The Asset Management and Tracing Agency (ARMA) ordered a new 2025 Hyundai Staria in top-end configuration for 2.7 million hryvnias. And it did it without competition — the only participant in the tender was Bogdan Avto LLC.
The car chosen by the officials has everything you could wish for: four-wheel drive, Nappa leather interior, premium BOSE audio system, three-zone climate control, all-round cameras, security systems and even two safes in the trunk. They didn't forget about the branded tinting with the ARMA logo.
According to open sources, such equipment in showrooms costs about UAH 2.62 million. That is, despite ordering directly without intermediaries, the agency overpaid - the additional equipment was probably just an excuse to inflate the price.
Bogdan Auto LLC, which won the tender, is associated with structures well-known in political circles. The company's founders are Viktor Rutkovsky and the Bogdan-Capital fund, which is close to the Ukrprominvest group, which is associated with ex-president Petro Poroshenko and Oleg Gladkovsky, a former deputy secretary of the National Security and Defense Council.
While ARMA is buying comfort, billion-dollar assets are being transferred to the department's management - often into the hands of people connected to current officials. It was previously reported that the KAMparitet consortium, which is backed by the entourage of Deputy Prime Minister Olga Stefanishyna, received four elite facilities for management at once: among them the House of Trade Unions and the Flagman shopping mall.
According to journalists, Stefanishina's ex-husband, her advisor, and a number of influential people at ARMA are involved in this consortium. It seems that the agency operates according to the logic: public assets for its own, budget money for luxury.
And while society waits for effective management of confiscated property, the department is ordering premium cars with heated steering wheels.
