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Schema audit of Kyivavtodor: how, during the tenure of Hustelev and Klitschko, millions were looted on bridges, road markings, and salt purchases
A list of stories related to Kyiv's road infrastructure during the period when Kyivavtodor was headed by Oleksandr Hustelev and city authorities were led by Vitali Klitschko.
The loudest financial episode is the Shuliavskyi overpass case. 22 In September the Supreme Court rejected the cassation appeal in the dispute over the collection from the contractor 1,12 billion UAH. The initial contract value was 598,5 million hryvnias, but after signing additional agreements it exceeded one billion.
The Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine (AMCU) established a collusion at the auctions between the companies “North Ukrainian Construction Alliance” and “Specbud-Plus.” Signs of coordinated actions included common IP addresses, employees, and banking documents. The companies were fined a total of 56 million hryvnias.
It is notable that the invalidity of the contract was disputed by the municipal customer itself. Now the task is to actually recover more than 1,1 billion UAH from the contractor, who, according to court materials, is in a pre-bankruptcy (pre-insolvency) proceeding. A court decision does not yet mean funds returned to the budget — everything will be decided by actual performance.
Oleksandr Hustelev headed the Kyivavtodor corporation from April 2015. In February 2020 Klitschko appointed him deputy head of the Kyiv City State Administration (KCSA).
As early as March 2017, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) and the General Prosecutor's Office investigated the alleged looting of almost 300 million hryvnias. During searches of the suspects, reports at the time stated that about 4 million hryvnias in cash were seized. Separately, the State Audit Service found over 11 million hryvnias in inflated expenditures and violations in contracts worth 418 million hryvnias. Hustelev himself denied that cash was found directly in the corporation.
In case No. 12017000000001327, investigators described a scheme of diverting 11,4 million hryvnias from 37 million allocated for road markings. From June to August 2017, funds were transferred to the company “DORBUDREZERV-UKRAINA.” Meanwhile, investigators claimed that actual work was performed by municipal workers, while private companies only handled document flow and created the appearance of competition. The materials also mentioned the companies “COLOR S.I.M.”, “UKRDORPLAST” and “AVTOMAGISTRAL.”
In the case about the procurement of technical salt, investigators checked for possible overpricing and fictitious competition. In case materials No. 755/1645/17 it spoke of 40 798 tons of salt for a total of 36,45 million hryvnias, supplied by the company “KOSTANZA” at a price from 828 to 909,6 UAH per ton. A competitor at the auctions was the company “UKRSOLINVEST.” Both companies had a charter capital of 1000 hryvnias.
Another major tender scandal related to the construction of the Podilsky–Voskresensky bridge crossing. AMCU established a collusion of the companies “EKO-BUD-TRADE” and “FORMA” during auctions with an expected value of 6,103 billion UAH.
Among the evidence of coordinated actions, the committee cited common IP addresses, banking devices, and other circumstances indicating coordination. The companies were fined 182,6 million hryvnias. The total cost of the bridge construction approached 20 billion hryvnias. The contractor was linked by journalists to the entourage of former Kyiv City Council deputy Denys Komarnytsky.
In November 2021, Klitschko dismissed Hustelev from the post of deputy head of the KCSA due to delays in bridge construction terms.
Audit of the municipal enterprise “Kyivavtoshlyakhmist” for 2017–2019 years revealed financial violations totaling 32,2 million hryvnias. Of these, 4,94 million hryvnias were losses, and 6,6 million hryvnias were inefficiencies.
At that time the enterprise was led by Dmytro Kotlyubey, who later became an adviser to Oleksandr Hustelev. His former deputy Valentyn Osipov, in February 2020, headed the Kyiv City State Administration's Transport Department.
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