Recently, the State Bureau of Investigation has exposed a large -scale corruption scheme in the communal association "Kyivzelenbud". According to preliminary estimates, her defendants managed to earn about 3.5 million hryvnias on contracts, but planned ten times more. Among the main suspects are the former CEO, Yuri Bakhmat, his first deputy Alexei Lukash and a whole chain of "contractors" and intermediaries.
The scheme is based on a banal but reliable mechanism: 15% of the contract amount for signing the acts of work performed and green light for participation in future tenders. The reward, of course, is unofficial.
According to the investigation, Kyivzelenbud officials organized a criminal group, which, in addition to the above managers, included three more employees and a number of entrepreneurs. Although the documents were signed on Kudryavskaya, 23, the conversations about the "discard" took place in restaurants, at gas stations and even in parks, which the same contractors had to green.
In January-February 2025, officials actively negotiated with contractors and immediately received the result: only two companies transferred UAH 3.4 million. For example, LLC "ECO Company Service" has twice transferred a million hryvnias. Timbudservice LLC paid 1.4 million for the signing of acts in the Park "Vidradny" and near the North Bridge. Another UAH 56 thousand came from the FOP, which also hoped not to lose in a row.
There are many details in the case that illustrate that corruption in Kyivzelenbud was systematic. Law enforcement officers recorded that the group members used ciphers, avoided offices and meetings in a large circle. In the office of one of the executives, they even found a lawyer's book "A search - a sign of success".
Interesting nuance: among the companies that were offered the scheme are those that refused to pay. And it was through their testimony that the investigation was able to document a number of facts of bribery. On March 6, suspicions of Bakhmat, Lukash, another official and two entrepreneurs were declared. The court arrested officials with the possibility of collateral for UAH 51.4 million for each. One of the contractors received house arrest, the other - a pledge of 60 thousand UAH.
However, this is just the top. Investigators have reason to believe that in 2024 the participants of the scheme planned to "earn" at least UAH 25 million.
This is not the first investigation into Kievzelenbud. In the past years, cases of overestimation of the cost of purchases of equipment, suspicions of fictitious companies, as well as stories with overpayment for crane-manipulators, which have "boiled" 8 million cases, are no sentences-no sentences.
After Bakhmat's arrest, the leadership of Kyivzelenbud changed again. The new head was Olga Manko - a man from the old team. And the contractors will probably continue to work, simply - with new recipients for "rollbacks".
Whether Bakhmat-Lukash will bring to the first real sentence-time will tell. But Kiev has again confirmed another confirmation: even in the field of improvement, you can earn tens of millions in schemes, while some plant trees - others plant schemes.
