A deposit was made for the ex-head of Dnipropetrovsk OVA Reznichenko

In the case of abuses related to the repair of roads, a bail of 30 million hryvnias was made for the former head of the Dnipropetrovsk regional military administration, Valentina Reznichenko, which the court set the day before as a precautionary measure. This was reported by a number of media with reference to the High Anti-Corruption Court.

On September 16, the court ordered Valentin Reznichenko a precautionary measure in the form of bail in the amount of UAH 30 million, and also imposed a number of obligations on him. In particular, the exhibitor must hand in passports for traveling abroad, not leave his place of residence, and also arrive when called by the investigation.

Instead, the prosecutor’s office requested that Reznichenko be placed in custody with the possibility of bail of 40 million hryvnias. VAKS also chose a precautionary measure against the ex-head of the Housing and Construction Department of the Dnipropetrovsk OVA Andriy Kolomoyts.

On September 12, the National Anti-Corruption Bureau and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office reported the suspicion to the former head of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Military Administration Valentyn Reznichenko, his former deputy and former heads of departments under Part 2 of Art. 364 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (abuse of power or official position).

The criminal proceedings were opened after the publication of journalistic investigations by “Scheme” (Radio Liberty) and “Ukrainian Pravda” about the direct connection between the then head of the Dnipropetrovsk OVA Valentyn Reznichenko and the company to which the regional administration from March 2022 directed one and a half billion budget hryvnias for reconstruction roads in the region.

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On November 2, 2022, “Schemy” published the investigation “Sputnytsia na billion”, in which they said that the private firm “Budinvest Engineering”, which has mastered one and a half billion hryvnias for repairing roads in the Dnipropetrovsk region, is directly connected to the head of the Dnipropetrovsk OVA Valentyn Reznichenko. which depends on who and in what amounts to allocate budget funds of the region.

Half of the company was signed up to a woman named Yana Hlanta, a professional athlete who works as a powerlifting coach in Dnipro. As “Schemes” found out, she is a close person for Reznichenko, they traveled abroad a lot together. In addition, Khlanta traveled in Reznichenko’s car and received a salary from his company.

The other half of the company, which absorbed billions during the active phase of the war, is connected through a close person to the businessmen Dubinsky brothers, who were officially declared wanted by the United States on suspicion of financial fraud. Because of the war, state contracts and estimates are not published, so “Schemes” independently analyzed the financial and economic activities of “Budinvest Engineering” and discovered that the main contractor of Dnipropetrovsk OVA is resorting to several suspicious schemes at once.

Valentyn Reznichenko, Yana Khlanta, Volodymyr Dubinsky and other persons mentioned in the investigation did not respond to a request for comment.

Separately, “Schemes” then turned to Volodymyr Zelenskyi with a request to comment on the facts revealed in the investigation, taking into account that the head of the Dnipropetrovsk OVA is a person appointed by the president, and the fact that it is the OP that coordinates the process of rebuilding infrastructure in Ukraine.

“Schemes” also asked how control over the effective and targeted use of budget funds for the reconstruction of infrastructure, in particular, the repair and construction of roads, is carried out, and in what status Yuriy Golyk, a long-time associate of the head of the Dnipropetrovsk OVA, who is present at all meetings, plays his role in these processes regarding the Fast Recovery Plan – the recovery plan of Ukraine.

The OP’s press service, referring to the state of war, reported the “impossibility of providing information” and the “postponement of consideration of the request” until its end. At the same time, it was noted that “the office of the President of Ukraine is not the administrator of local budgets” and that this issue “is within the competence of local authorities and relevant ministries.”

During the preparation of the investigation, it became known that the journalists of Ukrainian Pravda publication are also working on this topic. Therefore, the editors agreed to publish the materials simultaneously.