Facts about corruption schemes related to the municipal enterprise "Kyiv Metro" and its former head, Viktor Braginsky, who is currently wanted, continue to surface in Kyiv.
The Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine recently fined LLC "99 Production" and an individual entrepreneur a total of over 1.37 million hryvnias for collusion in tenders in 2020–2021. The case involved six purchases of uniforms and production clothing worth about 10 million hryvnias. The investigation found that the participants acted in concert, eliminating competition.
"99 Production" is closely connected to Braginsky's entourage. Its owner is a business partner of the former metro chief Kyrylo Kryvets, and his cousin Anna Fenina was the director for a while. In total, this company received more than 18 million hryvnias from the metro for the supply of clothing.
Another contractor turned out to be Svitlana Ilyina, Braginsky's sister's accountant. As a sole proprietor, she won tenders for workwear worth 17 million hryvnias.
The schemes went far beyond the procurement of uniforms. Bihus.Info journalists found out that Kryvets, through "99 Production", also controls Energodarbudmekhanizatsiya LLC, which in 2021 received more than 270 million hryvnias for the construction of new metro stations, but used only 74. In 2022–2023, the company won another 82 million contracts, and more than 37 million for repairs of the "red" branch.
In parallel, LLC “KB “Teploenergoavtomatika” worked as a subcontractor, which has received more than 1.5 billion hryvnias from the capital’s metro since 2017. In 2020, the company’s owner was former ballerina Tetyana Beletska, Kryvets’ mother-in-law, and the director was Oleksandr Stetsenko, Braginsky’s longtime partner.
At the end of 2022, this company received almost half a billion hryvnias for the overhaul of the tunnels of the "red" branch, and about another half a billion during 2023. The contract with the metro was made non-public.
As a result, a circle of connected individuals – Braginsky's relatives and partners – received hundreds of millions of hryvnias from the Kyiv Metro. Braginsky himself, after suspicion of official negligence related to the flooding of the tunnels, fled the country in June 2024.
