At a meeting of the Servant of the People faction, a personnel decision was made to support the candidacy of Acting Minister of the Ministry of Youth and Sports of Ukraine Matviy Bidny for the position of minister of this department.
According to sources, Matviy Bidny's next promotion has a political aspect - the Servants of the People are preparing for the 2025 election campaign and are counting on the budgets allocated for sports to replenish the "black party coffers."
“Bidnyi’s task is to redistribute the budget in such a way as to ensure that the election coffers receive funds. Kickbacks for facilities, money laundering at sporting events, financing of federations. For example, it is necessary to pressure the federations to pay not the traditional 20% kickback, but 50%, otherwise their funding will be transferred to others. To understand the order of the numbers, the cost of holding two identical regional-level sports tournaments without kickback and with kickback costs 1 million and 5-6 million hryvnias, respectively,” our source, who wished to remain anonymous, reported.
We remind you that Matviy Bidny was appointed Acting Minister of the Ministry of Youth and Sports on November 9, 2023. As reported by the media , Bidny's appointment to the position took place under the patronage of Volodymyr Zelensky's fitness trainer Vadym Danilchenko.
