“The Great Siphoning” worth billions: how Oleksandr Kubrakov and Yurii Holyk turned the “Great Construction” into a road feeding trough for the chosen few

“The Great Siphoning” worth billions: how Oleksandr Kubrakov and Yurii Holyk turned the “Great Construction” into a road feeding trough for the chosen few

Zelensky’s “Great Siphoning” enriched Yurii Holyk, Kyrylo Tymoshenko, and Oleksandr Kubrakov.

The “road” issue became one of the many reasons that dragged down the Servant of the People’s ratings in the local elections 2020. Although, in theory, it should have been a “victory case.” After all, with a record investment of 70,6 billion hryvnias from the state budget, the Ukravtodor budget plus the local roads budget should have renewed a record length of routes — 6500 kilometers. Whereas, for example, in 2018, the predecessors completed medium repairs of 950 km of routes for 29 billion hryvnias of budget spending. At the same time, “with violations,” every second budget hryvnia spent on roads was misspent.

The planning of the “Great Construction” was so unprofessional that it led to corrupt siphoning. The head of Ukravtodor, Oleksandr Kubrakov, and the “state manager” Yurii Holyk, who carried out the project’s operational management, portrayed the real failures of certain route projects or other types of objects as “successes.”

Thus, from January through November 2020, the regional Road Services conducted 3135 “road” procurements with a total value of 101,7 billion hryvnias. And 61% of that entire sum was received by only 5 companies — Avtomahistral-Pivden, Rostdorstroy, Onur, and PBS (this company is in Kolomoisky’s orbit). Meanwhile, 96 companies participated in the Road Service procurements. That is, fewer than 10% of market players received contracts worth 60 billion hryvnias.

And that’s not to mention that Ukravtodor significantly exceeded the limits of the state budget-2020. And if Ukravtodor had overfulfilled the plan for road repairs! But unfortunately, the situation is exactly the opposite. At the “Network: Road Sector Forum” on Wednesday, 2 December, Kubrakov stated that in 2020 Ukravtodor renewed a total of 3926 km of routes of all types. Notably, in one of his blogs in July of the same year, Kubrakov stated that works had already been launched on 3700+ km of routes in Ukraine. Thus, it turns out that from July to December of that year Ukravtodor almost literally “blew up” the funds intended for road renewal.

Reported by: "Fttc"