 51 million hryvnias. This concerns funds that were “overpaid” to the aforementioned LLC “VM Construction Ukraine” for the supply and maintenance of network equipment (switches, power units) — which cost the capital community 2,5 times more than the market price. In turn, the court, due to expiry of the statute of limitations, released from liability the deputy director of KP “Informatika,” Ihor Buriak, who had been accused under the same article. That official was accused of the “loss” of a number of pieces of various equipment (including computer equipment) that in 2018 cost the enterprise 466,6 thousand hryvnias, and later simply “vanished,” which was recorded during inventory. To this day it is still unknown where all that “electronics” went — no public explanations have been provided.
And in 2022 auditors of the KSCA recorded violations in the work of the Department of Information and Communication Technologies of the KSCA and three municipal enterprises subordinate to it (“Informatika,” “MICC,” and “Kyivteleservis”). At that time it was found that in 2018–2020 these structures allowed financial violations totaling 274,86 million hryvnias, resulting in losses of about 61,33 million budget hryvnias. In particular, these enterprises purchased equipment that was never used, paid their contractors “extra” remuneration for services provided, held tenders at inflated prices, failed to implement more than two dozen digital services (for example, payment for kindergarten meals through the “Personal Account of a Kyivan”), etc.
Note that the duties of director of SKP “Kyivteleservis” have been performed by Oleksandr Voloshchuk since 5 September 2024 (in the collage he is on the left; his primary position is deputy head of this enterprise for cybersecurity). Before him, from March 2024, the enterprise was headed on the same basis by Oleksandr Bystrushkin. He succeeded another acting head — Pavlo Chernikov, who “temporarily” led “Kyivteleservis” from February 2021.
The duties of general director of KP “Informatika” have been performed by Mykola Zhandorov since 8 February 2024. His predecessors in that position were Olena Hrubliak (from 27 March 2023), the aforementioned Veronika Malkova (from 6 September 2021 to 27 March 2023) and Mykola Pykhtin (from October 2017 to September 2021).
Both enterprises, as noted above, are subordinate to the ICT Department of the KSCA, which has been headed by Viktoriia Itskovych since 25 August 2023. She replaced Oleh Polovynka, who led the structure from 27 August 2021. Earlier, from 3 March 2017 until 29 April 2020, the department was headed by Yurii Nazarov, who was the “face of digitalization in Kyiv” and whose person is also associated with numerous violations in this sphere. After his dismissal and before Polovynka’s appointment, the ICT Department of the KSCA was led in an acting capacity by Hanna Lysyk.
The activities of the KSCA’s ICT Department are currently overseen by KSCA First Deputy Head Valentyn Mondryivskyi. Before him, from April 2021 to March 2025, the city’s digitalization sphere was overseen by another deputy of Vitali Klitschko — Petro Olenych. Recall that Olenych was dismissed in March 2025 after being notified of suspicion in a case concerning possible manipulation with municipal land plots.
Author: Oleksandr Hlazunov
KyivVlada
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