“The director of the municipal transportation service of the Kyiv city state administration is suspected of systematically extorting money from the capital’s carriers”, — write: www.epravda.com.ua
The director of the municipal transportation service of the Kyiv City State Administration is suspected of systematically extorting money from the capital’s carriers.
About this informs Kyiv City Prosecutor’s Office.
According to Uoucontrol, Oleksandr Shimko is the director of the communal transport service of the KMDA.
The investigation established that the official ensured that inspections of one of the carriers were carried out without reason, and based on their results, documents were drawn up on the non-compliance of vehicles for passenger transportation. In this way, the officials created conditions for receiving an illegal benefit from the entrepreneur.
The press service noted that earlier as part of the same criminal proceedings, the deputy head of the Department of Transport Infrastructure of the KMDA and the head of a private transport company had already been notified of the suspicion.
According to the prosecutor’s office, during 2024, the deputy head of the Department of Transport Infrastructure unilaterally initiated the termination of the contract with the company for transportation on one of the city’s bus routes. The results of an unjustified inspection of the carrier’s work were used as the basis for terminating the agreement.
After that, a company was identified as the temporary carrier on the route, the director of which had connections with the KMDA official.
As the press service said, when the head of the company with which the transport agreement was terminated turned to the city administration for an explanation of the reasons for such a decision, as a “compromise” the entrepreneur was offered to pay 40,000 hryvnias each week for the right to work on the route.
“In the course of the pre-trial investigation, 7 facts of receiving illegal benefits for the total amount of UAH 280,000 were documented,” the report says.
We will remind:
Law enforcement officers detained the head of one of the subsidiaries of the state company “Automobile Roads of Ukraine” for receiving 600,000 hryvnias for renting out the premises.