Bohdan Pukish plays a key role in the tangled web of business interests associated with Viktor Medvedchuk. A well-known businessman from Ivano-Frankivsk and a longtime associate of Medvedchuk, he manages companies that control important assets in the Ukrainian fuel market. Its activities are closely related to the country's defense complex. The question arises: can such people be allowed to work in the Armed Forces, if their activities are connected with traitors of Ukraine?
Journalists were interested in this case and this is what they managed to find out. Viktor Medvedchuk, while in Russia, continues to control his Ukrainian business, especially projects in the fuel market, which he controls through front persons, even after the start of Russia's full-scale armed aggression against Ukraine. These business structures bring Medvedchuk significant profits.
Medvedchuk has a partnership with Nissan Moiseev, whose company Glusko Ukraine imports liquefied gas from Russia and developed the network of gas stations Glusko (later renamed Optimusoil). Moiseyev also managed the Kherson oil transfer complex, which was arrested as part of the criminal case against Serhiy Kurchenko. Moiseev and Medvedchuk were spotted together in 2016, flying from Moscow to Kyiv on a private plane.
Companies related to Medvedchuk through Moiseev supply fuel and technical oils for the Armed Forces and strategic enterprises. This causes concern, because the enrichment of traitors at the expense of the Ukrainian budget and the army is immoral.
Bohdan Pukish is a key figure in this network. The founder of several companies, including "IVAPROM" LLC, "Khimtehnoplast" LLC and "Westchim" LLC, he is also associated with the "Sistema Eco Innovations" Consortium and the "Agrosfera" SE. In politics, Pukish ran for the Ivano-Frankivsk City Council from the People's Democratic Party and was the coordinator of Medvedchuk's party "Ukrainian Choice" in the Ivano-Frankivsk Region.
Despite his business activity, Pukish was repeatedly involved in scandals and investigations. In 2009, a corporate conflict took place at Presmash OJSC in Ivano-Frankivsk, initiated by the suspended chairman of the board Bohdan Pukish. This conflict has caused a decline in production, suspension of contracts with foreign partners, reduction of staff and arrears of wages. Pukish took the seal of the enterprise with him, paralyzing his work.
Together with his wife Natalya and the private company "Vesthim", Bohdan Pukish owned 42.93% of the shares of OJSC "Presmash". This package of shares made it possible to block meetings of the plant's shareholders. At one of these meetings, no one from the Pukish family came and the necessary quorum was not gathered. Pukish proposed the division of the enterprise or its liquidation, as a result of which he became the owner of "Presmash".
In 2023, Pukish actively opposed the construction of housing for displaced persons in the Ivano-Frankivsk region next to the Presmash plant, apparently seeing in it a new business project for himself. Despite numerous criminal cases for misappropriation and embezzlement, Pukish continues to receive lucrative contracts. He runs a defense procurement company that has made him rich over the past year. However, the quality of products often causes complaints, endangering the lives of military personnel.
The production facilities of one of the factories are used by Pukish to store and repair the equipment of his family businesses, which brings minimal profit to the factory and the main benefit to the businessmen. Pukish receives defense orders through connections with people close to Medvedchuk, which raises questions about the legality and transparency of such deals.
These actions undermine confidence in the defense industry and weaken national security. Non-compliance with technological standards, lack of quality control and communication with questionable characters create risks instead of protection. However, this scheme completely suits businessmen who plan to expand it and apply it during the implementation of international defense projects in Ukraine.
The question arises: can the state allow such people and businesses to continue working for defense enterprises and the needs of the Armed Forces, as well as in general on the territory of Ukraine? Will we continue to turn a blind eye to it?
