The Office of the Prosecutor General revealed how much it paid to the Kozitsky family company
The Office of the Prosecutor General confirmed that the company Finport Technologies Inc., which belongs to the father of the head of the Lviv Regional State Administration Maxim Kozitsky, Zinovy Kozitsky, has been servicing the websites of the prosecutor’s office for five years, virtually on a non-alternative basis. This is stated in responses to information requests from the Ukrainian Kommersant publication received from the Office of the Prosecutor General, regional and special prosecutors' offices.
Thus, the Office of the Prosecutor General reported that during 2019-2024, according to the agreement, PJSC Finport Technologies Inc. was paid UAH 2.6 million for the services provided.
Among the regional prosecutor's offices that responded to the publication's request, during this period the largest amount of money was paid by a private company owned by Zinovy Kozitsky, for the services of providing licensed software products, development and technical support of websites, the Vinnytsia Regional Prosecutor's Office (468.6 thousand UAH), Volyn regional prosecutor's office (411.2 thousand UAH) and Kherson regional prosecutor's office (380.9 thousand UAH). Also significant amounts of PJSC Finport Technologies Inc. listed by the Specialized Prosecutor's Office in the field of defense of the central region (405.3 thousand UAH) and the Specialized Prosecutor's Office in the field of defense of the western region (523.2 thousand UAH).
It should be noted that some regional prosecutor's offices began to cooperate with PJSC Finport Technologies Inc. during a full-scale war and paid for services for 2023-2024. For example, Odessa Regional Prosecutor's Office (235 thousand UAH), Ivano-Frankivsk (293.7 thousand UAH) and Cherkasy Regional Prosecutor's Office (218 thousand UAH). And the Khmelnitsky regional prosecutor’s office only this year concluded an agreement for technical support for the site (88 thousand UAH).
Thus, the total amount that the prosecutor's office paid to the company Finport Technologies Inc., owned by the father of the chairman of the Lviv Regional State Administration Maxim Kozitsky Zinovy, is at least 7 million UAH. The final amount of payment by the prosecutor's office for the services of Zinovy Kozitsky's company is unknown, because currently not all regional prosecutor's offices have responded to the publication's information request.
Tuka's Statement
Recently, the former chairman of the Lugansk Regional State Administration, Georgy Tuka, in his note accused Maxim Kozitsky of a conflict of interest and corruption due to the fact that the company “Finport Technologies Inc.” For many years, “it has been winning tenders from the UCP and NAPC to create websites for these government agencies on a non-competitive basis.”
Since 2016, Finport Technologies Inc. won 201 procurements and entered into contracts for more than UAH 61 million with government agencies. According to Georgy Tuka, almost half of the tenders were held with a single supplier or the tender was specifically announced “for the company.”
Since 2019, Finport Technologies Inc. regularly wins tenders for the creation and technical support of websites of prosecutors' offices. Since then, the cost of the company’s services to regional prosecutors’ offices has almost doubled, Tuka pointed out. At the same time, at the end of 2023, the company’s balance sheet had only two fixed assets worth UAH 45 thousand, which is the equivalent of two laptops, and at the end of 2022, the cost of fixed assets was only UAH 3 thousand.
“The company, which for many years has been the uncontested provider of technical support services for the websites of the General and Regional Prosecutor's Offices and maintains the register of NAPC declarations, has on its balance sheet fixed assets worth UAH 45 thousand. In the event of obligations arising on the part of Finport Technologies Inc. (for example, due to failure to fulfill the terms of the contract), the customer of the services will not be able to demand any actual compensation from the company, since, in addition to the authorized capital of UAH 2 million (which may be presented in illiquid form), the company has no other liquid assets,” noted Tuka.
In addition, he pointed out other risks associated with the limited capabilities of Finport Technologies Inc. promptly respond to certified obligations within the framework of concluded contracts. In particular, the company had only 12 employees on staff, two part-time, four part-time.
“They also attract attention significantly lower than the average market wage rates for specialists in the IT industry,” stated Tuka.
According to the former head of the Lugansk Regional State Administration, all this casts doubt on the company’s real ability to fulfill its obligations to clients, and the “exclusive partnership” with NAPC and the prosecutor’s office makes the owner of Finport Technologies Inc. Zinovy Kozitsky is also “invulnerable to law enforcement agencies.”
