In Odesa, the City Hall divided parking millions with private owners

Odestransparkservis, a municipal enterprise, shares Odesa's parking lots with the wife of an official from Teplodar and the father of a deputy of the Odesa City Council.

According to the investigation, most parking lots in the center of Odesa are on the balance sheet of Odestransparkservice.

It is the utility company that receives money for parked cars. A number of parking lots are equipped with information stands with a QR code to pay for parking. One hour costs 30 hryvnias. Paid parking lots are open from 9 am to 6 pm. After that, parking is free.

However, utilities have to share the center with the private entrepreneur K.O. Yablonska, according to the Odesa Department of Transport, Communications and Traffic Organization, is a parking operator near two large Odesa markets - Novyi in Prymorskyi district and Kyivskyi in Kyivskyi district.

Karina Yablonskaya, 34, registered as an individual entrepreneur in 2016. Two years later, she signed her first contract for the maintenance of parking spaces in Odesa. The sole proprietorship is in the third taxation group with a 5% tax rate.

The husband of the Odesa entrepreneur is a local politician and businessman, Andrii Makovetskyi. In 2020, he ran for the Odesa city and district councils from the For the Future party, which is associated with oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky. However, he did not become a deputy, and in 2021 became the first deputy mayor of Teplodar for the executive bodies of the council.

Another operator in the central part of the city with whom Odesa utilities have signed an agreement is the NGO Sirena. This has its own specifics - they control those parking lots that operate as parking lots, i.e. around the clock. These parking lots or parking lots are equipped with booths, and parking attendants in green vests are on duty, who probably collect the fee from drivers in person. According to Odestransparkservis, from 2019 to 2023, the NGO Sirena leased almost 690 square meters of parking at 119 Lustdorfska Road from the city. In addition, in 2019, the NGO received parking spaces for entire blocks. Sirena was registered in 2002. The founders of the organization are three people - Pavlo Stas, Oleksandr Rozin and Anatolii Meilitsev. Pavlo Stas is the father of Eduard Stas, a multiple deputy of the Odesa City Council. In 2020, he was elected to the city council from the European Solidarity party.

Кирило Бойко