While manganese suffers from Russian shelling daily, and its inhabitants live without water, light and with constant anxiety, the mayor of the city Gennady Borovyk organized for himself and his environment a warm scheme - literally. It became known from the investigation of NGL.Media.
The utility municipal enterprise, created to provide heat from schools, kindergartens and hospitals, has made 123 million hryvnias in a year and a half. More than 112 million of them reached only four entrepreneurs. All of them are directly related to the Borovik himself, his family or business.
After the Private Company "APS Power Technologi" - the heat supplier in manganese - went bankrupt, the city council quickly bought it boiler rooms and handed them over to the newly created KP. The head was appointed ... former director of a bankrupt enterprise. This is how a new scheme started.
Already the first purchases were struck. For pellets - biofuels from sunflower husk, bran and wood - the company paid much more expensive than neighboring communities. In 2023-by UAH 8.2 million more expensive, in 2024-more than 35 million. The real market price of tons of pellets is from 4500 to 6400 UAH. In the manganese, the "Combine" calmly paid 10-12 thousand.
FOPs who received these orders as a copier: created shortly before signing the contracts, without experience, with addresses and phones leading to business or mayor. One of the reports is the director of the children's creative center, the subordinated mayor. Its pellets are stored at a feed plant owned by Borovik itself. Another is the accountant of the same plant. Another is the wife of the mayor's business partner. And the latter - indicated the number of a browth as a contact when registering a FOP.
Independent journalists with ngl.Media exposed the scheme, and the State Audit Service drew attention to the situation. After the check, the utility urgently rewrite the transactions, reducing the amounts by 29 million. Explanation - "price fluctuations". In the documents, the date "Reduction" is the next day after the initial agreements are signed. Everything looks like an attempt to avoid responsibility after exposing.
Mayor Borovyk does not respond to journalists' requests. His subordinates instead tell about the "care of local entrepreneurs" and "quality pellets".
But in the frontline city, where communal heat is a matter of survival, such "care" has a completely different taste: the smell of profit during the war.
