How they steal at a construction site. Gufman and others

We continued to study budgets and have now examined the construction of 26 stadiums/swimming pools/sports grounds on which they plan to spend almost UAH 150 million in 2023.

1) For example, let’s take a sports ground near school No. 35 in Dnepr (Pobeda 6), UAH 29 million have already been spent on it in 2023. Payment in May, according to acts dated February.

Important points:

1.1) Local residents say that over the past year they have not seen any work being carried out. Having arrived there, we saw half a meter of grass and that the football field was covered with gravel. To say that it costs 29 million UAH is very difficult.

1.2) Almost all positions are overestimated, overestimation ranges from 30% to 150%. We did a lot of price analysis. Let's give a few examples of overstatements: 1 cubic meter of sand on the market costs 300-465 UAH, it is bought for 990 UAH. Another example, a meter of 530/710 pipe on the market costs 9730-14720 UAH, but it is bought for 23604. The total overpayment is at least 5.5 million UAH. and this is only for the 60 positions we have already analyzed. The funds were received by the company Alfabud, which, according to our data, is from the Gufman orbit (OPZZH). This is how we finance OPZH during the war

2) The second example is that in 2023, a swimming pool was still being built in Krivoy Rog. So this year we have already paid 19.5 million UAH. to this pool. At the same time, the payment was made through a subvention from the state budget. And as we remember, it is not military expenses in the state budget that are covered by donor funds. We analyzed and compared prices with market prices for 13 items for which funds were paid in accordance with the acts. We see an overpayment of almost 2 times. The market value of materials for these items is 4 million UAH, but they were bought for 7.7 million UAH. I think donors will be surprised to understand where their funds are going, given such an overstatement.

The funds were received by Stroyinvest from Korban’s orbit

3) We explain how all this becomes possible.

a) The chairman of the budget commission of the regional council is a deputy elected from OPZZh Poddubny S.A., this commission must review in detail and coordinate capital construction in the budget. And the deputies, of course, don’t see anything.

b) The chairman of the relevant commission of the regional council is the deputy elected from the OPZZh Lavrinenko A.E., they must review in detail and agree on the budget for capital construction. These deputies also see nothing.

c) Funds were included in the regional budget in separate lines so that the funds would go to Gufman’s companies OPZH and others. And all the deputies are silent. So, over the past 15 months, the company Alfabud (OPZZH) received 90 million UAH. for various projects. And everyone is happy with such expenses where the funds will go to HLP.

d) We appealed a year ago to the chairman of the regional council to remove the OPZZh deputies from the heads of deputy commissions. We also communicated verbally with him at the beginning of the year so as not to spend funds from the budget on stadiums/swimming pools.

e) The answer from Lukashuk (chairman of the regional council) boiled down to the fact that the deputies from the OPZZH are professional people and there is no reason to deprive them of the leadership of deputy commissions. Therefore, we see that everything suits him.

4) When deputies adopt a budget, they must analyze it and discuss whether such expenses are necessary or not. But they seem to be discussing things differently. If you look at the regional budget, you can see 26 strange objects there - stadiums / swimming pools / sports grounds. 8 objects are an order for stadium projects, that is, projects are ordered in 2023 and in subsequent years they will build stadiums. But the cynicism of the situation is that changes to the regional budget were adopted in the summer. And these changes came after the president’s call not to spend money on paving stones and stadiums. But instead of reducing costs, they, on the contrary, increased them. So the deputies added 2 more stadiums for funding in 2023. This is how funding for the stadium in Tomakovka and the stadium in Dnieper (Yasenova 65) was added. And Nikolai Lukashuk does not see all this and calmly votes for such expenditures from the regional budget. And he does not hear the calls of the president, although he was elected from the Servants of the People.

5) In our opinion, the following people should bear responsibility:

a) Kushvid - director of the department that proposed to finance such objects, accepted acts and initiated payments. And in general I have not seen and do not want to see prices that are significantly inflated.

b) Lukashuk. as the leadership of the regional council, which does not react in any way to the costs of stadiums/swimming pools, that this is all included in the budget and which really likes the OPZH and does not see any problems with them.

c) Orlov V.V. profile deputy.

PS We hope publicity will not allow such expenses with such overpayments to be included in the 2024 budget. We contacted law enforcement agencies.