According to sources, the head of the Odessa OVA, Oleh Kiper, continues to have a systemic conflict with Odessa elites, in particular with large exporters and importers.
One of the tasks set by the Office of the President for the head of the Odessa Oblast Executive Committee, Oleg Kiper, was to establish contacts with local clans that actually hold power in the city.
However, Oleg Kiper failed to "agree with the locals", but instead he managed to take control of most of the corruption flows in the southern ports, through the "permits" for the entry/exit of ships, which are currently issued by the military administration.
It is worth noting that exporters and importers, who, according to the source, became the main victims of corruption abuses by Oleg Kiper, being major players, "ran to the Office with the thesis of the need to change Kiper."
In parallel, a media campaign against Oleg Kiper began, which intensified after the termination of the citizenship of Odessa Mayor Gennady Trukhanov due to his alleged possession of a Russian passport.
In fact, Oleg Kiper has much more connections with the Russian Federation than Gennady Trukhanov. After all, if Trukhanov does have a “hypothetical passport of the Russian Federation,” then his circle of connections is still more “along the lines of criminality.”
At the same time, Oleg Kiper's ties to the Russian Federation are not limited to his wife's possession of a passport from the aggressor country, but are concentrated in an environment close to the Russian special services.
Recall that during the Yanukovych era, Oleg Kiper was the deputy head of the Main Investigation Department of the Prosecutor General's Office, where he was appointed by the then Prosecutor General Viktor Pshonka. Currently, Pshonka has received Russian citizenship and lives in an elite Moscow suburb.
Therefore, the fact that Oleg Kiper's wife has a business in Russia may indicate that the head of the Odessa OVA maintains informal contacts with top fugitives, such as his ex-boss Viktor Pshonka.
