The construction of a school in the village of Chayky near Kyiv has turned into a large-scale financial project with signs of corruption. Despite the initial cost of 288 million hryvnias, more than 450 million have already been spent, and the final amount may exceed half a billion. The main beneficiary of the project was a company associated with the ruling party.
Recently, the Borshchagov village council concluded a new agreement for the amount of 141 million hryvnias with Agrostroymekhanizatsiya LLC. This company belongs to the Shalymov family. One of its representatives, Igor Shalymov, is a current deputy from the Servant of the People party. The agreement was signed without competition: other participants were not allowed to participate in the tender due to formal reasons related to the documents that the customer himself had to issue. Such actions have been recognized by the Antimonopoly Committee as discriminatory more than once.
The previous stages of the tenders were also accompanied by suspicious purchases. For example, insulation was purchased at prices 10–20 times higher than market prices. The new contract provides not only for the completion of the building, but also for large expenditures on landscaping, gyms, choreographic rooms, and interactive equipment — and for 44 classes, although the school was designed for 30.
A separate story is the cost of equipment for workshops and laboratories: the amounts are in the millions, but there are no specifics in the estimates. Even the purchase of soil for landscaping is four times more than in similar projects in neighboring settlements.
Behind all this, according to sources, is the head of the community, Ilya Kudryk, who has already appeared in journalistic investigations regarding dubious purchases of kindergartens from developers close to the government.
This project is another example of how party affiliation, ties to developers, and control over budgets allow the same firms to win contracts year after year, while residents continue to wait for a school and transparency in the spending of public funds.
