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Former Finance Minister Igor Umansky said that the same six companies are constantly winning tenders for road construction under the Big Construction project. The deputy head of the President’s Office, Kirill Tymoshenko, noted that Umansky “is simply making up facts” and suggested this is beneficial to the head of state’s opponents.
The deputy head of President Kirill Tymoshenko’s office said November 20 on the air of the program “Freedom of expression of Savik Shuster” on the television channel “Ukraine”, which former adviser to the head of the President’s Office, former finance minister Igor Umansky makes critical comments about the project “Great build “, not possessing information.
On November 13, Umansky said that the same six companies are constantly winning tenders for the construction of roads in Ukraine.
Favorite “destination” or “poster” as your colleagues call them. Only they can win tasty tenders. But if you look closely, these companies don’t always build roads directly, instead reselling contracts to subcontractors at a 30-40% discount. If you add up all the bids for this “vile six” and remove these “discounts” – we have (someone has!) around UAH 36 billion. This is the amount that Ukravtodor additionally received from the “covid” fund inGreat construction“, – wrote on Facebook.
“Mr. Umansky takes up the theme of” twists “(scheme of illegal VAT refunds, so, according to the former minister, the budget loses monthly 4.5–4.8 billion hryvnias. – “GORDON”) – this is a really understandable corruption scheme, which was, attached the issue of roads, about which you have no information. He is just making up facts for himself, “Tymoshenko said.
In his opinion, behind Umansky are opponents of President Vladimir Zelensky.
This President’s “Grand Construction” project is one of the largest projects in the country this year. Infrastructure is being built. [Критика] beneficial for the opponents who are behind Umansky and simply want to neutralize this project of the president, “said the deputy head of the President’s Office.
Host Savik Shuster asked Tymoshenko to name the president’s opponents, but the deputy head of the Presidency avoided answering the question.
Former Minister of Infrastructure of Ukraine Volodymyr Omelyan, who was also present at the study, suggested that it was the head of the President’s Office, Andrei Yermak.
“Well why is Ermak here?” – Reacted Tymoshenko.
“Intraspecific fight”, – Omelyan told him.
“I don’t think he’s right in this information. I think the opponents of the president are behind this, and that’s it.” – Tymoshenko replied.
On April 22, Yermak announced that Umansky would become his advisor and deal with corruption issues in the customs and tax authorities. On November 12, Umansky criticized the authorities’ decision to introduce a “weekend quarantine” in Ukraine and wrote a letter of resignation from the Office of the President.
On November 18, he held a press conference, during which he said that during his work in the OPU and in the Ministry of Finance he was convinced: “You can reach the authorities, their leadership only in public – through the screen. of television, through social networks “. “Notes, proposals and other things, unfortunately, are not accepted,” he said.
Umansky worked three times in high-level positions in the Ministry of Finance of Ukraine. In 2008-2010 he was the first deputy minister, in 2009-2010 – acting. Minister. The last time you worked as Finance Minister for less than a month, March 4-30, 2020.
