Oleksandr Popovtsev, the temporary acting head of the Shevchenkiv RDA appointed by the OP, has been trying to manage the district in his own way since December 2021. Under the guise of a mandate from the President's Office, Popovtsev set up kickback schemes for repairs and construction, demanding a 30% kickback from each contractor.
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According to sources in the Shevchenkivska RDA, Oleksandr Popovtsev's working day starts no earlier than 10:00-11:00 a.m. and ends at 4:00 p.m. It is difficult to find Popovtsev at his workplace, but every day you can see him having lunch at the Musafir restaurant on Bohdan Khmelnytskyi Street. At what cost, you ask? After all, the average check reaches about 1,000 hryvnias per person and for daily meals at Musafira. the head of the Shevchenkiv RDA will not be enough.
The answer is very simple. Oleksandr Popovtsev in a short period of time managed to establish corrupt activities through the Department of Urban Planning, Architecture and Land Use of the Shevchenkiv RDA (hereinafter UMAZ), which is headed by Acting Daria Oleksandrivna of Mykhaylova's chief. According to the testimony of colleagues, Daria Mykhaylova holds her position not so much thanks to her professional data, but more thanks to "informal personal communication" with Oleksandr Popovets.
How Oleksandr Popovtsev's "rollback scheme" works
Oleksandr Popovtsev takes kickbacks from contractors in the amount of 30% through proxies: Oleksandr Bondary and Serhiy Los. Interestingly, Oleksandr Bondar collects "tribute" from contractors in cash, as he says, he works "in cash", and Serhii Los tries to drive contractors into Popovtsev's crypto wallet, and accepts bribes for Popovtsev in USDT.
It is surprising that these two young men are not ashamed and are not afraid to voice Popovtsev's demands, not to employees of the RDA, and not to contractors working in the district. The latter are also forced into conditions when, knowing about a 30% rollback before the start of repairs, builders have to think about what to "save" on, and actually steal during the work. And Popovtsev tells them that it is possible to steal from children, in sports, in culture and in education, we are generally silent about housing and communal services.
Oleksandr Popovtsev's systematic thefts during major repairs of shelters in the Shevchenkiv district led to terrible consequences and emergency situations, which were not recorded in such a number in any other district of Kyiv. Thus, after the repair by UMAZ of the shelter with cardiology kindergarten No. 155, which is located on the street Dorohozhytskyi, 18-A, this kindergarten simply went underground.
The funds were paid in advance, and on December 28, work was still ongoing, as a result of which the kindergarten was destroyed. As a result, 250 children are forced to attend another educational institution, and no one has been punished for the fact that the building of the kindergarten was actually destroyed.
Another example of the results of Popovtsev's "rollback schemes" - in kindergarten No. 429 at 25/29 O.Teliga Street, the shelter was flooded after the rains due to the lack of waterproofing, for which Ms. Darya Mykhailova paid for back in 2023. No one is going to eliminate the shortcomings. Three-year-old children with teachers are forced to run for shelter to a nearby kindergarten.
More later. Schools 73, 25, 155, 57, 58, 38, Kindergarten Technical Lyceum 28, 180, 541, 543 were also affected by Popovtsev's repairs. Electricity is not connected, toilets are not working, there are no reserve tanks for storing water. Instead, there are just plastic tubs and the like. Thus, Oleksandr Popovtsev does not repair, but on the contrary reduces the spaces in the urits and brings them to an improper condition with the help of UMAZ and Ms. Daria Mykhaylova.
Oleksandr Popovtsev also had a hand in the construction of shelters, choosing Lyceum 172 as his victim. It is impossible to start work in one of the best schools of Ukraine due to the constant interference of Oleksandr Popovtsev and pressure on authorized persons. And what does the temporary executor want? He wants to put a certain Mykola Rudenko and his company "Greentrading" LLC on the tender. What is it for him? Well, how? Oleksandr Popovtsev has already calculated 30% of UAH 100 million, all that remains is to wait.
We will remind you that "Greentrading" LLC is also involved in numerous criminal proceedings regarding the embezzlement of budget funds in Darnytsia and Pechersk districts. In particular, "Greentrading" LLC also appears in the criminal proceedings about the possible appropriation of budget funds by the management of the education department of the Darnytsia District State Administration (RDA) in the city of Kyiv. Officials transferred more than 18.5 million hryvnias to 9 contractor firms for allegedly performed work in educational institutions, which is being investigated by the Security Service of Ukraine in Kyiv and the Kyiv region.
Oleksandr Popovtsev's love for heavy luxury should be noted separately. Neither the status of an official nor the war in Ukraine can stand in the way of buying expensive new items. In particular, the attention of journalists was attracted by the official's Armani brand sneakers for 12 thousand hryvnias.
Regarding the official's declaration, there is also a lot of interesting stuff there. acquire during the war . Thus, according to the data of the declaration, since 2022, Oleksandr and his wife Yana Popovtsev have jointly owned an apartment in Kyiv with an area of 90 square meters. m and cost UAH 2,137,572.
It is worth noting that in his corrupt activities Oleksandr Popovtsev is covered by the Office of the President, motivating this by the fact that he was appointed to the position personally by Volodymyr Zelensky.
We ask you to consider this journalistic investigation as an open appeal to NABU and SBU, with a request to verify the facts presented in the article, in particular to establish the role of Ukrainian citizens Oleksandr Popovtsev, Oleksandr Bondary and Serhiy Los in corruption schemes related to tenders of the Shevchenkiv RDA of the city of Kyiv.
