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173 millions for the mayor’s office staff and 958 million to contractors: how Oleksandr Symchyshyn distributes Khmelnytskyi’s budget
In the first 8 months of 2026, the apparatus of the Khmelnytskyi City Council received 173,2 million UAH. At the same time, about 958 million UAH of city contracts during Mayor Oleksandr Symchyshyn’s term were concentrated within 5 business groups.
This was reported by “Komentari,” citing data from the Khmelnytskyi City Council.
According to the data provided by the city council itself, there is no separate indicator for base salaries in the payment breakdown. Of the total 54,36 million UAH, 33,94 million UAH were bonuses, and another 84,9 million UAH accounted for other payments, including material assistance and wellness allowances.
As of 1 January, 646 people worked in the city council apparatus. The annual wage fund amounted to 261,45 million UAH. In 8 months, about two thirds of that sum had already been used. On average, about 268 thousand UAH in payments were allocated per employee.
12 employees were paid more than 50 thousand UAH monthly, and one person — more than 100 thousand UAH. The city council did not disclose that person’s position or surname.
Over 2025 year, Oleksandr Symchyshyn declared 1,184 million UAH in salary, while in 2024 his income from wages was 906 thousand UAH.
On 27 January 2026, the mayor sold a Nissan Qashqai, a 2019-year model, for 645 915 UAH. He had bought the car in November 2019 for 534 500 UAH. The buyer was a former employee of a municipal utility company.
Already 5 February, Symchyshyn paid an advance of 772 815 UAH for a new car. On bank accounts he declared 209,8 thousand UAH, and his wife Svitlana — 9,37 thousand UAH. She also listed 7,2 thousand UAH as rental income from “Agro-Veles.”
The piece separately discusses the distribution of city contracts. The largest share belongs to Budivelnyi Alyans Grup (Building Alliance Group) of Ivan Krutil and Bud-Kontur of Oleksandr Kryvokhyzha. This concerns approximately 53 contracts totaling 469 million UAH.
In 2020, Budivelnyi Alyans Grup transferred 75 thousand UAH to a political force associated with the city authorities.
At least another 80 contracts totaling 254 million UAH were awarded to the companies “U R D” and “Dorozhni Mashyny,” which are linked to Member of Parliament Serhii Labaziuk. Labaziuk himself, together with Denys Nazymov, is a figure in a case at the High Anti-Corruption Court regarding an attempt to give undue advantage to Oleksandr Kubrakov and Mustafa Nayyem to help obtain contracts worth about 1 billion UAH. As of August 2026, the case had reached court debates.
More than 50 contracts worth approximately 99 million UAH were received by Grand Dorbud and Arsen-Investbud of Grant Karapetyan. Karapetyan transferred 50 thousand UAH to Symchyshyn’s political force.
A criminal proceeding №42018241010000025 was opened regarding Grand Dorbud over false data in road work acceptance certificates.
The company Arame, owned by Gayane and Norayr Mesropyan, received more than 97 contracts worth about 75 million UAH. Norayr Mesropyan transferred 20 thousand UAH.
Budmaxplus of Larysa Hryhoryan, in the dataset for 2026 alone, received more than 29 contracts totaling approximately 61 million UAH.
This company also appears in a criminal episode. On 6 May 2026, the Khmelnytskyi City and District Court, in case №686/21565/17, approved a plea agreement by a person who handed over $1000 to an employee of the State Audit Service so that that employee would not record violations during the audit of budget expenditures on road construction. The funds were transferred in the interests of Budmaxplus officials.
The imposed sentence of 5 years’ imprisonment was replaced with 1,5 years of probation.
In the same political-economic network, pro-government faction deputy Oleh Yanitskyi is mentioned — head and co-founder of the NGO “Team Symchyshyn.” From December 2020 to February 22 2021, he made 18 supplies for the city council executive committee.
Separately, the owner of TOV “Torgovyi Dim Tissa,” Oleksii Teleha, reported an attempt to seize his company’s premises and security personnel who, he said, presented themselves as people from the mayor’s office. The High Anti-Corruption Court obliged detectives to register a criminal proceeding on the claim of possible seizure and embezzlement. The court’s decision to register the proceeding does not establish the guilt of any specific individuals.
Other expenditures mentioned include costs for equipping restrooms. A toilet in Shevchenko Square cost the city budget 2,59 million UAH, and a restroom of 8 square meters on Soborna Street — about 950 thousand UAH.
After the cancellation of the tender UA-2026-07-27-009011-a, on 31 August the executive committee signed a direct contract №218 with sole proprietor Oleg Hnevush for the repair of the restroom in the building at Heroiv Mariupolya Street, 3. The cost of the work was another 292 182 UAH.
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