The South Ukrainian Nuclear Power Plant is a strategic object of the state's energy security. And, it seems, at the same time, an ATM for selected suppliers. At least since 2016, the plant has been concluding multi-million contracts with the TSM Group company without any tenders, avoiding the Prozorro system.
The amount of contracts is tens of millions of hryvnias. The products are not only technical. In 2020, the company supplied kettles, microwaves, and refrigerators to the NPP - almost 3 million hryvnias worth.
The journalists have at their disposal a 2020 contract for UAH 36.6 million, concluded between the South Ukrainian Nuclear Power Plant and Kyiv-based TSM Group. The contract was not published in the open procurement system and, according to police sources, was concluded bypassing Prozorro.
According to the documents, the company supplied household appliances worth over UAH 2.7 million, of which almost half a million was an overpayment, according to investigators. Perhaps the only consequence was the opening of proceedings by the Mykolaiv region police in 2022. What happened to him now is unknown.
The company was founded by Olena Domashneva and Olena Kryvoshienko in 2010. Since 2014, TSM Group has been regularly appearing among suppliers for government institutions — and not only nuclear power plants.
Contracts were signed with the SBU, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and the Presidential Administration, but they are not publicly available. The cooperation is shadowy, the calculations are opaque, and there is no tender. Experts suggest that there is a high level of cover-up, because among Domashneva's relatives is former diplomat Pavlo Domashnev.
Even a cursory audit of the company's contracts for 2016–2018 yields shocking figures: deals worth over UAH 45 million and at least UAH 12 million in overpayments on video recorders alone. In 2016, another UAH 12.5 million, of which UAH 3.9 million is suspected of embezzlement.
And then there was silence. Some of the cases, according to sources, were simply "put on the brakes," while others were stuck at the pre-trial stage.
Because we are talking about energy security. Because the money comes from taxpayers' pockets. Because such purchases are a direct path to disasters and the dependence of strategic facilities on opaque players.
And while the management of the South Ukrainian NPP remains silent and the police do not provide answers, all that remains is to ask out loud: where is the responsibility, ladies and gentlemen?
