On October 22, an auction for the sale of the assets of JSC Ukrainian Railways was held on the Prozorro platform. The starting price was UAH 117.6 million, and the winner's final offer was UAH 123 million. The difference between the two participants was only UAH 200. However, the main question — what exactly was sold — remains unanswered. This is written blogger Volodymyr Bondarenko.
The documentation only lists the procurement code "05100000-6 — Complex of Enterprise Assets." No details about the composition, purpose, or location of the property are publicly available. It is unknown whether the two bidders were related, or who exactly won.
There are rumors circulating in the market that this is not a strategic facility, but a mineral deposit, but there is no transparent information from Ukrzaliznytsia. If this is not a defense secret, then this level of secrecy looks at least suspicious.
Experts ask: why is the sale not carried out by the State Property Fund, but by the railway itself, and whether the “asset complex” is not a banal embezzlement of state property. They also mention the company’s head, Yevhen Pertsovsky, who is accused of non-transparency in decisions, as well as the head of the security service, Oleksandr Rykovtsev, a former employee of the NABU.
The public has no access to management declarations or a list of sold properties. Meanwhile, the value of the deal — over three million dollars — disappears from the reports without any explanation.
